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Roland Garros reached rare air this year.
Reigning champion Carlos Alcaraz out-dueled world No. 1 Jannik Sinner in a five hour, 29-minute epic—the longest-ever Roland Garros final and second-longest major final—as the champions combined to carry tennis to stratospheric levels.
In its maiden year of a 10-year, $650 million TV pact with the French Tennis Federation, TNT elevated Roland Garros coverage to an entirely new level.
In a pre-tournament Zoom call with the media, TNT Sports announced its aim to explode Roland Garros coverage to a wider television audience.
The network assembled a star-studded roster filled with former Grand Slam champions and met that major with the best Roland Garros television coverage we’ve seen.
Think about how much TNT invested and how far it pushed RG coverage providing wall-to-wall match coverage on TNT, tru TV of some wildly entertaining matches and highly thoughtful interviews with stars, coaches and athletes from other sports as well.
If you’re a tennis fan of a certain age—read an old guy like me—then you can recall back in 2001 when Jennifer Capriati edged Kim Clijsters 1-6, 6-4, 12-10 to capture the 2001 French Open title and move halfway to a calendar Slam rights holder NBC did not even air that match live. It was televised on tape delay.
As recently as two years ago, ESPN, which once touted itself as “The Grand Slam Network”, did not send most its analysts to Melbourne, opting instead ot have them call the Happy Slam from offices in Connecticut.
In contrast, TNT not only spent $650 million rights, they invested in interesting commentators, gave us a whole new view of the tournament with gorgeous overhead shots of the grounds and stadiums and delivered dedicated match coverage morning till night.
That immense investment paid off for both the network and its viewers.
Coco Gauff rallying past world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka in Saturday’s women’s final generated 1.5 million viewers across TNT and tru TV—a 94 percent increase from Iga Swiatek’s sweep of Jasmine Paolini in the 2024 final. It was the most-highly viewed Roland Garros women’s singles final since 2016. TNT reports the final viewership rose 105 percent among viewers in the 24-54 age group compared to last year.
Carlos Alcaraz’s stunning conquest of Jannik Sinner that saw him save three championship points and prevail in the longest French Open final in history peaked at 2.6 million viewers at 2:30 p.m. Eastern time on Sunday. The men’s final average 1.8 viewers for the entire telecast, an increase of 8 percent from Alcaraz’s five-set win over Alexander Zverev in the 2024 final.
This year, the men’s final was the most highly-viewed Roland Garros men’s singles final since 2012. Truly, the Tennis Now team felt TNT’s coverage blew away the combined NBC-TC coverage of the 2024 tournament.
To be fair, the network had wondrous and inspiring story lines to follow—the poignant farewells of Rafael Nadal and Richard Gasquet, Arthur Fils’ fierce fight, a slew of Americans marching deep into the tournament—and of course two epic and extraordinary finals.
TNT delivered complete coverage of all the trophy presentation ceremonies, which offered revealing speeches from several stars, including women's doubles champion Jasmine Paolini and mixed doubles runners-up Taylor Townsend and Evan King sporting his Michigan warm up.
Credit TNT for its fresh, fascinating and fun approach aimed to both captivate die-hard tennis fans like us—and attract the casual and newer fans to the sport.
Of course, even the greatest champion sometimes miss the mark—remember Novak Djokovic whiffing on a bad bounce forehand in his semifinal loss to Sinner?—so with that in mind here’s our view of the Hits & Misses from TNT’s game-changing Roland Garros coverage.
Hits
Andre Agassi
Widely regarded as one of tennis’ top interviews during his playing days, Andre Agassi was a tremendous addition to TNT’s team.
Despite his brief Grand Slam TV experience, Andre Agassi is already one of the finest tennis television analysts.
Why?
Because he has powerful, practical wisdom from a lifetime invested in the sport, he has a natural ease and charisma in front of the camera, and he’s excellent at explaining complicated issues in clear, simple statements.
Case in point, moments before Alcaraz and Sinner took the court, Agassi described the impending men’s final as “the best pure ball striker versus the Flying Saucer.”
During Alcaraz’s comeback conquest of Lorenzo Musetti, Agassi, one of the most dangerous returners in Open Era history, repeatedly gauged Alcaraz’s return positioning in relation to the types of serves he was facing then dropped a tutorial on returning for every player regardless of skills level.
