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Aces and Faults: Butch Buchholz Wants to Merge Tennis Tours

Published by Aaress Lawless on Mar 31, 2008 | Print |

Read the latest news about the Sony Ericsson Open’s new all-time attendance record, Butch Buchholz’s idea to merge the professional tennis tours, the Lawn Tennis Association’s goal of creating a combined event before Wimbledon and more in today’s edition of Aces and Faults.

Aces

The Sony Ericsson Open set a new all-time evening record of 14,463 on March 29.

The Lawn Tennis Association wants to create a joint ATP/WTA tournament just before Wimbledon. (Daily Mail)

Dee Dutta, the outgoing head of Sony Ericsson’s marketing, was recently honored by the WTA Tour. (Times Online)

Net Cords

Sony Ericsson Open tournament chairman Butch Buchholz would like to see the WTA Tour and the ATP Tour merge. (Sun-Sentinel)

Faults

None today!

  1. LineJudge
    Posted March 31, 2008 at 10:56 am

    Fault: The television coverage of the Sony Ericsson Open has been schizophrenic at best, with matches jumping around from FSN+ to the Tennis Channel and back, sometimes with live matches on one channel while replays are being shown on another. They’re making it a real challenge for tennis fans to find and enjoy matches.

  2. Will.I.AM
    Posted March 31, 2008 at 11:29 am

    I couldn’t agree more with you LineJudge. I am so disappointed with the television coverage. With the Sony Ericsson Open being the 5th largest tennis tournament in the world, you would expect better.

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