NOTEBOOK: Wimbledon champ Williams: football needs electronic eye

Jul 4, 2010, 11:41 GMT

London - Four-time Wimbledon champion Serena Williams has used her high-profile position to join the chorus supporting electronic line calling in football.

After repeated debacles and uncounted goals at the World Cup in South Africa, tennis players are starting to realise who well the Hawk-eye system works to eliminate uncertainly in their sport.

Williams, who professes to be a football fan during the World Cup period, has now made her plea as calls are growing for an electronic judge on goal lines.

'I just think it's unfair that you can make a goal, like USA did twice, and England did, and it cannot be a goal. I just think that's outrageous,' she said.

'I think they should,' she said of a possible opening to the once unheard-of possibility by FIFA. 'It's just so frustrating, especially when you're rooting for a team.

I just can't imagine that you could have it right there and it's just not there. It's just so frustrating.'

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NOTEBOOK: Hewitt planning 2011 return to Wimbledon title chase =

London (dpa) - By the time her returns to Wimbledon next summer aged 30, Lleyton Hewitt belive he will still have his chances to win a second title.

The Aussie took the trophy in 2002 at the high point of his career. He exited at this edition in the fourth round to Novak Djokovic.

But that defeat does not dent the legendary Hewitt confidence.

'I'd much rather be in my position of coming back at 30 and won it before than never have won it and trying to win your first one,' he said. 'I'll come back, give 100 percent and see what happens. That's the upside.'

Hewitt had given himself a chance at Wimbledon by winning the grass-court Halle title in Germany last month over Roger Federer. The six-time champion Swiss was eliminated in the Wimbledon quarter-finals by Tomas Berdych, who later put out Djokovic.

Hewitt's summer schedule on hard court will be full-on, with entries at Atlanta, Washington, Montreal and Cincinnati before the US Open in New York.

'I need a little bit of luck always,' admitted the optimistic Aussie. 'If things fall my way, there are a lot of positives to take out of this. My body is standing up well, I can compete with the top guys at this level.'