Tennis

Australian telecoms operator Optus has announced a content and endorsement agreement with three-time tennis grand slam winner Ashleigh Barty that will see her assume the title of ‘chief of inspiration’.

Company says 'we couldn’t be more excited' about network

Sky Deutschland has paid a modest uplift to renew rights to the Wimbledon tennis grand slam tournament in German-speaking countries for another four years.

Outside broadcast and services provider NEP UK has agreed a four-year extension to its production deal for the Wimbledon Championships

More than 750,000 television viewers in Australia stayed up late to watch the country’s controversial tennis star Nick Kyrgios contest his first grand slam final at Wimbledon in the early hours of Monday m…

The BBC’s coverage of this year’s Wimbledon set a new record for online viewing figures, with the UK public-service broadcaster stating that the tennis grand slam was streamed 53.8 m

Pay-television broadcaster Sky has renewed its rights to the Wimbledon tennis grand slam in Germany, Austria and Switzerland under a multi-year deal, its second in Europe announced in the last two weeks

A peak audience of 3.7 million tuned into watch the BBC’s UK coverage of the first official “Middle Sunday” at this year’s Wimbledon Championships while a further 4.7 milli

Sky Italia is thought to have paid a significant increase to renew its rights to Wimbledon in a defensive move after losing the main package of Serie A rights to DAZN.

Pay-television broadcaster Sky Italia has renewed its rights to the Wimbledon tennis grand slam from 2023 to 2026

New Zealand telco Spark acquired exclusive rights in New Zealand for the US Open grand slam tennis tournament, beating competition from rival pay-television broadcaster Sky New Zealand.

Sport 24, the in-flight and in-ship service owned and operated by the IMG agency, has announced a three-year Wimbledon rights renewal to coincide with the start of this year’s grass court Grand Slam e…

ATP chairman Andrea Gaudenzi has described how Tennis Data Innovations, the new data unit for the men’s tennis tour, wants to “conquer” the entire betting market and end the unlicensed distribution of th…

Italian public-service broadcaster Rai has acquired non-exclusive rights to the Davis Cup group-stage matches to be held in Bologna from September 13 to 18

ATP chairman Andrea Gaudenzi has hailed a decision by the ATP Board to vote through a series of reforms to the men’s tennis tour and its media rights arm ATP Media, arguing that it represents a major s…

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has renewed its rights to the French Open in 24 territories across the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) as part of a new agreement with the French Tennis Federation…

Rafael Nadal’s victory in Sunday’s French Open final attracted an average audience of 4.6 million viewers on France Télévisions, the French public-service broadcaster. T

New Zealand-based telecoms operator Spark has secured exclusive broadcast rights to the US Open tennis tournament until 2024 as part of a three-year deal with the United States Tennis Association (USTA)