BBC coverage of australian open

Hi Everyone!

I was just wondering if anyone knew whether the BBC will be broadcasting the evening sessions this year?
In the past, the BBC have shown the AO every morning on interactive but this year, they only list showing the two finals on TV.
I don't have Sky or Eurosport, and the free live streams are so unreliable so really hope they haven't got rid of their coverage this year!

Thanks

BBC AO 2012 Coverage:-

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/6102132.stm

i hope andrew cotter doesn't commentate who was so out of place last year, a decent rugby, golf and athletics commentator but should stay well away from tennis. I liked the old duo of Lloyd and the other guy what was his name?

erictheblueuk wrote:BBC AO 2012 Coverage:-

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/6102132.stm

Thanks!
It seems that bbc are only broadcasting one of the SF and the finals this year so will probably have to get Eurosport.
Has anyone tried the Eurosport Player before?

try this livescorehunter.ro
its a goody trust!

I've got eurosport on Virgin, so Im a happy bunny, not sure how much it costs, but it looks like it'll be live, so 5am games are on the cards.

LShunter has never let me down in the past, its better than nothing, or even reading R5 live texts.

Eurosport player I had a bad experience as they charged me monies after I had cancelled and had no active account. The customer service was so incompetent that I had a tremendous fight to get it back. But if you're willing to take a chance that you won't need any service, it is actually tremendously good for several reasons:

1 - Better quality picture than a free stream.
2 - Choice of several matches.
3 - Playback service. So if a match is on a 4am avoid the score and watch it that evening whenever you like. If 2 matches are on at the same time you can watch them both. You can also pause the playback service. One downside is that it is very hard to avoid seeing the length of the recording, which, ultimately will give away the final result (e.g. if you see the recording is only 2.5 hours long and someone goes 2 sets to love up, the match is over).
4 - Very unlikely that there'll be many matches you want to watch and can't, especially after the first round.

Other option is find someone you know who has Sky TV but doesn't use their Sky Go online log in and offer them £10 to use it for 2 weeks - or £10 a month for the whole year even. That is roughly what I am doing and - it may vary by customer - but one of the channels on there is Eurosport which should include the AO although I imagine I won't get pick of matches.