“Can you make it make sense?” Alex Eala asked after her defeat to Iga Świątek at the 2025 Madrid Open. Eala, the 20-year-old emerging talent from the Philippines, was not talking about her three-set loss, but rather a ball mark on the tournament’s red clay courts. Early in the match, Świątek hit a serve that the mark on the clay showed to be out, but no out call came: the electronic line calling (ELC) system determined it to be in. “I mean, the …
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