French Open will keep the human calligraphy for 2026, making it a great peace in the four tournaments | Tennis News

The French Open team will retain the 2026 human calligraphy judges, making it an exception between the four major tennis championships where others will use the electronic line invitation.

The French Tennis Federation (FFT) confirmed the decision in a statement, in which he said, “will continue to show excellence in French rule, which is recognized all over the world,” according to Vice President Lionel Olinger.

Roland Garros remains the only four major championships that do not implement the electronic line invitation.

“We are a union in which the rulers and the linear judges work every day, and I say this with all humility, we are the best country to provide officials in the tour,” said FFT head, Gils Mauriton.

“We are proud of this, we have a strong training system. We are a standard and we want to stay this way.

“The will of the federation is to keep the two lines judges for as long as possible; at the present time, the players lead the train. If they say one day:” We will not play without the device, “we’ll see … but I think we have a bright future to maintain an official pyramid.”

In the 2025 edition of the tournament, 404 of the match officials, including 284 French representatives from all French championships.

Wimbledon adopted an electronic speech (ELC) in 2025, leaving the French open as the last four tennis specialization to use humans to eliminate whether the ball fell inside or outside.

Instead, officials rely on the signs of leaving them for players on Roland Garros clay.

Judges make the line a preliminary decision, before the referee is achieved from any controversial ball signs at the request of the players.

Arena Sabalinka and Alexander Zverev used their phones to take pictures of marks during the European swing earlier this year.

The Australian Open ELC was adopted in 2021, while the United States was adopted in 2022 after using it in some courts in 2020.

Elc in Wimbledon

Wimbledon removed the line judges earlier this year with all the executive director of England Laon Tennis (AELTC), Sally Bolton, described this step as “inevitable”.

But Emma Radokano and Jack Darbar was among the players who skeptical of using line lines in the championship this summer.

“It is a disappointing thing that calls could be very wrong, but most often it was fine. I had a few in my other matches, too, this was very wrong. We hope they could fix that,” Radokano said.

The former USA’s open champion continued to recognize that she did not trust technology.

“No, I don’t,” added. “I think other players will say the same thing, there were some dribbling players, but what can you do?”

Dreter also inquired about technology performance in its first year in Wimbledon, indicating that the calls were lost during his defeat in the second round to Marine Celic.

“I don’t think it is 100 percent accurate in all honesty,” he said. “Today’s couple showed a mark on the field.

“There is no way that has shown that chalk has shown it. I think it cannot be 100 percent accurate – it’s a millimeter.”

Swiss player Bellinda Pensic repeated the uncertainty about the system and pointed to a common look among the players in the treasury room.

She said earlier in the week. “Of course, you feel a bit stupid interrogation of an electronic line call, but of course it always depends on how to install it and how accurate.

“Not just me, as you know. I feel I am watching other matches as well, and I see players who love to say the exact thing or complain. Or even on TV, you can see some balls clearly, long or something like that.

“We are talking about that to the players and I think most of us have the same opinion.”

System defect during Pavliochinkova’s victory

The most controversial moment in Grand Slam was when the system’s defect led to the suspension of technology for the game during the victory of Anastasia Pavluchankova over the son of Britain.

It has become only clear that the regime was not working when a Cartal shot clearly fell beyond the baseline without excluding it, and denial of Pavigiancova associated with 5-4 progress in the first group.

Instead, Nico Helownt stopped the game and insisted on restarting the point, paving the way for Kartal, who broke its opponent in favor of 5-4.

“I took the game away from me … they stole the game from me. They stole it,” said Pavluchankova upon her return to her chair.

Fortunately for Pavlyuchenkova, the accident was not proven as expensive as it continued to overcome Kartal 7-6 6-4.

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