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kishnabe · 02-19-2011, 05:31 PM

She defenitly could have won....thos three setters would have tired her a bit! Still she is up the rankings with the result!

vernonbc · 02-19-2011, 08:07 PM

Too bad. She just didn't look good out there and was a mere shadow of what she's shown she can do. Hope her result isn't a bad omen. **getting very nervous**

vernonbc · 02-19-2011, 11:59 PM

Here's a nice article about the Canadians in Memphis. I believe the author is British but he has some nice things to say about our tennis players. http://www.tennispanorama.com/archiv...9#comment-2105

pound cat · 02-20-2011, 03:36 AM

Is anyone showing the men's final of Memphis on Canadian TV?

vernonbc · 02-20-2011, 07:40 PM

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Originally Posted by pound cat

Is anyone showing the men's final of Memphis on Canadian TV?

Hope you managed to catch it on Sportsnet. For all of those who did, it would be a good idea to contact them and let them know you watched and enjoyed it and maybe they'll show a lot more matches. I especially want them aired on the main Sportsnet channel as I don't get Sportsnet1.

Here is their contact page with phone # and email address. http://www.sportsnet.ca/contact/

cc0509 · 02-20-2011, 07:44 PM

Sportsnet 1 is airing the ATP Dubai tournament as well I see.

vernonbc · 02-20-2011, 08:04 PM

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Originally Posted by cc0509

Sportsnet 1 is airing the ATP Dubai tournament as well I see.

Well, it'd be nice if they'd put it on the main channel instead of the umpteenth repeat of Connected or a months old darts tournament. Most Canadians can't get Sportsnet 1 and we should all be making lots of noise to Sportsnet until they switch so that more Canadians can be exposed to good tennis.

cc0509 · 02-20-2011, 08:13 PM

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Originally Posted by vernonbc

Well, it'd be nice if they'd put it on the main channel instead of the umpteenth repeat of Connected or a months old darts tournament. Most Canadians can't get Sportsnet 1 and we should all be making lots of noise to Sportsnet until they switch so that more Canadians can be exposed to good tennis.

LOL. I agree with you. I get the SN1 channel as well but I can't say that I watch that channel very often. There seems to be a lot of darts on SN1 too!

iamtheavalanche · 02-20-2011, 08:37 PM

ironically, today was "hockey day in america" on NBC which was on at the same time as the memphis finals...

Marius_Hancu · 03-03-2011, 07:08 AM

I know the David Cup meet with Mexico this weekend will be shown on TV, but where?

kishnabe · 03-03-2011, 10:18 AM

Hancu...I think Sportsnet will cover the davis cup for Canada!

Marius_Hancu · 03-04-2011, 03:13 AM

Great news here (except for Daniel Nestor not playing):
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TORONTO -- Rising Canadian tennis star Milos Raonic will meet Mexico's Manuel Sanchez in Davis Cup action Friday.

The hard-serving 20-year-old from Thornhill, Ont., will then face Daniel Garza on Sunday.

Watch it live on Sportsnet ONE Friday at 12 p.m. ET. All matches will be streamed live on sportsnet.ca.

RELATED

* Pospisil replaces Nestor
* Raonic to play Indian Wells

Frank Dancevic of Niagara Falls, Ont., will play Garza in the first match of the tie Friday. Dancevic will face Sanchez in Sunday's second match.

Raonic will team with Vasek Pospisil of Vernon, B.C., in Saturday's doubles match against Luis Diaz-Barriga and Miguel-Angel Reyes-Varela.

Raonic is currently 37th and Dancevic 202nd in the ATP singles rankings, while Garza is No. 439 and Sanchez No. 546.

"Having such a deep team, especially in singles, is a good problem for a captain to have," Canadian team captain Martin Laurendeau said in a statement. "I feel very confident in the guys we've chosen to start the tie off on Friday and we have Peter (Polansky of Thornhill, Ont.) and Vasek here and ready to step in if needed."

A win over Mexico will move the Canadian squad to a second-round pairing with Ecuador in July, while a loss would force them to play a relegation tie to keep their spot in Americas Zone Group I for 2012.

On Saturday, March 5 at 2 p.m. (ET)/11 a.m. (PT) Sportsnet East, Sportsnet Ontario and Sportsnet West will carry the doubles match featuring Canada's Raonic and Vasek Pospisil against Mexico's Luis Diaz-Barriga and Miguel Reyes-Varela.

