Tennis Channel starting Sunday morning will have its largest on-site presence at the U.S. Open in five years. The Sinclair-owned network will feature studio programming from the grounds of the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, anchored by a new broadcast desk just outside Arthur Ashe Stadium. Programming starts 9-11am ET Sunday with \u201cTennis Channel Live at the U.S. Open,\u201d and that show will air every morning through the men\u2019s and women\u2019s quarterfinals on Sept. 3. The show will also have special evening editions Sept. 6-7 recapping the finals. <\/p>\n
Tennis Channel doesn\u2019t have live match rights at the U.S. Open, but new President Jeff Blackburn tells SBJ that his network being at the event is part of \u201cshowing up in the right way\u201d in covering the WTA and ATP. \u201cWe\u2019re the closest to the players and we cover all the events, but the U.S. Open is [the sport\u2019s] largest tournament,\u201d Blackburn said. \u201cSo we made the change early on to plan to be there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lindsay Davenport and Jim Courier will host the morning show alongside Chanda Rubin, Brett Haber and Jon Wertheim. \u201cThe voices everybody knows and trusts,\u201d Blackburn said of the on-site crew. Steve Weissman, Prakash Amritraj and Paul Annacone will also give insights from Tennis Channel\u2019s Santa Monica studio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tennis Channel starting Sunday morning will have its largest on-site presence at the U.S. Open in five years.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747,38305,32455],"class_list":["post-87434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-channel","tag-usta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}