Coverage finished at 2am
MEN’S SINGLES FINAL: AUSTRALIAN OPEN BROADCAST SCHEDULE
SINNER V ZVEREV IN MEN’S SINGLES FINAL
6.30PM AEDT LIVE AND FREE ON CHANNEL 9 AND 9NOW
The cream has risen to the top for the Australian Open Men’s Singles final, when Jannik Sinner and Alexander Zverev will square off, live and free on the 9Network, tonight from 6.30pm AEDT.
It all comes down to a showdown between the two men ranked no.1 and no.2 in the world.
Italy’s Jannik Sinner has stayed composed under pressure, blocking any outside noise to surge through to the final as the reigning champion looks to claim his third Grand Slam title.
Zverev is yet to win a Slam final in two previous attempts, going down in five sets on both occasions, as another hard fought contest on Rod Laver Arena awaits.
In commentary for Nine’s Wide World of Sports is Todd Woodbridge, Jim Courier, Lleyton Hewitt, John Millman and their host, James Bracey.
The Afternoon Serve is live from 2.00pm AEDT to preview the final day of play. The women’s doubles final will follow at 3.00pm AEDT.
Fans will have the ability to watch every point of every match, at any time live, free and on any device in HD on 9Now.
Jim Courier and John Millman preview the Men’s Singles Final for Nine’s Wide World of Sports
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Coverage went until 6pm edt news tonight, over-run, due to the 3 set women’s doubles final thriller (was meant to wrap by 5pm). Nine News 5pm and RBT were pre empted. We’ll see if it helped of hindered Nine News on final night.
Meanwhile, the Men’s Final started at 6:30pm, like last night as tradition to fit in all the pre game show and pre ceremony. With a truncated Nine News as a result.
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The packages/montages have been fantastic by wwos this AO, especially the pre match narrations and tonight’s Newk half century anniversary just before.
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Is Lleyton Hewitt a late out from tonight’s final call? Pretty sure the media release mentioned him. Unless he’s court-side or doing a special comment here and there tonight, but it said John Millman was.
I recall despite Lleyton sometimes with Jim and Bruce, the final IIRC only had Bruce and Jim > Jim and Todd too.
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Lleyton is catching a flight for the Davis Cup tie in Stockholm next weekend
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Apart from the defending champion winning and going back-to-back, hard to find more stories or positives out of tonight’s final. An opposite of last night. Actually think tonight could be one of the lowest-viewed AO finals ever, just a feel, might struggle to get much more than last night’s womens. I’m of the view the Australia Day public holiday/long weekend observed won’t have helped, as often seen on Sunday TV nights. Still, I’m sure Nine still would’ve dominated, especially after 8:30/9pm and helped by Seven running dead.
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The Men’s Final usually does rate very high. But with it lasting only three sets, Nine will no doubt and try to drag out the “post-match segment” (aka “Presentations” in the ratings) to the scheduled midnight finish, and perhaps those numbers might be lower than usual.
At least the Women’s Final had the Men’s Doubles to follow their match.
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After the Presentation concluded, Nine Perth went straight to the News at 7:54pm (WA TIme). Over on 9Gem Perth, they coded it as MAS*H, although, on 9Gem it actually screened the post-match presentation of Australian Open.
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And with that, Nine’s 2025 season has officially launched with MAFS starting tomorrow.
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Not sure why Nine Perth made the channel switch this early. Nine’s own online guide had the AO telecast on the main channel until 9pm, followed by the news.
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And with that, the 2025 Australian Open is over. Nine’s coverage finished at 12.05am aedt.
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I think from both tournament and broadcast perspectives, 2025 was another success, I’d say on par with last year, certainly not the greatest.
It might’ve started off weaker, not helped by torrential rain on Day 1, with week 1 being down a bit or at least sort of days 1-4 and the middle Sunday.
But week 2 and especially de Minaur, the big names and the finals namely the women’s were up, also noted by Nine’s media releases courtesy of TVCynic by the “up % YoY” statements the past week. Save for tonight’s tomorrow morning. And it captivated the nation’s attention, completely dominating the media, online and social talk, especially the controversial Danielle Collins, Novak v Tony Jones and the Joker’s withdrawal.
And it shows just how bloody hard it is to play top level sport, let alone have close contests or fairytales, if Ash Barty or Nadal’s only ever 2 wins here or Hewitt 20 years ago or the last Aussie man half a century ago are anything to go by.
I think after 120 years and over 5 decades of broadcasts, in an ever changing world and generarions, the event is still such a special one and we are lucky to be able to escape into its world every single year for a fortnight and privileged to have one of only 4 in the world in our very own backyard where the eyes of the globe are on our tiny country. Well done to TA and Nine once again.
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I think TA and Nine will need to take on Ben Shelton’s comments on board (regarding post-match on-court interviews) when they conduct their review of this year’s Australian Open.
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I think he was being more than a tad precious.
Novak I can understand the issue, Ben…not really.
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Who?
The American player who lost to Jannik Sinner in the semi-final on Friday.
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