Advantage, fans! This weekend Sportsnet is taking tennis fans courtside at the Douglas Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre in Vancouver for the highly anticipated Davis Cup by BNP Paribas, featuring Canada vs. Spain. Sportsnet’s multiplatform coverage across TV, radio and digital begins on Friday, Feb. 1 and continues through to Sunday, Feb. 3, with live match broadcasting beginning at 4 p.m. ET/1 p.m. PT on Friday, Feb 1 on Sportsnet Ontario, West and Pacific. (Please see full broadcast schedule below for singles and doubles matches).
Sportsnet’s comprehensive coverage kicks off with the Davis Cup Preview Show on Friday, Feb. 1 at 3:30 p.m. ET/12:30 p.m. PT on Sportsnet Ontario, West and Pacific. The 30-minute preview show will set up the weekend matches with the latest news and analysis of Team Canada and include a special feature on superstar Milos Raonic’s life and training in Spain. An additional feature on Raonic and Team Canada’s connection to Spain will air during the break between the two singles matches on Friday.
Covering the action from the grounds of UBC will be Sportsnet’s Rob Faulds calling play-by-play alongside analyst Robert Bettauer, a former Canadian Davis Cup team member, while Arash Madani reports from courtside. Host Brad Fay and analyst Damien Cox round out the broadcast team in Vancouver.
Headlining Canada’s Davis Cup Team are world No.15 Milos Raonic, the nation’s highest ranked male singles player of all time; Daniel Nestor, Olympic Games gold medallist and eight-time Grand Slam men’s doubles champion; Frank Dancevic and Vasek Pospisil. The Spanish team consists of world No. 34 Marcel Granollers, Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, Marc Lopez and Albert Ramos. Canada looks to secure its spot in the World Group quarter-finals to face either Croatia or Italy in April. With a win in Vancouver, Canada will also be assured to keep their spot in the World Group for 2014. The losing nation will play a World Group playoff tie to keep their spot in the elite level for 2014.
Below are the key details of Sportsnet’s coverage of the Davis Cup by BNP Paribas across all platforms:
TV – Sportsnet
· Davis Cup Preview Show – a complete breakdown of both Canada and Spain’ teams, the latest news, updates and analysis from Vancouver
Digital and Mobile – sportsnet.ca, RogersAnyPlaceTV.com and Rogers Live app
· Live, running updates on sportsnet.ca throughout the weekend, including preview and feature stories leading up to and through the weekend from Sportsnet’s writer Martin MacMahon
- Sportsnet’s tennis blogger Caroline Cameron provides a notebook-style recap blog on other Davis Cup action outside of Canada-Spain
- · Rogers digital television customers can live stream Sportsnet’s television coverage of the Davis Cup on their computer with RogersAnyplaceTV.com
- · Rogers wireless customers will have access to live streaming of Sportsnet’s television coverage of the Davis Cup and additional sports content on their smartphones with the Rogers Anyplace TV Live mobile app, available through the Apple App Store, Google Play and BlackBerry App World
Radio – Sportsnet 590 The FAN and Sportsnet 960 The FAN
· Sportsnet 590 The FAN and Sportsnet 960 The FAN keep fans in the know for all things Davis Cup with breaking news, scores and updates throughout the weekend
Talent Interviews
· All of Sportsnet’s Davis Cup talent are available for interviews
Television Broadcast Schedule – Davis Cup by BNP Paribas
*Schedule subject to change
Friday, Feb. 1 – 3:30 p.m. ET/12:30 p.m. PT (Sportsnet Ontario, West and Pacific)
Day 1 – Singles matches
Spain No. 1 vs. Canada No. 2
Canada No. 1 vs. Spain No. 2
Saturday, Feb. 2 – 4 p.m. ET/1 p.m. PT (Sportsnet East, Ontario and Pacific)
Day 2 – Doubles match
Canada vs. Spain
Sunday, Feb. 3 – 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT (Sportsnet East, Ontario, West and Pacific)
Day 3 – Singles matches
Spain No. 1 vs. Canada No. 1
Canada No. 2 vs. Spain No. 2
