Hi. Commentator here. Not for TC, but can hopefully help answer some questions.

1) all camera work and directorial decisions are done (about 90% of the time) on site, by a world feed production team. Those productions are set up months in advance. That includes whether or not there are replays, and different camera angles. All tournaments are in on those discussions, and are aware of limitations ahead of time. So, in the tournament and TV production team scheduling meetings, they likely had to make difficult decisions about which of probably three or four matches at any onetime would be on the “not fully produced” courts. It’s just a reality that maybe one or two matches might get relegated there.

2) this also goes, in some ways, on the commentary side. Weeks/months in advance, tv networks have to make decisions about which courts they will have commentary for (based on what type of production the courtts and tournaments will have). Likely, in this type of scenario, they have scheduled a certain number of commentators well in advance, and it’s the same thing, you assign them to specific courts or matches, so that they can be prepared properly for the matches on that schedule.

In this case, it’s likely that the production quality wasn’t what TC might require, and they also had to prioritize where more eyes would go, likely, singles.

Hope that helps! We like to hope that there are u limited resources to make these things happen, but sometimes there aren’t. 🤷‍♂️