abandoning line judges and ... round match of the French Tennis Open at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris on May 25. (Lindsey Wasson/Associated Press) No matter the form of officiating, there ...

PARIS -- Welcome to the last stand of the line judges. They are a dying breed in tennis, but at the French Open, the organizers are hoping to hold back the inevitable tide of electronic line ...

PARIS — For Novak Djokovic, this is a relatively easy call: He, like many players, thinks the French Open is making a mistake by eschewing the electronic line-calling used at most big tennis ...

Plenty of sports, from soccer and baseball to the NFL, are replacing, or at least helping, officials with some form ... the French tennis federation is keeping the human element. A line judge ...

PARIS — For Novak Djokovic, this is a relatively easy call: He, like many players, thinks the French Open is making a mistake by eschewing the electronic line-calling used at most big tennis ...