July 07, 2007	Saturday	Jamadi-us-Sani 21, 1428

LONDON, July 6: Lleyton Hewitt and Jonas Bjorkman were left cursing the cutting-edge HawkEye technology which sliced through their Wimbledon campaigns. Hewitt suffered a fourth round defeat against Novak Djokovic on Court One when his opponent successfully challenged two calls in the fourth set tie-break which the Serb won to take the match.

“I didn’t really have anything go my way. Net cords, you name it, I didn’t have it,” said Hewitt, the 2002 champion. “The HawkEye one, the first point of the tiebreak, I was baffled by that being in. No chalk came up, no chalk on the ball.”

HawkEye is being used at Wimbledon for the first time this year but only on the two main show courts.

It was Bjorkman’s misfortune that he was playing his fourth round match against Tomas Berdych out on Court 18 where human fallibility was the order of the day.

The veteran Swede let loose a foul-mouthed tirade at umpire James Keothavong who over-ruled a call made on the far side of the court with Berdych facing a break point at 2-3, 30-40 in the third set.

Bjorkman, a 2006 semi-finalist and normally one of the sport’s most mild-mannered characters, was still fuming when he appeared at his press conference and bemoaned the lack of HawkEye on the outside courts.

“Obviously it’s all about money,” said Bjorkman. “It’s not cheap to have HawkEye. But two courts is may be not enough in a Grand Slam.—AFP