Tennis Channel 4+

Tennis Channel is absolutely the worst streaming service available (while at the same time being the most expensive). The issues are too numerous to list, but I will certainly give it a try. First, we were just watching the W&S Open final, a nearly four hour thriller, and tennis channel cut off the streaming during the final set tiebreak. Are you kidding me? Streaming is consistently spotty (spotty would be the nice word for it) and the app either fails to open or closes unexpectedly multiple times every time we use it. We constantly have to re-log back in to TC+, often multiple times at once. Some matches towards the ends of tournaments are for some reason only available on their main channel, which is blocked out to TC+ subscribers and absolutely makes no sense. So after paying north of $100 per year that doesn’t get you access to all their matches. Cool. To even say that this app is “hit and miss” would be a drastic overstatement, as it is only “miss”. I will, at this point, happily pay more and piece together whatever streaming services I have to to be able to watch tennis apart from Tennis Channel because the infuriation it causes to not even be able to watch tennis half the time is not worth it.

I love tennis, and I was willing to pay for it. Unfortunately, this is more frustration than enjoyment. I think the pandemic showed Sinclair how much money they could make without actually sending broadcasters to matches so they decided to go the extra mile and not even have them broadcast from their homes/studio. Anyone who reads this, knows how boring it is to watch any kind of sporting event on mute. That’s what this is. As other posters have said, it will freeze and lag and kick you out at the most interesting point in the match and since there is no pause, rewind, or ff, you’ll never get to see what you missed. Do you wanna watch on demand? Don’t get booted out because you’ll have to watch the entire match all over again. I have had this app for several years, but this is the last year they are getting money from me and since you have to buy the Tennis Channel to get Tennis Channel plus, they’re gonna lose both of those subscriptions. We can all still enjoy the grand slams on ESPN where they DO have rewind, pause, fast forward and commentators for all their matches. Hopefully another company will come forward soon and bring us a better app so we can cheer on our favorites.

I’ve had this app for a few years. I pay for it and have come to terms with the fact that no one app will give you all the matches you want due to them not having the rights. I use this app to watch WTA matches and the ATP to watch the men’s. Then I get espn for 1 month a year for the us open. Even with all this you still don’t get EVERY match. When it comes to the actual app, it works well for me. I can watch wherever I want. Things I would love to see is a 10 second fast forward and rewind button like the atp app has. Would also like to mark matches I’ve watched and have the ability to have a playlist of matches I would like to watch.

Update:
The last update is AWFUL! It used to be organized so well. I could find the matches I wanted to watch easily and quickly. Now I have to go by court, by day and turn men’s and women’s are all mixed together making it even more of a disorganized mess. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE go back. Even worse when I finally find what I want to watch it won’t let me log in despite having a subscription.