By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Sunday, Could 4, 2025
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Venus Williams will make a serious return this month.
Former world No. 1 Venus Williams will be part of TNT Sports activities’ broadcast workforce for its Roland Garros protection.
The clay-court Grand Slam begins on Could twenty fifth in Paris.
The 44-year-old Venus joins TNT’s introduced broadcast workforce that features Corridor of Famers Andre Agassi, Chrissie Evert, Jim Courier, John McEnroe and Lindsay Davenport in addition to Grand Slam champions Sloane Stephens and Caroline Wozniacki.
Carlos Alcaraz is reigning Roland Garros males’s champion. Iga Swiatek is defending the Roland Garros’ girls’s championship.
In June 2024, TNT Sports activities, a division of Warner Bros. Discovery, reached a 10-year, $650 million settlement with the French Tennis Federation so as to add Roland-Garros to its portfolio of premium sports activities rights within the U.S.
TNT Sports activities touts its deal – constructing on Eurosport’s 35-year relationship with Roland-Garros – as making Warner Bros. Discovery “the biggest international broadcast accomplice to Roland-Garros and can carry followers essentially the most complete protection of the celebrated occasion ever in the USA.”
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4-time Olympic gold-medal champion Venus made her Roland Garros debut in 1997 when she reached the second spherical. Venus superior to the 2002 Roland Garros last, dropping to sister Serena Williams 7-5, 6-3 in what was Serena’s maiden French Open crown and the beginning of the Serena Slam.
The seven-time main singles champion Venus made her most up-to-date Roland Garros look in 2021 when she misplaced within the opening spherical.
The proprietor of 49 profession singles championships, Venus’ most up-to-date main look was on the 2023 US Open. Venus fell to Diana Shnaider 6-3, 6-3 within the 2024 Miami Open opener. Although she has not formally retired, Williams will rejoice her forty fifth birthday on June seventeenth.
This is a glimpse of what Venus’ tennis commentary could sound like courtesy of her YouTube channel:
Within the U.S., TNT Sports activities will completely current all reside motion from Roland-Garros together with:
*Featured reside matches on TNT, with further reside protection throughout TBS and truTV
*truTV with all-day studio, match and whiparound protection with the community touting it protection much like protection of the NCAA basketball match
*All reside matches obtainable on Max – practically 900 matches throughout all competitions – together with simulcasts of matches airing on TNT, TBS and truTV In-depth highlights, behind-the-scenes and ancillary content material airing throughout all platforms (TNT, TBS, truTV, Max, Bleacher Report, and Home of Highlights)
*Tennis Channel is ready to televise Roland Garros match replays at evening.
