Tennis Channel
The Tennis Channel is entering its boozy era. For the second time in four days, a Tennis Channel post-match interview features a WTA player drinking a cocktail. Aryna Sabalenka got the trend started. After one of her early round match wins at the Miami Open, Prakash Amritraj snuck her a sip of a “Marg-aryna.” After […]
The Tennis Channel made an interesting programming decision. Despite the Professional Tennis Players Association (PTPA) filing a civil suit against the ATP, WTA, ITF, and ITIA on March 18, the Tennis Channel did not mention it. There was plenty of opportunity to do so amid hours of live coverage from the Miami Open and in-studio […]
In a head-scratching move, the Tennis Channel did not air the BNP Paribas Open Mixed Doubles final on Friday afternoon. Live programming, interviews, and analysis were shown on the regular channel. Featured at the time of the match was an interview of former NBA basketball stars at Indian Wells. The Tennis Channel app which boasts […]
Hall of Famer, Grand Slam champion, and Tennis Channel analyst Lindsay Davenport recently shared her thoughts about a lifetime in the sport she has grown up with and dearly loves through her years as a player, coach, reporter, media analyst, captain, and parent. Davenport’s greatest challenge should come as no surprise to parents of children […]
In the era of “Watch More Doubles” as French tennis player Alexandre Muller wrote on the camera in Rio after defeating Joao Fonseca, the Tennis Channel made an interesting programming decision. Alexandre Muller did this after his R16 singles win in Rio…#WatchMoreDOUBLES h/t @84chaki pic.twitter.com/EsxyBBB08G — Will Boucek (@WillBoucek) February 21, 2025 It chose to […]
Two months after being suspended “indefinitely” by the Tennis Channel, Jon Wertheim appeared on the air without explanation on January 6, 2025. He was on the air remotely talking about Coco Gauff’s performance at the United Cup. Changing of the guard atop the women’s game? 💂♂️#TCLive has Coco ahead of Iga for the #AusOpen pic.twitter.com/FWlUnKYInn […]
American tennis player Reilly Opelka shared his not-so-subtle opinion on the Tennis Channel hot mic incident where Jon Wertheim made derogatory comments about Barbora Krejcikova. Wertheim‘s comments last Friday resulted in a firestorm of activity including a Twitter apology by him that did not mention Krejcikova by name, Krejcikova’s Twitter response to the incident, and […]
Jon Wertheim is not hiding from the controversy he caused on Friday. Wertheim appeared on Tennis Channel via Zoom. Unaware he was on live television and over a hot mic, he made a derogatory comment about 2024 Wimbledon Champion Barbora Krejcikova‘s forehead. Wertheim apologized to Krejcikova via a lengthy X/Twitter post that did not mention her […]
