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The FFT and host broadcaster Whisper target a younger audience with data and graphics

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New host broadcaster for the French Grand Slam, Whisper, is helping advance the Fédération Française de Tennis’ (FFT) goals of increasing the number of younger viewers watching Roland-Garros.

One of the aims for the new team over the next five years is to bring a more youthful demographic to screens to watch the tournament, and this involves broadening coverage out further into digital media.

Content creators

Since the tournament began on 19 May through to its epic conclusion on 8 June, Whisper has been working closely with the FFT’s squad of content creators from its digital team, who are roving around Roland-Garros to capture this new digital content.

Says Amandine Tyl, head of production and broadcast services at the FFT: “We have a team of content creators that are capturing content around the grounds everywhere in order to be able to deliver this content to our rights holders, because now we consider that digital is part of what the broadcasters are needing; it’s not only about linear channels, but also digital.

“We want to make sure that broadcasters can get access to wide range of content in terms of Roland-Garros production, and not only what we all expect, like live coverage of matches, but on top of that, digital coverage.”

Graphic focus

Another step towards that younger audience is a new focus on data and graphics. Says Tyl: “In order to get a new audience of not only tennis experts around the table, and this is new for this year, we have now an agreement with TennisViz.”

Read more Roland-Garros 2025: Bringing the passion and drama with new cameras for storytelling at the French Grand Slam

TennisViz’s automated artificial intelligence (AI) software processes ball and player tracking data in real time to calculate shot type, shot quality, situation, phase of play and tactic for every shot. This data is presented as a collection of performance metrics known as TennisViz Insights.

Tyl continues: “[TennisViz] are in charge of data. This is something new at FFT for this year because we are capturing players and ball tracking data around all courts. I think we were the only Slam not to cover this, because we don’t have the official line calling, so this year for the first time we are capturing all this data on all courts, and based on this data we will use TennisViz in order to deliver some insights which should help to reach a younger audience, and a different audience from the one we currently have for tennis.”

Deltatre is running the graphics for the FFT. Tyl says: “We will have some specific insight graphics, which are used also on the ATP tool. These kind of graphics give more easy to understand data for generic viewers – not tennis experts – because tennis is very complicated to understand for a mainstream audience.”

Roland-Garros’ Court Simonne Mathieu

Top Trumps

This is all about serving the rights holders to this prestigious Grand Slam. Tyl says: “At Roland-Garros we have many different kinds of broadcaster, from very mainstream broadcasters like France Télévisions, to very specific sports or tennis broadcasters,” continues Tyl. “We wanted, through TennisViz, to give easier access to the data for the viewers. So for example, they are providing on a scale from zero to 10 the quality of shot of the players, so player serve, player backhand, player forehand, etc.”

Read more Roland-Garros 2025: Whisper on getting into the psyche of the FFT as the new host broadcaster for the French Grand Slam

Sebastian Tiffert, account director at Whisper, likens the new comparison graphics ‘cards’ to the game, Top Trumps. Tyl continues: “Basically you can get some kind of player’s ‘cards’, where when you have a head to head between two players, instead of having the traditional head to head [graphic] we have all been used to seeing over the last decade with how many times they have been fighting against each other and that sort of thing, we get data comparisons between the strengths and weaknesses of the two players.

“This is typically the kind of data we think will make it easier for a wider audience to understand tennis better, and get a little more storytelling [into the production], because I think storytelling around tennis is really key and this is what we are trying to achieve through these kind of new services,” she says.

The French Open takes place in Paris from 19 May to 8 June 2025





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NCAA Volleyball Regional Schedule Set

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – The fourth-seeded Indiana volleyball team (25-7, 14-6 B1G) will play in the Sweet 16 for just the second time in program history. The NCAA announced start times and dates for next week’s regional semifinals on Sunday (Dec. 7) afternoon. The Hoosiers will play top-seeded Texas at Gregory Gymnasium on Friday (Dec. 12) afternoon at Noon ET on ESPN.

 

Following the greatest regular season in program history, IU was awarded a top-16 national seed and the chance to host the opening two rounds of the NCAA Tournament. The Hoosiers made quick work of their first two matchups, sweeping Toledo and fifth-seeded Colorado in Bloomington to advance to the Sweet 16.

 

IU is one of five Big Ten programs remaining in the NCAA Tournament. Of the 16 schools left in the big dance, IU is one of two teams (Cal Poly) that didn’t make the big dance last year. The Hoosiers have already set a single-season program record for wins (25) and will attempt to advance to the regional final for the first time in program history.

 

The other matchup in the Austin Regional will pit second-seeded Stanford and third-seeded Wisconsin against each other. Their match will begin 30 minutes after the conclusion of IU’s. The winners of both regional semifinals will meet on Sunday (Dec. 14) afternoon for a spot in the national semifinals in Kansas City.



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Louisville volleyball NCAA Tournament bracket, Texas A&M vs UofL game

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Dec. 6, 2025Updated Dec. 7, 2025, 6:08 a.m. ET

After defeating Marquette 3-2 in the second round of the NCAA Volleyball Tournament on Saturday night, No. 2 Louisville will travel to Lincoln, Nebraska, and take on No. 3 Texas A&M in the Sweet 16 at 7 p.m. Friday.