The three-day tournament ends with two more singles matches live on Sportsnet ONE on Sunday, March 6 at 12 p.m. (ET)/9 a.m. (PT).

Rob Faulds calls the action, while Robert Bettauer, a former Canadian Davis Cup participant, handles the analysis.

Daniel Nestor joins Faulds and Bettauer Saturday to provide additional analysis for the doubles match.

http://www.sportsnet.ca/tennis/2011/...cup-canada--0/

Nestor not playing:
http://www.sportsnet.ca/tennis/2011/...ada_davis_cup/

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pound cat · 03-04-2011, 03:19 AM

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Originally Posted by kishnabe

Hancu...I think Sportsnet will cover the davis cup for Canada!

They are showing the doubles on regular sportsnet TV Saturday .

Now they are going to show DC from 2 pm to 6 pm Saturday sportsnet.ca and stream

pound cat · 03-04-2011, 04:09 PM

Montreal Gazette
Raonic making tennis must-see TV in Canada

Thanks Milos!

Sports fans will be served the rarest of Canadian television sporting events this weekend, thanks entirely to 20-year-old tennis phenomenon Milos Raonic.

Raonic’s spectacular start to the 2011 season prompted Rogers Sportsnet to make the decision to broadcast nationwide the Canadian Davis Cup team’s matches from Mexico starting Friday at noon on Sportsnet One.

Tennis Canada officials couldn’t remember the last time Canadians had a chance to watch their Davis Cup team compete in the annual international tournament other than a one-off broadcast in 2003.

Sportsnet and Tennis Canada officials also acknowledge that Raonic, from Thornhill, Ont., is the reason the Davis Cup is on Canadian TV for the first time in eight years.

Last month, the broadcaster made a last-minute decision to show Raonic’s winning performance in the final of an ATP Tour event at San Jose. About 56,000 viewers watched. A week later, Raonic lost a thriller to Andy Roddick of the U.S. in the final at Memphis, and the Canadian audience jumped to almost 160,000.

“Milos Raonic has . . . captured the attention of viewers across the country and really catapulted tennis into the forefront right now,” said Dave Rashford, director of communications for Rogers Sportsnet. “Canadians are excited about him.”

Raonic’s rise to prominence couldn’t be better timed for the network, which moved to increase its coverage of live tennis just weeks before the young Canadian’s star was born at the Australian Open in January.

“It’s like catching lightning in a bottle here,” Rashford said. “Everyone wants to know how Milos is doing. Canadians want to see him play. It’s not just, ‘I want to see Federer or Nadal’ any more. It’s, ‘I want to see Milos.’ ”

Michael Downey, head of Tennis Canada, says Raonic and rising Canadian women’s star Rebecca Marino of Vancouver have “opened (Sportsnet’s) eyes to the power of these kids.”

After both players appeared in finals last month in the joint Memphis ATP and WTA Tour events — Sportsnet made hurried arrangements to obtain permission to air Marino’s final, too — Sportsnet contacted Tennis Canada to seek broadcast rights to the Davis Cup and the women’s equivalent, the Fed Cup.

“We used to go out and ask them (to broadcast Davis Cup tennis), but generally the response was, ‘Only if you are going to buy the time will we put it on for you,’ ” Downey said.

That has changed, and Downey says it’s entirely because of Raonic, who has risen from 152nd to 37th in the men’s world rankings and Marino, who has risen from 101st to 61st.

Sportsnet acquired the TV rights to all major ATP events last fall, while TSN continues to hold Canadian broadcast rights to the Grand Slam events.

The Canadian jewel in the package for Sportsnet was the Rogers Cup, which alternates the men’s and women’s tournaments annually between Toronto and Montreal. With airtime to fill on its recently launched Sportsnet One channel, the broadcaster also purchased rights to lower-level tournaments without knowing Raonic was only weeks away from breaking out.

TSN’s Grand Slam tournament coverage will also benefit from Raonic, as his ranking provides automatic entry into the Grand Slam events.

“There is going to be demand,” Downey says.

Raonic has been watching the clamour from abroad.

“I think (Memphis) showed all of Canada that there really is something buzzing around with tennis,”

cc0509 · 03-04-2011, 04:11 PM

That is good news. Finally another tennis player I can stomach. Go Milos!

Marius_Hancu · 03-10-2011, 05:13 PM

How about showing Raonic's match tomorrow (2pms EST) then?

