Tennis

Chinese online streaming platform Tencent has acquired digital rights for the Wimbledon Championships.

UK public-service broadcaster the BBC has extended a rights deal for the International Eastbourne Event, an annual grass-court tennis tournament that is staged in the lead-up to the Wimbledon Championships.

Men’s tennis body the Association of Tennis Professionals has built on its aggregation and centralisation of broadcast rights on the ATP World Tour, with 12 tournaments across the 250 category being pooled and sold together in partnership with ATP Media, the organisation’s broadcast arm.

The Wimbledon Channel, the All England Club’s digital news channel dedicated to the Wimbledon Championships, will be available to view live on the Twitter social media website for the duration of the 2017 edition of the tennis grand slam

Online streaming platform Sina Sports has struck a strategic partnership with the All England Club, which operates the Wimbledon Championships.

France Télévisions prised prestigious free-to-air tennis rights from M6 late last month, despite paying no increase for the rights.

Discovery Communications chose to sublicense free-to-air French Open tennis rights in Spain this year after previously keeping coverage for its Dmax channel in the country.

ATP Media, the broadcast arm of professional men’s tennis circuit the ATP World Tour, has launched a production venture in partnership with the IMG Studios division of the IMG agency.

Australian public-service broadcaster SBS has agreed a deal for rights to the 2017 edition of grand slam tennis tournament the US Open.

Spanish commercial broadcaster Mediaset has acquired rights to the latter stages of the ongoing edition of the French Open tennis grand slam, as Rafael Nadal seeks to secure a record 10th title on the clay at Roland-Garros.

Chinese internet company Tencent has signed an exclusive digital media partnership with the French Tennis Federation (FFT) for coverage of the French Open grand slam tournament at Roland-Garros.

Public-service broadcaster France Télévisions has bolstered its tennis coverage by acquiring rights to men’s ATP events the Paris Masters and World Tour Finals.

International sports broadcaster Eurosport has stepped up its Wimbledon coverage by acquiring rights to the qualifiers for this year’s edition of the tennis grand slam.

Indian pay-television channel DSport has acquired rights to the 2017 Tie Break Tens tennis event, which takes place in the Spanish city of Madrid tomorrow (Thursday).

Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE has signed a rights deal for events operated by the Spanish Badminton Federation and has renewed an agreement to produce and manage the worldwide live feed for coverage of the Conde de Godó ATP World Tour men’s tennis tournament in Barcelona.

UK production company Sunset+Vine has signed a three-year host broadcast partnership with Tie Break Tens, and has brokered an exclusive rights deal for the tennis series with media company UKTV.