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32-493: The program premiered on November 1, 1996 , when FSN was launched, as Fox Sports News . The show, which succeeded both the Prime Network 's Press Box and the short-lived fX Sports Show , aired twice a night, at 6 and 10 p.m (the 10 p.m. edition was later referred to as Fox Sports News Primetime ), and also aired in the mornings from 6 to 9 a.m. It was the national network's equivalent to SportsCenter . The 6 p.m. edition

64-524: A singles tournament. Instead, he used nicknames like "Miss Thang" or " From Russia With Love " (as in the James Bond movie). Frazier wanted to make a point that she was overrated and received too much publicity for her lack of talent. On April 1, 2001, Olbermann reported that Michael Jordan had decided to come out of retirement and return to NBA basketball with the Washington Wizards . Although

96-418: A man and a woman may be played on an informal basis or as exhibitions . The game starts with one player serving the ball from the right side of the court behind the baseline. The other player must stand behind or close to the baseline on the left side of the court. The server then hits the ball over the net into the diagonally opposite service box. The receiver must let the ball bounce before hitting it back over

128-510: Is also found in the Caribbean. Played in both singles and doubles forms by people in wheelchairs. The main difference is that the ball may bounce twice before it is hit, the second bounce may even be outside the court. All four Grand Slam tournaments include wheelchair tennis. Visually impaired tennis (also known as blind tennis in Japan, its country of origin, and as sound tennis in some parts of

160-472: Is held annually, and world rankings are published for male and female players with different degrees of disability. There is an evolution in tennis training that employs the use of low-compression balls and in some cases modified court sizes. Organizations around the world have begun to use lower compression balls and modified court sizes as a way to reach out to younger tennis players interested in tennis. The use of low-compression balls and modified court sizes

192-555: Is rare in the professional game because the men's and women's tours are organized separately (by the ATP and WTA , respectively). However, all four Grand Slam tournaments hold a mixed doubles competition, alongside the men's and women's doubles, featuring many of the same players. There is also an annual mixed tournament for national teams, the Hopman Cup , which includes mixed doubles matches. Additionally, there have been mixed doubles events at

224-585: The Final Cut , an extended montage of sports highlights set to music. The NSR also began to air on the newly-renamed Fox Sports Net Florida , which had joined FSN after two years of legal conflicts that prevented it from becoming a full FSN affiliate (it instead aired sportscasts from CNN/SI ). Meanwhile, the Sunday night program was briefly renamed The Keith Olbermann Evening News . The hour-long show debuted on August 6, 2000 (with Olbermann making his final appearance on

256-637: The Midwest Sports Report 's debut was marred by technical glitches and the Pittsburgh-based anchors calling teams by the wrong names; additionally, it was noted the New York Sports Report was somewhat redundant given that MSG Network (which Fox Sports Net New York shared operations with) had already been producing their own standalone sportscast, MSG SportsDesk , and the two sportscasts were nigh-identical (especially since both shows aired

288-639: The NSR July 5), anchored by Olbermann solo with Alex Flanagan as a reporter. By April 2001, the NSR had been cut to a mere half-hour show, running at 10:30 p.m. after the Regional Sports Report . During the program's tenure as NSR , anchor Kevin Frazier (now at Entertainment Tonight ) briefly gained attention for refusing to say the name of tennis phenom Anna Kournikova on-air because she had never won

320-460: The NSR 's demise in the face of Best Damn 's popularity had begun to circulate in December 2001). One problem cited in the NSR 's demise was the regional setup making it difficult to assess the national audience for the show. FSN would not "replace" the show until FSN Final Score debuted on July 3, 2006. None of the regional reports exist today, or hardly resemble the original report format. When

352-477: The Summer Olympics on various occasions (In 1900, from 1912 until 1920 and again since 2012 ). While players are gradually less competitive in singles by their late 30s and early 40s, they can still continue competitively in doubles and mixed doubles (as instanced by Martina Navratilova and John McEnroe , who won doubles titles in their 40s). When three players are available, modified rules can accommodate