This will be the Cardinals’ seventh consecutive regional appearance but first with Dan Meske as head coach.

Here’s everything you need to know to keep up with the match from home:

No. 2 seed Louisville versus No. 3 seed Texas A&M will be broadcast live on ESPN or ESPN2.

Authenticated subscribers can access ESPN2 via TV-connected devices or by going to WatchESPN.com or the WatchESPN app.

Those without cable can access ESPN2 via streaming services, with Fubo offering a free trial.

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After defeating Marquette, UofL will play Texas A&M in the Lincoln, Nebraska, Regional Friday at 7 pm. Here’s a look at the tournament schedule:

  • First and second rounds: Dec. 4-6
  • Regionals: Dec. 11-14
  • Semifinals: Dec. 18 at T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Missouri
  • Championship: Dec. 21 at T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Missouri



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Men’s T&F Opens Season at Diplomat Open

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Lancaster, PA (December 6, 2025) – The DeSales University men’s track & field team opened the 2025-26 indoor T&F season competing at the Diplomat Open at Franklin & Marshall College on Friday.

The Bulldogs posted 10 MAC qualfying times/marks in the meet.

Among the qualifying times were junior Bryce Guthier taking second in the 400-meters with a time of 52.08. It is the fifth fastest time in indoor history.  Senior Davis Trump also qualified in the 5K with a time of 16:20.32.

In the field events, DSU posted eight qualfying marks. Junior Weston Simak qualified for the MAC Championships in both the long jump (6.52m) and triple jump (13.72m). His triple jump mark was the second best in team history.  First-year Luke Heimann also qualfied in the triple jump (11.86m).

Junior Jonathan Castronovo took home first place in the long jump with a mark of 6.58m, the second best long jump in team history.

First-year John Amoretti qualified in the shot put (12.33m), seniors Jonathan Eudja and Giovanni Wellington qualified in the weight throw with marks of 14.85m and 14.23m. First-year Ryan Rodriguez also quallified in the weight throw (11.89m).

The Bulldogs won’t return to action till the New Year at the Blue and Grey Invitational on Jan. 17th.

 



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Women’s Track & Field Turns in Multiple High Marks to Begin Season at Cornell

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ITHACA, N.Y. –

The Ithaca College women’s track & field team opened its 2025-26 season over the weekend as the Bombers made the short trip across town to compete in the Greg Page Relays hosted by Cornell University on December 5-6.

Lola Gitlin posted a time of 10:25.57 in the 3000-meter run to finish third overall.

Rachel Larson was a fourth place finisher with a time of 8.58 seconds in the 60-meter hurdles. That time is currently No. 1 in Division III after the opening weekend of the season.

Aynisha McQuillar took fifth in the 200-meter dash in a time of 26.61 seconds. McQuillar also ran in the 60-meter dash and posted the 11th fastest time in DIII during the prelim with a performance of 7.78 seconds.

Lyla Powers was fifth in the 500-meter dash with a time of 1:21.75.

Lily Seyfert claimed fifth in the shot put with a heave of 12.78 meters, which is currently ninth in the nation.

Bree Boyle and Erin Eastwood each cleared 3.54 meters in the pole vault, which is tied for 11th on the Division III performance list.

Alexis Brown turned in a leap of 11.02 meters in the triple jump for the 17th best mark in the country.

Ithaca is off for the remainder of 2025 and will return to Cornell on January 10 for the Southern Tier Invitational.

 



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Men’s Track & Field Opens Indoor Season at Cornell Greg Page Relays

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RESULTS

ITHACA, N.Y. –

The Ithaca College men’s track & field team opened its 2025-26 season over the weekend as the Bombers made the short trip across town to compete in the Greg Page Relays hosted by Cornell University on December 5-6.

Anik Vossschulte claimed third in the 200-meter dash in a time of 23.32 seconds, while Jacob Antilety was seventh at 23.71 seconds.

Matt Lokshin posted a time of 8.65 seconds in the 60-meter hurdles to place third in the event. Aidan Irwin took fourth in the high jump with a mark of 1.70 meters.

Quinten Lewis posted a mark of 13.73 meters in the triple jump to place fourth and Sebastien-Oliver Lacrete was sixth at 12.68 meters, while Evan Cherry secured fifth in the long jump with a leap of 6.84 meters.

IC’s 4×400-meter relay team of Damian Simmonds, Griffin Lupes, Noah McKibben and George Nilson placed sixth in 3:34.49.

Luke Ellor finished sixth in the shot put with a mark of 14.40 meters.

Three Bombers finished within the top eight in the 500-meter dash as Brad Kellogg was sixth in 1:09.73, Peter Tysiak followed in seventh with 1:10.74 and Matthew DeJulio was next at 1:11.59.

Kaiden Chandler and Luke Ferrer posted times of 4:41.29 and 4:53.44 in the mile to finish in seventh and eighth.

Raf Campanile was seventh in the pole vault with a clearance of 4.25 meters.

Ithaca is off for the remainder of 2025 and will return to Cornell on January 10 for the Southern Tier Invitational.

 



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