Wimbledon organizers have apologized and explained that “human error” was the reason behind the electronic line-calling system being turned off during a match on Sunday – and the tournament subsequently has removed the ability for operators to manually halt the tracking of the ball.

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova suggested her British opponent may have received preferential treatment as simmering tensions around Wimbledon ’s use of electronic line calling (ELC) instead of line judges boiled over Sunday,

Wimbledon has altered its technology after an “operator error” caused a malfunction of its Electronic Line Calling system at the Championships. The ELC system, which is powered by more than 450 cameras across the 18 courts in use,