Nine Tennis Coverage

[Andrew_Liu]

Left-Colin Fleming. Wally Masur & Chris Stubbs.

[Sully]

Yes the great Wally Masur. And wasn’t Chris Stubbs recently at Seven (returning having been there some 20 years earlier), also hosting was it a feed for Tokyo Olympics or Birmingham Comm Games?

[TV.Cynic]

Australian Open 2023 broadcast schedule: Day 12

MEN’S SEMI FINALS TONIGHT ON CHANNEL 9HD AND 9NOW

TSITSIPAS V KHACHANOV AND DJOKOVIC V PAUL

It’s down the final four in the Men’s draw on Day 12 of the 2023 Australian Open with both semi finals back-to-back on Channel 9HD and 9Now.

First up at 2.30pm it’s crowd favourite Stefanos Tsitsipas (world No.4) facing a tricky match-up against Karen Khachanov in what promises to be a closely fought encounter, with the winner going through to their first Australian Open final.

Then from 7.30pm, Novak Djokovic’s quest for Australian Open title No.10 meets its next victim, American Tommy Paul, as the Serbian maestro looks to book his date with history in Sunday’s final.

If Paul can pull off an upset he will be the first American since Andre Agassi in 2003 to make a Men’s Australian Open final.

Novak Djokovic is on the quest to secure his tenth Australian Open Title, as he plays Tommy Paul tonight at Rod Laver Arena
from 7:30pm Channel 9HD and 9Now

On Channel 9HD, the coverage is hosted by James Bracey, Roz Kelly and Tony Jones.In commentary is Jim Courier, Todd Woodbridge, Lleyton Hewitt, Jelena Dokic, Dylan Alcott, Casey Dellacqua, Sam Smith, Alicia Molik, Mark Philippoussis, Darren Cahill and Peter Psaltis.

Additional off-court reporting will come from Alicia Loxley, Clint Stanaway, Danika Mason and Madeline Slattery.

9Now has every match, every court available on device of your choosing, in full HD, with the new start-over button allowing fans to watch from the start of each session.

DAY SESSION
Starts 12.00pm AEDT
MIRZA/BOPANNA (IND) v STEFANI/MATOS (BRA)
STEFANOS TSITSIPAS (GRE) [3] v KAREN KHACHANOV [18]

NIGHT SESSION
Starts 7.30pm AEDT
NOVAK DJOKOVIC (SRB) [4] v TOMMY PAUL (USA)

[foxyrover]

@Sully

Chris Stubbs recently at Seven (returning having been there some 20 years earlier), also hosting was it a feed for Tokyo Olympics or Birmingham Comm Games?

Obviously was a freelance deal.

[4KSports]

Jeez you’d think they have scheduled the mens matches the wrong way. Tsistipas/Kachanov match up much more appealing and should be the night match.

[Sully]

@4KSports

Jeez you’d think they have scheduled the mens matches the wrong way. Tsistipas/Kachanov match up much more appealing and should be the night match

See:

Tennis

From a TV perspective at least, Joker’s straight sets Quarter did between 500k-600k metro the other night (significantly higher than Tsitsipas’ thriller), should be even higher tonight, so right call by TA and for their domestic partner Nine at least. And being a Friday, that should also see some huge shares again tonight, regardless of the contest/result. But I think it’s more Djokovic prefers and plays better under lights on RLA, likes the moisture in the air and heavier/slower ball. As highe…

@foxyrover

Obviously

Yes, “Obviously”

[foxyrover]

@Sully

Yes, “Obviously”

Didn’t mean to offend

[Sully]

@foxyrover

Didn’t mean to offend

Haha, no no, not at all

[TV.Cynic]

[Sully]

LOL. Spot the mistake.

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Was in response to this, also relevant:

[inthewild]

What sort of ratings may we expect for the women’s and men’s finals this weekend?

Stating the obvious that ratings have been much softer this year - semi finals really around 500k. Obviously we won’t go anywhere near Bartys number last year but I’m not confident it will crack the million. Hope to be proved wrong but all sports in the last 12 months seem to have a smaller linear FTA audience.

[Apple75]

Women’s final - 950k+?
Men’s final - 1.2mill+?

[Sully]

@Apple75

Women’s final - 950k+?
Men’s final - 1.2mill+?

I’d be shocked if the margin between those two was that close this year, maybe underestimated Men’s and overestimated Women’s?

[JohnsonTV]

Women’s final - 0.51m
Men’s final - 1.1m

[yellow_sock]

Sadly, im not expecting a big number for the Women’s Final tonight. Between the 500-600k mark.

The Men’s Doubles finals is on tonight too, with two Aussies playing, and not much of a mention of them playing pn news sites, compared to the much hyped Special K’s (Kyrgios and Kokkinakis) playing. So that match wont sadly rate either

[flaneur]

The linear audience for live sport has fallen off a cliff, and the numbers haven’t really translated into the digital numbers that much. For example, 9Now and linear television combined peaked at around 680,000 yesterday as opposed to viewership figures for semi-finals around 900k in the past. Now how much of that audience has shifted to Stan is hard to say without official figures. It’s the same case with cricket this year (not just the BBL), with overall numbers for Test matches down by 250k to 300k. It does seem bizarre that less people are watching live sport.

[AustralianAerial]

It doesn’t help that neither sport has been awfully compelling for the casual fan this summer.

[Apple75]

Yeah I felt I had the women’s a bit higher

2021 it was 849k
2020 it was 890k

[Sully]

Disappointed to find that the brand new ‘start over’ feature is not yet available on 9Now for mobile android devices (but tablet Apple it is which I had tried), wasn’t able to watch tonight’s Women’s Final Pre Show and was going to wind-back. Maybe they’ll upload or social media?

[Trains_and_Sports]

It is on mobile, just you can’t wind back once the program has ended, and also you can’t wind back during the tennis.