ESPN3 To Exclusively Stream River Oaks Tournament

HOUSTON (April 1, 2022) – The Fayez Sarofim & Co. U.S. Males’s Clay Courtroom Championship will stream completely on ESPN3 in america when the ATP 250 event takes place April 4-10 at Houston’s River Oaks Nation Membership. 

A complete of 24 singles matches – every of the stadium court docket singles matches from the week – in addition to the doubles ultimate will stream on ESPN3. 

The matches will likely be referred to as by Sam Gore and Jason Knapp, with evaluation from Jimmy Arias and Luke Jensen together with participant interviews from Blair Henley. 

“We’re happy to have the chance to associate with ESPN for protection of the Fayez Sarofim & Co. U.S. Males’s Clay Courtroom Championship,” mentioned Match Director Bronwyn Greer. “With the depth of our participant discipline, we anticipate nice motion all through your entire week. We’re thrilled to have all our stadium court docket motion coated in full, from the opening rounds by the finals.”

Gore hosts ESPN’s Grand Slam tennis protection on DirecTV whereas additionally serving as play-by-play announcer for quite a few sports activities. His different ESPN work contains play-by-play on a wide range of collegiate competitions, together with the NCAA tennis championship. 

Knapp has labored six Olympics, together with play-by-play of tennis in the course of the Summer season Video games and curling on the Winter Video games. He has referred to as greater than a dozen sports activities in his profession. Along with his Olympic work, his tennis background contains play-by-play for the US Open world feed. 

Arias was a two-time champion of the River Oaks Worldwide Tennis Match in addition to a previous champion of the US Clay Courts, successful that occasion when it was held in Indianapolis. Arias achieved a profession excessive rating of No. 5 whereas successful 5 ATP titles and reached 11 different finals. In 1987, he gained the River Oaks Langston Sportsmanship Trophy. 

Jensen is a 10-time doubles winner on the ATP Tour. His largest title got here in 1993 when he partnered together with his brother, Murphy, to win the French Open. He additionally appeared in 14 different ATP finals, and was awarded the River Oaks Langston Sportsmanship Trophy alongside together with his brother in 1996. 

Henley, a former Rice tennis standout, will conduct post-match interviews as a part of her position as stadium emcee. Henley has beforehand been an on-court host at quite a few occasions, together with the US Open. Whereas in school, she was named Convention USA Participant of the 12 months whereas main the Owls to the league title.

Solely on ESPN3: Fayez Sarofim & Co. U.S. Males’s Clay Courtroom Championship (All occasions CT)

*Instantly follows Singles Semifinals

ESPN3 may be accessed by authenticating an current cable, satellite tv for pc or streaming subscription that features ESPN by the ESPN App on good TVs, cellphones and tablets or on-line at ESPN.com. 

The singles field for the Fayez Sarofim & Co. U.S. Males’s Clay Courtroom Championship options eight gamers inside the highest 50 of the ATP Rankings, together with defending champion Cristian Garin and 2019 finalist Casper Ruud, who at No. 8 on the planet would be the prime seed. American entries embody Taylor Fritz, the champion final month at Indian Wells, together with Reilly Opelka, Jenson Brooskby, Tommy Paul, Frances Tiafoe and former US Clay winners John Isner, Steve Johnson and Jack Sock. Australia’s Nick Kyrgios was awarded the tournament’s first wild card. 

The ATP 250 occasion at River Oaks returns after a two-year hiatus beginning Saturday at 11 a.m. The principle draw that begins on Monday will embody a 28-player singles discipline together with 16 groups within the doubles event. For extra info, go to mensclaycourt.com.