# Espn and the Tennis channel

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/espn-and-the-tennis-channel/777749>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [January 21, 2017, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/espn-and-the-tennis-channel/777749 "2017-01-21T19:36:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Vicsage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e68b1a/32.png) [@Vicsage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vicsage)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/espn-and-the-tennis-channel/777749/1 "2017-01-21T19:36:10Z")

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Why do ESPN and the Tennis channel keep showing the same matches over and over again? Last night and into the morning ESPN showed the Nadal match. Later this morning, they showed it again. Now The Tennis channel is showing it. Granted it was a good match, but so were some others that never were shown. They do this every major. Many people record the matches late night and early morning, so we don’t need to see the same match again and again and again.

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**Author:** ![Vicsage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e68b1a/32.png) [@Vicsage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vicsage)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/espn-and-the-tennis-channel/777749/2 "2017-01-21T21:49:10Z")

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Now we get to watch the “exciting” Williams match for the 2nd or third time. SAD!

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**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/espn-and-the-tennis-channel/777749/3 "2017-01-21T22:33:26Z")

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theres too many sports channels theres like 30 or more on tw/spectrum not counting the ones the cable company own its self … hell one of 5 cbsp (cbs’s sports"networks) line up was darts arm wrestling and those dubious “worlds strongest man competition” of course espn used to show the same thing when the big 3 had a stranglehold on sports …

But from what ive heard the tennis channels gonna be something else soon …