Tennis stands at the edge of a digital storm. The major turning point arrived when Wimbledon announced it would replace line judges with artificial intelligence from this year. For the first time in the tournament’s 147-year history, machines made line calls across 18 courts, mirroring the AO and US Open. But as AI tightens its grip, chaos brewed as Carlos Alcaraz , Taylor Fritz, and other tennis stars now find themselves entangled in the digital uproar sparked by the Six Kings Slam poster.
On October 15, chaos erupted online when journalist Ben Rothenberg re-shared a post that showed an AI-generated poster for the Six Kings Slam. In the picture, Sinner and Alcaraz appeared to wield a same racquet, Fritz looked almost unrecognizable, and the overall composition felt more like a