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384-527: The NSR was cancelled, Cablevision , which owned several FSN affiliates at the time, removed them from the networks they owned at the time, pulling the New York (now known as MSG Sportsnet ), Chicago (now defunct), Bay Area (now owned by Comcast as NBC Sports Bay Area ), and Ohio (now owned by Diamond Sports Group as Bally Sports Ohio ) reports from the air. This was due in part to the regional reports not faring well in

416-434: The anchors, often during teases for the NSR during the regional reports), with the graphics moving from the previous blue and gold to a new orange-heavy motif; the shows, which continued to trail SportsCenter in the ratings, began to be followed by the Regional Sports Report at 11 p.m. (see below). Other format changes included the addition of more analysts, answering viewer emails on the air, and ending each broadcast with

448-479: The course of a match, with the singles player always serving. Scoring styles vary, but one popular method is to assign a value of two points to each game, with the server taking both points by holding serve, and the doubles team each taking one if they break. This format is usually known as "American doubles" in the United Kingdom and Australia. In South Africa it is called "American singles", or cut-throat tennis. It

480-456: The court. The doubles tennis court boundaries are only in play after the ball is served. Players serve for one total game and then the serve rotates to the other team. Returners must stay on the same side of the court, known as the deuce side or ads side for the duration of the set as the server continuously switches sides after each point. Mixed doubles is played the same as doubles, but with one man and one woman per team. This form of tennis

512-594: The mid-2000s, they had been essentially replaced by FSN Live , though in most cases that show was exclusively a team post-game show rather than a regular program, with the team name replacing FSN ; news tickers mostly fulfilled the news role for most FSN networks, along with promotions since 2013 guiding viewers to now-former sister network Fox Sports 1 's national sports news show (and direct successor to NSR ), Fox Sports Live (which has also been cancelled as of 2017). FSN successor Bally Sports debuted The Rally , produced by sister network Stadium , in 2022 to fulfill

544-553: The mismatch so that the single player does not have to be significantly better than the doubles team. The only major rule variation between Canadian doubles and traditional doubles tennis is that the team of two players can only hit the ball within the singles lines, whilst the single player can hit into the full doubles court. An informal and unsanctioned form of tennis, this is played with similar rules to Canadian doubles, only in this version, players rotate court position after each game. As such, each player plays doubles and singles over

576-537: The net. If the receiver hits the ball before one bounce or after two bounces then is called "fault". The game continues until one of the players fails to hit the ball over the net or hits it outside the boundaries off the court. Doubles is played by two teams of two players each, most often all-male or all-female. It utilizes a wider court than singles matches: it includes the area in the alley (tramlines, in British terminology), whereas singles does not. The two players on

608-442: The program did adopt the graphics used by the other regional reports). Fox Sports Net Northwest was the first to debut a regional report on June 14, followed by Fox Sports Net West and Fox Sports Net Detroit; the rest of Fox's stations rolled out their reports shortly thereafter. To facilitate easy transfer of stories and footage between FSN and their affiliates, along with some affiliates simply not having enough studio space to produce

640-586: The ratings on nights without live sports, as well as an advertising recession, forcing Rainbow's hand in cutting their regional reports. The New England Sports Report was the longest-lasting of the former RSR s, having evolved into a talk show , New England Sports Tonight (later renamed to Boston Sports Tonight ) after Comcast's acquisition of the network as NBC Sports Boston ; a separate news program called SportsNet Central later launched (both shows have since ended as of 2023). The Fox-owned FSN stations continued with their regional reports for several years; by

672-414: The receiving side change positions after each point played (one at the net and the other near the baseline, preparing to return serve). Most of the singles rules are applicable for doubles tennis, but there are few exceptions. First and foremost, the court side is wider. The boundaries are extended from side to side to the doubles sidelines. This includes the alleys between the singles and doubles sidelines on

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704-578: The reports on their own, a series of interconnected bureaus were set up at many of the FSN affiliates, with some handling the production of more than one regional report: The Southwest Sports Report was originally broadcast from two studios, with the other in Houston . This occurred because co-host Spencer Tillman apparently did not want to uproot his family from Houston. However, the regional "hub" structure created problems, with one St. Louis newspaper critic noting

