Australian Open viewers will discover a change to the commentary sales space with a few adjustments for 2023’s season-opening grand slam.
Seven-time grand slam winner and former World No. 1 John McEnroe gained’t be in Aussie followers ears this season after he wasn’t delivered to Australia by his employer ESPN, Newscorp reported.
McEnroe, who’s remembered for his outbursts on courtroom, has been an everyday within the commentary sales space and facilitator of on-court interviews however gained’t be on Australian screens.
However, his opinions will nonetheless be heard as he casts his eye over the play on courtroom, having claimed through Eurosport that Novak Djokovic would go on a tear by way of the match.
“I think he will be overjoyed at first, but then there is going to sort of be a bit of bitterness, I believe, and he has got to get through that,” McEnroe instructed Eurosport’s Reem Abulleil.
“I think he can get through that, he’s obviously proven that he has gone through some unbelievably difficult obstacles, none more so than the last 12 months of his career.
“The fact that he was still able to go out and win Wimbledon and go out and play these smaller events in the fall to get his ranking high enough so that he can go and win the event in Turin and the year-end event, and embrace playing and competing, was just incredible because it would have been very easy to be frustrated and angry.
“I can only imagine how he felt when he was deported out of Australia and subsequently dealing with that.
“I don’t think he was right until Wimbledon, but somehow he found it, and again, so few players will ever be able to do.”
McEnroe gained’t be solely individual not again on Nine’s commentary workforce as former Aussie star Sam Groth gained’t be again both, as he was voted in because the Member for Nepean in Victoria’s state election in November.
However, two-time Australian Open winner Jim Courier will return.
He will be part of Todd Woodbridge, Lleyton Hewitt, Jelena Dokic, Dylan Alcott, Casey Dellacqua, Sam Smith, Alicia Molik, Mark Philippoussis, Darren Cahill and Peter Psaltis within the commentary sales space.
AFL nice Matthew Pavlich will be part of the off-court reporting workforce, whereas Andy Lee’s Guess Who? phase seems as if it is going to be changed for a particular version of The Hundred in a chunk of cross-promotion for the community.
