US Open Series Thread

[nuraman00]

Murray won the 1st set.

 

[Hank Kingsley]

Who had Serena losing to the 18 year old?

Not I.....

 

[bksballer89]

Heading to the deciding set

 

[bksballer89]

I'm a freaking idiot. I just realized that due to the schedule change at the US Open this year, the Sunday grounds admission ticket I bought is for the round of 16 and not the 3rd round....Pretty bummed out as I wanted 3rd round tickets instead

 

[bksballer89]

Murray with the early break in the 3rd set

 

[bksballer89]

What a battle this has been. The 5th game of the set is currently at 16+ minutes

 

[bksballer89]

Deuce #10

 

[bksballer89]

Great match and congrats to Andy. Sign me up for this next Sunday in Cincy and a month from now in the US Open finals

 

[cezero]

murray played more aggressively against nole than he has since he was beating him for his majors

 

[bksballer89]

Great article on why the Citi Open in DC isn't a part of the US Open Series anymore.

It's basically because ESPN owns the rights to all US Open Series broadcasts, and they weren't planning on showing ANY of the early round coverage on ESPN networks.

We should be very happy we had Tennis Channel doing the Citi Open and currently the Rogers Cup stuff in Canada.

Next week, ESPN isn't showing any early round coverage in Cincy.

Washington D.C.'s Citi Open out of US Open series due to TV deal - Tennis - SI.com

Tennis Channel will have early round coverage of Cincy. ESPN coverage starts on Wednesday but they split coverage from wed on.

 

[cezero]

Washington D.C.'s Citi Open out of US Open series due to TV deal - Tennis - SI.com

Hope that Tennis Channel ends up getting all rights to US Open Series stuff when ESPN's contract is up.

...ESPN only offered Washington four hours of coverage on traditional television (ESPN2), with an option for the tournament to purchase an additional two hours, leaving the rest of the tournament to wallow in the hinterland of ESPN3.

"We're the only 500 series tournament in America, so I thought 'God, that's not a very good deal,'"

Spotting an opportunity, Tennis Channel pounced on a loose end that ESPN had left dangling.

 

[Old Lion]

Not thrilled with ESPN, but at least it is better than NBC or CBS whatever the major network was that used to cover it.

 

[bksballer89]

Not thrilled with ESPN, but at least it is better than NBC or CBS whatever the major network was that used to cover it.

ESPN coverage is not the greatest when it comes to the non majors but when it comes to the Grand Slams event I am very thrilled with espn

 

[cezero]

i agree with both of you

anything but the major networks is good, relatively speaking

 

[Hank Kingsley]

We had a lot of coverage up here of course. But once it got to CBC only.....

If the men were starting before the women you were off to watching it off you 'puter, which I do not do.

When CBC takes over the only have the one channel for TV. At least TSN (5) and SportsNet (3 or 4?) can cover more that one thing at a time.

It would just be nice if they shut up about the other concurrent match,

 

[nuraman00]

I'm a freaking idiot. I just realized that due to the schedule change at the US Open this year, the Sunday grounds admission ticket I bought is for the round of 16 and not the 3rd round....Pretty bummed out as I wanted 3rd round tickets instead

Why the 3rd round?

 

[nuraman00]

What a battle this has been. The 5th game of the set is currently at 16+ minutes

Agree, it was a good game.

 

[nuraman00]

ESPN coverage is not the greatest when it comes to the non majors but when it comes to the Grand Slams event I am very thrilled with espn

I agree. ESPN is good with the grand slams.

For the non majors, I'd be ok with ESPN doing the Finals, and Tennis Channel doing the previous rounds.

 

[bksballer89]

Why the 3rd round?

More matches & courts available

 

[nuraman00]

We had a lot of coverage up here of course. But once it got to CBC only.....

If the men were starting before the women you were off to watching it off you 'puter, which I do not do.

When CBC takes over the only have the one channel for TV. At least TSN (5) and SportsNet (3 or 4?) can cover more that one thing at a time.

It would just be nice if they shut up about the other concurrent match,

I agree with this. Not just for this tourney, but for example, during the FO, when there's 2 Men's QF's going at the same time, I hate it when they do the split screen during important games.

When I watch one match, I don't want to know what's going on in the other concurrent match, because chances are, I want to watch that match on its own.

For example, this year, they had the Djokovic-Nadal and FED vs. Wawrinka at the same time, I think. Or whatever they had on at the same time during that day at the FO, I wanted to watch both separately, and not know what was going on in the other.