By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Thursday, Might 8, 2025
Photograph credit score: @QueensClub
TNT Sports activities goals to blow up Roland Garros protection to a wider tv viewers.
The community has assembled a star-studded roster crammed with former Grand Slam champions to fulfill the mission.
n June 2024, TNT Sports activities, a division of Warner Bros. Discovery, reached a 10-year, $650 million settlement with the French Tennis Federation so as to add Roland-Garros to its portfolio of premium sports activities rights within the U.S. TNT Sports activities touts its deal – constructing on Eurosport’s 35-year relationship with Roland-Garros – as making Warner Bros. Discovery “the most important world broadcast companion to Roland-Garros and can deliver followers probably the most complete protection of the celebrated occasion ever in the US.”
Corridor of Famers John McEnroe, Andre Agassi, Lindsay Davenport, Jim Courier, Chrissie Evert, Mats Wilander and Boris Becker — winners of practically 100 tennis Grand Slams (Singles, Doubles and Combined) — will deliver a wealth of expertise and championship-level insights to TNT Sports activities’ and Eurosport’s protection throughout all platforms reaching a world viewers.
Venus Williams, seven-time Grand Slam champion, can even contribute to TNT Sports activities’ Roland-Garros protection, internet hosting a collection of particular options highlighting “the wealthy historical past of the clay courtroom match and the intersection of the game of tennis and Parisian tradition.”
The Venus Williams-hosted options will run inside TNT Sports activities’ protection of the occasion.
TNT’s Roland Garros broadcast staff is listed right here:
Moreover, Patrick McEnroe will contribute play-by-play, internet hosting (whiparound motion, at instances, on truTV) and match and studio evaluation all through the occasion.
He might be joined by a slate of veteran sportscasters anchoring the motion in Paris together with play-by-play announcers Brian Anderson, Alex Faust and Mark Petchey (who can even host whiparound protection on truTV along with his play-by-play duties). Adam Lefkoe will host TNT’s studio protection on website in Paris.
TNT Sports activities’ U.S. protection of Roland Garros, all originating reside from Paris, begins Sunday, Might 25, on TNT, truTV and Max. Every day protection is scheduled to start out at 6 a.m. Jap Time.
Tennis Channel will rebroadcast encore shows of the day’s play nightly at 8 p.m. Jap time.
