ATP Cup: Sky will broadcast live from Melbourne from Monday to Saturday
Around a month late, the ATP Cup is the first tennis highlight on the program this year, when the best tennis professionals in the world compete against each other in a team competition shortly before the Australian Open.
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last edit: Jan 29, 2021, 03:45 pm
- Sky will be reporting live from the team competition in Australia every day from Monday to Tuesday (February 1st / 2nd) to Saturday February 6th
- Sky shows all matches of the Austrian and German teams, as well as the other encounters of the group stage in the conference
- Start in the night from Monday to Tuesday at 11:30 p.m. with Austria against Italy, the first group game of the German team against Canada in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday from 11:30 p.m.
- Sky expert Patrik Kühnen comments together with Sascha Roos, Marcel Meinert and Stefan Hempel
- Tennis magazine "Kurz-Cross Spezial" before the start of the ATP Cup on Sunday from 6:00 p.m. on Sky Sport News and in the live stream on skysportaustria.at/live/
Sky broadcasts the ATP Cup live again and reports from Melbourne daily from Monday to Tuesday, a total of more than 60 hours live. Sky shows all matches of the Austrian and German teams and all other encounters in the conference.
For the ATP Cup, the current FedEx ATP ranking list applies, through which the national teams and the individual players qualify for the ATP Cup. 12 teams play against each other in a three-day group stage in four groups of three. Two singles and one doubles are played per game. The group winners qualify for the semi-finals. The final will take place on February 6th.
All matches of the Austrian team live on Sky
Austria will initially face Italy and France in the group stage and start with the single players Dominic Thiem and Dennis Novak as well as the doubles Philipp Oswald and Tristan-Samuel Weissborn. It starts for the red-white-red team in the night from Monday to Tuesday. The opponent is then Italy with the top players Matteo Berrettini and Fabio Fognini. In the night from Wednesday to Thursday, the French, led by Gael Monfils, will play. Explosive: The French veteran has been trained by Günther Bresnik, Thiem's former trainer, since November 2020. However, Bresnik did not fly to Australia. Monfils is looked after on site by the Austrian Richard Ruckelshausen, who also acts as the French team captain.
In addition to the daily live broadcasts, there is a short cross special on Sky Sport News and in the livestream at skysportaustria.at/live/ every day of the tournament at 2 p.m. with the most important information about the events in Melbourne. In addition, the broadcaster will be looking ahead to the upcoming tournament in a “short cross special” on Sunday at 6:00 pm.
The best of the ATP Tour live only on Sky
Sky will report live on Austrian television from the biggest tournaments on the ATP Tour until 2023. In addition to the Nitto ATP Finals in Turin, Sky also broadcasts all nine ATP Masters 1000 tournaments and most of the ATP 500 tournaments - a total of around 1000 hours live. In addition, Sky reports on selected tournaments of the ATP 250 and, as usual, broadcasts almost 350 hours live and exclusively in July of the Grand Slam tournament in Wimbledon. The largest tennis tournament in the world will only be shown on Sky until 2022 inclusive.
The ATP Cup live on Sky
Monday 1st February / Tuesday 2nd February:
11:30 p.m .: Austria - Italy (single 1, single 2 and double) live on Sky Sport Austria 1
6:00 a.m .: the conference live on Sky Sport Austria 1
Tuesday 2.2./ Wednesday 3.2 .:
11:30 p.m .: Germany - Canada (single 1, single 2 and double) live on Sky Sport Austria 1
6:00 a.m .: the conference live on Sky Sport Austria 1
Wednesday, 3.2./ Thursday 4.2 .:
11:30 p.m .: Austria - France (single 1, single 2 and double) live on Sky Sport Austria 1
11:30 p.m .: Germany - Serbia (single 1, single 2 and double) live on Sky Sport 1
6:00 a.m .: the conference live on Sky Sport Austria 1
Friday 5th February:
7:00 a.m .: Semi-finals (single 1, single 2 and double) live on Sky Sport Austria 1
Saturday 6.2 .:
7:00 a.m .: Final (single 1, single 2 and double) live on Sky Sport Austria 1