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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Given ESPN owns a piece of TSN (at least, I believe that is still the case), we're probably always going to get the ESPN/Tennis Channel coverage before ITV. Unfortunately.
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I don't mind ESPN Tennis that much. There's good and bad. I believe they are one of the few channels that jump from court to court while international channels are focused on one match.
Cliff Drysdale is awful, needs to be put out to pasture. The women's commentators are ok unless the Williams are playing, then they lose their minds.
Last night's Nadal-Berdych was commentated on by the trio of Patrick McEnroe, Darren Cahill and Brad Gilbert (courtside) and it was really good. Tennis doesn't need a play-by-play guy since there is no talking during play. So a guy like Chris Fowler is useless. People liked Dick Enberg for tennis but other than saying OH MY, he didn't really add anything.
Just get a couple of ex-tennis guys to tell us what happened on the last point and it's fine.