Wow Channel 7- that was some crappy tennis coverage!

- cutting matches for the news/ today tonight/ home and away
- showing commercials while the match has resumed play and we miss the first few games
- SO MUCH cross promotion about shows coming "After the tennis" (very irritating!)
- and Henri Laconte commentating the Tsonga/Djokovic match... all I can ask is what were you thinking?

Lets hope you try better next year or it might be worthwhile just giving the tennis to another channel to have a go, since you're not doing that great a job of it!

- Jen

Channel 7's coverage of the 2010 Australian Open has been consistently poor. First they spend a ridiculous amount of time spruiking their new programs for 2010 (which I can assure you I will be boycotting on principle now), even roping the commentators into shilling for these shows while they should be analysing the shotmaking. And then, to add insult to injury, they show shocking disrespect to their audience and to the players by cutting away from thrilling matches - often featuring Australians - to show the news, Today Tonight and Home and Away. While I agree that the 6pm newscast is significant enough to cease coverage for half an hour, I fail to see why we need to watch Matt White and the Today Tonight team blather on about some inane insurance fraud FROM MELBOURNE PARK while right behind them the world number 1 player Roger Federer stages the comeback of his tournament against Nikolay Davydenko. Or, as happened a few days ago, while Australian Sam Stosur (and a Channel 7 darling at that) comes up against Serena Williams. Coming back into the coverage to Johanna SHOWING US the end of the match and then telling us there'll be a full replay later on is just beyond poor.

This is Australia's biggest contribution to world tennis and a MASSIVE international tournament. If Channel 7 can't do the coverage justice then maybe it's about time another network stepped up and scooped the massive audience numbers which come from the event.

Why Channel 7 are we forced to continually watch mediocre programs like today tonight and home and away while the major tennis games are being played?
First, you miss Sam Stosur in her last game...how patriotic around Australia Day. Now we can't watch Federer, but at least we get to learn of some insurance scam by some half-wit. Please give the rights to another station next year. Poor.

I would like to complain that for the second night running, Channel 7 have stopped coverage of the Australian Open Tennis in Melbourne at 6pm to go to News and Today Tonight. Last night a local was in action and we all missed it, and tonight, Andy Roddick has just made a great come back to be 2 sets all, and they have stopped the coverage again.
In the UK, the channel that has the rights to show the competition does so with sense, sometimes moving across to a sister channel to enable normal programs to still be shown, aswell as good tennis action that would pull in large audiences of viewers.
Channel 7 has a digital second channel - why not use that instead???
Next year, I hope ABC gets to cover the Open, so we can be assured of being able to see the right coverage!

i am a mother of 2 children under the age of 4 and i am absolutley disgusted in the ammount of sport and other crap that you are showing there needs to be more childrens shows airing on all channels and i know that your going to say there is all the hd and the free to view channels but i cannot afford to buy a settop box nor can i afford to buy foxtel i have other important things to buy fair enough the tennis is a major thing but cant you just air it at night when the young children are in bed its unbelieveable how you dont consider the younger generation wise up channel 7 and be a bit more fairer to the youg minds how educational is it to watch balls being hit kicked or thrown across a field think about what they are learning from this ABSOLUTELY NOTHING please put more childrens shows on air