Tennis

The Association of Tennis Professionals, organising body of the men’s world tour, has today (Friday) confirmed a rights deal with Amazon for the UK and Ireland, along with a partnership with the internet company for the US market.

Internet company Amazon has acquired exclusive rights in the UK for the US Open tennis tournament, according to multiple reports.

International sports broadcaster Eurosport has reached an agreement to continue showing the US Open grand slam tennis tournament across Europe, with the exception of the UK and Ireland.

UK public-service broadcaster the BBC has extended its rights deal with the Association of Tennis Professionals for the ATP Finals, the annual climax to the men’s professional season.

Streaming platform iQiyi has almost doubled its fee in a renewed deal for Australian Open digital rights in China.

The All England Lawn Tennis Club, organiser of the Wimbledon grand slam championships, has settled its claims against LETV, operator of Chinese online streaming platform LeSports.

Tennis Australia, organiser of the Australian Open, has extended and expanded its broadcast partnership with Chinese streaming platform iQiyi for the grand slam tournament.

The ATP is earning less from market-by-market sales in the Nordics than from the last cycle’s pan-regional deal, after Modern Times Group added World Tour rights in Norway and Sweden to its earlier Denmark deal last month. A separate deal has also been agreed in Finland with MTV3.

On the back of Twitter's purchase of the IPL rights tender and its announcement of several sports streaming deals in Asia-Pacific, Aneesh Madani talks to TV Sports Markets about the social media platform's future strategy regarding sports rights in the region.

The stakeholders involved in last week’s inaugural Laver Cup were happy with its global distribution, though it is thought to have generated little media-rights revenue.

Multi-territory commercial and pay-television broadcaster Modern Times Group has acquired rights in Sweden and Norway to the Association of Tennis Professionals’ World Tour Masters 1000 series of tournaments and the season-ending ATP Finals.

Internet company Amazon has entered into a partnership with ATP Media, the broadcast arm of professional men’s tennis circuit the ATP World Tour, through which it will stream the Next Gen Finals.

Online streaming service iFeng has agreed a strategic partnership with the China Open ahead of this year’s edition of the tennis tournament.

Pay-television broadcaster Sky has enhanced its coverage in Austria of men’s tennis organisation the ATP World Tour by acquiring rights to the 2017 Vienna Open tournament.

Laver Cup organisers have secured rights deals covering more than 200 territories worldwide ahead of the debut of the new tennis tournament next week.

The International Tennis Federation has partnered with sports and betting-related services company Sportradar to launch a new live-streaming platform for its Davis Cup and Fed Cup national team tournaments.