Play at Wimbledon qualifying at Roehampton was suspended for over an hour due to a power outage that caused the tournament's Electronic Line Calling (ELC) system to fail amid extreme heat.
Players were taken off court shortly after midday on Wednesday, with the temperature in south west London reaching a brutal 33C, before returning at around 1:30pm BST.
ELC replaced replaced line judges at Wimbledon last year, but the system was accidentally deactivated during the match between Anastasia Pavlyuchenkov and Sonay Kartal, due to "human error".
Speaking ahead of this year's Wimbledon, chief executive of the All England Club Sally Bolton said there was confidence in the system - but the extreme heat is likely to have played a part in this latest outage.
"There was a temporary loss of power to part of our Qualifying venue, which meant that the electronic line calling system could not function," a spokesperson for the All England Club said. "Power has now been restored and play is expected to resume shortly."
Players were taken off court shortly after midday on Wednesday, with the temperature in south west London reaching a brutal 33C, before returning at around 1:30pm BST.
ELC replaced replaced line judges at Wimbledon last year, but the system was accidentally deactivated during the match between Anastasia Pavlyuchenkov and Sonay Kartal, due to "human error".
Speaking ahead of this year's Wimbledon, chief executive of the All England Club Sally Bolton said there was confidence in the system - but the extreme heat is likely to have played a part in this latest outage.
"There was a temporary loss of power to part of our Qualifying venue, which meant that the electronic line calling system could not function," a spokesperson for the All England Club said. "Power has now been restored and play is expected to resume shortly."
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