I think that Nine’s coverage has been quite good with the camera sights, graphics and studio. They are using the world feed commentators and in partnership with tennis australia.
Nine don’t have any play by play commentators and using Woodbridge and McEnore or Woodbridge and Courier. Whereas Seven could use Zemplias/Geoff Masters/McLachlan with an Expert …
In the female side, Nine is using Sam Smith as play by play with Dokic or Molik…
To improve, they need to show more matches once a match is finish, they didn’t show any Aussies matches once Barty is finished. Tomic and Milman for example…or updates/the app/9Gem
And just like this morning the Adelaide News.ltd is already slamming Nine! They at Murdoch press just say how rubbish everyone else’s coverage is, if they don’t have the rights. It’s getting a bit old…
So? The interesting and more talented players aren’t Australian. Seven really overdid it with their tacky obsession for Australian players, often when there was a far more interesting match elsewhere.
Generally a tennis commentator who isn’t a former player who announces the scores and game results and the transitions between games and shots is a play by play. For example, Peter Donegan on the world feed. Seven use to have those useles pieces of shit…zemplais and McLachlan doing play by play.
Cricket has benefited from play by play. Isa Ghua does a great job. And on nine, despite popular belief had a play by play for each commentary stint. I saw their commentary lineup for a whole day once and one commentator was always a designated play by play… usually bill Lawry and tony Grieg and a few others like mark Nicholas.
To me, play by play for tennis is what you would typically hear on radio. For tennis commentary on radio, they commentate and describe every shot during a rally. Can you imagine that on tv?
Allan Stone is still around. He was on the world feed with John Fitzgerald for the Federer match.
I don’t think calling them a piece of shit a very appropriate description of them. Sure they’re shit commentators but I’m sure they’re not as shit in real person as in commentary. After all, they’re still people, not pieces of shits.
Yeah, because Jim Courier is the only American commentator we might hear
I am well aware of who Jim is, are you kidding, I was referring to another American who I obviously didn’t know the name of - having a go at Nine for not using their own commentators or other Australian commentators from world feed, seemed strange. Many on social media were wondering why too
They’ve already ruined cricket with play by play commentary.
