The last part of the US Open is tomorrow with the Women’s Doubles Final on ESPN2 at 1 p.m., then the Men’s Final starting at 4 p.m. I’d like to say CBS had a good US Open, but I haven’t seen any of their coverage having worked all last weekend, and missing Friday’s women’s semifinals and today’s men’s semifinals all due to work. Luckily, I have enough of a body of work on all announcers to do the second annual tennis TV awards.
Anyway, here’s CBS’ press release complete with ratings information on Friday’s women’s semifinals.
CBS SPORTS PRESENTS MEN’S FINAL OF 2010 U.S. OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS AS NO. 1-SEEDED RAFAEL NADAL TAKES ON NO. 3-SEEDED NOVAK DJOKOVIC LIVE ON CBS TELEVISION NETWORKCBS Sports’ coverage of the men’s final of the 2010 U.S. OPEN TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS on Sunday, Sept. 12 (4:00 PM, ET) features No. 1-seeded Rafael Nadal taking on No. 3-seeded Novak Djokovic live on the CBS Television Network.* * * * *CBS Sports’ live coverage of the U.S. OPEN TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS on Friday, Sept. 10 (12:30-6:44 PM, ET), highlighted by the women’s semi-final matches, earned an average national household rating/share of 1.3/5 for Vera Zvonareva’s defeat of Caroline Wozniacki, up 44% from last year’s 0.9/2. Kim Clijsters’ defeat of Venus Williams in the other women’s semi-final earned a national household rating/share of 1.9/5, up 111% from last year’s 0.9/2, which was rain coverage. The women’s semi-final matches earned an average of 1.7/5, up 89% from last year’s 0.9/3 of rain coverage.The men’s doubles final, which saw Mike and Bob Bryan defeat Rohan Bopanna and Aisam–Ul-Haq Quereshi, earned a 1.3/5, up 8% from last year’s 1.2/4.
We’re done for now. On Sunday, expect plenty of NFL pregame quotage plus the second annual comparison of DirecTV’s NFL Sunday Ticket’s Red Zone Channel and NFL Network’s RedZone.
