US Open tennis on Eurosport

I notice some courts have the score bug in all caps, and others sentence case. I thought this might be the difference between full TV courts and basic camera courts for streams but Eurosport 2 currently showing the Paire v Lajovic match which has their names all in caps.

Maybe the differentiator is whether the match is going out broadcast on ESPN/ESPN2 or via WATCH ESPN (online in all flavours).

Does the US Open have the "psst... aahhh!" thing before the breaks that Roland Garros does?

No that's just RG.


I notice Eurosport keep showing a promotional video for Eurosport Player which has the Twitter handle @EurosportUKTV on it in big letters, but if you go to that account you'll see they closed it in July.

Opening Ceremony on Arthur Ashe stadium running around 35-40 mins late.

Worzel will be furious.

They've fixed the twitter handle on the Eurosport Player promo.

Surprised they didn't choose to show Evans v Ram on Eurosport 2, but I suspect they would rather have Mats and Barbara doing some presentation on Eurosport 2 before introducing play, rather than just go straight into the match. It's not a very TV-friendly court either.

Isn't ES2 still pan European video wise? What's covered is suspect to international demand.

I don't think that is the case anymore - indeed it is often ES2 which has the British content.

No, but obviously the studio in London can only be on one channel at a time. They can (and have) dipped into the International version's coverage (notable by the use of a 24hr clock in CET on promos) on the UK version of both Eurosport 1 and 2. I can't imagine Robson v Broady would have been shown outside the UK and Bedene v Kyrgios was introduced by Catherine Whitaker and Pat Cash on site, rather than Wilander and/or Schett. They clearly dipped into and back out of the International coverage in between the two British interest matches on Eurosport 2.

Anyway, I came here to share this caption. Some might say it's no bad thing not hearing Andrew Castle.

Interestingly, in Germany, Eurosport 1 is free to air while Eurosport 2 must be paid for, so naturally German tennis fans are complaining when matches involving German players like Dustin Brown and Angelique Kerber are shown on Eurosport 2.

Not sure what I think of Sky Sports featuring in almost every ad break, considering that they dropped the competition this time around.

I caught a little bit of the Konta game on Eurosport 1 earlier, and the ball was juddering all over the place - a relic of poor 60Hz->50Hz conversion. Has all their coverage been like that, or has British Eurosport opted out of the main coverage to show a British player and don't quite have as good facilities available?