Quickie: Brisbane and Hawkeye

I had heard that the Brisbane joint ATP/WTA tournament had the equipment for electronic line calling in place this year, but chose not to operate it due to the costs involved. After Andy Roddick's rather verbal complaints about not being able to review calls and especially after the two very important questionable calls during the women's final, I predict that they will pay for the operation in 2011.

The two calls in the Clijsters-Henin match were Henin's ace while serving for the match, which was called out incorrectly, after which Justine double-faulted and eventually was broken. And then, up 6-5 in the tiebreak, Clijsters hit a backhand down the line that was initially called in, then corrected to be out. Unless Brisbane has line-calling in effect in 2011, I bet that the line-up will include significantly fewer stars. There's just no reason for these guys to play somewhere that the technology isn't being used, if they don't have to. And they don't!