Wimbledon Suspend Use Of Hawk-Eye After It Eviscerates Player On Court 14

THE USE of electronic line-calling system Hawk-Eye has been suspended at Wimbledon after world number 78 Irina Kalistova was eviscerated while 6-4 up in the second set in her match against British player Harriet Melon.

“I was walking back to the baseline and then all of a sudden there was this intense burning smell and the sound of a racket hitting the ground,” Melon shared, reliving the moment.

Replays show that Hawk-Eye, normally used for line calls, trained its laser sights on Kalistova perhaps mistaking her white outfit for a white tennis court tramline and opened fire.

Officials at the All England club released a statement in which it said ‘we are investigating if an intern mistakenly flicked on the ‘set to kill’ feature and whether Hawk-Eye objected to Miss Kalistova’s non regulation pink bracelet which goes against our all white dress code’.

A Sony-owned product, the company has denied any suggestion that they have been researching and adapting Hawk-Eye to see how feasible it would be to use in a war setting.

“No, we’ve no interest in that sort of thing, in this day and age you don’t actually need to do that, you just shout ‘AI’ and then your share price rises 20%, why would we put any money into warfare? Too much hassle,” confirmed a company spokesperson, forgetting to apologise for Kalistova’s evisceration.