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I almost missed the6am Mac/Lendl French final in 1984, despite a vested interest. Remember when you had to get up at 6am in California just to get a chance to see the final of the French or Wimbledon–after following most of the results for two weeks in the newspapers? I barely made it up in time for the 1984 French final between McEnroe and Lendl and that was the year I produced a instructional video with both of them…(Click Here for a taste of that…) Remember longing for a world in which you could follow the major events in tennis on television and actually see what was happening before the final couple of days? Well, we’ve come to the other end of that paradigm now haven’t we? The sources, choices, platforms, schedules–it’s all become (at least for me) a little overwhelming. (OK, way overwhelming.) It’s seems like a full time job sometimes to just keep track of what you can see when and how. And now to say you can see every minute of every pro match at every event all year in one form or another, isn’t that far from the truth. The Tennis Channel: your television source for…