Watch: Coin toss needed after electronic glitch at ASB Classic tennis tournament

The umpire needed to name for an old school coin to toss when the digital scoreboard didn’t register a outcome on the ASB Traditional in Auckland.

Russia’s Elina Avanesyan and Emma Navarro from the USA had been getting set for his or her spherical of 16 girls’s tennis match match on Wednesday afternoon when the coin conundrum occurred.

Gone are the times when a coin is flipped within the air and a chosen participant calls heads or tails.

On this high-tech period, it’s all executed on display screen.

A participant calls heads or tails – or, technically, on this case, the acronym ‘ASB’ or ‘WTA’ after the championship’s sponsor and the sport’s governing physique.

Then a match official presses a button. Quickly after, the courtside huge screens ought to each mild up with similar photographs.

Besides they didn’t on this case. One displayed ‘heads’, the opposite ‘tails’.

That left each gamers and the match umpire, Nico Helwerth from Germany, considerably bemused within the centre of the court docket.

“Hum, that’s a bit unusual,’’ Helwerth stated. “I feel we’re going to flip a traditional coin.’’

He returned to the court docket with the requisite silverware and tossed it within the air. Navarro made the proper name, opting to serve.

Navarro, 22, went on to win, 6-1, 6-2.

On the post-match press convention Navarro stated there had been “a little bit confusion’’ over the coin toss.

“One display screen stated ASB and the opposite stated WTA. I had chosen ASB. A bit combine up there, however we acquired the bodily coin on the market to flip, so it was settled.”

It proved a lighter second, however the issue was shortly resolved.

The digital coin toss labored a deal with for the subsequent match between the Czech Republic’s Marie Bouzkova and Amanda Anisimova (USA).