The simmering tensions around Wimbledon’s use of electronic line calling (ELC) instead of line judges boiled over Sunday, when the technology malfunctioned at a crucial point on Centre Court. Russia’s Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova was serving at 4-4,

CENTRE COURT, THE ALL ENGLAND CLUB — Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova suggested her British opponent may have received preferential treatment as simmering tensions around Wimbledon ’s use of electronic line calling (ELC) instead of line judges boiled over Sunday, when the technology malfunctioned at a crucial point on Centre Court.

Sonay Kartal’s Wimbledon run came to an end as Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova defied some umpiring controversy to reach the quarter-finals.Kartal knew that victory would see her move above Emma Raducanu and Katie Boulter to become the British No1,