With new owner Sinclair now aboard, Tennis Channel announced that it secured all pay-TV rights to the upcoming French Open. After sublicensing the Roland Garros tournament to ESPN for the first nine years of its agreement, the channel will now keep it in-house to boast 80% of all live, televised competition, which begins May 22 for 110 hours of match coverage. Overall, Tennis Channel will devote around 315 hours of “mostly round-the-clock airtime” to the tournament not including preview shows and additional match encores in the respective weeks before and after the tournament.

“Tennis Channel’s partnership with Roland Garros, our first major, has evolved to the point where this year we’ll be the streamlined on-air and online place to find the bulk of the competition,” said Ken Solomon, President, Tennis Channel in a statement. “This is a significant initiative for our network: this year’s Paris coverage will offer more live hours, outer-court encores, nightly replays and a schedule with complete 24-hour coverage on majority of the fortnight. Roland Garros is in the process of expanding, with new facilities, widened tournament grounds, increased TV-court access and other updated amenities. We’re in this for the long term and are scaling our coverage right there with them.”