I would like to complain about the poor coverage of the Sam Stosur vs Serena Williams tennis match on 25th January. Whilst it is inconvenient that the game started right at news time, and the showing of the news is fair enough, but it is unbelievable that Channel 7 would then not go straight back to the tennis at the end of the news. Instead they insisted on showing Today Tonight then Home and Away on the one night of the year that an Australian woman is playing Serena Williams in an Open... it may never happen again. Surely as a special occasion, and on the eve of Australia Day, Today Tonight and Home and Away could have been postponed for one night. If previous form has anything to go by, the match will probably be shown after the 7.30 mens match, probably starting at midnight!!!
It is unacceptable that a TV station says it is covering the tennis and then doesn't show live the one game that the whole country wants to watch. Clearly free to air TV cannot be trusted to provide proper sports coverage.
Ironically I have not been able to find a phone number or a mechanism through the Channel 7 web site to lodge this complaint.
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