US Open tennis on Eurosport

They're subtitles.

Eurosport really just aren't fit for purpose at the moment - can't access the player via the website or the app.

Not sure what their issues are right now, but lots of people complaining they can't log in.

I was watching when the streams became unavailable, but they're back now - however I never logged out. Can't log in on my tablet.

This is at least the third major problem they've had since the US Open started Monday.

Maybe it's been more popular than they anticipated and the systems can't cope?

Monday's problem was them not switching the extra court streams on in time for the coverage to start.

Friday's problem was no pictures available on some (not all) extra court streams, showing a barker - I suspect this was beyond their control, perhaps not receiving pictures for some reason.

Today appears to be a connectivity/login problem with the site. Could be demand, not sure.

If they can't cope with the US Open how on earth will they cope with the Olympics?

I can hear John McEnroe commentating tonight, is he doing some work for Eurosport too? I don't think they're taking ESPN commentary as the other commentator is British.

McEnroe has signed up to ES in the same type of role that he has with the BBC during Wimbledon. When not required by ESPN he works for Eurosport.

The other commentators were Mats Wilander who works for Eurosport and Mark Petchey who is freelance.

So my verdict, essentials covered, backstories missing though so content was lacking. The economy of basing Curling and co in London was just about ok, but it missed the presence onsite of Sky's coverage in the past.

Hopefully the player will be addressed with Ralph Rivera's recruitment announced last week.

I suspect that we'll get a step up next year.

7/10.

Coverage was pretty much as to be expected, as it was similar to the Australian Open (and presumably the French although I watched all of that on ITV).

The men's doubles final yesterday was introduced by Whitaker and Petchey on court, rather than from the London studio. They did also show various bits recorded in the on site studio with Wilander and Schett, and they introduced some coverage live too; both of these were mostly on Eurosport 2 while Eurosport 1 was anchored from London until approx midnight.

So they *can* do it all from New York, but chose not to - presumably because of the logistics of running a pan-Euro service as well as one tailored to the UK (and every other country) - especially in the first week - as well as being across two channels.

Sky never had these issues - they were only serving the UK and only on one channel with the rest on the red button. The player needs looking at, or the introduction of Eurosport 360 in the UK (red button service available in Spain and Germany - although that won't make them any extra money like the player does).

There have been some issues with scheduling, with La Vuelta clashing/over-running sometimes, and the Diamond League on Thursday 1st.

It's the first time I've really watched coverage thanks to various Eurosport Player issues and the only time Murray didn't play overnight being the night the Paralympics began.

Curling in a studio and Cash in the crowd doesn't work well for me at all but what still really winds me up is how the media just have no respect at all for what Djokovic has achieved or that he's actually quite popular with many tennis fans. They are still stuck in the mindset that if it's not Federer and Nadal it's not the final we wanted, even though Djokovic has won more grand slams than anyone in the last few years and been in 19 of the last 25 grand slam finals, winning 10 of them. I think Wawrinka is only second to Novak too over recent years when it comes to Grand Slam wins too - he's certainly been making more of an impact than Nadal and Federer at Grand Slams over the last 3-4 years.