Amazon Prime Video to broadcast WTA & ATP Miami Open

The tennis tournament runs from 23 March until 4 April Amazon Prime Video is live and exclusively broadcasting the WTA and ATP Miami Open to UK & Ireland viewers. Running from 23 March until 4 April, with the finals taking place on the 3-4 April, the competition is taking place at the Hard Rock Stadium […]

Shoot the Company to produce UK Pro League tennis

Shoot the Company will create the live feed for BT Sport’s live weekend coverage of the year-round domestic tennis championship River Media Partners has revealed that Shoot the Copany will produce the broadcasts of the UK Pro League tennis competition. The film production company will create the live feed for BT Sport’s weekend coverage of […]

BT Sport to broadcast UK Pro League tennis

The competition was originally created during the first lockdown BT Sport has agreed to broadcast the UK Pro League tennis competition. The tournament was originally created by River Media in response the first lockdown and the lack of competitive opportunities resulting from it. The round robin league, which features British players competing against each other […]

Infosys serves virtual experiences for Australian Open

The company attempts to recreate the feeling of the Australian Open with AI, cloud, and 3D virtual experiences Infosys has created a series of virtual experiences to try and recreate the feeling of attending the Australian Open. Using AI, cloud technology, and 3D virtual experiences, the company has brought a number of features to the […]

Amazon Prime Video to air ATP Tennis Tours in February

It will provide full, uninterrupted live coverage from all the courts at Melbourne. Amazon Prime Video is showing live tennis coverage of the Women’s Tennis Tour (WTA) and Men’s Tours (ATP Tour) in the UK and Ireland next month. The schedule for the coverage, which is exclusive to Amazon Prime Video, is as follows: WTA […]

The LTA and Whisper unveil 2015 Davis Cup documentary on YouTube

The 11-minute film includes input from Andy and Jamie Murray. The Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) has teamed up with Whisper to create a short documentary about the 2015 Davis Cup. The film, which has been promoted across the LTA’s social channels and is hosted on YouTube, marks the five years since the Brits famously lifted […]

Stats Perform to provide Women’s Tennis Association with data-driven insights

The partnership will dramatically enhance the live insight available across broadcast, second screen and betting experiences. Stats Perform is to work with the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) as its official data partner. It will deliver multiple feeds to broadcasters and digital platforms, including an exclusive umpire-derived data feed for an expanded number of WTA matches. […]

Rakuten TV unveils Davis Cup, which will go free-to-air on 26 November

The documentary focuses on last year’s tournament, when Spain triumphed over Canada. Rakuten TV has unveiled a documentary about the biggest international team competition in tennis, the Davis Cup. The film, Break Point: A Davis Cup Story, has been produced by Kosmos Studios with the participation of players including Rafa Nadal, Roberto Bautista, Andrey Rublev […]

AI-driven insights unveiled for Roland-Garros app and website

Tennis fans are being offered in-depth analysis of live games, created by Artificial Intelligence (AI). The Fédération Française de Tennis (FFT) has added some AI-powered analytics to the Roland-Garros tournament, which are available through the Roland-Garros app and in the Infosys Match Centre on RolandGarros.com. The insights, created by AI specialist Infosys, “enhance the tournament […]

Eurosport to air 300 hours of live tennis coverage from Roland-Garros

The broadcaster is covering all games, including the qualification tournament, and once more utilising its mixed-reality stage, the Eurosport Cube. Eurosport is airing every match from this year’s Roland-Garros tennis tournament live on Eurosport and the Eurosport Player. It’s producing 300 hours of live coverage from the main tournament – which starts on Sunday (27 […]

National Premier League Tennis to use AI to auto create highlights

It’s the first time Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been used by a semi-pro tennis event. Online highlights from the National Premier League Tennis (NPL) finals in London this week are being produced using an AI technology. UK-based data science company Peak Indicators has created the AI, which automatically produces video highlights from a live feed. […]

Eurosport ‘teleports’ players into The Cube for photo-real remote interviews

Impressive use of technology to enable highly realistic looking face-to-face interviews with the interviewer and sports stars in different physical locations. The Eurosport Cube went live during coverage of the US Open last night with the broadcaster welcoming its first ‘teleported’ player guests. You can see a clip from the interview between Eurosport presenter Barbara […]

Amazon Prime Video and Eurosport unveil US Open plans

Amazon Prime Video will show all live matches in the UK and Ireland, while Eurosport has the rights to the rest of Europe, including analysis in the Eurosport Cube (pictured below). Amazon Prime Video is airing all live matches from the US Open Tennis Championships 2020 in the UK and Ireland. Coverage from the tournament, […]

LTA launches tennis mini-series with British Olympian Aimee Fuller

The first episode in the six-part series is live now on IGTV, Facebook and YouTube. The National Governing Body of tennis for Great Britain (LTA) has launched a six-part digital mini-series called The Showdown, with British Olympian Aimee Fuller. Designed for social platforms, the series will run across LTA and influencer channels over the next […]

