Coverage Looks Like Quadruple Fault for CBS

So CBS butchered the coverage of the U.S. Open again. What else is new?

* CBS shot the entire tournament from the high camera. If not shot from the low camera (as the USA Network does at least part of the time), tennis on television is terminally boring (and I play and love the game).

* CBS cut away from an emotional Andy Roddick crying and hugging his family and friends to show a 10-second shot of loser Juan Carlos Ferrero just sitting there, staring off into space.

* CBS picked banal Dick Enberg to do the final interviews when it has John McEnroe and Mary Carillo, people who actually know something about the sport and can ask intelligent, informed questions.

* The CBS graphics are mired in the 20th century. They couldn’t even ape USA, which showed the tiebreaker scores after the set score throughout tiebreakers.

Gee, they’ve only been doing it for three decades. How long before they learn something?

Tony Medley

Marina del Rey