VengaRafa · 03-11-2011, 12:32 PM

No coverage of Indian Wells until the QFs. They covered the 500 tournaments a few weeks ago better than that...

Marius_Hancu · 03-11-2011, 12:34 PM

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Originally Posted by VengaRafa

No coverage of Indian Wells until the QFs. They covered the 500 tournaments a few weeks ago better than that...

Not true, they start tomorrow Sat at 2PM EST, 12hrs each day:
http://www.livescorehunter.com/Lives...re-Tennis.html
http://www.bnpparibasopen.com/TV/TV-Schedule-2011.aspx

Marius_Hancu · 03-12-2011, 01:21 PM

http://www.bnpparibasopen.com/Schedules/OOP.aspx

I was wrong, Raonic Fish isn't on center court:

Sunday
STADIUM 2 start 11:00 am

[5] F Schiavone (ITA) vs [Q] A Cornet (FRA) - WTA
N Davydenko (RUS) vs [12] S Wawrinka (SUI) - ATP
[WC] R Harrison (USA) vs [22] G Garcia-Lopez (ESP) - ATP

Not Before 4:30 PM
[6] J Jankovic (SRB) vs [32] J Goerges (GER) - WTA
[13] M Fish (USA) vs [WC] M Raonic (CAN) - ATP

pound cat · 03-12-2011, 03:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Marius_Hancu

http://www.bnpparibasopen.com/Schedules/OOP.aspx

I was wrong, Raonic Fish isn't on center court:

Sunday
STADIUM 2 start 11:00 am

[5] F Schiavone (ITA) vs [Q] A Cornet (FRA) - WTA
N Davydenko (RUS) vs [12] S Wawrinka (SUI) - ATP
[WC] R Harrison (USA) vs [22] G Garcia-Lopez (ESP) - ATP

Not Before 4:30 PM
[6] J Jankovic (SRB) vs [32] J Goerges (GER) - WTA
[13] M Fish (USA) vs [WC] M Raonic (CAN) - ATP

It' s all on livescorehunter.com. and I can watch on Bet 365 for $10 forever. It's enough to make me dump my cable which think I will do. I can watch lots of good channels without it.

02-19-2011, 05:31 PM	#681
kishnabe G.O.A.T. Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Toronto Posts: 14,282	She defenitly could have won....thos three setters would have tired her a bit! Still she is up the rankings with the result! __________________ Why fight over who is G.O.A.T., when the world is just an abstract of reality~ http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/525347

03-03-2011, 07:08 AM	#690
Marius_Hancu G.O.A.T. Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Montreal, Canada Posts: 15,002	David Cup meet with Mexico I know the David Cup meet with Mexico this weekend will be shown on TV, but where? __________________ Great fitness sites http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/showthread.php?t=15571 "Simon and Hiroko": My Novels on Amazon

03-03-2011, 10:18 AM	#691
kishnabe G.O.A.T. Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Toronto Posts: 14,282	Hancu...I think Sportsnet will cover the davis cup for Canada! __________________ Why fight over who is G.O.A.T., when the world is just an abstract of reality~ http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/525347

03-04-2011, 03:13 AM	#692
Marius_Hancu G.O.A.T. Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Montreal, Canada Posts: 15,002	Great news here (except for Daniel Nestor not playing): --- TORONTO -- Rising Canadian tennis star Milos Raonic will meet Mexico's Manuel Sanchez in Davis Cup action Friday. The hard-serving 20-year-old from Thornhill, Ont., will then face Daniel Garza on Sunday. Watch it live on Sportsnet ONE Friday at 12 p.m. ET. All matches will be streamed live on sportsnet.ca. RELATED * Pospisil replaces Nestor * Raonic to play Indian Wells Frank Dancevic of Niagara Falls, Ont., will play Garza in the first match of the tie Friday. Dancevic will face Sanchez in Sunday's second match. Raonic will team with Vasek Pospisil of Vernon, B.C., in Saturday's doubles match against Luis Diaz-Barriga and Miguel-Angel Reyes-Varela. Raonic is currently 37th and Dancevic 202nd in the ATP singles rankings, while Garza is No. 439 and Sanchez No. 546. "Having such a deep team, especially in singles, is a good problem for a captain to have," Canadian team captain Martin Laurendeau said in a statement. "I feel very confident in the guys we've chosen to start the tie off on Friday and we have Peter (Polansky of Thornhill, Ont.) and Vasek here and ready to step in if needed." A win over Mexico will move the Canadian squad to a second-round pairing with Ecuador in July, while a loss would force them to play a relegation tie to keep their spot in Americas Zone Group I for 2012. On Saturday, March 5 at 2 p.m. (ET)/11 a.m. (PT) Sportsnet East, Sportsnet Ontario and Sportsnet West will carry the doubles match featuring Canada's Raonic and Vasek Pospisil against Mexico's Luis Diaz-Barriga and Miguel Reyes-Varela. The three-day tournament ends with two more singles matches live on Sportsnet ONE on Sunday, March 6 at 12 p.m. (ET)/9 a.m. (PT). Rob Faulds calls the action, while Robert Bettauer, a former Canadian Davis Cup participant, handles the analysis. Daniel Nestor joins Faulds and Bettauer Saturday to provide additional analysis for the doubles match. http://www.sportsnet.ca/tennis/2011/...cup-canada--0/ Nestor not playing: http://www.sportsnet.ca/tennis/2011/...ada_davis_cup/ --- __________________ Great fitness sites http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/showthread.php?t=15571 "Simon and Hiroko": My Novels on Amazon

