By Alberto Amalfi | @Tennis_Now | Monday, Could 20, 2024 Tennis Channel will ship final courtroom protection at Roland Garros this month.
TC launches its 18th yr of reside Roland Garros protection beginning with first ball on Sunday, Could twenty sixth at 5 a.m. Japanese time with opening-round motion.
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The community introduced in the present day it “will provide near 2,500 hours of reside matches on its authentic tv community, second channel T2 and subscription-service Tennis Channel+ from Could 26-June 9. “
This consists of near 105 hours on T2, extra free, reside tennis from the world’s most prestigious clay-court competitors than ever on U.S. tv.
Tennis Channel platforms dedicate 15 days and shut to three,000 whole hours to Paris this yr.
Tennis Channel alone will provide near 140 hours of reside competitors this yr, turning into America’s 24-hour “Roland Garros Community” once more in 2024 because it has since its first yr on the occasion in 2007.
When you’re busy throughout the day, no worries. Virtually 200 hours of encores will air on Tennis Channel after reside play concludes every day, working via the night and late evening to the beginning of the subsequent morning’s matches. Most days protection begins at 5 a.m. ET and runs into the afternoon.
From Could 26-June 5, Tennis Channel can have reside, day by day protection from the primary spherical via the quarterfinals.
The mixed-doubles ultimate and ladies’s singles semifinals will air reside on Thursday, June 6. Friday, June 7, will see the boys’s singles semifinals reside, earlier than the ladies’s doubles ultimate on Sunday, June 9. Identical-day males’s and ladies’s singles and doubles finals will air all through championship weekend.
Tennis Channel additionally introduced its forged of commentators and play-by-play announcers for the 2024 Roland Garros. Here is TC’s announcement on staffing for the French Open.
On-Air Expertise
Tennis Channel’s 2024 French Open group consists of 16 former skilled gamers – together with three Corridor of Famers – and award-winning sportscasters and reporters.
Analyst Martina Navratilova (@Martina) is among the many biggest athletes of all time and has been with the community since its first Roland Garros in 2007. The Corridor of Famer gained 11 titles in Paris throughout an unparalleled profession: two singles (1982, 1984), seven doubles (1975, 1982, 1984-1988) and two blended doubles (1991-1992).
Analysts Jim Courier and Lindsay Davenport (@LDavenport76) are additionally French Open champions and Corridor of Fame inductees. Courier is a back-to-back singles match winner (1991-1992) and Davenport a mixed-doubles victor in 1996.
Different Tennis Channel French Open group members have additionally discovered success on the game’s biggest levels. Paul Annacone (@paul_annacone) is understood for teaching legends Pete Sampras and Roger Federer to main titles, however gained the Australian Open doubles crown in his personal proper as a participant in 1985.
Announcer Chanda Rubin (@Chanda_Rubin) gained the doubles title Down Beneath 11 years later in 1996. Fellow announcer Jimmy Arias (@ariastennis) achieved mixed-doubles glory as properly, on the famed springtime clay of Paris in 1981.
Star Andrea Petkovic (@andreapetkovic) retired after the 2022 US Open and joins Tennis Channel as French Open analyst for the primary time. In 2014 she reached the singles semifinals on the occasion.
Announcers Jan-Michael Gambill (@JanmikeGambill) and Jill Craybas (@jcray74) additionally delivered deep advances on the majors: Gambill reached the Wimbledon singles semifinals in 2000 whereas Craybas fought her method to the US Open mixed-doubles semifinal in 2008.
Announcers Leif Shiras (@leifshiras), CiCi Bellis (@cicibellis), Jason Goodall, Louise Pleming, Nicolas Pereira (@nicolaspereira) and Mark Petchey (@_markpetchey) will name matches for Tennis Channel throughout Roland Garros this yr as properly.
Prakash Amritraj (@PrakashAmritraj) completes the roster of former gamers on air for the community this yr.
The year-round host of “Prakash Worldwide” interview segments from occasions across the globe will provide his perspective on the desk of Tennis Channel Dwell at Roland Garros.
This system is hosted by announcer Steve Weissman (@Steve_Weissman) and consists of Jon Wertheim (@jon_wertheim), who will even deal with function experiences and essays throughout the competitors.
The lineup of Roland Garros announcers additionally options longtime Tennis Channel representatives and Emmy Award winners Ted Robinson (@tedjrobinson) and Brett Haber (@BrettHaber). Noah Eagle (@NoahEagle15) who has introduced matches on the community earlier than, joins its French Open group for the primary time this spring and can name evening session matches. Moreover, Gill Gross (@Gill_Gross) returns to the channel’s French Open group this yr.
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