Tennis TV - Live Streaming

Every ATP match from every ATP tournament. In the app, the user experience is great. Easily watch individual matches or a continuous broadcast of a specific tournament that jumps from match to match. Favorite specific players you want to watch. Watch on demand replays without spoilers, including the option to even hide the duration of the replay so it’s not obvious if there’s another set or not. In the broadcast, the experience is even better. The broadcasters themselves are excellent, there are no ads, no commercials, the info graphics are clean and informative, and the summaries, highlights, and montages they show during breaks are really nice. Heck, even the music they play slaps. This is a grand slam experience every single week. Since subbing to TennisTV I’ve become an even bigger tennis fan.

Much better than Tennis Channel, of course, with their predatory subscription practices, terrible stream reliability, and repetitive commercials. The fact that Tennis TV is not geographically limited is perhaps the biggest pro for me, as I’m often overseas and loathe to use bitrate-diminishing VPN. The video quality in general is a step up, as well, as is all the on-demand content, and I think the annual price is well justified. However, the app has a few issues across platforms. (I use an iPad and iPhone to watch/cast.) The video doesn’t integrate with iOS/iPadOS, meaning it plays only within the app and doesn’t keep the device on while watching or come with any of the typical video controls, like changing aspect ratio. The biggest annoyance this causes is casting to an Apple TV will get interrupted if the iPad/iPhone screen turns off, meaning you either need to keep touching the screen to keep it on or change the settings to have it never turn off. Another annoyance is that after watching a video in landscape mode, when returning to video selection, the app goes back to portrait even when you haven’t rotated the device, making everything sideways until you quit and restart the app. Somewhat bothersome when watching on a propped-up iPad.

Two stars as it is a great concept and occasionally works, it has the worst IT support and implementation of any App I've ever used. I have provided input to TennisTV many times over the last two years, yet these chronic issues remain. Nonstop errors plague the system. Clicking on "Watch match from beginning" for an ongoing match is as likely to take you to the live feed, which may be in the second set or at match point, ruining the viewing experience. Replay matches may not load for days after a match ends. The app fails more than any other I've used. You have to re-log in almost every day, which gets very annoying over time. Lastly, TennisTV acknowledges their App has been 100% unavailable for multiple platforms for over 4 months (since December 2021!!), so you can't even experience the aggravating errors ID'd above. How can it take 4 months to get approval for a new App on major systems, like Smart TVs and Playstation? I thought it would be down for 24 hours... Again - please note that most of these issues have persisted for years and accept it going in. It would otherwise be a great product.