Controversy with Teledeporte for relegating a women's basketball game

Complaints and controversy.

That is what has caused the

channel to fail to comply with its programming.

The public channel had announced that at

yesterday it would broadcast the second leg of the

of the women's basketball league between

and

But it was not like that.

To the surprise and discomfort of basketball fans, the channel broadcast the

round of 16 tennis match between

and Britain's Cameron Norrie, which the Spaniard won in three sets 6-4, 6-7 and 6-3.

Both clubs, after the match, published

joint statement to express their "

for not betting on the full broadcast of the second leg of the Endesa Women's League semifinals."

In this way, viewers could only watch the match, which the Catalans won 66-73, on the

as the only option to follow the match.

The two clubs consider that "in the case of a

, and an hour of play, at 7:00 p.m., also theoretically set to

."

Nor do they find any justification for the fact that the tennis match had not even started at that time, which is why they consider it "

.

"We will continue to do our best so that the competition and these types of matches have the

," the statement concludes.

Protests on social networks

Such was the

and discontent that basketball fans did not hesitate to make their complaints public on social networks.

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