Agassi explained some pros square up their hips and shoulders to the baseline on return. But Agassi advised the best returners square hips and shoulders up to the server—that way they are in better position to intercept the angle. Agassi’s perspective on how Alcaraz’s ability to to shift his spins and heights to unsettling degree could challenge the flatter-hitting Sinner was also interesting to hear.
We asked TN readers and tennis writers for their input. One long-time writer rated Agassi as his favorite facet of TNT’s coverage.
“Agassi's reunion interview with his old rival and friend Andrei Medvedev was for me the highlight moment of the whole tournament, even more so than the men’s final and that's saying a lot,” one writer told us. “Tennis establishment, please make sure to keep Andre Agassi involved on a regular basis because he has natural ability to make any match and tournament more interesting.”
Indeed, Agassi’s reunion with Medvedev was emotional, enlightening—Agassi revealed he gave Medvedev coaching tips and was sometimes guzzling vodka from the stress—and a revealing window into their mind-sets for that famed 1999 French Open final. If you missed it, must-see tennis TV here:
Twenty years ago, Andre’s father, Mike Agassi, wrote his memoir titled The Agassi Story. I interviewed him for Tennis Week several times around that period and asked him what was Andre like off court as a kid? Mike Agassi told me his son had a near-photographic memory and said Andre memorized long passages from the Bible and could recite them, from memory, before groups of people. For that reason, Mike Agassi told me, “We thought he might grow up to be a preacher.”
Andre Agassi’s recall remains amazing as he displayed sharing the story of his magical run to to the 1999—and his father’s reaction to the photo of an eight-year-old Andre standing next to his tennis hero, Bjorn Borg. “Why aren’t you bending your legs like Borg?” Agassi recalled his demanding dad saying of the photo.
Obviously, Agassi’s invested a lot of time in pickleball these days, but after his profound TNT performance here’s hoping we see a lot more of him on Grand Slam tennis telecasts.
Coaching Commentary Connection
On TNT’s staff several stars—Jim Courier, Darren Cahill, Lindsay Davenport, Chrissie Evert, John McEnroe, Patrick McEnroe—have served stints as coaches.
Davenport, ex-coach of Madison Keys, shared her experience of how tough it can before the big-hitting Keys to dial down her game when facing a champion opponent like Coco Gauff whose fast feet left the Australian Open champion frazzled and misfiring at times.
Here’s where TNT really amped up their coverage compared to Tennis Channel and ESPN. Darren Cahill was mic’d up and did a few segments answering questions while coaching Jannik Sinner during practice.
TNT also did some revealing interviews with Aryna Sabalenka’s coach Anton Dubrov showing his tactical acumen and lifting the curtain on the sometime volatile world No. 1’s mind-set.
One prescient point of the pre-final interview came when Sam Querrey noting the unruly forecast for the Saturday women’s final called for gusty winds asked Dubrov if he coached Sabalenka on how to negotiate or argue with tournament officials to close the retractable roof over Chatrier to create calmer conditions for the sometime combustible Belarusian.
Interestingly, Dubrov essentially said no, he hadn’t advised her on how to advocate for a closed roof primarily because he believed so strongly in her game that she was poised to conquer anyone in any conditions.
While that answer expressed confidence in Sabalenka’s competitive psyche, in the end she absolutely unraveled in the face of whipping wind gusts up to 25 mph and Gauff’s unrelenting court coverage. The combination caused Sabalenka to cough up 70 unforced errors and left her whining about the wind and claiming the American framed her way to a win.
“Honestly sometimes it felt like she was hitting the ball from the frame. Somehow magically the ball lands in the court, and you kind of, like, on the back foot,” Sabalenka said. “Yeah, it's just, you know, like — it felt like a joke, honestly, like somebody from above was just staying there laughing, like, let's see if you can handle this.”
Valuable Voices
Admittedly, I am a tennis geek educated by some legendary tennis TV tandems—Tony Trabert and Pat Summerall for CBS’ US Open coverage, Hall of Famers Cliff Drysdale and late, great Fred Stolle for years on ESPN and Hall of Famer and former Tennis Week writer Bud Collins and anyone else on PBS, yes PBS once televised tennis if you weren’t alive to see it—so I realize my tennis television viewing experience is shaped by traditional television.
Here's what I love about TNT’s coverage: They weren’t afraid to break tradition and pump up the party bringing in varied voices, with champion’s ranging from Andre Agassi to Venus Williams to Chrissie Evert to John McEnroe all adding insight.
So what happens when you take together a group of former champions, most strongly opinionated, put them together at the TNT table and let them talk freely—almost in a podcast style format?
