LOS ANGELES, Might 22, 2023 – Tennis Channel could have stay protection on daily basis of the 15-day French Open once more this yr, its seventeenth yr in Paris, from Might 28-June 11. Between the community, its subscription-service Tennis Channel Plus and its free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) channel T2, followers could have entry to shut to 1,750 stay hours of matches at Roland Garros (generally referred to as the French Open), the world’s most prestigious clay-court competitors and the second main on the tennis calendar. Motion on all platforms begins with the event’s outset, Sunday, Might 28, at 5 a.m. ET.
In all, Tennis Channel viewers can count on greater than 140 stay hours of protection this yr, with one other 190-plus hours of encores. Because it has finished since first televising the French Open in 2007, the community will grow to be a de-facto “Roland Garros Channel” for 15 days. Usually this implies 12 stay hours from every day’s begin of play at 5 a.m. ET to its concluding match, adopted by all-night replays main as much as the subsequent morning’s first ball (full schedule beneath).
After displaying the primary spherical by way of quarterfinals Might 28-June 7, Tennis Channel will air the mixed-doubles ultimate and girls’s semifinals on Thursday, June 8. The lads’s semifinals will run Friday, June 9, adopted by the Junior Women’ and Boys’ Finals on Saturday, June 10. The ladies’s doubles ultimate takes place Sunday, June 11. The community will present same-day encores of the boys’s and girls’s singles and doubles semifinals on the ultimate weekend once more as properly.
T2 will present near 100 hours of stay matches that won’t be out there on Tennis Channel this yr, up from 80 hours final yr throughout its first yr on air. This may put extra hours of French Open competitors on U.S. tv totally free than ever earlier than. 13 days of stay protection are deliberate from Might 28-June 9, starting most days at 5 a.m. ET. From Might 28-June 2 T2 can be stay from 5 a.m.-2 p.m. ET, after which once more June 3-5 from 5 a.m.-12 p.m. ET. Stay matches June 6-7 happen from 5 a.m.-1 p.m. and June 8 from 6 a.m.-10 a.m. On June 9 T2 can be stay from 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. T2 (and Tennis Channel) will grow to be out there on YouTube TV on June 1, day 5 of Roland Garros. All Samsung TV Plus customers with 2017-or-newer Samsung good TVs and Galaxy cell units at the moment get T2.
Subscription-service Tennis Channel Plus can be stay 13 days as properly, and provide each French Open match on demand following its completion. The platform will let customers select from as much as 16 court docket feeds without delay, with greater than 1,500 stay hours and 600 matches. Debuting on the event in 2014, Tennis Channel Plus is obtainable to everybody in america, no matter whether or not they subscribe to Tennis Channel.
Choose Bally Sports activities regional networks across the nation will present as much as 36 hours of stay French Open play from Might 28-June 5. Throughout these 9 days protection will happen from 8 a.m.-12 p.m. ET. As with T2, matches on Bally Sports activities networks won’t air on Tennis Channel.
This week Tennis Channel is together with Roland Garros qualifying matches as a part of its Courtside protection of different clay-court tournaments main into Paris. The community will present 15 stay and greater than 20 encore hours, with extra matches on T2 and Tennis Channel Plus. On Saturday, Might 27, at 11 a.m. ET, Tennis Channel Stay at Roland Garros will preview this yr’s event.
On-Air Expertise
Tennis Channel’s sturdy on-air roster for Paris options Corridor of Famers, event champions, embellished sportscasters and tennis consultants. Corridor of Famer and all-time nice Martina Navratilova (@Martina) returns to the primary occasion the place she served as an analyst for the community, throughout its inaugural French Open in 2007. A mainstay ever since, her Roland Garros resume contains 11 championships as a participant: two singles (1982, 1984), seven doubles (1975, 1982, 1984-1988) and two blended doubles (1991-1992).
Fellow Corridor of Famers Jim Courier and Lindsay Davenport (@LDavenport76) are additionally within the Corridor of Fame and can return to the Metropolis of Gentle as analysts in 2023. Courier received French Open singles titles in 1991 and 1992, whereas Davenport took the mixed-doubles trophy house in 1996. Announcer Pam Shriver (@PHShriver) is the fourth Corridor of Famer on Tennis Channel’s workforce. A dominant doubles participant, she received 5 French Open championships: 4 doubles (1984-1984, 1987-1988; with Navratilova) and one blended doubles (1987).
Former gamers Paul Annacone, (@paulannacone), Chanda Rubin (@ChandaRubin) and Caroline Wozniacki (@CaroWozniacki) are all main champions and again as Tennis Channel analysts throughout this yr’s French Open protection. Annacone received the 1985 Australian Open doubles titles and can be identified for teaching Pete Sampras and Roger Federer to Grand Slam success. Rubin and Wozniacki additionally soared Down Underneath, with the previous taking the 1996 doubles crown and the latter the singles in 2018.
Rubin will seem on the Tennis Channel Stay event desk on the French Open, together with former participant Prakash Amritraj (@PrakashAmritraj). All year long Amritraj hosts the community’s “Prakash Worldwide” interview segments from occasions across the globe. Led by award-winning sportscaster Steve Weissman (@SteveWeissman), the desk may even function reporter and essayist Jon Wertheim (@jonwertheim), an writer, Sports activities Illustrated editor and CBS’ 60 Minutes correspondent.
Emmy Award-winning announcers Ted Robinson (@tedjrobinson) and Brett Haber (@BrettHaber) are again within the Roland Garros sales space for Tennis Channel this yr, as is former participant Jason Goodall. Leif Shiras (@leifshiras) and Mark Knowles (@Knowlzee10s) additionally frolicked on the professional circuit, with Knowles profitable the French Open doubles title in 2007 throughout Tennis Channel’s first yr on the occasion.
Analysts Jan-Michael Gambill (@JanmikeGambill), Jill Craybas (@jcray74), Jimmy Arias (@ariastennis), CiCi Bellis (@cicibellis) and Nicolas Pereira (@nicolaspereira) convey extra pro-tour expertise to Tennis Channel’s French Open workforce. In 1981 Arias received the mixed-doubles championship in Paris. Announcers Brian Webber (@bwwebber) additionally has an Emmy Award to his title and can deal with Roland Garros play by play this yr, as will Gill Gross (@Gill_Gross).
Digital Protection
Along with unmatched stay and on-demand matches on Tennis Channel Plus, Tennis Channel’s digital Roland Garros protection is in depth once more this spring. The Tennis.com web site and app convey the sport to customers like no different platform. A roadmap for longtime followers and novices alike, Tennis.com provides stay scoring, event calendars and brackets, information, tales, highlights, win-prediction percentages, estimated begin occasions for all matches, the chance to straight hyperlink to stay or on-demand matches and data feeds constructed round favourite gamers. Anybody on the planet with an iOS or Android system can entry the free platform, which is the game’s most complete automobile for staying on prime of Roland Garros.
The second season of digital sequence Heat & Fuzzy, hosted by comic Michael Kosta, will premier this week on Tennis.com, the community’s app and YouTube. Kosta hosts a prime participant like Coco Gauff, Carlos Alcaraz, Iga Swiatek and others every week for humorous and off-beat dialog that veers from the everyday tennis press-conference line of questions.
The community’s “Racquet Bracket” recreation can be again this yr, with the prospect to guess winners firstly of the occasion. Additionally, 2023 marks the French Open return of the channel’s free Bally Sport Caller Match Predictor Recreation, which provides prizes all through the event.
