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  • Sony Sports to telecast Australian Open 2022 starting 17 January

    Sony Sports to telecast Australian Open 2022 starting 17 January

    Mumbai: Sony Sports Network will broadcast the year’s first Grand Slam Event the Australian Open 2022 starting 17 January on Sony Six, Sony Ten 2, Sony Ten 3 and Sony Ten 4 as well as on OTT platform – Sonyliv.

    Sony Sports has onboarded advertisers like Lenovo, Amul, Kia Motors, and LIC as sponsors. Other advertisers like Skoda, Total Oil, Ford, Go Mechanic, Mercedes, Dafa News, Fairplay News, 1X News, Netmed and Apple will also be a part of the telecast.

    Sony Sports’ Live studio show ‘Extraa Serve’ will be hosted by Arpit Sharma and Sarthak Lal and will provide in-depth insight into the action at Melbourne Park. Former tennis players like Somdev Devvarman, Purav Raja and Gaurav Natekar are set to feature as expert panelists on the show along with on-ground reporter Adriano Del Monte. The Hindi commentary on Sony Ten 3 channel will be provided by Manish Batavia, Atish Thukral, and Gaurav Natekar.

    This year, the world’s top player Ash Barty will attempt to become the first local player to win an Australian Open singles title in 44 years while defending champion Naomi Osaka is expected to return and target a fifth career major singles title.

    Rafael Nadal, tied with Djokovic at 20 career major singles titles, will also be competing for the first time since August and will hope to end Djokovic’s streak at the Australian Open 2022.

    The Grand Slam tournament will see participation from top Indian players like Rohan Bopanna and Sania Mirza. The mixed doubles pair will be playing this year’s tournament.

    This edition of the Grand Slam will also witness the 100th anniversary of the women’s competition at the Australian Open. To honor this feat, there will be a historic change in the schedule of the tournament. Both women’s semi-final matches will be moving to the night session.

    “Australian Open is the first and most competitive tennis Grand Slam of the calendar year as it sees participation from the best tennis players from across the globe,” said Sony Pictures Networks India chief revenue officer of distribution and head – sports business Rajesh Kaul. “There is already a lot of talk about the tournament amongst the advertisers as we have received tremendous response from various sectors like tech, automobile, FMCG and more. We aim to showcase and bring real-time action from the courts and this year with our Hindi and English feeds along with our studio show, ‘Extraa Serve’ that will also take the tournament to a wider audience in India.”

  • Sony Sports announces schedule for India Women’s tour of Australia

    Sony Sports announces schedule for India Women’s tour of Australia

    Mumbai: Sony Sports will begin the live telecast of India Women’s tour of Australia on 21 September on Sony Six, Sony Six HD and livestream on OTT platform, SonyLIV. The series will comprise a three-match ODI series, followed by a one-off pink ball day-night test match, and will conclude with a three-match T20 international series.

    Sony Sports has roped in five sponsors for the series including Byju’s, Airtel, Reckitt, Dafa News, Fantasy Akhada and has many more in the pipeline, said the statement.

    The first ODI match on 21 September will begin at 4:35 a.m, followed by the second ODI on 24 September beginning at 8:45 a.m, and the last ODI on 26 September at 4:35 a.m. Day one of the one-off pink ball day-night test match will begin on 30 September at 11:30 a.m. Day two, day three and day four will air on first, second, and third October, respectively, at the same time – 11:30 a.m. The first T20 international series match will be played on seventh October beginning at 2:10 p.m, followed by a game on ninth September at 1:40 p.m and the final match will be played on tenth September at the same time.

    The upcoming series with the Aussies will have historical significance as team India will be playing their maiden pink-ball day-night Test match at the WACA as a part of the one-off pink-ball day-night Test match. The match will also be the second day-night test with the first pink ball in women’s cricket history after the drawn contest between Australia and England in Sydney in 2017.

    The Australian women’s squad includes Meg Lanning (captain), Rachael Haynes (vice-captain), Darcie Brown, Maitlan Brown, Stella Campbell, Nicola Carey, Hannah Darlington, Ashleigh Gardner, Alyssa Healy, Tahlia McGrath, Sophie Molineux, Beth Mooney, Ellyse Perry, Georgia Redmayne, Molly Strano, Annabel Sutherland, Tayla Vlaeminck and Georgia Wareham.

    The India women’s squad for one-off test and ODI series includes Mithali Raj (captain), Harmanpreet Kaur (vice-captain), Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma, Punam Raut, Jemimah Rodrigues, Deepti Sharma, Sneh Rana, Yastika Bhatia, Taniya Bhatia (wicket-keeper), Shikha Pandey, Jhulan Goswami, Meghna Singh, Pooja Vastrakar, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Poonam Yadav, Richa Ghosh and Ekta Bisht.

    The India women’s T20I squad includes Harmanpreet Kaur (captain), Smriti Mandhana (vice-captain), Shafali Verma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Deepti Sharma, Sneh Rana, Yastika Bhatia, Shikha Pandey, Meghna Singh, Pooja Vastrakar, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Poonam Yadav, Richa Ghosh (wicket-keeper), Harleen Deol, Arundhati Reddy, Radha Yadav, and Renuka Singh Thakur.