Shriver, Wozniacki Join TC Roland Garros Team

A pair of former world No. 1 gamers be part of Tennis Channel’s Paris get together.

Tennis Channel’s sixteenth 12 months of Roland Garros is about for Could Twenty second-June fifth.

Corridor of Famer Pam Shriver, who set information and reached No. 1 in doubles throughout her enjoying days, and 2018 Australian Open champion Caroline Wozniacki, the primary Danish singles world No. 1, can be in Paris for the community for the primary time.

Matches from the 126th version of Roland Garros will run all day on Tennis Channel once more this 12 months, with further competitors stay and on-demand on streaming service Tennis Channel Plus, choose Bally Sports activities regional networks across the nation, and new Samsung TV Plus channel T2 – the place they are going to be accessible without spending a dime.

Shriver will name matches for the community in the course of the match. One of the crucial dominant doubles gamers of all time, she received 21 main doubles titles, together with 4 on the French Open with present Tennis Channel analyst Martina Navratilova, and the 1987 French Open mixed-doubles championship. Along with reaching the highest of the doubles rankings she was an achieved singles participant, at one level ranked No. 3 on the planet. She entered the Worldwide Tennis Corridor of Fame in 2002.

“I’ve so many nice reminiscences of Roland Garros throughout my profession, particularly successful all 4 doubles tournaments I performed with Martina there and capturing my solely main mixed-doubles title,” stated Shriver. “I can’t wait to be in Paris with the complete Tennis Channel staff this 12 months.”

In March, Wozniacki appeared on Tennis Channel as an analyst for the primary time in the course of the BNP Paribas Open and Miami Open, and can resume these duties in Paris this spring. The primary individual from Denmark to win a significant singles title, Wozniacki can also be the primary girl from any Scandinavian nation to succeed in the highest of the singles rankings. She received 30 singles tournaments and two doubles occasions throughout her profession.

Tennis Channel stated it plans to be a “Roland Garros Channel” in the course of the 15-day occasion, with stay matches from the beginning of play within the morning by means of the evening periods on most evenings. As soon as the ultimate match has concluded, the community will present encore replays all through the late evening and early morning as much as the beginning of the subsequent day’s play.

The standard schedule sees matches underway at 5 a.m. ET till the late afternoon ET, when encores start. Tennis Channel says it “plans to point out greater than 140 stay hours of matches from this 12 months’s French Open, and one other 185 hours of encores, dedicating 325 complete hours to competitors.”

Reside protection runs from the primary day of play Sunday, Could 22 by means of the ladies’s doubles remaining on the ultimate day of the occasion, Sunday, June 5. This contains the mixed-doubles and ladies’s singles semifinals Thursday, June 2; the boys’s singles semifinals Friday, June 3; and the juniors singles finals Saturday, June 4. Tennis Channel can even present same-day encores of the boys’s and ladies’s singles and doubles finals throughout championship weekend.

New this 12 months are each day, stay matches on T2, the community’s free channel on Samsung TV Plus. Reside matches on T2 run concurrently with protection on the normal tv community however are totally different competitions and totally different gamers, giving viewers the chance to toggle between two matches on air on the identical time.

For Roland Garros, T2 plans to point out roughly 80 hours of stay matches from Sunday, Could 22, by means of Friday, June 3. The channel can be stay from 5 a.m.-12 p.m. ET the primary 9 days of the match. Starting Tuesday, Could 31, matches can be stay from 5 a.m.-9 a.m. ET for 4 days.