Andy Murray The Greatest and General Tennis Chat

[Nightmare]

5 hours ago, TheScarf said:

Given Andy's record since he won it 4 years ago (f**k me, has it been that long?)

8 years since he made his first final. I remember watching that and it feels as if it was only a couple of years ago.

[Diamonds are Forever]

Rosol is a pain in the arse for round 1, but that's a good draw. His quarter is good, Wawrinka/Del Potro look to be the first major threats he could face and that's at the semi-final stage. Wawrinka is always a bit hit or miss, and Del Potro's fitness having to play 5 best of 5 set matches to reach that stage could be in doubt. Djokovic has a few in his side of the draw who on their day could be a real threat to him like Cilic, Raonic, Nadal, even the likes of Tsonga - although unlikely.

Edited August 26, 2016 by Diamonds are Forever

[Loki]

Del Potro has a horrid draw.  Schwarzman, Steve Johnson, David Ferrer, Thiem, Kyrgios/Wawrinka, Murray, Djokovic.  He will be doing well to go deep.

Murray's is relatively plain sailing.  Rosol, Monaco/Granollers, Simon (tricky), Dimitrov/Lopez/Coric, Nishikori, Wawrinka, Djokovic.  But with the way Wawrinka has been playing he could be knocked out by anyone at any time.

[Elixir]

Thiem, Kyrgios and Zverev are in the mix in del Potro and Wawrinka's sections as well.

Could be a very interesting tournament.

[Loki]

Am I right in thinking have Sky have ditched their coverage of the US Open, or will that be from next year?

[Elixir]

Just now, Loki said:

Am I right in thinking have Sky have ditched their coverage of the US Open, or will that be from next year?

Already ditched it. Eurosport have the rights now.

Sky no doubt too busy ploughing even more money into the EPL and additional shite games like Burnley v West Brom.

[Loki]

Just now, Elixir said:

Already ditched it. Eurosport have the rights now.

Sky no doubt too busy ploughing even more money into the EPL and additional shite games like Burnley v West Brom.

Eurosport always had the rights but they sub contracted the rights out to Sky, they also did something similar for the Australian Open for BBC.  It is very poor from Sky.  Especially when they have had shite like fishing and kabbadi kabbadi on.  I have always associated the US Open with Sky, I remember getting Sky Sports for the Rusedski final.

[Elixir]

1 hour ago, Loki said:

Eurosport always had the rights but they sub contracted the rights out to Sky, they also did something similar for the Australian Open for BBC.  It is very poor from Sky.  Especially when they have had shite like fishing and kabbadi kabbadi on. I have always associated the US Open with Sky, I remember getting Sky Sports for the Rusedski final.

Know what you mean about associating the US Open with Sky. Had to look up what the f**k kabbadi kabbadi is.

[Jamaldo]

Will it be possible to get streams of the matches anywhere? On holiday next week so would quite like to see how Murray gets on as it happens.

[Loki]

You can sign up for the Eurosport player for a month for six quid and that'll get you HD streams of all the televised courts.

[DublinMagyar]

Will it be possible to get streams of the matches anywhere? On holiday next week so would quite like to see how Murray gets on as it happens.

If you have an Android device, download mobdro app. You have to sideload it, it'll have all the streams you need for sports

[Jamaldo]

Cheers guys. Will look into that.

[HoBNob]

Eurosport always had the rights but they sub contracted the rights out to Sky, they also did something similar for the Australian Open for BBC.  It is very poor from Sky.  Especially when they have had shite like fishing and kabbadi kabbadi on.  I have always associated the US Open with Sky, I remember getting Sky Sports for the Rusedski final.

There fishing stuff is alright tbf.

[John Lambies Doos]

Eurosport always had the rights but they sub contracted the rights out to Sky, they also did something similar for the Australian Open for BBC.  It is very poor from Sky.  Especially when they have had shite like fishing and kabbadi kabbadi on.  I have always associated the US Open with Sky, I remember getting Sky Sports for the Rusedski final.

Don't think so. Only had up to QF. Sky had sf and f. Delayed coverage on eurosport.

Great news if all on ES

[Elixir]

Pretty sure Sky always had the full US Open.

Edited August 27, 2016 by Elixir

[The Woolshed]

Tricky first round tie. Although Murray usually manages fine against the big servers.

[John Lambies Doos]

Pretty sure Sky always had the full OS Open.

They did. Eurosport had some of the early rounds

[Loki]

Eurosport has always held the rights.  Sky sub contracted the rights on a contract basis, depending on how much they paid,  Sky either had full broadcast rights or an option that still allowed Eurosport coverage.  Eurosport (owned by the Discovery channel) hold the coverage for all four Slams in Europe.  They then negotiate individual rights deals with television companies (BBC for Australian Open, ITV for French Open, Sky for US Open traditionally) to show them in their own country.  However they do not own exclusive rights to Wimbledon as it is protected by the UK government.  

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jul/07/sky-sports-us-open-tennis-premier-league-formula-one-open-golf

I would recommend getting the Eurosport player as Modbro doesn't always have all the courts, as they usually use streams that television companies are showing.  The player will have coverage from every court.

[Elixir]

Am I right in saying the BBC have only showed the semi's and final of the Australian Open in recent years?

[Loki]

16 minutes ago, Elixir said:

Am I right in saying the BBC have only showed the semi's and final of the Australian Open in recent years?

Yeah they had full coverage up until a few years ago including online streaming of it all, but now just show the latter stages.