UEFA Super Cup

The latest season of the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League is set to kick-off this month! Bayern Munich and Chelsea are the champions of the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League respectively.

Coverage on BALLS on Saturday August 31, 2013 at 11:00 am.

UEFA Europa League

The groups for season 2013/14 have now been drawn:

Group A

• Valencia (ESP)
• Swansea (ENG)
• Kuban (RUS)
• St Gallen (SUI)

Group B

• PSV Eindhoven (NED)
• Dinamo Zagreb (CRO)
• Chornomorets Odesa (UKR)
• Ludogorets (BUL)

Group C

• Standard Liège (BEL)
• Salzburg (AUT)
• Elfsborg (SWE)
• Esbjerg (DEN)

Group D

• Rubin (RUS)
• Wigan (ENG)
• Maribor (SVN)
• Zulte Waregem (BEL)

Group E

• Fiorentina (ITA)
• Dnipro (UKR)
• Paços de Ferreira (POR)
• Pandurii (ROU)

Group F

• Bordeaux (FRA)
• APOEL (CYP)
• Eintracht Frankfurt (GER)
• Maccabi Tel-Aviv (ISR)

Group G

• Dynamo Kyiv (UKR)
• Genk (BEL)
• Rapid Wien (AUT)
• Thun (SUI)

Group H

• Sevilla (ESP)
• Freiburg (GER)
• Estoril (POR)
• Liberec (CZE)

Group I

• Lyon (FRA)
• Betis (ESP)
• Guimarães (POR)
• Rijeka (CRO)

Group J

• Lazio (ITA)
• Trabzonspor (TUR)
• Legia Warszawa (POL)
• Apollon (CYP)

Group K

• Tottenham (ENG)
• Anji (RUS)
• Sheriff (MDA)
• Tromsø (NOR)

Group L

• AZ Alkmaar (NED)
• PAOK (GRE)
• Maccabi Haifa (ISR)
• Shakhter (KAZ)

Matchday 1 is Friday September 20. BALLS will be showing matches at 1 am and 3 am.

UEFA Champions League

The groups for season 2013/14 have now been drawn:

Group A

• Manchester United (ENG)
• Shakhtar Donetsk (UKR)
• Bayer Leverkusen (GER)
• Real Sociedad (ESP)

Group B

• Real Madrid (ESP)
• Juventus (ITA)
• Galatasaray (TUR)
• Copenhagen (DEN)

Group C

• Benfica (POR)
• Paris St Germain (FRA)
• Olympiacos (GRE)
• Anderlecht (BEL)

Group D

• Bayern Munich (GER)
• CSKA Moscow (RUS)
• Manchester City (ENG)
• Viktoria Plzeň (CZE)

Group E

• Chelsea (ENG)
• Schalke (GER)
• Basel (SUI)
• Steaua Bucharest (ROU)

Group F

• Arsenal (ENG)
• Marseille (FRA)
• Borussia Dortmund (GER)
• Napoli (ITA)

Group G

• Porto (POR)
• Atlético Madrid (ESP)
• Zenit St Petersburg (RUS)
• Austria Vienna (AUT)

Group H

• Barcelona (ESP)
• AC Milan (ITA)
• Ajax (NED)
• Celtic (SCO)

Matchday 1 is Wednesday September 18 and Thursday September 19. BALLS will be showing matches at 2:30 am and 4:30 am.

Barclays Premier League

BALLS will be showing the Manchester United "grand slam" matches against Chelsea and Liverpool over the next fortnight. With BALLS live coverage of the US Open, the matches have been given primetime 9 pm broadcast times:

• Manchester United vs. Chelsea 9 pm Tuesday August 27
• Liverpool vs. Manchester United 9 pm Monday September 2

US Open

The fourth and final grand slam tennis tournament of the year is set to take place this August as the best in the world troop to the USTA (United States Tennis Association)  Billie Jean King National Tennis Center at the Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens, New York City.

Last year’s final saw a 25 year old Andy Murray win his maiden grand slam title by dethroning previous champion, Novak Djokovic in a dramatic showdown that lasted for 4 hours and 54 minutes. Over in the Women’s Singles tournament, Serena Williams captured her 4th US Open crown.

In order to accommodate the players’ request for a day of rest between the singles semifinals and finals, the 2013 US Open is scheduled to conclude on Monday, September 9. The women’s singles semifinals will be played in a single day session on Friday, September 6, and the women’s final will take place on Sunday, September 8 at 4:30 p.m. ET, in the time slot where the men’s singles final was traditionally played.

The men’s singles semifinals will continue to be played in a single day session on Saturday, September 7, with the men’s singles final to take place on Monday, September 9 at 5:00 p.m. ET. In the new schedule, no competition will be scheduled for the second Saturday night of the tournament.

Catch this momentous event as it will be aired on BALLS beginning Monday August 26 at 11 pm.

UAAP Season 76

The University of the East looks to continue its winning ways against Far Eastern University at the UAAP Season 76 men’s basketball tournament at the Smart-Araneta Coliseum.

Game time is at 4 pm, right after the battle between the Ateneo de Manila University and Adamson University at 2 pm. BALLS Channel will air same day replays of the UAAP 76 men's seniors basketball games starting at 8 pm.