Eurosport to show Berlin’s bett1 ACES tennis tournament (13-19 July)

The competition includes the return of grass courts games. Eurosport has picked up the rights for the bett1 ACES tournament in Berlin next week (13-19 July), which features Dominic Thiem, Alexander Zverev (pictured above, photo by Clive Brunskill/Getty Images), Tommy Haas, Nick Kyrgios, Elina Svitolina, Kiki Bertens and Petra Kvitova. Eurosport is screening the tournament […]

Today’s Battle of the Brits tennis tournament (Amazon Prime Video) schedule

Today’s games are listed below. The first behind-closed-doors tennis tournament, Battle of the Brits, is being held this week, with Amazon Prime Video streaming the event in the UK and Ireland. The competition sees Andy Murray making his return to the court. He won yesterday to reach the semi-finals. The tournament runs from Tuesday 23 […]

Amazon Prime Video to air women’s tennis doc, Unraveling Athena

Tennis doc to appear on Amazon Prime Video from 13 July. Amazon Prime Video has secured the exclusive rights to premier Kaleidoscope’s tennis documentary Unraveling Athena in selected European countries including the UK on Monday 13 July. The film, directed by Francis Amat, and named after the Greek goddess of tactics and skill, wisdom and […]

Amazon Prime Video to stream first UK behind-closed-doors tennis tournament

Live action from the UK tennis tournament will be streamed from 23-28 June. Amazon Prime Video has picked up the exclusive rights in the UK and Ireland for the behind-closed-doors tennis tournament, The Schroders Battle of the Brits. The six-day event (23-28 June) has been co-organised by Jamie Murray as a way to raise money […]

Tennis Channel broadcasts live tennis tournament from Florida

The three-day event went out live over the weekend. The channel’s next live tennis is scheduled for later this month. LA-based Tennis Channel has broadcast live coverage of the three-day men’s tennis event, UTR Pro Match Series, which took place over the weekend. The tournament, staged in West Palm Beach, Florida, featured two top-10 ranked […]

BBC fills sports void with wealth of sports archive content

The broadcaster is replacing live sports events with classic sporting moments. With coronavirus putting a stop to all live sport, BBC Sport is the latest sport broadcaster to turn its attentions to archive sports footage. It’s scheduling a whole calendar of archive sporting events, including the London 2012 Olympic Games. BBC1 will show both The […]

Wimbledon 2020 cancelled, Women’s Euro 2021 postponed

Two more huge sporting events affected by the coronavirus pandemic In somewhat inevitable news, the All England Club (AELTC) announced earlier today that Wimbledon 2020 wouldn’t go ahead – the first time the iconic tennis competition has been cancelled since World War II. A decision has also been made to move the Women’s European Championship […]

Amazon Prime releases exclusive Andy Murray interview on YouTube

The platform has been hit by postponements to tennis and other sports Amazon Prime Video has released an exclusive interview with Andy Murray while it deals with a lack of live sport. The platform has had to deal with a lack of live sport recently, due to the coronavirus pandemic postponements. In particular, tennis could […]

The future of sport is streaming, says Greg Rusedski

The former UK no.1 is a part of Amazon Prime Video’s tennis coverage Former world no.4 tennis player and current Amazon Prime Video pundit Greg Rusedski believes streaming services are the future of sports broadcasting. Speaking to Broadcast Sport, the 46-year-old explained how younger audiences and affordability will allow streamers to overtake traditional broadcasters. Rusedski […]

Behind the scenes: Eurosport coverage of the Australian Open

Complex remote production set up has seen 300 live hours tennis produced Eurosport wraps its coverage of the Australian Open after the finals this weekend, having broadcast every match either on Eurosport live or on-demand – over 300 live hours in total. Eurosport Germany, France, Spain, Russia, Norway and UK production teams have all been […]

ITF selects Imagen to manage content archive

Tennis governing body wants to generate more value from its assets The International Tennis Federation (ITF), the world governing body of tennis, has selected SaaS video platform Imagen to manage and distribute its content archive which dates back to the 1940s. The ITF has digitised its content catalogue of 15,000 assets, which includes Davis Cup […]

Eurosport to air Tennis Australia’s bushfire fundraiser

Rally for Relief exhibition match takes place on Wednesday 15th January Eurosport is to screen Tennis Australia’s Rally for Relief, in aid of the Australian bushfire relief efforts. The exhibition match, taking place on Wednesday 15 January, will feature some of the world’s top players on the Rod Laver Court in Melbourne with all proceeds […]

Eurosport serves up live Laver Cup coverage

Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer among players at this month’s three-day competition Eurosport is to broadcast live and multi-platform coverage of this year’s Laver Cup tennis competition across Europe. A new agreement grants Eurosport rights to the Laver Cup in more than 50 European markets, including Switzerland, where this year’s event will be hosted at […]