736-501: The role of a flagship news and analysis show. 1996 in television 1996 in television may refer to: Singles (tennis) Traditionally, tennis is played between two people in a singles match, or two pairs in a doubles match. Tennis can also be played on different courts, including grass courts , clay courts , hard courts , and artificial grass courts. Singles involves two players competing against each other, usually two men or two women, although games between

768-437: The same footage). In 2002 , the NSR was cancelled outright due to declining ratings; FSN opted to instead air two-and-a-half minute news capsules, twice an hour, during primetime programming on nights that did not have live sporting events (beginning at 5:30 PM and continuing to 2:00 AM), as well as four newsbreaks per hour during The Best Damn Sports Show Period , which by this time had become FSN's flagship show (rumors of

800-441: The show included the introduction of the sports headlines at the top of the show with a spinning CGI jumbotron , FoxTrot (which provided a graphically-enhanced recap of games the broadcast was not covering in-depth), FoxScopes (where analysts would put a specific player under the titular "FoxScope" to examine their moves), Stuff You Didn't Know (featuring lesser-known sports factoids) and long-form Spotlight reports. The show

832-559: The story was presented as an April Fool's joke, Jordan would sign with the Wizards the following September. The set and anchors of the NSR also appeared on another Fox production, the short-lived sitcom Inside Schwartz , analyzing the decisions of the lead character. Beginning in the summer of 2000 , many markets paired the NSR with a Regional Sports Report (the RSR title was originally followed by an (regional name) Edition suffix, before

864-399: The time was co-owned by Liberty Media along with many of the FSN affiliates). In 1998, Keith Olbermann and Chris Myers , both previously of ESPN, were hired and added to the hosting rotation; Olbermann had just come off his first stint at MSNBC , with Fox paying NBC $ 1 million to let Olbermann out of his contract with them. In concert with Olbermann's debut on January 5, 1999, a new look

896-601: The titling was modified to replace Regional with the actual regional name, e.g. Detroit Sports Report ) to better leverage the regional model of the network, typically airing seven nights a week at 11 p.m. following the National Sports Report (the regional reports were moved to 10 p.m. in April 2001), while an earlier Regional Sports Tonight sportscast aired at 7:00 p.m. (in the case of FSN Pittsburgh, their pre-existing SportsBeat , anchored by Stan Savran , continued;

928-469: The world) is competed in 4 types of classification where the B1 (blind) group requires players to wear a blindfold and utilizes special balls, which make a sound upon contact with the court. It usually uses a smaller court and a lower net than standard tennis; up to three bounces may be allowed before returning the ball. While sound tennis is not part of ITF , ATP , and WTA tournaments, an international tournament

960-430: Was introduced (presaging a wide rebrand for Fox Sports Net itself that would roll out shortly afterwards) with a new logo, updated graphics and music, and a modified set; ratings for the program went up the night of Olbermann's debut (having suffered thanks in part to the 1998-99 NBA lockout ). On April 12, 2000 , the show was renamed to the National Sports Report (also informally referred to as simply "The National" by

992-471: Was originally anchored by Kevin Frazier (previously co-anchor of The fX Sports Show ) with James Worthy and Craig Simpson as analysts; the 10 p.m. report was co-anchored by a rotating team, featuring three holdovers from Press Box (Alan Massengale {himself an ex- SportsCenter anchor}, Tom Kirkland and Randy Sparage), alongside newcomers Dwayne Ballen, Suzy Kolber (also previously of ESPN), John Walls, Paul Rudy and Jeanne Zelasko . Regular segments of

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1024-569: Was originally broadcast from Stage 2 of the original Fox Television Center in Los Angeles, before relocating to Stage 2B of the Fox Network Center, located on the 20th Century Fox backlot in LA's Century City district , in late 1997 (by which point a New York bureau, headed by Michael Kay , began operations). For a time, Fox Sports News Primetime Newsbreaks aired on then-sister network FX (which at

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