European Tour

Our exclusive coverage of the 2013 European Tour also continues on BALLS with the 15th installment of the Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles.

Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles

This month, the European Tour once again returns to the place where the sport traces its origins: Scotland. In last year’s event, hometown fans rejoiced as Paul Lawrie hoisted the trophy in front of his countrymen.

Tune in to BALLS Channel as the Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles will be showcased from August 23-26 at 1:00 pm.

UEFA Champions League

The battle of former champions when 1988 European Cup Champions PSV Eindhoven takes on seven-time titlists AC Milan. This will be a tough test for AC Milan and they treat this first competitive match as a quarterfinal. The team with the better aggregate score over two legs will progress to the Group Stage.

Injury-plagued Arsenal was not given an easy path to the Group Stage as Turkish club Fenerbahce stands in their way. They were soundly beaten 1-3 by Aston Villa in their first match in the English Premier League last weekend and are pressured to perform well in this tournament. Fenerbahce are currently appealing a two-year European ban for match-fixing in the Turkish league. The decision will be finalized before the second leg of this contest and can save Arsenal if they end up losing to Fenerbahce on aggregate. If Fenerbahce is disqualified, Arsenal goes through to the next round.

Catch the UEFA Champions League Playoffs only on BALLS:

• PSV Eindhoven vs. AC Milan on Wednesday August 21, 2013 at 2:30 am. 
• Fenerbahce vs. Arsenal on Thursday August 22 at 2:30 am. 

The second leg matches will be shown on August 28, 2013 and August 30, 2013.

Barclays Premier League

The Barclays English Premier League has found a new home in the Philippines as the newest addition in the BALLS Channel family.

The EPL is regarded as the most competitive league in Europe with its fast-paced action and physical style-of-play. Unlike the Spanish and German leagues, the Premier League have four or five top teams that can beat each other on any given day with the mid-table teams capable of scoring upsets anytime.

In addition to the coverage, football fans can also look forward to additional programming in the form of weekly magazine shows such as Premier League World, to keep fans updated on behind the scenes news about the most popular football league in the world.

Catch these English Premier League live matches this week on BALLS:

• Manchester City vs. Newcastle United, Tuesday August 20 at 3 am.
• Aston Villa vs. Liverpool, Sunday August 25 at 12:30 am.

ATP World Tour 1000 Series

The ATP World Tour 1000 Series during August will feature the Canada Masters and Cincinnati Masters.

ATP World Tour 1000 series: Montreal

Founded way back in 1881, the Canada Masters is the oldest tournament on the ATP World Tour 1000 series lineup. There is a certain prestige that comes with competing in the tournament that takes place in Montreal, Canada.

Immortalized as champions in the history of the Canada Masters are legendary tennis players such as John McEnroe, Boris Becker and Andre Agassi. And during the past 9 years, the tournament has been won by a member of today’s “Big Four” – Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic or Andy Murray.

Currently, Djokovic holds a two-year win streak in Montreal.

Find out whether the Serbian can make it three in a row by tuning in to BALLS on the following airing dates:

• Round of 16 – (Friday) August 9 @ 12:00 am.
• Quarterfinals – (Saturday) August 10 @ 12:00 am & 6:00 am.
• Semifinals – (Sunday) August 11 @ 3:00 am & 8:00 am.
• Finals - (Monday) August 12 @ 3:00 am.  

ATP World Tour 1000 Series: Cincinnati

Well, with Humburg now out the window, here’s another tournament that Roger Federer should be able to win.

The Cincinnati Masters is set to open shop once again at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Mason, Ohio. Federer own the distinction of having the most titles won in the event with five (2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012).

Federer badly needs to win in a prestigious tournament this year and this could be one of his last few opportunities to light up a spark.

Join Federer in his quest to regain his lost form as BALLS presents the Cincinnati Masters on the following times:

• Round of 16
  – (Thursday) August 15 @ 11:00 pm.
  –  (Friday) August 16 @ 7:00 am.
• Quarterfinals
  – (Friday) August 16 @ 11:00 pm.
  –  (Saturday) August 17 @ 7:00 am.
• Semifinals
  – (Sunday) August 18 @ 1:00 am.
• Finals
  – (Monday) August 19 @ 12:30 am.

ATP World Tour 500 Series

The next pitstop on the schedule of the 2013 ATP World Tour 500 series is Washington D.C.

Roger Federer was the huge favorite to win the German Open Tennis Championships last month. However, that did not occur as Argentina’s Federico Delbonis eliminated the Swiss in the semifinal round en route to the title. As the sport of tennis continues to undergo changes with new names emerging from the depths, this year’s Citi Open in Washington D.C. will make for an intriguing event as another chance to join the list of winners in this year’s ATP World Tour 500 series is up for grabs.

Ukraine’s Alexandr Dolgopolov defeated Germany’s Tommy Haas is last year’s final.

Big names such as Andre Agassi, Michael Chang and Andy Roddick are among those who have reigned supreme at the William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center in Rock Creek Park, Washington D.C.

Who will join the list of Citi Open Champions? Find out when BALLS features the event on the following dates: 

• Semifinals – (Sunday) August 4 @ 3:00 am.
• Finals – (Monday) August 5 @ 4:00 am.