Tennis

Rights sales processes are being issued in Mena for WTA Tour and Fiba basketball, SportBusiness understands, as DAZN’s Broadcast Partnerships arm seeks to maximise the impact of major events in the region and end the Tour blackout.

The ATP and WTA are understood to have reached consensus on key issues that would enable the two entities to combine their commercial interests, paving the way for a historic merger.

The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) has announced a new multi-year sponsorship agreement with Yokohama Tire.

The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) has announced its season-ending WTA Finals will be staged in the Saudi capital Riyadh after it agreed a three-year deal with the Saudi Tennis Federation (STF).

ATP Media intends to have put in place full remote production in two years’ time as it joins other sports rights-holders in embracing the technology designed to streamline costs and reduce carbon footprint.

BeIN Sports, the pay-television broadcaster, is to continue as the rights-holder of the Wimbledon Championships in France for five more editions, following a long period of negotiations.

Women's tennis' WTA Tour is back on screens in China for the first time in two years after streaming service Youku acquired the rights in a three-year deal.

DR, the public-service broadcaster in Denmark, has committed to showing the Wimbledon Championships for at least the next three editions, having struck a last-minute single tournament deal last year.

Oppo has ceased being a tennis grand slam sponsor after exiting its agreement with the French Tennis Federation (FFT) for Roland Garros.

Brazilian bank Itaú Unibanco has agreed a four-year extension to its presenting sponsorship deal with tennis’ Miami Open.

Play Sports, the sports broadcaster operated by Belgian telco Telenet, has retained rights to men's tennis ATP tour and the women's WTA Tour for three more seasons.

The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) has formed closer ties with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) in a multi-faceted sponsorship agreement unveiled today (Wednesday) but has stopped s…

Kerstin Lutz has called time on over 23 years at Team Marketing to become chief executive of the new entity set up to commercialise women’s tennis’ Billie Jean King Cup.

The All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club (AELTC) has today announced that airline Emirates has become an official sponsor of the Wimbledon championships in a multi-year deal.

Six of the world's top male tennis players are set to take part in an invitational tournament in Saudi Arabia in October, the same month as two of the ATP's leading Masters events are staged, potentially setting the stage for a battle between the ambitious Kingdom and one of the sport's key stakeholders.

The International Tennis Federation (ITF) has announced its first betting sponsor in seven years through a new agreement with Stake.