India, July 7 -- This was Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova's response when asked how she would have felt if that point, which has since become the talking point of Wimbledon, cost her the match: "I would just say that I hate Wimbledon and never come back here."

Pavlyuchenkova could later chuckle about it because she could be human about it (and, well, because it didn't cost her the match).

That human touch has, incidentally, gone missing around the on-court officiating system at Wimbledon. At, ironically, a Grand Slam which prides on tradition.

After 147 years of existence, Wimbledon has done away with line judges - those crisply-dressed men and women scattered around the green that sprung to life the theatre around line calls and debatable de...