The result was lively, entertaining and yes, in many cases, educational viewing.
At one point, Christopher Eubanks, who has faced Daniil Medvedev in the Wimbledon quarterfinals and plays with a Tecnifibre racquet like Medvedev correctly detected the former US Open champion had actually change his strings—not just string tension—during his match. A move Medvedev later talked about at length in his post-match presser.
That led to a lively player discussion on gear with Sloane Stephens sharing she once had so little interest in strings when she won the US Open she only had three Head racquets in her bag—and “until two years ago” she never changed a racquet during a match unless breaking a string.
It also prompted Coco Vandeweghe to imply she eventually axed ex-coach and former Wimbledon champion Pat Cash because of the Aussie's habit of cutting out all of her strings and restringing all of her sticks to a new tension if she had a poor warm-up before a big match.
“Dude, you just cost me $220,” Vandeweghe recalls telling coach Cash strongly suggesting she finally parted ways with Cash because she was “too cheap” to keep up with those stringing fees.
Front Row First Rate
Former French Open finalist Mary Joe Fernandez offered some excellent insight as TNT court-side reporter.
The bilingual Fernandez was terrific relaying the tactical advice former world No. 1 and Alcaraz coach Juan Carlos Ferrero was supplying his charge. As the men’s final progressed, Fernandez noted Ferrero was constantly reminding Alcaraz to “keep [Sinner] moving.”
When Alcaraz got down early in the match, Fernandez noted the champion was ripping his own serve in riffing to his box “I’m serving like 20 percent…”
On some occasions, Fernandez gave the viewers player and coach’s words in Spanish and translated to English giving a complete recap of the conversations. Fernandez consistently clarified which players were with and against the wind pointing out how drop-shot artists like Alcaraz was trying to flick his dropper against the wind rather than with it at his back.
Every Picture Tells A Story…
Parting is so poignant for the game’s greatest champion.
TNT’s directors and production staff wisely let the pictures tell the story during Rafael Nadal’s beautiful and powerful adieu to Roland Garros ceremony.
By the time the ceremony was done, there was barely a dry eye among the 16,000 Rafa revelers—including Carlos Alcaraz and Iga Swiatek—were tearing up.
Showing the King of Clay himself nearly break down when the tournament brought out the behind-the-scenes people who helped Nadal daily during his astounding Roland Garros run—including his driver, locker room attendant—showed despite his superstar status the power of human connection moves him more than anything.
Seeing Nadal’s emotional reaction to the plaque of his footprints on court and of course the classic shot of Rafa holding Rafa, Jr. in his arms giving the adoring Court Chatrier faithful one final heart-felt wave was simply beautiful.
Though I wasn’t able to see the ceremony live on TNT or tru TV watching from New York, TNT did air it in full and did a masterful job conveying the powerful emotion and connection between athlete-and audience.
TNT did that so well an ocean away, American viewers could feel the passion pop through the screens of their devices.
MacZone
This makes our hits list though some viewers—you know who you are—emailed us to say the MacZone was a major miss.
TNT took the NFL network’s concept of the RedZone where the network takes you to live to a game with a team in the scoring zone and applied it to tennis with John McEnroe and Patrick McEnroe debuting their own version of the Manning Broadcast ESPN2 has done with MNF.
Whether you loved it or loathed it likely depends upon your feelings on John McEnroe.
Full disclosure: I fell in love with the sport watching Borg, McEnroe, Connors and Vilas battle it out. So I’m all in hearing McEnroe expound on all things from his beloved Knicks falling—then firing coach Tom Thibedeau (a move McEnroe called “harsh”)—to why Alcaraz is one of the Top 5 pure athletes he’s seen on a tennis court to his recurring nightmares about blowing the 1984 French Open final to Ivan Lendl to his amusing anecdote how the French Federation insisted on mis-spelling his name “MacEnroe” on scoreboards no less—even after he became a seeded star and after he informed officials the correct spelling is “McEnroe”
"They didn't care," McEnroe recalls of the name diss.
However, some of you wrote to let us know you didn’t need to hear McEnroe plugging George Clooney’s Broadway debut or McEnroe expounding on other sports while a major tennis tournament is ongoing right under his nose. Granted it was surprisingly and revealing neither John McEnroe nor brother Patrick McEnroe seemed to know–-or had simply forgotten—Naomi Osaka was once world No. 1.
