The Four Career Grand Slam Winners Play Thursday, Friday’s Action all on ESPN

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It’s Day Three of The Championships, Wimbledon and the 256 players in the Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s Singles competition have enjoyed largely sunny weather, although already half of them are headed home, and the ESPN Tennis Team has already logged 18 of the planned 140 hours taking fans through to the Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s Championships on Saturday and Sunday, July 5 and 6, respectively.

The action continues on ESPN at 7 a.m. ET on Thursday, June 26, transitioning to ESPNEWS at 4 p.m. (originally announced as 4:30 p.m.).  Action will include the four career Grand Slam players:  Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Maria Sharapova and Serena Williams.

All 10 hours on Friday are on ESPN, starting at 7 a.m.  Action will include defending champion Andy Murray, 2012 winner Novak Djokovic, five-time winner Venus Williams vs. 2011 champ Petra Kvitova, and two-time Major winner Li Na.

Below is some of what you may have missed, say, if you work for a living and can’t watch ESPN3 at work without your boss knowing.

In Case You Missed It…on air and online…

• With the help of the London Philharmonic Symphony and narration by Kate Winslet, here’s how ESPN came on the air (at the time captured in picture below) on Monday and Tuesday (and will be reprised on Friday, Saturday and next week), entitled “Always Unfinished”:  https://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=11127097

Noon in London is 7 a.m. BT (Bristol Time)

• And here’s the Oscar winner Winslet again, in the Day Three open:  https://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=11132255
• Tom Rinaldi’s eight-minute feature on Andy Murray’s journey to champion: https://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=11122200
• How well do John and Patrick McEnroe know each other? (answer: not very) — https://bit.ly/McEnroe623
• Go behind the scenes of the ESPN Tennis Team in action, courtesy TennisNow:  bit.ly/1iF4JU4
• Don’t have much time to catch up on Wimbledon news?  Check out ESPN.com’s daily “60-Second Slice” with Prim Siripipat:  June 23: https://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=11125520, June 24:  https://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=11130523
• If you have a bit more time, each day Prim teams with ESPN.com’s Greg Garber to present “Five Things We Learned Today.”  June 23: https://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=11129925
• Or look ahead to the next day as Prim interviews an ESPN analyst on “Digital Serve.” Here, she and Darren Cahill preview the action on Day Three:  https://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=11129444
• Australian Open champ Stan Wawrinka visited the ESPN set and told LZ Granderson and Chris McKendry about Wimbledon, life after winning his first Grand Slam, the state of Roger Federer’s game, and his thoughts on the big four’s dominance:  https://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=11132237
• John McEnroe gave his unvarnished opinion of whether Caroline Wozniacki needs to resort to internet dating, in the wake her cancelled engagement with golfer Rory McIlroy (Spoiler Alert:  He doesn’t):  https://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=11132262
• And this was announced es.pn/1m55YqD:

Tomas Berdych and Venus Williams will appear in the upcoming ESPN The Magazine’s “Body Issue”

They Said It…and it was on Twitter:

• @cbfowler read a spot for ordering Wimby towels online. “When I was a player, I used to steal them.” – @ChrissieEvert
• .@PatrickMcEnroe reads “ESPN fans get 15% off shopping Wimb web site.” John: “What do ESPN commentators get?” PMac- “Probably 10%.””When she’s grumpy and unhappy, that’s when she plays her best tennis.” – @ChrissieEvert re @serenawilliams who was unhappy w/FO loss
• .@PatrickMcEnroe tells John their parents each wants a @Wimbledon towel, suggests they buy 1 each. John says PMac can do it.
• John McEnroe, who knows a thing or 2 about fatherhood, wonders if 4 will interfere w/Federer’s success. “Hey, I love kids, I’ve got six.”
• “There’s a chance of rain here every day of the year.” – John McEnroe

To Review, an Overview of ESPN at Wimbledon

Highlights…

·         Live action exclusive to ESPN – “Wimbledon Starts and Finishes on ESPN”

·         140 Hours on TV – ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNEWS and ABC

·         1,000 Live Hours on ESPN3, Fans Choose from up to Nine Courts

·         “Cross Court Coverage” Returns for Monday-Wednesday the Second Week

• The fortnight will climax with the Ladies’ and Doubles Championships on ESPN on Saturday, July 5, and the Gentlemen’s Championship on Sunday, July 6.

…and the details

• “Cross Court Coverage” will return the first three days of the second week, with ESPN2 focused on Centre Court all day while fans will enjoy a “grounds pass” with matches from Court One and elsewhere on ESPN (transitioning to ESPNEWS at 11:30 a.m. on Monday, June 30, and Tuesday, July 1).
• Starting Thursday, July 3, all the action is on ESPN, beginning each day with Breakfast at Wimbledon hosted by Hannah Storm.
• On the “middle Sunday,” June 29, a scheduled day off as is Wimbledon tradition, ABC will broadcast a three-hour review of the first week at 3 p.m.  ABC will also present encore presentations of the finals on the day they take place, July 6 and 7 at 3 p.m.
• ESPN3 has increased its multi-screen offering to 1,000 hours – all available TV courts (up to nine) presented from first ball to last ball each day, with action available on demand afterwards.  Also, ESPN3 will add AELTC’s daily Live@Wimbledon. For the first time, Wimbledon.com will host the ESPN3 video offerings, greatly increasing its reach.
• WatchESPN will deliver all ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNEWS programming, accessible online at WatchESPN.com, on smartphones and tablets via the award-winning WatchESPN app, and streamed on televisions through ESPN on Xbox LIVE to Gold members, Apple TV, Roku and Amazon Fire TV to more than 92 million households nationwide via an affiliated video or internet provider.

@ESPNTennis & Wimbledon (TV through the Middle Sunday)

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