03-04-2011, 04:09 PM	#694
pound cat G.O.A.T. Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 11,729	Montreal Gazette Raonic making tennis must-see TV in Canada Thanks Milos! Sports fans will be served the rarest of Canadian television sporting events this weekend, thanks entirely to 20-year-old tennis phenomenon Milos Raonic. Raonic’s spectacular start to the 2011 season prompted Rogers Sportsnet to make the decision to broadcast nationwide the Canadian Davis Cup team’s matches from Mexico starting Friday at noon on Sportsnet One. Tennis Canada officials couldn’t remember the last time Canadians had a chance to watch their Davis Cup team compete in the annual international tournament other than a one-off broadcast in 2003. Sportsnet and Tennis Canada officials also acknowledge that Raonic, from Thornhill, Ont., is the reason the Davis Cup is on Canadian TV for the first time in eight years. Last month, the broadcaster made a last-minute decision to show Raonic’s winning performance in the final of an ATP Tour event at San Jose. About 56,000 viewers watched. A week later, Raonic lost a thriller to Andy Roddick of the U.S. in the final at Memphis, and the Canadian audience jumped to almost 160,000. “Milos Raonic has . . . captured the attention of viewers across the country and really catapulted tennis into the forefront right now,” said Dave Rashford, director of communications for Rogers Sportsnet. “Canadians are excited about him.” Raonic’s rise to prominence couldn’t be better timed for the network, which moved to increase its coverage of live tennis just weeks before the young Canadian’s star was born at the Australian Open in January. “It’s like catching lightning in a bottle here,” Rashford said. “Everyone wants to know how Milos is doing. Canadians want to see him play. It’s not just, ‘I want to see Federer or Nadal’ any more. It’s, ‘I want to see Milos.’ ” Michael Downey, head of Tennis Canada, says Raonic and rising Canadian women’s star Rebecca Marino of Vancouver have “opened (Sportsnet’s) eyes to the power of these kids.” After both players appeared in finals last month in the joint Memphis ATP and WTA Tour events — Sportsnet made hurried arrangements to obtain permission to air Marino’s final, too — Sportsnet contacted Tennis Canada to seek broadcast rights to the Davis Cup and the women’s equivalent, the Fed Cup. “We used to go out and ask them (to broadcast Davis Cup tennis), but generally the response was, ‘Only if you are going to buy the time will we put it on for you,’ ” Downey said. That has changed, and Downey says it’s entirely because of Raonic, who has risen from 152nd to 37th in the men’s world rankings and Marino, who has risen from 101st to 61st. Sportsnet acquired the TV rights to all major ATP events last fall, while TSN continues to hold Canadian broadcast rights to the Grand Slam events. The Canadian jewel in the package for Sportsnet was the Rogers Cup, which alternates the men’s and women’s tournaments annually between Toronto and Montreal. With airtime to fill on its recently launched Sportsnet One channel, the broadcaster also purchased rights to lower-level tournaments without knowing Raonic was only weeks away from breaking out. TSN’s Grand Slam tournament coverage will also benefit from Raonic, as his ranking provides automatic entry into the Grand Slam events. “There is going to be demand,” Downey says. Raonic has been watching the clamour from abroad. “I think (Memphis) showed all of Canada that there really is something buzzing around with tennis,” Last edited by pound cat : 03-04-2011 at 04:12 PM.