Days before his TNT debut, we were on the network’s Zoom call with McEnroe and asked him how his commentary has evolved over the years. McEnroe essentially replied it hasn’t evolved saying his aim now is the same as it was when he started his commentary career: To be himself.
That Mac identity and spontaneity was on display when Danielle Collins visited MacZone and John McEnroe asked Collins if she always played with such “insane intensity.”
That’s when Collins shared the story of how hackers in Florida’s rec leagues shaped her fiery disposition.
Collins’ father and original coach, Walter Collins, had her square off against grown men playing in 4.0 and 4.5-level Florida leagues, partly because the family couldn’t afford the cost of junior camps, and primarily because he believed it would strengthen his daughter’s competitive spine.
“I’ll tell you what, if you ever see these 4.0 and 4.5 guys and I was playing against a lot of them growing up,” Collins told McEnroe. “Because my dad really felt like the best practice I could get was playing with the guys versus just being in these little kids’ camps. And they cost an arm and a leg sometimes—we didn’t have that.
“So my dad would have me play matches against these 4.0 and 4.5 guys and I’ll tell you what: They’re competitive as hell.” Great story sparked by McEnroe's question.
Q-Ball's Big Bounce
On court, Sam Querrey's mellow disposition was more Mr. Rogers than Mr. T
As a player who owns wins over Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray at Wimbledon and Rafael Nadal in the Acapulco final, Querrey is the rarity among ex-champions in that he’s willing to pick straight-sets in high profile matches.
Example: Querrey picked Alcaraz over Tommy Paul in straights, Alcaraz over Musetti in straights (the Muse Man did win a set before tapping out with a left leg injury in four). Querrey said Sinner would dominate both Andrey Rublev and Alexander Bublik, which he did, and correctly called world No. 1 Sinner beating Grand Slam king Novak Djokovic in straight sets.
That last pick prompted Hall of Fame colleague Jim Courier to note you can’t forecast a champion as a great as Djokovic to fall in straights in a Slam semifinal against anyone at any time.
Courier was right: Djokovic had not lost a major semifinal in straight sets since Tomas Berdych beat him 6-3, 7-6, 6-3 in the 2010 Wimbledon final four.
Ultimately, Querrey was correct:Sinner knocked the Slam king out in straights. Perhaps Querrey was thinking “If I can beat Novak at Wimbledon, surely Sinner, 15 years Djokovic’s junior, can beat the Serbian superstar in Paris.”
A touch of class by both four-time champion Iga Swiatek and Querrey came after the TNT crew presented the Pole with a birthday cake. Swiatek carefully cut it into pieces then she and Querrey distributed the birthday cake to all the fans standing behind the set. Very cool to see both current and former pros value fans and share a moment with them in a personal way.
Commentator Quips
Jim Courier on Carlos Alcaraz: “He the least Spanish player I've ever seen, he tends to want the hit the winner early and ask questions later, it's an American mindset."
Coco Vandeweghe on Lorenzo Musetti hitting lineswoman in chest with a softly kicked ball: "We need to stop this [officials getting hit] before that [injury] happens. …You pop a ball to a referee in basketball, you're getting ejected. You miss handle a pass and put hands on a ref in football, you're getting ejected. You do not touch an umpire and I think that needs to evolve into tennis very quickly."
Andre Agassi on Novak Djokovic: ““He’s like a boxer that wants to feel the leather on his face. He wants to take your best punch, know he can handle it. So he gets out there and he lets you throw blows at him and he fights it off. Then he gets a little irritated that you keep throwing blows at him. Then he goes, ‘I gotta go into lockdown defense, that’s it.’ And then he goes into this hyper sonic defense mode. And he takes that kind of pounding and resists it and the score line is close. Then he gets a little pissed off at that. And then he goes ‘no, no, no, now I’m gonna bring in a little offense.’ Then he sprinkles in the offense and the opponent says to themselves, ‘Wait a second, I was on offense, I went from hitting some winners, to having to hit five winners to win a point, to hitting no winners. Now this guy (Djokovic) is on offense. How the hell am I supposed to win this tennis match?’”
Andre Agassi to rival and friend Andrei Medvedev during TNT interview: “You are so strangely on an island on a tennis court but also so uniquely connected. And then you find yourself in the biggest moments of your life, an opportunity to do something you’ve never done. And you have this battle that is hanging in the balance. Maybe one shot. Maybe one point. Sometimes you feel like it’s a matter of luck or a matter of destiny. But, you know, Andrei was always one of those players, if I did lose to him, I could always say to myself, ‘Well, shit, at least he won.’
