I receive about 200 or so channels on Direct TV, and I specifically bought the package with the Tennis Channel, but I still don’t get Fox Sports Net (FSN), meaning I am not watching the Federer-Roddick match tonight, but instead have that saucy Mieke Buchan crawling around a golf green in white shorts in Charleston, S.C. with a tennis racket in hand.  I have a friend in South Jersey who has cable who is suffering the same plight.  If I want to watch the match online, the Pro Tennis Internet Network would charge $9.95 for the day or $129.95 for a year pass.  I’ll pass.  Tennis on TV is too hard to follow in this country, bouncing from one obscure network (remember the Versus Channel, Davis Cup fans, where it was squeezed in between cage fighting and turkey hunting shows?) to another.  No wonder most of the young American kids opt for soccer or lacrosse or field hockey or basketball or swimming.  They’ll never get excited about tennis if they can’t find the best American player against Federer on TV.

Destination Tennis, now showing on Tennis Channel, not the Roddick-Federer match

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