Who’s having breakout summer pro results? (Women)

Uh, there were a few, like, follow-up questions I wanted to ask from our first conversation together, and one of the big changes that happened this year at NCAAs was that they made the streaming available to international audiences.

So now that NCAAs has been on ESPN+, I know it's been pretty challenging for non-Americans to access the NCAA coverage.

How exciting was it for you to be able to stream NCAAs this year, and what was that experience like?

I was so stressed before NCAAs knowing that I wasn't able to watch individuals in the fall and the team event in 2025.

At first I thought I wouldn't be able to watch it since I didn't find the link, but after one hour of researches I finally found a link on the Cracked Racket website.

Don't even know how I ended up checking there.

I was so relieved and so happy to wa- to be able to watch it.

But I think there is still work to do.

Yes, there is a link, but that's not okay to spend one hour searching for it.

The communication about the event needs to improve.

I remember when I watched my first NCAA tournament in 2023, it was so much easier.

You had Cracked Racket streaming the event on YouTube, or the cameras were available on the Play It Safe website.

That's how easy it should be to watch it, NCAAs, I think.

Yeah, I think based on my conversations with members of the NCAA tennis committee, it does seem like they will continue to support both the coverage of ESPN+, but also have the individual court streams which all of these facilities do have.

I think that is the right approach.

I totally understand from a ESPN broadcast perspective why they want to centralize things through something like ESPN+, but the reality is that there are so many non-Americans competing in this event.

In fact, it caused a little bit of an uproar [laughs] this past season about how many non-Americans are in college tennis.

But I think moving forward, at least now people like myself, you, are aware that this is the plan moving forward.

And so, you know, folks like us can at least carry some of that burden for broadcasting sort of where you can go and follow individual court links.

'Cause even if you are a family or friend in the United States of a player that is competing, sometimes you just wanna watch that court, right? You don't wanna have to ha- bounce around to other courts.

So I'm excited about that change moving forward, and hopefully for individuals that persists because that's another event where, [clicks tongue] you know, for family and friends or people who just kinda wanna watch one individual match it becomes a lot easier when you have that particular court.

So glad you were able to follow along with us in the States this past season.