LOS ANGELES, March 1, 2023 – Tennis Channel will as soon as once more flip right into a 24-hour community devoted to the BNP Paribas Open and Miami Open all through the month of March, as two of the game’s most vital occasions start the annual springtime season. From March 8-April 2, the channel will dedicate 32 days and greater than 550 dwell and encore hours to those two tennis-calendar heavyweights, surpassed in variety of gamers and days by solely the 4 majors. Protection from Indian Wells, Calif., and Miami Gardens, Fla., begins on the primary day of BNP Paribas Open main-draw play, Wednesday, March 8, at 1 p.m. ET. The lineup will characteristic 12 consecutive hours of dwell matches, the primary of many in March with intensive, half-day telecast home windows adopted by all-night encore replays.
Below manner March 8-19, Tennis Channel’s BNP Paribas Open protection will embody greater than 115 hours of dwell matches and one other 150-plus hours of encores this 12 months. Most days start at 1 p.m. ET with one-hour lead-in present Tennis Channel Stay on the BNP Paribas Open, forward of daylong competitors beginning at 2 p.m. ET. Championship weekend options males’s and ladies’s doubles finals Saturday, March 18, in a window with the lads’s singles semifinals that will get going at 2 p.m. ET. Sunday, March 19, males’s and ladies’s singles finals shut the occasion at 4 p.m. ET.
The community follows an identical schedule on the Miami Open March 21-April 2. A notable exception is the alternative of a every day lead-in present with the nightly Tennis Channel Stay on the Miami Open on the conclusion of every night’s play. Greater than 120 dwell and 170 encore hours are deliberate from Miami in 2023, with matches starting at 11 a.m. ET most mornings. The ultimate Saturday, April 1, will characteristic the ladies’s singles last at 1 p.m. ET, adopted by the lads’s doubles championship. Sunday, April 2, will see the reverse, with males’s singles and ladies’s doubles winners topped, additionally set for 1 p.m. ET.
Stay BNP Paribas Open and Miami Open competitors may also stream on Tennis Channel Plus. The digital subscription service will make all matches from each occasions obtainable on demand upon their completion.
The community’s second linear tv channel, T2, is free on Samsung TV Plus to everybody watching a Samsung tv made in 2017 or later. T2 will once more present dwell matches from Indian Wells and Miami that won’t be carried on Tennis Channel. Viewers with each channels will be capable of channel surf between the 2 to pick the match of their choice, or keep on high of each. Day by day protection happen on the BNP Paribas Open from Wednesday, March 8, by means of Friday, March 17, starting at 2 p.m. ET. Miami Open home windows additionally start at 2 p.m. ET and run from Wednesday, March 22, by means of Thursday, March 30.
Likewise, dwell protection of each occasions will air on Bally Sports activities regional sports activities networks (RSNs) all through the nation this 12 months. The channels will characteristic protection at Indian Wells from Wednesday, March 8, to Tuesday, March 14, and from Miami Wednesday, March 22, by means of Wednesday, March 29.
On-Air Expertise Tennis Channel may have a full roster of achieved former tennis professionals and adorned sportscasters on air throughout its protection in Indian Wells and Miami. This contains 14 former tour gamers, six of whom are within the sport’s Corridor of Fame.
Corridor of Famer Martina Navratilova (@Martina) will supply evaluation throughout the Miami Open once more this 12 months. As a participant, she grabbed singles championships in Southern California in 1990-1991, and in South Florida in 1985, the place she additionally gained the doubles and mixed-doubles event that very same 12 months. Fellow analysts Jim Courier, Tracy Austin (@thetracyaustin), Lindsay Davenport (@LDavenport76), Pam Shriver (@PHShriver) and Andy Roddick (@andyroddick) spherical out the Corridor of Fame illustration in Tennis Channel’s event cubicles this March. Courier was the primary man to win the singles “Sunshine Double” in 1991, taking each occasions whereas additionally successful the doubles championship in Indian Wells. He gained the BNP Paribas Open singles title a second time in 1993, and can supply his perspective throughout each occasions.
As will Davenport, who hails from Southern California and dominated the desert throughout her enjoying days. She gained eight titles between 1997-2003: two singles (1997, 2000) and 6 doubles (1994-1995, 1997-1998, 2000 and 2003) crowns on the occasion. Shriver gained doubles championships in Indian Wells (1989) and Miami (1986-1987), whereas Roddick gained doubles on the BNP Paribas Open (2009) and singles on the Miami Open (2004, 2010). Each shall be on air for Tennis Channel in Indian Wells.
Her first time in Miami as a Tennis Channel analyst this 12 months, Caroline Wozniacki (@CaroWozniacki) was a finalist on the occasion in 2017. She gained the BNP Paribas Open singles title in 2011 and reached the ultimate once more in 2013 and 2010. Analyst Chanda Rubin (@ChandaRubin) gained the BNP Paribas Open doubles championship in 1996 and can lend her voice to each occasions in 2023. So will Jan-Michael Gambill (@JanmikeGambill), a Miami Open singles finalist in 2001 and doubles finalist in 1999. Former participant and major-champion coach Paul Annacone (@paulannacone) may also supply his ideas throughout each occasions this month. In 1985 and 1987 he gained doubles crowns in Miami. Announcer Mark Knowles (@Knowlzee10s) took the doubles title residence from Indian Wells in 2006, and reached the doubles last in Miami two years later. Former gamers Leif Shiras (@ShirasLeif), Jason Goodall and Mark Petchey (@_markpetchey) will announce matches throughout Tennis Channel’s protection this 12 months month as effectively. Shiras shall be on air for each, whereas Goodall (Indian Wells) and Petchey (Miami) will break up duties between the 2. Prakash Amritraj (@PrakashAmritraj) completes the checklist of tour professionals on air this 12 months. He’ll conduct interviews on the Miami event desk together with accomplice and fellow community international reporter Dani Klupenger (@daniklup).
The Tennis Channel Stay lead-in and wrap-up exhibits shall be hosted by community announcer Steve Weissman (@Steve_Weissman), who will work with Roddick in Indian Wells, and Annacone and Rubin throughout Miami. Announcer Noah Eagle (@NoahEagle15) may also seem on Tennis Channel Stay on the Miami Open.
Emmy Award-winning sportscaster and longtime Tennis Channel announcer Brett Haber (@BrettHaber) will deal with play-by-play obligations throughout each occasions once more this 12 months. Ari Wolfe (@ariwolfe) and Geoff Chizever (@Geoff_Chiz) will do the identical.
Digital Throughout Indian Wells and Miami, the free Tennis.com web site and app will present highlights, scores, information, head-to-head matchup statistics, win-probability charges and estimated begin instances. Customers can entry Tennis Channel’s Match Level predictor recreation (https://predictor.tennis.com/en) whereas Indian Wells is in session and reply questions for the prospect to win from an inventory of prizes, a visit to subsequent 12 months’s event amongst them. The community’s on-air group members may also be lively on Instagram from Southern California and South Florida all through March.
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