In yet another terrifying sign that the job of dedicated photo-journalist might be going the way of the dodo (and that tennis umpires might be going the same way), in this piece, we find world-ranked tennis pro Ukrainian Sergiy Stakhovsky take his dispute with an umpire with regards to what he perceived to be a blown call. And like any web-connected athlete in the 21st century would do, Mr Stakhovsky not only whipped out an iPhone and snapped an image, but he posted the picture to Twitter for posterity.
Brilliant.
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