Mediasportif provides you a abstract of the TV rights held by the varied sports activities channels to broadcast tennis. The 12 months 2021 seems to be a deadline for a lot of contracts.
BIG CHELEMS
A significant change will shake up the habits of viewers of Grand Slams (ATP and WTA). As for a number of years, bein Sports suggest to Wimbledon (till 2023). Eurosport will broadcast theAustralian Open and theUS Open, respectively for the final 12 months of his contract and till 2022. On the opposite hand, Roland Garros This 12 months will not be provided by the Discovery group channel.
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From now on, these are France Televisions and Amazon who share the tv rights for the Porte d’Auteuil event, till 2023. The greatest change in this new spherical is the free-to-air protection of the event. From Monday of the primary week till the quarter-finals (Wednesday of the second week), the poster of the day, girls or gents, will likely be broadcast completely on Amazon Prime Video from 9 p.m., as may even be the set. conferences of Court Simone-Matthieu. In return, France Télévisions will begin broadcasting from 11am, and not at 3pm, to supply the opposite matches stay.
THE MEN’S CIRCUIT
Eurosport provides the 9 Masters 1000, the 13 tournaments ATP 500, many ATP 250, the Nitto ATP Finals and the Next Gen ATP Finals till 2023. The settlement contains the 2 French tournaments – the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters and the Rolex Paris Masters.
At least one clear French Masters 1000 ultimate
CANAL + holds the rights to co-broadcast the semi-finals and the ultimate of the event Monte Carlo ; his three-season contract ends this 12 months. The three conferences are provided in clear both on the mom channel, or on C8. For the previous two years, the group had additionally broadcast the three matches of the ultimate 4 of the event. Paris-Bercy, which have been retransmitted on channel 8. This 12 months, the query thus arises on the protection in away from the event. Will she meet the identical destiny because the Finals ? For two years, the occasion which closes the boys’s season not has a transparent window in France.
ATP 250 on Eurosport
The ATP 250 in 2021 will likely be much less dispersed between pay channels. Eurosport will broadcast many thanks to the acquisition of a giant a part of the circuit in October 2018. As for RMC Sport, the channel withdraws from the published of tennis. The Altice group has certainly included sport in its financial savings plan. In 2020, the chain had but clarified its supply by holding solely the 4 French tournaments of the fourth male degree. So many rights to redistribute. bein Sports, in the meantime, extra hardly ever broadcasts ATP 250. Note that for these tournaments, if a broadcaster buys the rights, is thought just a few weeks earlier than the exchanges.
The French Challengers finals on beIN SPORTS
A 12 months in the past, the French Challengers united beneath the banner of the Race Challenger France. The institution of this circuit goals to promote the tricolor tournaments of the ATP Challenger Tour. The finals of the fourteen French Challengers involved (Cherbourg, Pau, Lille, Saint-Brieuc, Aix en Provence, Primerose, Quimper, Cassis, Vendée, Roanne, Lyon, Orléans, Rennes and Brest) are thus broadcast on bein Sports. It stays to be seen whether or not this partnership will likely be maintained this 12 months, the day after a season which didn’t enable the channel to reveal it in full.
To word that France 3 NoA may broadcast, like final 12 months, the ultimate part of the Pau event.
The Laver Cup and the ATP Cup on beIN SPORTS
bein Sports ought to stay the channel of the exhibition event between Europe and the remainder of the world, canceled in 2020. The broadcaster is formally recognized just a few weeks earlier than the beginning of the competitors. The channel may even supplyATP Cup, initially of February, as since its creation a 12 months in the past.
On the wheelchair tennis facet, the deadlines French Riviera Open, in singles and doubles, for women and men, may very well be broadcast on CANAL + as because the launch of the event three years in the past. This is ITF 1 Series accepted for the Wheelchair Tennis Tour.
