By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Sunday, Could 4, 2025
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Venus Williams will make a significant return this month.
Former world No. 1 Venus Williams will be a part of TNT Sports activities’ broadcast group for its Roland Garros protection.
The clay-court Grand Slam begins on Could twenty fifth in Paris.
The 44-year-old Venus joins TNT’s introduced broadcast group that features Corridor of Famers Andre Agassi, Chrissie Evert, Jim Courier, John McEnroe and Lindsay Davenport in addition to Grand Slam champions Sloane Stephens and Caroline Wozniacki.
Carlos Alcaraz is reigning Roland Garros males’s champion. Iga Swiatek is defending the Roland Garros’ girls’s championship.
In 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 biggest world broadcast accomplice to Roland-Garros and can convey followers probably the most complete protection of the distinguished occasion ever in the USA.”
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4-time Olympic gold-medal champion Venus made her Roland Garros debut in 1997 when she reached the second spherical. Venus superior to the 2002 Roland Garros ultimate, shedding to sister Serena Williams 7-5, 6-3 in what was Serena’s maiden French Open crown and the beginning of the Serena Slam.
The seven-time main singles champion Venus made her most up-to-date Roland Garros look in 2021 when she misplaced within the opening spherical.
The proprietor of 49 profession singles championships, Venus’ most up-to-date main look was on the 2023 US Open. Venus fell to Diana Shnaider 6-3, 6-3 within the 2024 Miami Open opener. Although she has not formally retired, Williams will have fun her forty fifth birthday on June seventeenth.
Here is a glimpse of what Venus’ tennis commentary might sound like courtesy of her YouTube channel:
Within the U.S., TNT Sports activities will solely current all dwell motion from Roland-Garros together with:
*Featured dwell matches on TNT, with further dwell protection throughout TBS and truTV
*truTV with all-day studio, match and whiparound protection with the community touting it protection just like protection of the NCAA basketball match
*All dwell matches obtainable on Max – almost 900 matches throughout all competitions – together with simulcasts of matches airing on TNT, TBS and truTV In-depth highlights, behind-the-scenes and ancillary content material airing throughout all platforms (TNT, TBS, truTV, Max, Bleacher Report, and Home of Highlights)
*Tennis Channel is about to televise Roland Garros match replays at evening.
