ESPN2 and ESPN360 will partner with Tennis Channel to provide live coverage of the Sony Ericsson Championships in Doha next week.
The media conglomerate holds the rights to air the singles championship match live, while ESPN360 will broadcast online video streams of round robin matches live on the internet.
Tennis Channel and ESPN2 will cover the 2008 Sony Ericsson Championships – the prestigious season-ending competition in women’s professional tennis, featuring the world’s top eight singles players and top four doubles teams – in their entirety Tuesday-Sunday, Nov. 4-9.
More than 30 live hours are planned from the event’s inaugural run in Doha, Qatar, almost all of which will be telecast in high definition.
Combined, including replays, the networks will offer close to 70 hours of HD match coverage during the six-day Sony Ericsson Championships. Tennis Channel will carry 32½ hours of live competition, spread across each day of the event. The network’s coverage includes all round-robin matches, singles semifinals and doubles play.
ESPN2 will carry the singles final on Sunday, Nov. 9, at 12 p.m. ET. Cliff Drysdale and Pam Shriver will cover the singles championship on ESPN2.
Tennis Channel will follow its network’s live coverage with daily encores of each match of the competition, in addition to a same-day replay of the singles final. The Tennis Channel broadcast team will feature Barry Mackay, Lindsay Davenport in her network debut, Corina Morariu, and Tracy Austin.
When not watching the Sony Ericsson Championships on Tennis Channel and ESPN2, viewers can keep up with the season-ending competition online at www.ESPN360.com, which offers 24 hours of live, round-robin coverage Nov. 4-7.
Complete Sony Ericsson Championships Television Schedule
All times are Eastern. Please verify this schedule with your local television provider.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Day One – Singles Round Robin #1, #2, #3 – TTC – 9:00 am – 3:00 pm (LIVE)
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Day Two – Singles Round Robin #1, #2, #3 – TTC – 9:00 am – 3:00 pm (LIVE)
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Day Three – Singles Round Robin #1, #2, #3 – TTC – 9:00 am – 3:00 pm (LIVE)
Friday, November 7, 2008
Day Four – Singles Round Robin #1, #2, #3 – TTC – 9:00 am – 3:00 pm (LIVE)
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Doubles Semifinal #1 – TTC – 5:00 am – 6:30 am (LIVE)
Doubles Semifinal #2 – TTC – 6:30 am – 8:00 am (LIVE)
Singles Semifinal #1 – TTC – 9:30 am – 11:30 am (LIVE)
Singles Semifinal #2 – TTC – 11:30 am – 1:30 pm (LIVE)
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Doubles Final – TTC – 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Singles Final – ESPN2 – 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Singles Final – TTC – 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
