Tennis Channel has announced its broadcast schedule of 2010 US Open Tennis Championship from USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, New York City Monday, Aug. 30 through Thursday, Sept. 9.
Tennis Channel will present 73 hours of live matches coverage of 2010 US Open Tennis Championship with overall network’s coverage of 234 hours.
Tennis Channel’s ‘US Open Tonight’ and ‘Breakfast at the Open’ will deliver all the excitement of that day’s play when live matches are not talking place, and lead into the following morning’s contests. Again hosted by 1998 US Open champion Lindsay Davenport and Kevin Frazier of Entertainment Tonight fame, the news, interview and highlight shows will air alongside encore matches throughout the night during the tournament, giving viewers a close to 24-hour daily US Open experience.
Tennis Channel will begin with opening-match coverage on Arthur Ashe Stadium or Louis Armstrong Stadium on first day of play on Monday, Aug. 30. Tennis Channel will deliver US Open schedule daily from 11 a.m.-7 p.m. ET.
US Open Tonight on Tennis Channel immediately follows the conclusion of the final US Open match of the evening, and airs with encore matches until Breakfast at the Open premieres at 6 a.m. and runs next to encore matches until the start of that day’s play at 11 a.m.
During Labor Day weekend Tennis Channel’s live-match window moves to prime time, from 7 p.m.-11 p.m. As with the other three Grand Slams, Tennis Channel will combine with ESPN2 to bring fans virtually round-the-clock coverage during the US Open, each network utilizing its own commentators.
On-Air Talent
Though new to the network’s Grand Slam team, Austin has been a Tennis Channel regular via Tennis Channel Academy, the coaches-and-clinics series she has hosted since 2008. She has also done commentary and analysis work for the channel’s coverage of top events like the women’s year-end championships. During the US Open she will serve as Tennis Channel’s afternoon and late-match analyst, appear in short features and interact with fans on the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center grounds.
A tennis prodigy, Austin is best known for dethroning four-time US Open champion Chris Evert in 1979 at the mere age of 16, making her the youngest US Open champion in history. She was the No. 1 women’s singles player in 1980 and boasts an impressive collection of 30 singles titles, including two US Open championships along with a Wimbledon mixed doubles title. She was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1992.
“Tennis Channel tries to put as much of the US Open on fans’ television screens as is humanly possible, and I’m thrilled to join them this year,” said Austin. “This is an exciting time of the tennis season and this tournament has such special memories for me.”
Tennis icons Jimmy Connors and Martina Navratilova are back as Tennis Channel’s lead US Open analysts, again putting the all-time men’s and women’s singles titlists in the same booth. They will be joined once more by veteran sportscaster Bill Macatee, a mainstay of the network’s Grand Slam coverage since its first effort in Paris in 2007. Lead commentators Ted Robinson and Ian Eagle are also back on Tennis Channel’s on-air roster, as are former players Leif Shiras, Katrina Adams, Jimmy Arias, Justin Gimelstob and Corina Morariu. Year-round Court Report anchor Cari Champion will also be on the tournament grounds for special news and feature segments. US Open Tonight and Breakfast at the Open are hosted by Davenport and Frazier from Tennis Channel’s Los Angeles studio, with nightly Court Report segments from reporters Arlene Santana and Angela Sun.
“Grounds Pass”
After bringing its “Grounds Pass” Grand Slam coverage approach to the US Open last year for the first time, Tennis Channel is doing even more to give audiences the feel of spending a late-summer afternoon at the tournament. New in 2010 is the “Tennis Channel Plaza,” a fixed interview and fan-interaction site centered just outside Arthur Ashe Stadium. Throughout each day’s coverage Gimelstob, Champion and others will conduct interviews while surrounded by tournament ticket holders, routinely carrying on public address conversations with the crowd in the interim. The network’s main set has been moved from the top of Louis Armstrong Stadium and brought outside to the second level of Arthur Ashe Stadium, in full view of the public. Usually featuring Robinson and Eagle, this set will be the center point of Tennis Channel’s coverage, from here taking viewers to center court with Macatee, Connors and Navratilova; off to the outer grounds with roving reporters; and on-air analysts or anywhere between.
| 2010 US Open Tennis Championship Broadcast Schedule on Tennis Channel | ||||||
| Day, Date & Time ET | Event | |||||
| Mon., Aug. 30, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. | First-Round Action | |||||
| Tue., Aug. 31, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. | First-Round Action | |||||
| Wed., Sep. 1, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. | First-Round, Second-Round Action | |||||
| Thu., Sep. 2, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. | Second-Round Action | |||||
| Fri., Sep. 3, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. | Second-Round, Third-Round Action | |||||
| Sat., Sep. 4, 7 p.m.-11 p.m. | Third-Round Action | |||||
| Sun., Sep. 5, 7 p.m.-11 p.m. | Third-Round, Round-of-16 Action | |||||
| Tue., Sep. 7, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. | Round-of-16 Action, Doubles | |||||
| Wed., Sep. 8, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. | Doubles Quarterfinals, Mixed Semifinals | |||||
| Thu., Sep. 9, 11 a.m.-8 p.m. | Doubles, Juniors, Wheelchair | |||||
Tennis Channel’s US Open Tonight runs evenings and mornings Monday, Aug. 30-Sunday, Sept. 12, while Breakfast at the Open will air Monday, Aug. 30-Friday, Sept. 10. Both are interspersed with same-day, encore matches. This year US Open Tonight will start at the conclusion of play each evening which, especially the first week, could mean well into the early morning hours. Because of the uncertain start time for US Open Tonight, Tennis Channel’s 11 p.m.-3 a.m. schedule will vary in terms of the number of times US Open Tonight airs, as will the length of the encore match. The schedule is generally as follows (all times ET):
11 p.m.-3 a.m. – US Open Tonight / Encore Match
3 a.m.-4 a.m. – US Open Tonight
4 a.m.-6 a.m. – Encore Match
6 a.m.-7 a.m. – Breakfast at the Open
7 a.m.-10 a.m. – Encore Match
10 a.m.-11 a.m. – Breakfast at the Open
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