THE WOMEN’S CIRCUIT
In ladies’s tennis (excluding Grand Slams), bein Sports will broadcast the 21 most prestigious tournaments on the circuit, the names of which modified in early December 2020. WTA Mandatory and Prime 5 grow to be the WTA 1000 ; the opposite WTA Premier grow to be the WTA 500. The channel may even supply WTA Finals. For these tournaments, 2021 corresponds to the final 12 months of the beIN. At the decrease degree, a big a part of the tournaments International, henceforth named WTA 250, can also be provided by the sports activities package deal, in explicit in pure stay on channels 4 to 10. Their broadcast is thought just a few weeks earlier than. In this primary week of January, bein Sports As historically broadcasts the Abu Dhabi event to begin the season.
DAVIS / FED CUP
As for worldwide crew competitions, bein Sports broadcasts the whole Davis Cup and a few Fed Cup ; 2021 is the final 12 months of the contract signed in 2015. As for the unencrypted broadcaster of the French groups: for the boys’s cup, TF1 broadcast in 2019 the matches of the Blues of the ultimate part. However, the length of the contract isn’t recognized. For the female reduce, the general public service co-broadcasting contract with bein Sports got here to an finish with the victory of the French in 2019. The potential free-to-air broadcaster can also be at present unknown.
Due to the COVID-19 disaster, the ultimate phases of those two tournaments, which have been to happen final fall, have been postponed till this 12 months, protecting the outcomes of the preliminary phases carried out earlier than March 2020.
OLYMPIC GAMES
This 12 months, Japan will host the 2020 Summer Olympics, which have been postponed due to the pandemic. Among the occasions, tennis will likely be performed from Saturday July 24 to Sunday August 1. In the ATP and WTA calendars, this event takes place between Wimbledon and the American tour.
Unencrypted broadcaster of all video games for 2016 and 2020, on tv and on the Internet – numerical benefit which is able to not be his property on the following Olympics in favor ofEurosport -, France Televisions may supply exchanges throughout certainly one of its linear antennas, even when it appears extra practical that this can solely be solely on the positioning Francetv sport. By paying, Eurosport purchased final 12 months, at CANAL +, the rights of the 2020 version. The Discovery group channel, which monopolizes the boys’s circuit and owns the rights to the 2024 Summer Games, won’t hesitate to retransmit the occasions to its subscribers, most of them current for its tennis supply. The entirety may thus be provided on a thematic channel in addition to the antenna continuities – in accordance to the Figaro of January 9, 2020, a number of extra channels will likely be allotted a sport.
SUMMARY
EUROSPORT
– Australian Open | final 12 months of the contract
– US Open
– the 9 Masters 1000 (Indians Wells, Miami, Monte-Carlo, Madrid, Rome, Toronto, Cincinnati, Shanghai, Paris)
– Nitto ATP Finals (Turin)
– Next Gen ATP Finals (Milan)
– the 13 ATP 500s (Rio de Janeiro, Rotterdam, Acapulco, Dubai, Barcelona, Halle, London, Hamburg, Washington DC, Beijing, Tokyo, Basel and Vienna)
– many ATP 250
– tennis occasions on the Olympic Games (antenna continuity, thematic channel?)
bein Sports
– Wimbledon
– the WTA 1000 and WTA 500 (ex-Premiers) | final 12 months of the contract
– WTA Finals | final 12 months of the contract
– ATP Cup
– some ATP 250
– Davis Cup / Fed Cup | final 12 months of the contract
– many WTA 250 (ex-Internationals and 125k)
– Wash Cup | unofficial
– the finals of 14 French Challengers (Cherbourg, Pau, Lille, Saint-Brieuc, Aix en Provence, Primerose, Quimper, Cassis, Vendée, Roanne, Lyon, Orléans, Rennes, Brest)
FRANCE TELEVISIONS
– Roland Garros (all matches from 11 a.m., besides Court Simone-Matthieu + Night Sessions till the quarter-finals)
– tennis occasions on the 2020 Olympic Games (antenna continuity, digital service)
AMAZON
– Roland Garros (Court Simone-Matthieu + Night Sessions till the quarter-finals)
CANAL +
– French Riviera Open (single and double finals) | unofficial
C8
– Rolex Paris Masters (semi-finals + ultimate) | final 12 months of the contract
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