Tennis followers can radiate within the heat glow of Sunshine Double protection this month.
Tennis Channel introduced it’s planning to televise greater than 550 hours of mixed protection of the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells and the Miami Open.
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From March 8-April 2, the channel will commit 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. Coverage 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 function 12 consecutive hours of dwell matches, the primary of many in March with in depth, half-day telecast home windows adopted by all-night encore replays.
Underway March 8-19, Tennis Channel’s BNP Paribas Open protection will embrace 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 Live 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 boys’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 the same 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 Live on the Miami Open on the conclusion of every night’s play. More 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 function the ladies’s singles ultimate at 1 p.m. ET, adopted by the boys’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.
Live 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.
On-Air Talent
Tennis Channel could have a full roster of achieved former tennis professionals and embellished 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 Hall of Fame.
Hall 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 match 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 Hall of Fame illustration in Tennis Channel’s match 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). Both will likely be on air for Tennis Channel in Indian Wells.
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