LOS ANGELES, Jan. 9, 2024 – Tennis Channel’s seventeenth yr of Australian Open protection will start Saturday, Jan. 13, with the nightly present Tennis Channel Stay on the Australian Open at 5 p.m. ET. The information, evaluation, spotlight and interview program will air every afternoon at the moment for 2 weeks throughout one of many sport’s 4 most prestigious competitions and first main of the yr, from January 13-27. The community will encompass the night present with day by day encore replays from the primary spherical via the lads’s singles remaining in Melbourne January 14-28 (full schedule will be discovered at www.tennischannel.com/schedule). Tennis Channel first coated the Australian Open in 2008.
Corridor of Famers Martina Navratilova (@Martina), Jim Courier and Lindsay Davenport (@LDavenport76) are a part of the Tennis Channel Stay on the Australian Open on-air group this yr. All discovered success Down Below throughout their taking part in careers. Navratilova took the singles title thrice, together with eight doubles championships and one other in blended doubles. Courier received the singles match back-to-back in 1992 and 1993, whereas Davenport received it in 2000 and reached the finals in doubles six instances.
Coach and analyst Paul Annacone (@paul_annacone) returns to Tennis Channel’s encore replay studio in the course of the Australian Open in 2024. In 1985 he received the occasion’s doubles crown. He’ll be joined by longtime community announcer Brett Haber (@BrettHaber), who labored with Annacone eventually yr’s occasion and all year long.
Creator, Sports activities Illustrated editor/reporter and CBS’ 60 Minutes contributor Jon Wertheim (@jonwertheim) returns to Tennis Channel Stay on the Australian Open this yr, and can supply particular options and evaluation in the course of the match. Award-winning host Steve Weissman (@SteveWeissman) is the present’s conductor, guiding the dialog via match storylines they usually play out in Melbourne.
Australian Open followers can discover scores, information, highlights, interviews, movies and stay blogs at TennisChannel.com, Tennis.com and Baseline.Tennis.com free of charge in the course of the match. Basic matches from Melbourne will likely be out there on-demand on subscription service Tennis Channel Plus.
Social media customers have entry to the occasion throughout Tennis Channel platforms, together with Fb (Fb.com/TennisChannel), Twitter (Twitter.com/TennisChannel), Instagram (Instagram.com/Tennischannel) and TikTok (tiktok.com/@tennischannel) and Tennis Journal’s Twitter (Twitter.com/Tennis) and Fb (www.Fb.com/TennisMedia).
Tennis Channel (www.tennischannel.com) and its sibling community T2, that are owned by Sinclair Inc., are the one television-based multiplatform locations devoted to each the skilled sport and tennis life-style. The networks have probably the most concentrated single-sport protection in tv in one of many world’s most voluminous sports activities, with a number of males’s and girls’s tournaments and singles, doubles and blended competitors all year long. Tennis Channel and T2 have rights on the 4 majors – US Open, Wimbledon, Roland Garros (French Open) and Australian Open – and are the unique U.S. properties of all males’s ATP World Tour and girls’s WTA Tour competitions, Davis Cup, Billie Jean King Cup, United Cup, and Laver Cup. Direct-to-consumer streaming service Tennis Channel Plus is accessible to everybody in the USA and permits subscribers to pick from one other 4,500 stay and on-demand matches and award-winning content material from short-form to movies all through the tennis season. Tennis Channel Worldwide brings stay competitors and community content material to markets in Europe and Asia through digital subscription and free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) channels. Further platform www.tennis.com is the biggest digital outlet devoted to the game. Tennis Channel additionally manages a community of shut to twenty podcasts and FAST channel Pickleballtv, a partnership with the Skilled Pickleball Affiliation.
