White Plains, N.Y., December 15, 2022 – The USTA introduced that it has granted Sky Sports activities the unique dwell tv and digital rights to the US Open Tennis Championships in the UK and Eire by 2027. The brand new settlement will start with the 2023 US Open, beginning on August 28.
Sky Sports activities can have entry to all particular person court docket feeds, broadcasting a minimal of 135 hours of competitors all through the 2 weeks of foremost draw play. Throughout Sky Sports activities’ linear channels and on Sky Sports activities digital and social channels, intensive protection will present content material for each current tennis followers and new audiences. The settlement consists of protection of Males’s and Ladies’s Singles and Doubles, Combined Doubles, Juniors and Wheelchair competitions.
Sky Sports activities beforehand held broadcast rights to the US Open between 1991 and 2015.
Kirsten Corio, Chief Industrial Officer, USTA: “The USTA and Sky Sports activities have an extended historical past collectively and it’s an thrilling time to be partnering as soon as once more. We’re wanting ahead to showcasing the US Open to an growing variety of followers within the U.Okay. and Eire over the subsequent 5 years as the game continues to develop and a brand new era of stars emerges.”
Jonathan Licht, MD Sky Sports activities: “We’re very excited to companion with the USTA as soon as once more to ship the US Open, one of many best Grand Slam Tennis tournaments on the planet. We have now had an important historical past with the USTA and bear in mind Andy Murray’s 2012 US Open win as one of many nice moments on Sky Sports activities. That is one other enormous sporting occasion for our viewers, and we look ahead to bringing tennis followers extra of what they love and welcoming in new followers to the game.”
The 2023 US Open kinds a part of an enormous line-up of dwell sports activities to look ahead to on Sky Sports activities in 2023, together with the F1, Premier League, WSL, EFL and SPFL seasons, Males’s and Ladies’s Ashes and World Cups, Ryder Cup, Masters, The Open, The Hundred, BOXXER occasions, England netball, NFL and way more, as Sky Sports activities continues to carry followers the perfect of dwell sport.
