Be careful, “Love Island,” there could be a brand new actuality courting present sweeping the nation in a couple of weeks.
The U.S. Open introduced Thursday that it might be filming, producing and releasing its personal YouTube collection referred to as “Recreation, Set, Matchmaker,” which “fuses the emotional rollercoaster of a courting present with the electrical vitality of one of many world's greatest sporting occasions,” according to the announcement.
The eight-episode present will probably be filmed through the U.S. Open Fan Week on the USTA Billie Jean King Nationwide Tennis Heart, following one single — dubbed “The Champion” — as she makes an attempt to seek out love with one in all her seven matches.
Lengthy Island native Ilana Sedaka, a 24-year-old former determine skater turned pilates teacher who lives in Miami, would be the present's bachelorette, with the eligible bachelors consisting of influencers, tennis superfans and social personalities.
No particular males had been named.
“We're excited to interrupt new floor with ‘Recreation, Set, Matchmaker,' on the US Open and throughout our channels this 12 months,” Jonathan Zipper, senior director of social media on the USTA, stated in a press release. “It's the right time for us to launch a enjoyable, social-forward idea that meets the second, participating followers on the intersection of tennis, popular culture and leisure.”
The primary episode will probably be posted on the primary official day of the U.S. Open — Aug. 24. The finale will probably be obtainable on the identical day as the ladies's ultimate.
The undertaking is a collaboration between the USTA and Contemporary Tape Media, and is making an attempt to capitalize on the event's cultural impression past the play on the court docket.
“The US Open is greater than a event; it's a cultural stage,” stated Alana Glenn Moritz, inventive director for Contemporary Tape Media, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
“We constructed this collection to seize that vitality in its purest type. It's sudden, it's present, and it faucets into the drama and connection that makes this occasion not like the rest.”
