The spectators more attentive will have noticed that from this edition of Roland Garros new technology has been introduced. The chair judges were equipped with front cameras. So that when they get down from the high chair to watch a ball, in theory the director using that camera could show the referee’s view to the spectators at home.
In fact, the instrument is positioned at the height of the chair judges’ ears and the aim is to make the public better understand the referee’s view while controlling a rebound on the Parisian clay and his live dialogues and interactions with the players.
The novelty, actually used in a not very intense way during the matches, actually left us very perplexed Andy Murray. The British player, who was eliminated in the first round of Roland Garros very clearly by Stan Wawrinka, he joked about this innovation on his X (formerly Twitter) profile.
In fact Murray he wrote: “Is there a worse use of technology in sport than the introduction of the referee’s head camera at Roland Garros?”
Andy Murray’s opinion on referee cameras
This “innovation” was not exactly convincing Andy Murray who expressed himself very clearly on the subject on his Twitter account.
“There is, writes Murray, a worse use of technology in sport than the introduction of the referee’s front camera Roland Garros? This camera looks terrible and from what I’ve seen adds nothing to the people involved in the match in any way! “.
here is the original tweet by Murray.
