Tennis

UK public-service broadcaster the BBC has agreed a two-year extension to its contract with professional men’s tennis tour, the ATP, to air its World Tour Finals event.

ATP doubles its money with Sport 1 renewal in Germany

Production company Input Media has extended its contract with the International Tennis Federation (ITF), the sport’s global governing body.

French pay-television broadcaster beIN Sport has acquired exclusive domestic rights for the Wimbledon tennis championships and the men’s ATP World Tour Masters 1000 and 500 series plus the season-ending ATP World Tour Finals.

German sports broadcaster Sport1 has extended a rights deal for the ATP World Tour, the professional men’s tennis tour, for three years, from 2014 to 2016.

Media rights clips from 10 October 23 October

Fox shows its teeth with three new deals, Eurosport renews two, pushing up prices for second-tier rights

Eurosport set to tie up French Open in long-term deal to cement its grip on grand slam tennis

Russian state broadcaster VGTRK has acquired media rights for the WTA Championships, the season-ending tournament of the Women’s Tennis Association, and has not discounted agreeing a broader deal for the WTA Tour.

German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF have had a joint bid for the rights to the 2014 Wimbledon tennis championships rejected by rights-holder the IMG agency, according to the Sponsors.de website.

The Fox International Channels broadcast subsidiary of US media company 21st Century Fox has signed a five-year contract for the exclusive rights to the French Open tennis grand slam across 20 territories in Asia.

Fédération Française de Tennis, the governing body of tennis in France, will review its tender for the next cycle of media rights to the French Open tournament after receiving only two bids.

Media rights clips from 12 September to 25 September 

TF1 has joined fellow French commercial broadcaster M6 in stating it will not bid for the next cycle of media rights to the French Open tennis tournament.

French commercial broadcaster M6 has said it will not submit a bid for the domestic rights to the French Open tennis tournament.

ESPN has agreed a “long-term” rights deal with the ATP World Tour that will allow the US pay-television broadcaster to show more hours of live coverage from the top professional men’s tennis tour.