Should players be able to challenge automatic line calling with super slow mo video replay judged by the umpire?

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PleaseBeNicer

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In the first point of Ruud vs Garin, a ball is called out by hawk eye. On slow mo video replay, it looks in to me. I could be wrong, but surely hawk eye makes mistakes sometimes? And even if mistakes by hawkeye are extremely rare (I'm not sure how rare they are), it'd be cool to keep challenge aspect of the game and see it replayed with super slow mo video (as some tournaments already do) (edit: "Real Bounce" worm-eye view) instead of the artificially animated "replay".

Another example is Shelton's return at 30 15 in the third game of the third set vs Mannarino in Miami 2023. Mannarino stares at it as if he's seeing things.
 
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socallefty said:
I am happy enough to trust Hawkeye and move on with the action rather than stopping for replay challenges.
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They are still stopping for close call "replays" though; it's just that the"replay" is an animation of the hawkeye so not as entertaining as super slow mo video and can't change the result, but people still prefer it to nothing so they're gonna keep it.
 
They need to use the real time video recording technology that see the ball from the worm view (floor view) like "Real Bounce". I think the combination of Hawkeye and Real Bounce will be perfect for tennis.
 
AI will take away all the thrill from tennis including job places for lines persons and judges. Do we need e-tennis or real manual tennis?
 
Was watching the live stream of a doubles match in Phoenix Challenger yesterday.

On a No-ad deuce game point, first serve lands more than a foot long, and returner deliberately slaps it into bottom of the net. But linesman didn’t call it out amd umpire announces game to serving team.

The receiving team protests and receiver’s partner correctly points to mark on court. I rewind the video and replayed it (which took less than 10 seconds) and confirmed that serve was clearly out. Yet the original really bad call stood.

The blown call didn’t end up affecting the outcome of the match in this case, as the receiving team ended up winning. But with thousands of dollars in prize money on the line, I was surprised that the umpire couldn’t simply replay the video to check when a call is in question.
 
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