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The 2021 Wimbledon Championships was a Grand Slam tennis tournament that took place at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom, the first since 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Novak Djokovic successfully defended his gentlemen's singles title to claim his record-equalling 20th major title, defeating ...
BT Sport has carried the Premier League since its launch; as of the 2020–21 season, BT Sport holds rights to around 52 live matches per-season, including 32 Saturday matches with 12:30 p.m. kickoffs, and 20 midweek fixtures scheduled around the winter break in January and February. [64] [65] [66]
1930s to 1950s. 1937. 21 June – The BBC broadcasts television coverage of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships for the first time. Pre-war daily broadcasts were half an hour to an hour in duration. [ 1] 1946. From this year, BBC television broadcasts Wimbledon live from 2-3pm in the afternoon until approximately 7.30pm in the evening. [ 2]
11 April – BT Sport secures the rights to show live coverage of the Canadian Premier League. 1 August – BT Sport ESPN is renamed BT Sport 4. 2023. 28 May – BT Sport Score is broadcast for the final time. The rolling scores and results programme ends as part of a review into non-live sports programming ahead of BT Sport becoming TNT Sports.
ATP Finals. · 2022 →. Alexander Zverev defeated the defending champion Daniil Medvedev in the final, 6–4, 6–4 to win the singles tennis title at the 2021 ATP Finals. [1] It was his second ATP Finals title. With the win, Zverev ended a six-year streak of different winners at the tournament, dating to 2015 . Hubert Hurkacz, Casper Ruud ...
The 2021 ATP Tour was the global elite men's professional tennis circuit organised by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for the 2021 tennis season. The 2021 ATP Tour calendar comprised the Grand Slam tournaments (supervised by the International Tennis Federation (ITF)), the ATP Finals , the ATP Masters 1000 , the ATP Cup , the ATP 500 series and the ATP 250 series .
In November 2021, Raducanu was named Sportswoman of the Year by the Sunday Times. [215] The Guardian ranked the 2021 US Open final number 47 on their 50 best TV shows of 2021 list. [216] Raducanu won Sportswoman of the Year and the Peter Wilson Trophy for international newcomer in December 2021, awarded by the Sports Journalists' Association. [217]
The longest women's match (by time) took place at a tournament in Richmond, Virginia, in 1984, when Vicki Nelson took 6 hours, 31 minutes to defeat Jean Hepner 6–4, 7–6 (13–11). The match featured a 29-minute, 643-shot rally, the longest in professional tennis history, though no video exists of this point.