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I think in one way, this may be an unfortunate slam for Andy to win.
Middle of the night in the UK, with only Sky holding the TV coverage rights, means it will be undervalued and under exposed.
Sure, people will be delighted, and appreciate the maginitude of the achievement, but, as has been proved, with various boxers, Phil Taylor, in darts, the T20 World Cup cricket win et al.
If it's not on terrestrial universal television, and prefereably at a reasonable time, then the effect is lessened somhow.

Unfortunate that this year, when BBC did Aussie Open & Wimby, and ITV took the French, that Andy might win the one that's reserved to a small group rather than open to everyone.

Still, take anything he can deliver, with the knowledge that he's also bound to win one of the others soon, and everyone will get to see it!

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I really don't think that is the case.  The big thing is that Andy will have won a Slam and that will be widely recognised whether folk have actually seen much of the tournament or not.  People that have followed the Andy story will not be greatly effected by in many cases seeing less of his ultimate triumph.

Plus what many of his detractors do Andy down with is no Slam win. That will no longer hold true.  

It really is an entirely different scenario to the ones you give where certain sports have more or less disenfranchised themselves from terrestial YV.  

For those that can watch it on Monday  ( even if from streams ) or at least listen to it on the radio, far from the "middle of the night" the timing should be very good for a Monday.  In 2008, from memory, the Monday final started at 2 pm  ( certainly in the afternoon ), which would be 7 pm in the UK.

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Comment of the day so far from the Spanish commentators:

Its a good job we've got adults holding the umbrellas over the players at the break.  If it was the kids from Wimbledon, they'd be doing a "Mary Poppins".

Come on Muzz.  You have to keep believing.