• First Round Match for Federer at 7 p.m. ET
• Serena Williams vs. Taylor Townsend in All-USA Battle of Generations
• “ESPN3 Surround” with Four-Screen Option: SpiderCam, Iso-Cams Focused on the Players

Ten US Open titles and 34 Major crowns overall will be on display Tuesday, Aug. 26, on ESPN’s Primetime at the US Open presented by IBM at 7 p.m. ET when No. 2 seed Roger Federer meets 29-year Marinko Matosevic of Australia, followed by No. 1 Serena Williams vs. 18-year Taylor Townsend, a native of Chicago who trains in Florida. Federer and Williams have five US Open championships and 17 Major titles apiece.

The nightcap is a generational matchup of Americans – the legendary Williams and the promising Townsend, whose left-handed, serve-and-volley play is both entertaining and effective. In 2012, she was the Australian Open girls’ singles champion and became the first American to hold the No. 1 year-end world ranking for junior girls since Gretchen Rush in 1982. She is making her US Open main draw debut.

Both matches can also be viewed with a four-screen option on ESPN3, “ESPN3 Surround.” For the first time at the US Open, ESPN is offering “ESPN3 Surround” during all ESPN-televised prime-time matches from Arthur Ashe Stadium. The four views:
• the traditional view of the action from one end of the court
• the view from above via SpiderCam
• plus two smaller boxes on the sides of the screen showing each player exclusively.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“ESPN3 Surround” – shown here from the opening night at the US Open with Maria Kirilenko playing Maria Sharapova – shows the TV match in the main screen, supplemented by cameras focused on each player and a fourth screen with the action from SpiderCam, high above the court at Arthur Ashe Stadium.

In addition, ESPN3 will stream the following seven courts starting at 1 p.m. through the end of play:
-Arthur Ashe Stadium
-Louis Armstrong Stadium
-Grandstand
-Court 17
-Court 5
-Court 11
-Court 13

ESPN & the US Open in 2015
In May 2013, ESPN and the USTA announced that ESPN would be the exclusive home in North and South America of the US Open from first ball through the women’s and men’s championships each summer from New York beginning in 2015. ESPN has televised approximately100 hours of live US Open matches annually since 2009, and will air 130+ hours with the addition of day-long coverage of the “middle weekend” – Saturday, Sunday and Labor Day Monday – plus both the men’s and women’s semifinals and finals. The 11-year agreement also includes expanded digital and international rights.

ESPN and the US Open
• During the first week of the tournament, the television coverage will start on ESPN at 1 p.m. each weekday and will continue nonstop – transitioning to ESPN2 at 6 p.m. (except Tuesday) – for at least 10 hours through both the day and the 7 p.m. Primetime at the US Open presented by IBM sessions until play is concluded.
• The second week starts on Labor Day Monday, Sept 1, with Primetime at the US Open presented by IBM at 7 p.m. on ESPN2, followed by more day-long windows Tuesday – Thursday, again starting on ESPN.
• ESPN3 will offer nearly 400 hours of action from multiple courts each day ESPN has TV coverage, including an additional seventh court this year during the first week when the action begins each day at 1 p.m.
• All the action on ESPN and ESPN2 is also available through WatchESPN 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.

ESPN – All Four Slams, All In One Place
Tennis has been part of ESPN since its first week on the air and provided many memorable moments, but it has never been as important as today, with the US Open joining the lineup in 2009, giving ESPN all four Grand Slam events, something no other U.S. network has ever done, let alone in one year. ESPN has presented the Australian Open since 1984, the French Open since 2002 (plus 1986 – 1993), and Wimbledon since 2003, with exclusivity for live television with all other rights extended in a 12-year agreement starting in 2012. Exclusivity for the US Open in an 11-year agreement begins in 2015. ESPN3 delivers an unmatched multi-screen presentation of the sport’s four majors, all ATP 1000 and 500 tournaments, WTA Premier Events and season-ending championships for both tours.

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