Andre Agassi to TNT fellow analyst Tim Henman: “Tim, how come your accent gets stronger when the camera is on?”
Andre Agassi to John McEnroe, who wanted to bail on the TNT panel discussion to prepare for the semi final: “John, you need to go put your make-up on? Oh, sorry you already have it on.”
Venus Williams on her signature red, white and blue hair beads that caused some players to complain during her run to her maiden USOpen final: “If you were an African-American kid, you got braids and beads. It had no significance. It was cultural.”
Sam Querrey on French Cinderella wild card Lois Boisson: “She reminds me of a combination of Sam Stosur and Maria Sakkari.”
Tim Henman on TNT promising to show “highlights” of his RF semifinal loss to Guillermo Coria only to show Tiger Tim losing two points and the match: “Lowlights.”
Andre Agassi on Lorenzo Musetti: “Musetti is the best-looking guy in the draw. I mean, he might be the best-looking guy in the whole tournament. I ran into him in New York, I said, ‘Excuse me.’ I introduced myself. I said, ‘Can I just take a picture with you? Because I have to prove to my wife, who doesn’t believe me, that every lady I’ve talked to says you’re easy on the eyes.’”
Former NBA MVP Derrick Rose on Carlos Alcaraz: “I love Alcaraz that just started. I love how young (he is) … I kinda can relate to him … He plays both sides of the ball, I love how he plays defense … I love his foot speed, everything about him. His heart. And he always fights.”
Former NBA MVP Derrick Rose on growing up a tennis player as a sixth-grader in Chicago: "Until they took the tennis program away from our school and they wiped away my dream right there."
Alexander Bublik on life as professional tennis player: “Tennis is 50% of my life. I have other parts – being a dad, being a friend – which have the same importance for me as being a tennis player. With this 50% that I have as a professional athlete, I have to do maximum, what my body’s capable of … I’m not going to put my health on the line, I’m not going to be fighting through injuries. If I have pain, I resign … I’m not going there. I prioritize my health a lot. If you tell me, ‘Sasha, you’re going to win a Grand Slam, but you can’t walk at 40,’ I’m not going to take the Slam …”
Big Banks v. Petch Petchey
After Christopher Eubanks correctly detected Daniil Medvedev’s string change, the man nicknamed Big Banks boldly told the TNT panel: Name any man in the Top 150 and I’ll name their racquet.
Moments later Mark Petchey, Banks’ colleague, buddy and sometime coaching advisor, dropped world No. 124 Valentin Royer down on the table, baffling Big Banks on only his second attempt.
Still it was fun TV as Eubanks showed his game and gear knowledge, while Emma Raducanu coaching consultant Petchey, a serve-volleyer during his ATP days, showed his skill for the quick counterstrike.
Misses
Limiting Court Cameras
A few times during the men’s final, TNT went to a compelling on-court camera angle that nearly put you in the players’ shoes.
When Sinner made a super sliding forehand pass up the line, that camera angle showed just how demanding the shot was—because Sinner was sliding into the doubles alley when he hit it, playing over the high part of the net and had barely a sliver of open space to hit the ball.
Those were such cool and exciting visuals, frankly it’s surprising and disappointing they didn’t show more of that on-court angle from the players’ perspective over the course of the fine hour, 29-minute festival of shotmaking.
Understandably, directors don’t want to lose sight of both baselines as it can be disorientating for viewers, but Alcaraz and Sinner are both exceptional and explosive movers. Why not highlight that movement with a closer camera angle?
When it came to the on-court camera angle, I felt TNT missed a major opportunity to let fans and even casual fans really see how challenging it is to sprint, slide and stagger over the largest red clay stage in the sport.
Low Volume
While we praised Andre Agassi’s Roland Garros debut performance, several Tennis Now readers pointed out during the Alcaraz-Musetti match, Agassi’s voice sounded much lower than his boothmates, including Jim Courier.
One reader told us the low volume made Agassi sound “low energy” at times which he felt wasn’t fair. We’re not sure if it was a technical issue with the microphone or perhaps Agassi opting for the golf whisper, but it’s true to our ears his voice was lower than others during that one match.
Also, many noted Coco Gauff could barely be heard for the first few moments of her victory speech during the women’s trophy presentation. We’re told that was due to a sound issue in Court Chatrier and not a TNT technical issue. Shortly into her speech, Gauff’s voice could be heard more clearly.
