• 15-Year Old CiCi Bellis to Play Diyas Late Afternoon, Fourth Match on Court 17
• Also in Action: Isner, Keys, Raonic, Tsonga, Kvitova, plus Williams Sisters in Doubles

ESPN’s Day Four at the US Open on Thursday, Aug. 28, at 1 p.m. ET will include top seeds and former champions Serena Williams and Novak Djokovic during the afternoon, prime-time matches with 2012 winner Andy Murray and 20-year old Canadian sensation Genie Bouchard, plus the second-round match of 15-year old CiCi Bellis of California. The youngest to win at the US Open since 1996 – three years before she was born – Bellis faces 48th-ranked Zarina Diyas, 20, of Kazakhstan. This year, she reached the fourth round at Wimbledon and the third round of the Australian Open. The match will likely occur in late afternoon, being the fourth match to be played on Court 17.

ESPN will start at 1 p.m. with an all-USA battle, Serena Williams vs. Vania King on Arthur Ashe Stadium. Following that, Djokovic will face Paul-Henri Mathieu of France. Action under the sun in New York will also include American John Isner vs. Jan-Lennard Struff of Germany, American Madison Keys vs. Aleksandra Krunic of Serbia and Canadian Milos Raonic vs. Peter Gojowczyk of Germany, all on Louis Armstrong Stadium.

Afternoon action on the Grandstand Court includes Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France against Aleksandr Nedovyesov of Kazakhstan, Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova facing Petra Cetkovska of Czech Republic, and doubles match with the Williams sisters, Serena and Venus, facing the duo of Timea Babos of Hungary and Kristina Mladenovic of France.

ESPN2 takes the reins at 6 p.m. and the evening doubleheader on Arthur Ashe Stadium will see Matthias Bachinger of Germany take on Murray, followed by Sorana Cirstea of Romania and Bouchard who has reached at least the semis in all three Majors in 2014.

The US Open on ESPN3
The Murray and Bouchard matches can also be viewed with the innovative four-screen option on ESPN3, “ESPN3 Surround.” For the first time at the US Open, ESPN is offering “ESPN3 Surround” during all ESPN-televised prime-time matches from Arthur Ashe Stadium. The four views:
• the traditional view of the action from one end of the court
• the view from above via SpiderCam
• plus two smaller boxes on the sides of the screen showing each player exclusively.

In addition, ESPN3 will stream the following seven courts starting at 1 p.m. through the end of play:
-Arthur Ashe Stadium
-Louis Armstrong Stadium
-Grandstand
-Court 17
-Court 5
-Court 11
-Court 13

ESPN & the US Open in 2015
In May 2013, ESPN and the USTA announced that ESPN would be the exclusive home in North and South America of the US Open from first ball through the women’s and men’s championships each summer from New York beginning in 2015. ESPN has televised approximately100 hours of live US Open matches annually since 2009, and will air 130+ hours with the addition of day-long coverage of the “middle weekend” – Saturday, Sunday and Labor Day Monday – plus both the men’s and women’s semifinals and finals. The 11-year agreement also includes expanded digital and international rights.

ESPN and the US Open
• During the first week of the tournament, the television coverage will start on ESPN at 1 p.m. each weekday and will continue nonstop – transitioning to ESPN2 at 6 p.m. (except Tuesday) – for at least 10 hours through both the day and the 7 p.m. Primetime at the US Open presented by IBM sessions until play is concluded.
• The second week starts on Labor Day Monday, Sept 1, with Primetime at the US Open presented by IBM at 7 p.m. on ESPN2, followed by more day-long windows Tuesday – Thursday, again starting on ESPN.
• ESPN3 will offer nearly 400 hours of action from multiple courts each day ESPN has TV coverage, including an additional seventh court this year during the first week when the action begins each day at 1 p.m.
• All the action on ESPN and ESPN2 is also available through WatchESPN online at WatchESPN.com on smartphones and tablets via the award-winning WatchESPN app, and streamed on televisions through ESPN on Xbox LIVE to Gold members, Apple TV, Roku and Amazon Fire TV to more than 92 million households nationwide via an affiliated video or internet provider.

ESPN – All Four Slams, All In One Place
Tennis has been part of ESPN since its first week on the air and provided many memorable moments, but it has never been as important as today, with the US Open joining the lineup in 2009, giving ESPN all four Grand Slam events, something no other U.S. network has ever done, let alone in one year. ESPN has presented the Australian Open since 1984, the French Open since 2002 (plus 1986 – 1993), and Wimbledon since 2003, with exclusivity for live television with all other rights extended in a 12-year agreement starting in 2012. Exclusivity for the US Open in an 11-year agreement begins in 2015. ESPN3 delivers an unmatched multi-screen presentation of the sport’s four majors, all ATP 1000 and 500 tournaments, WTA Premier Events and season-ending championships for both tours.

ESPN / ESPN2 & US Open 2014

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