Wimbledon Final TV Schedule

• Author: Razvan Pirnac
• Filed under: Sports
• Date: Jul 5,2008

Roger Federer of Switzerland and Rafael Nadal of Spain completed their march toward a third consecutive Wimbledon final Friday, handily defeating their respective semifinal opponents with the sharply contrasting styles that define the most compelling rivalry in men’s tennis.

Americans Venus and Serena Williams were to spend Friday evening as they have nearly every night for the past two weeks: talking about everything except tennis, having dinner together and going to their rooms to read (in Venus’ case) or watch a movie (in Serena’s).

Today’s schedule included breakfast together, followed by the arrival of two cars — one to take each sister to the All England Club, where they will compete for the greatest prize in tennis.

It will be the third time the sisters have battled for Wimbledon’s championship. Serena, 26, won the previous meetings, in 2002 and 2003.

Defending champion Venus, 28, earned her fourth title last year; she also triumphed in 2000, 2001 and 2005.

ESPN2 is showing Wimbledon live in the mornings (with Brad Gilbert!) and Tennis Channel is showing it taped in the evenings for those without TIVO (or with Brad Gilbert phobias.) NBC has a paltry, watch-at-your-own-risk, 3 hour window of “kinda live” tennis (note that the asterisk next to the times means “all time zones” so it’s live on the East Coast, taped everywhere else) starting on the first Saturday and going through the Quarter Finals on Wednesday, July 2nd. Then NBC will go to a “kinda live” 5 hour window for the Semis, and will show the Finals live for everyone (imagine!) ESPN2 will supplement this coverage in the second week (i.e. show matches involving Kolya and Kuzey types.)

Technorati Tags: wimbledon final, wimbledon final result, wimbledon tv schedule, wimbledon final tv schedule, final tv wimbledon, tv wimbledon, broadcast wimbledon