Live tennis is set to return to Sky Sports in the UK from next year after the company locked in a substantial international broadcast deal, according to reports.

‘Multiple sources’ are confirming that Sky will become the exclusive home of tennis from 2024 after signing a deal to show both ATP and WTA events. This has been rumoured for a few months, but now seems to be a certainty.

This deal also covers broadcast rights for Skys other main territories of Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy.

For UK viewers, this

deal moves the ATP and WTA events coverage from Amazon Prime, to Sky Sports. It is reported that Amazon didn’t make a bid to maintain its rights to show tennis in the UK and Ireland after this year.

This goes with Skys recent aquisition of US Open Tennis rights.

Whilst a final decision is yet to be made regarding how Sky will broadcast the tennis events, they could create their own specific channel or even two channels to separate the WTA and ATP events. In the UK Sky already has designated channels for football, cricket, golf, F1 and NFL.

This deal does not affect the UK broadcast rights for the Grand Slam events of the Austrailian Open (Eurosport), French Open (Eurosport and ITV), Wimbledon (Eurosport and BBC).