This year's ATP Vegeta Croatia Open has once
again drummed up considerable interest in the world of tennis. As
many as 15 TV stations from 133 countries on 5 different continents
that have been confirmed so far are going to provide live and
tape-delayed coverage of the matches to a potential audience of 70
million households, plus another 700 million that are going to
watch news reports from Umag on world's leading stations including
BBC World News, Eurosport, Al Jazeera, France 24 and Russia Today.
The tournament is also moving into the enormous Chinese market at
the beginning of this year.
Finally, the tournament is going to be covered by the ATP media
via ATP World Uncovered, which has 412 million potential viewers on
the website ATPWorldTour.com (10 million hits a month), newsletter
and Facebook page with over 900,000 fans.
