The All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club, which runs the tournament, announced they were doing away with line judges starting this year.

As the Wimbledon Tennis Championship gets underway on the grass courts of southwest London, there will be no iconic line judges who have called balls in or out for the tournament for nearly 150 years.

LONDON – Wimbledon is guaranteed to be picture-perfect when it gets under way next week, but the courts will never look the same again after the demise of line judges. For the first time in the ...

The Grand Slam announced in October that it was scrapping its smartly dressed officials in favour of electronic line-calling (ELC) from 2025, following the general trend in tennis.

Wimbledon is guaranteed to be picture-perfect when it gets under way next week but the courts will never look the same again after the demise of line judges.