Lead-In Show Tennis Channel Live at the US Open to Run
Throughout Two-Week Tournament, America’s Most Prestigious Tennis Event
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 19, 2024 – Tennis Channel’s annual lead-in show Tennis Channel Live at the US Open will return Monday, Aug. 26, at 9 a.m. ET, and air most mornings of the two-week competition. The program will again be a mixture of news, highlights, opinion and special reports during the US Open, America’s most prestigious tennis event and one of the sport’s four majors.
With this year’s tournament underway Monday, Aug. 26-Sunday, Sept. 8, Tennis Channel Live at the US Open will run 9 a.m.-11 a.m. ET August 26-September 4. On championship weekend Sept. 7-8, the show is set for 7-8 p.m. ET, following each day’s play.
Former players Paul Annacone (@paul_annacone), Chanda Rubin (@Chanda_Rubin) and Prakash Amritraj (@PrakashAmritraj) will be part of Tennis Channel’s on-air team for this year’s US Open. Annacone won the Australian Open doubles title in 1985 and later coached all-time greats Pete Sampras and Roger Federer to major championships. Rubin also won the Australian Open doubles tournament, in 1996. Amritraj won the NCAA men’s tennis championship in 2001, and after playing professionally, is now Tennis Channel’s year-round host of the “Prakash Worldwide” interview segments from events around the globe.
Award-winning announcer and longtime Tennis Channel host Steve Weissman (@Steve_Weissman) will anchor Tennis Channel Live at the US Open. Jon Wertheim, an author and reporter known for his tennis books and work with Sports Illustrated¸ CBS’ 60 Minutes and Tennis Channel, rounds out the network’s on-air roster.
Streaming service Tennis Channel+ will also celebrate the action in New York this year. Subscribers will have exclusive access to a daily US Open recap show hosted by Wertheim. Additionally, three episodes of the series Road to the US Open, depicting the tournament title runs of Coco Gauff, Carlos Alcaraz and Emma Raducanu, will be available on the platform.
The network’s Tennis.com website and app will provide US Open news and scores throughout the tournament. Visitors will also have access to highlights, statistics, daily orders of play, tournament information, and blogs and stories from the Tennis Channel editorial team. Fantasy
games “Match Point Predictor” and “Racquet Bracket” are also available for free at http://tennis.com/play, with prizes granted to winners around the United States.
Tennis Channel (www.tennischannel.com) and its sibling network T2, which are owned by Sinclair, Inc., are the only television-based multiplatform destinations dedicated to both the professional sport and tennis lifestyle. The networks have the most concentrated single-sport coverage in television in one of the world’s most voluminous sports, with multiple men’s and women’s tournaments and singles, doubles and mixed competition throughout the year. Tennis Channel and T2 have rights at the four majors – US Open, Wimbledon, Roland Garros (French Open) and Australian Open – and are the exclusive U.S. homes of all men’s ATP World Tour and women’s WTA Tour competitions, Davis Cup, Billie Jean King Cup, United Cup, and Laver Cup. Direct-to-consumer streaming service Tennis Channel+ is available to everyone in the United States and allows subscribers to select from another 4,500 live and on-demand matches and award-winning content from short-form to films throughout the tennis season. Tennis Channel International brings live competition and network content to markets in Europe and Asia via digital subscription and free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) channels. Additional platform www.tennis.com is the largest digital outlet dedicated to the sport. Tennis Channel also oversees a network of close to 20 podcasts and is a co-owner of Pickleballtv, a joint-venture with the Professional Pickleball Association.