This 12 months’s Australian Open viewing numbers had been down sharply from 2022, however the return of big-name exhibits could also be excellent news for the networks.
The much less stated in regards to the TV viewers for the Australian Open tennis match on 9, the quicker the community will overlook. The Nick Kyrgios knee harm, the early exit of Rafael Nadal, the rising dominance of The Joker and the shortage of Ash Barty meant viewers of 9’s varied broadcasts stayed away, whereas at Melbourne Park they flocked in document numbers — particularly for final evening’s males’s remaining.
The match averaged 1.706 million, down sharply from the two.095 who final 12 months watched Nadal win in 5 units, getting back from two units all the way down to Russian Daniil Medvedev. