MUMBAI: Online video destination iStream.com has exclusively partnered with Ten Sports to live stream US Open, the last of the season’s four major Tennis Grand Slam tournaments.

Tennis fans can log onto http://www.iStream.com/us-open-2012/ to catch the excitement. Apart from hosting the matches live, iStream.com will top up the excitement with live-chat among fans via inbuilt social media elements.

Viewers can also catch highlights of the matches and not-to-miss moments of the tournament. Moreover, iStream.com will host the schedule, team statistics, player profiles.

iStream.com founder, CEO Radhakrishnan Ramachandran said, “Sports is amongst the top genres we are betting on. After the huge response we received for Euro 2012 and the just concluded India Sri Lanka cricket series, we are excited to bring US Open. I think a lot of tennis fans will be hoping to see whether Federer can repeat the magic we saw at the Wimbledon. We see this tie-up with Ten Sports as the beginning of a long term partnership” .

The first session telecast of the US Open will start from 8:30 pm. Live telecast of the evening session takes place from 4:30 am - 8:30 am.

Ten Sports CEO Atul Pande said, ‘’We are committed to maximizing our reach to sports fans and our partnership with iStream.com helps in enhancing the reach and compliments our coverage of the event on TEN Sports channels.’’

iStream.com has a sports channel that has hosted premium sporting events like UEFA Euro 2012 and the just concluded India-Sri Lanka cricket series The site adds hundreds of new videos every day to its library of over a 100,000 clips of premium News Bulletins, TV Shows and Movies in five Indian languages from over 65 channels. It also streams 26 news channels in English, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu and Malayalam.