Lleyton Hewitt, Bernard Tomic and Sam Stosur will lead the charge for Australia as tennis fans enjoy live and free coverage of the Championships, Wimbledon, on Channel 7 and 7TWO.
While fans will get to see plenty of live Tennis on Free to Air, they wont get to see it in HD with ch7 once again opting not to use its HD 7Mate channel for the coverage.
Fox Sports will provide HD coverage of Wimbledon however rights issues will prevent them from screening key matches live.
Beginning on Monday June 23, Seven’s broadcast will be hosted by Todd Woodbridge with expert commentary from three-time Wimbledon champion John Newcombe, along with Rennae Stubbs, Sam Smith and Geoff Masters.
In addition, there will be commentary from a string of the biggest names in tennis via the host broadcaster BBC, among them John McEnroe, Pat Cash, Jimmy Connors, Martina Navratilova and Lindsay Davenport.
Seven’s Head of Sport, Saul Shtein, commented:
“As always at Wimbledon on Seven, tennis fans will see the best two matches live and free each day on 7TWO or Channel 7, along with plenty of other top matches. And of course we’ll keep viewers up to date with all the results and happenings around the courts.”
During the first week the live broadcast kicks off at 8.30pm (AEST) on 7TWO before switching to Channel 7 later at night. From Day 8 to Day 11 the coverage begins at 10pm on 7TWO, before switching to Channel 7 later.
All singles and doubles finals, as well as the singles’ semi-finals, will be exclusively live on Channel 7, starting on 7TWO.