Passing on Prediction
Following an informative pre-match show prior to the women’s final, TNT host Adam Lefkoe asked the panel for their final prediction.
Coco Vandeweghe picked Sabalenka in straight sets then went on to give a detailed best bet breakdown for the gamblers in the audience prompting Sloane Stephens to jokingly remark: “I have no idea what you just said.”
Sure, you can criticize Vandeweghe for missing the pick, but she was the only one on the panel with the guts to actually make a pick.
Everyone else begged off, though to be fair former world No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki did say the final would go three sets—she just wouldn’t commit to a winner.
Maybe it’s me, but come on play ball. The network spent day after day investing in some deep pre-match analysis. It’s a bit of a buzz kill when moments before an adventurous three-set final only Vandeweghe was willing to put it all on the line and make a pick.
Meanwhile, viewers all over the world watching from home were likely trading picks when the analysts largely decline.
Passing Time
TV analysts love to cite how tennis is one of the only sports where “time doesn’t matter.”
Actually, time does matter.
That’s why for me it was a disappointment TNT did not add a small match time graphic below the score graphic it displayed before going to commercial breaks. In fact, I’d settle for just a camera shot of the Rolex clock in the corner of the court—just as a reminder of time spent on court.
Remember, the five hour, 29-minute marathon masterpiece of a mens’ final was the longest Roland Garros final in history and second-longest Grand Slam final in history to Novak Djokovic’s five hour, 53-minute so as it was unfolding it would have been nice to see the time displayed more regularly.
If you think about it time was relevant in both finals as Sinner, playing just his third tournament of the year, had not been truly tested in a five-setter since Alcaraz beat him in a four-hour marathon in the 2024 semifinals. While Sabalenka obviously a very strong player seemed to fade emotionally and physically as Gauff barely seemed to sweat at the end of the women’s final.
Fine Fromage or Really Cheesy?
TNT primary play-by-play voices Brian Anderson and Alex Faust aren’t as experienced calling tennis as two of the best announcers on American TV–-Jason Goodall and Chris Fowler—however we felt both conveyed the passion of the players, the enthusiasm of the fans and tapped into the minds of analysts, including Courier, Davenport, McEnroe and Agassi, in an authentic style.
So while die-hard fans may see it is a miss, we felt they did a good job conveying the excitement, pressure and history at play in many matches.
Some TN readers told us it was “cheesy” to see host and analysts applaud players at the TNT Stella Artois desk. We actually enjoyed those interactions—like when host Adam Lefkoe led the entire team in an “Ole! Ole! Ole! Carlos! Carlos!” chant and clap-fest it elicited laughter from Alcaraz himself on set.
It also seemed to fire up fans behind the set.
While Lefkoe's booming and elaborate player intros sometimes recall boxing ring announcer Michael "Let's Get Ready to Rumble" Buffer's intros, they were in good fun and really showed the spirit of excitement and enthusiasm on the set. More importantly, the players themselves really seemed to enjoy it and as a result were relaxed on set.
New voices did make the occasional tennis novice miscue. When Lefkoe tried hitting Tim Henman up for Wimbledon tickets “to the Royal Suite” on air, Henman looked at him with an amused expression as if thinking “Dude, it’s the All England Club not a Hilton hotel.”
Ghost of Matthew McConaughey
Academy Award winning actor Matthew McConaughey got more screen time—in name-dropping anyway—than just about any other celeb in Paris.
If I paid you $100 for every time host Adam Lefkoe mentioned Matthew McConaughey, cited a McConaughey tweet or broke out his McConaughey “All Right All Right All Right” impression you’d have enough cash buy now to buy box seats for the 2026 Roland Garros and as many chocolate croissants as you can eat.
That’s not a knock on Matthew McConaughey at all—he’s a fantastic actor, family man, generous philanthropist, brilliant bongo player and massive sports fan who clearly loves men's and women's tennis.
My point is if you’re going invoke Matthew McConaughey nearly every damn day at least get the man on the show, on court vs. McEnroe, in a zoom call, etc. I mean, at times it felt like Matthew McConaughey got more air time on TNT’s Roland Garros coverage than Vanna White gets on Wheel of Fortune. So hopefully it all leads up to a McConaughey in Paris reunion.
Maybe it already happened and I missed it or maybe it's just all a set up for the sequel.
If that’s the case then “All right All Right All Right” I’m sorry and stand corrected.
In any event, TNT's Roland Garros debut coverage was much, much more than "All Right All Right All Right" and receives resounding appreciation from us for a job very well done.