« The referees no longer stop, it is electronics that decides » – Liberation

Bruno Rebeuh found himself perched on a chair a little by chance. He aspired an existence in football. Considered one of the best tennis referees at the turn of the 1990s, withdrawn from courts for a quarter of a century, the man with the ten finals directed Porte d’Auteuil publishes a book, Full -line return (1), full of anecdotes seen from the top of his headquarters, lived in the passageways of the most prestigious tournaments. The opportunity, too, to take a critical look at the evolution of tennis, the inevitable transplant of new technologies, to the detriment of arbitration « In instinct » that he advocates. An almost revolted era: the last vestiges, embodied by line judges, only remain Roland-Garros. They should disappear next year. Liberty crossed it near the Philippe-Chatrier stadium, to discuss arbitration 2.0, and the current challenges of the profession.

Your book acts as a will, sacralizing the old -fashioned arbitration, without technological attires. An era that you regret …

I regret it for today’s referees. What I experienced with all these players of the time was thanks to the arbitration, to these confrontations that I had with them on the court because we did everything, the line judges were average. They will not have these same joys that I had because what is nice is to « beat » with someone on the court and then meet the next day in the same hotel and s