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Wimbledon row erupts over ‘faulty hawkeye’ as Joe Salisbury and Rajeev Ram refuse to play on in doubles quarter-final

, Wimbledon row erupts over ‘faulty hawkeye’ as Joe Salisbury and Rajeev Ram refuse to play on in doubles quarter-final

A Wimbledon doubles quarter-final was briefly stopped when pair Joe Salisbury and Rajeev Ram REFUSED to return to the court following a marginal Hawkeye call.

A set up and with the score at 5-5 in the second, the No1 seeds thought they had clinched a vital break against Nicolas Mahut and Edouard Roger-Vasselin.

Salisbury, right, and Ram, left, were furious with the decision
This was how Hawkeye saw the line call towards the end of the second set

, Wimbledon row erupts over ‘faulty hawkeye’ as Joe Salisbury and Rajeev Ram refuse to play on in doubles quarter-final
The pair briefly refused to carry on playing as they called for Hawkeye to be turned off

Mahut and Roger-Vasselin challenged the call and were successful as Hawkeye showed their shot had touched the line – despite other replays showing that it was long.

Salisbury and Ram were left furious with the decision, with the latter shouting: “No way man! That is absolutely ridiculous.”

Salisbury then insisted they would not continue playing until Hawkeye was turned off – something umpire Fergus Murphy refused to do.

Ram went on: “There’s no way. No way at all. We’re turning the machine off. We’re not in the future here man.

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“There is NO chance that is in. You know it is wrong. Can you get the supervisor?”

A supervisor eventually came out and insisted they were investigating, before telling Salisbury and Ram to continue with the match.

They did so and went on to lose the second set 7-6.

The British-American duo managed to recover their composure in the third set to take it 6-1.

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The supervisor re-emerged after three games of the third set to insist they believed the controversial call was correct.

To which Ram replied: “Really?!”

Their opponents refused to go away though and in the fourth it was Mahut and Roger-Vasselin who raced into a 3-0 lead.

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Ram and Salisbury already have two Grand Slam doubles titles to their name.

They won the 2020 Australian Open and followed that up with a triumph at the 2021 US Open.

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