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 Author: Gary Still
Timestamp:- 23/1/2007 6:19:49 PM
Subject: HAWKEYE
Message:
Players can currently get 2 line call challenges wrong.
Should umpires OVER-RULING linesmen (who are then found to be correct by Hawkeye) also have a limit of 2 wrong over-rules? :-)
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 Author: jordmike
Timestamp:- 25/1/2007 11:57:07 PM
Subject: Re: HAWKEYE
Message:
If I was a linesman and proven right by Hawkeye I would do the Hewitt "COME ON" and four finger point to the forehead as well as stare down the player who challenged.
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 Author: glencoe
Timestamp:- 25/1/2007 11:36:35 AM
Subject: Re: HAWKEYE
Message:
At least the photo finish is a real image, it doesn't involve a computer generated cartoon.
that hawkeye stuff is a joke, it's not even real.
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 Author: Pinkline Jones
Timestamp:- 25/1/2007 10:20:03 AM
Subject: Re: HAWKEYE
Message:
No Gazza,
Because if we didn't have Hawkeye operating at the Melbourne Cup then it would have been clear that Pop Rock had got up and I would have been able to buy some new Sunline socks.
In any case a very different situation Gazza as the finish line is everything in racing. In tennis one linesmen's decision in a tennis player's favour doesn't determine the outcome of the event.
PINKLINE JONES OBE
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Author: Pinkline Jones
Timestamp:- 25/1/2007 10:15:20 AM
Subject: Re: HAWKEYE
Message:
LOL If you're a champion like Steffi Graf then you don't need a Hawkeye. And I have never ever heard that great player complain about having lost matches due to bad line calls. I never heard Bjorn Borg compain either or Chris Evert....etc etc. The modern players have been pampered so much and allowed to get the world to stop for them and abuse umpires whenever they so desire....a good player doesn't need Hawkeye. The great Federer reckons it's ridiculous as well. However, it seems that it's here to stay.
PINKLINE JONES OBE
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Author: Gary Still
Timestamp:- 24/1/2007 10:35:52 PM
Subject: Re: HAWKEYE
Message:
But Pinky, with horseracing, aren't you glad that an electronic device decides close finishes - and not the judges? :-)
Cheers,
Gary
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 Author: coat puller
Timestamp:- 24/1/2007 6:58:06 PM
Subject: Re: HAWKEYE
Message:
Getting the odd call wrong, that is rubbish. This tournament has proved that they get many calls wrong. If the technology is there, why use it in a limited way, use it for all calls, and end the contentious part of the game. With these new strings and frames, players are hitting the ball much harder and more topspin can be imparted on the ball than ever before. Line calling is becoming much more difficult to call with the naked eye.
Lets get it right please.
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Author: Pinkline Jones
Timestamp:- 24/1/2007 4:57:31 PM
Subject: Re: HAWKEYE
Message:
Hawkeye is not always accurate. However, more importantly I think tennis is getting to a ridiculous state when the linesmen and central umpire are not considered sufficient means of officiating a match. Let the game flow and make these elite and well-paid athletes get used to the fact that an umpire is there to call the shots, not a machine. So what they get an occasional bad call. Oh diddums.
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 Author: marbine
Timestamp:- 24/1/2007 8:34:27 AM
Subject: Re: HAWKEYE
Message:
IF Hawkeye is accurate, and I presume that it is, it is a great innovation - quick & precise. Like most technology introduced to sport it only alleviates one part of the problem. What if a player feels that, during a rally, one of his/hers opponent's shots goes long/wide but is not called? This cuurently cannot be challenged I believe.
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Author: glencoe
Timestamp:- 23/1/2007 7:51:23 PM
Subject: Re: HAWKEYE
Message:
not the cleverest people......a shadow of a
flat disc being used to indicate the contact point of a 3d ball....really.
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