It was a torture last year when ATP and WTA went to bed with Fox Sport Network. The coverage was horrible, and one would think that the tennis governing bodies would listen to the fans and not let FSN ruin the coverages again this year. Well, FSN picked up the options for to cover the events and again, I was terribly disappointed by FSN, despite the promises that FSN made after having received numerous complaints.
I live in Dallas, you see, and we have a basketball team called Maverick (mediocre at best). FSN's primary responsibility is to broadcast all the Maverick games, followed by post match analysis. I ended up did not get to see most of the live coverages during the second week of the Indian Wells tournament. Actually, I got to see some of the WTA matches live, but because of the weird scheduling, I did not get to see most of the ATP matches. By who wants to watch women tennis while men are playing at the same tournament?
On the days when the men's semifinals were played, FSN chose to broadcast tape-delayed. I got to see it at 1 am in the morning. Yipee! How lucky. Roger Federer and Andy Murray were playing!!! Then after showign the fist two games, they went to commercials. When they came back, the coverage jumped to 3-2, of course Federer were just broken. They chose not to show us how Roger's serve got broken.
I turned off the TV, fuming.
And they did not broadcast the finals live. Tape-delayed again. Wow, show some respects to Rafa, would you?
Why why why???? Why would ATP and WTA allow FSN to screw us tennis fans by allowing FSN to cover their the two most pretigeous events? No wonder tennis is no longer a popular TV sport. With this kind of effort from FSN, it sure is not going to gain more fans.
And I have to suffer FSN's 2009 broadcast of the Miami tournament.
ESPN, please step up!
I live in Dallas, you see, and we have a basketball team called Maverick (mediocre at best). FSN's primary responsibility is to broadcast all the Maverick games, followed by post match analysis. I ended up did not get to see most of the live coverages during the second week of the Indian Wells tournament. Actually, I got to see some of the WTA matches live, but because of the weird scheduling, I did not get to see most of the ATP matches. By who wants to watch women tennis while men are playing at the same tournament?
On the days when the men's semifinals were played, FSN chose to broadcast tape-delayed. I got to see it at 1 am in the morning. Yipee! How lucky. Roger Federer and Andy Murray were playing!!! Then after showign the fist two games, they went to commercials. When they came back, the coverage jumped to 3-2, of course Federer were just broken. They chose not to show us how Roger's serve got broken.
I turned off the TV, fuming.
And they did not broadcast the finals live. Tape-delayed again. Wow, show some respects to Rafa, would you?
Why why why???? Why would ATP and WTA allow FSN to screw us tennis fans by allowing FSN to cover their the two most pretigeous events? No wonder tennis is no longer a popular TV sport. With this kind of effort from FSN, it sure is not going to gain more fans.
And I have to suffer FSN's 2009 broadcast of the Miami tournament.
ESPN, please step up!
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