By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Tuesday February 25, 2025
VAR technology in tennis is fun. It’s also not quite predictable. Using a relatively new technology to rule over controversial moments can be enlightening, as it was today in Dubai, when Felix Auger-Aliassime used the technology to successfully overturn a point that he would have lost 99 times out of 100.
Watch below, as Auger-Alissime gets hindered by a rogue ballkid, who stretches out to grab a ball, not fully realizing that the Canadian has ranged back to make a last-ditch play on it.
When the 24-year-old calls for the review, it’s pretty clear that he was hindered. What is also clear is that he probably would have lost the point even if he hadn’t been hindered. But VAR is not there to make that type of decision, unfortunately. VAR is there to determine if he was indeed hindered.
Auger-Aliassime got to…
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