Beginning Sunday, Nov. 15, at 7 a.m. ET, Tennis Channel will again become the television home of the annual season-ending Barclays ATP World Tour Finals. The network’s coverage of the eight-day extravaganza between the top-eight singles players and doubles teams in tennis this year will feature live matches throughout the day, followed by 8 p.m.-4 a.m. primetime encores each evening. Tennis Channel will devote close to 60 live hours and more than 120 overall to the most exclusive tournament on the men’s tour, with all 28 matches televised, and all but three of them live.
As men’s tennis crowns its 2015 singles and doubles champions, Tennis Channel’s typical daily lineup begins with a doubles match each morning at 7 a.m. ET, immediately followed by singles play at 9 a.m. ET (a complete schedule is below). The doubles-then-singles format resumes from 1 p.m.-5 p.m. ET, before a primetime recap of the entire day’s matches gets underway at 8 p.m. ET and runs throughout the late night and early morning.
The Barclays ATP World Tour Finals, analysts Jim Courier and Paul Annacone Both former players, Hall of Famer Courier has guided the United States Davis Cup team as its captain since 2010, while Annacone has become one of the sport’s most renowned coaches for his successes with all-time greats Pete Sampras and Roger Federer.
The Barclays ATP World Tour Finals takes place in London’s raucous O2 Arena at the end of the men’s tennis season, and is reserved for only the top-eight singles and doubles points earners of 2015. Singles players are split into two groups of four, with a guaranteed three matches for each against every other contender in his division. The top two in each group advance to traditional, single-elimination semifinals with the winners playing for the championship on Sunday, Nov. 22.
With doubles following the same format, the round-robin arrangement ensures match after match of top-ranked players, in battles reminiscent of the latter rounds of any of the four majors.
This year’s singles draw reads like a Who’s Who of Grand Slam champions and future Hall of Famers, with: Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Stan Wawrinka, Tomas Berdych, David Ferrer and Kei Nishikori. The strong doubles field includes American twins Bob and Mike Bryan – perhaps the greatest ever – as well as Jean-Julien Rojer-Horia Tecau, Jamie Murray-John Peers, Ivan Dodig-Marcelo Melo, Simone Bolelli-Fabio Fognini, Pierre-Hugues Herbert-Nicolas Mahut, Marcin Matkowski-Nenad-Zimonjic and Rohan Bopanna-Florin Mergea.
Following the second singles semifinal Saturday, Nov. 21, Tennis Channel will air a special half-hour interview with women’s tennis star Maria Sharapova. Holding Serve with Maria Sharapova is slated for 5:15 p.m. ET and offers a revealing look at the global phenomenon’s life and career through a candid one-on-one conversation with Haber.
Mobile users can follow all the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals action via the authenticated linear stream on Tennis Channel’s Tennis Channel Everywhere app. Free to everyone in the United States, most Tennis Channel subscribers can simply enter their pay-TV provider credentials and access the network live at no additional cost. The channel’s website, www.tennischanneleverywhere.com, will feature articles from veteran reporter and author Steve Flink, as well as real-time scoring from London, and can be accessed via mobile device.
Tennis Channel’s 2015 ATP World Tour Finals Schedule: (All matches are live unless otherwise indicated with * for same-day delay)
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