Didn’t show the mens last night either. Its on Stan, thats enough
I enjoyed last night’s French Open final coverage, very nicely done. Impressed by Stosur too.
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Same, the whole panel team has been really good and insightful this year.
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Yeah, the coverage was fantastic throughout the fortnight.
Also, that will be the end of the 3 year deal they had. Hopefully they renew
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Last night while watching the Roland Garros final, I was thinking about next Aussie summer, Nine should try to lure Ash Barty into the commentary bunker and/or try to get back John McEnroe or Kyrgios when he’s not playing, just for some extra novelty and ‘zing’ factor. And if Aussies get knocked out or there’s a match that’s not as high profile or exciting, could help lift the telecast and given TV ratings landscape is only going down further… Especially with a brand new half a billion dollar broadcast deal commencing in 2025. Since Nine got rights, they’ve had great success and done well rejuvenating the coverage, including more broadly acquiring the other slams and putting more effort into that too plus 9Now and especially Stan and had a lot of luck headlined by Ash Barty and capping off with last year’s incredible final… But just feel they’ll need to do something more now, that ‘next level’. Would be keen on any thoughts. We have to remember Seven wanted the tennis back, Warburton made no secret of that drip-feeding to media. No matter higher or lower viewerships, its power for Nine is its more balanced demographic appeal (i.e.) women and young and the partnerships they can lock-up, as well as having all majors, French Open just finished might’ve even paid for itsself in that regard and the reach across a 2 week tournament all day every night espeically the AO is crucial for not just ads but network promos, leading-in to Q1 the day after with Married launch. @TV.Cynic
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Nine will want to renew Roland Garros and Wimbledon then get Davis/BJK Cup and Atp/Wta exclusively
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The addition of Brenton Speed on play-by-play commentary, freeing up Todd Woodbridge to focus more on analysis, was really good. I hope Nine use Speedy more for tennis because he’s just really good at it (and here I was thinking his radio commentary of NRL was his best work, unsurpassable, before now).
In previous tournaments when Todd was the lead commentator, he seemed to just be very long-winded in trying to do PbP and analysis, sometimes not giving his co-commentators much time. Moving him to an analysis role and 2nd commentator seemed to allow him to focus his comments in a much clearer and more concise way. It seemed to work really well.
Until recently I had never really been able to stand Todd’s commentary, but I think it’s just that he has too much knowledge of Tennis to handle PbP effectively when he really wants to provide insightful analysis to the audience. He is however quite good at PbP when he’s not as knowledgeable of the sport, such as the golf in the summer where he shared PbP duties with Warren Smith and did a really good job of just calling the play.
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I have a good feeling he might again be utilized for their Wimbledon and US Open coverage later this year, and of course the Australian Open next year. He is just so good at any sport he calls.
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With the new Hopman Cup tournament coming up at Nice in France next month (after Wimbledon) does Nine/Stan Sport have the rights to it in Australia (even though there is no Australian team)?
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The problem is though Todd was essentially made as Bruce McAvaney’s successor as main caller (certainly at the Aus Open) and immediately did an outstanding job (which he’d already been doing for years since mid-2000s and taking over from Sandy Roberts on womens) and Nine continued that when they got rights.
Not the first example, in the AFL Luke Darcy was always expert at Ten and initially at Seven (Saturday nights used to have Brian Taylor calling solo), then he shifted to calling and they kept him doing that, pretty sure at Triple M too and first.
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10 sec promo
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“She’s had like 700 drinks bro” 
Interesting that main channel (not 9Gem) being promoted.
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According to advance guides, coverage of the first week of Wimbledon 2023 will be split between main channel, 9Gem and 9GO!, due to Nine’s NRL and Ashes commitments. So if viewers want to see the tennis in HD, they will have to subscribe to Stan Sport.
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Or they could use 9Now.
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Loosely relevant, but Tony Jones will again be part of Nine’s Wimbledon coverage. He was “farewelled” on the Sunday Footy Show today before he jets off tomorrow.
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Nine’s Wimbledon coverage on 9, 9Gem and 9Go posted
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I wasn’t expecting so much main channel coverage so overall not bad. Ashes were always going to make it shift to GO for the days the NRL is on.
I guess they are banking on the early round aussie matches to rate. They probably are aware that Nick most likely won’t play.
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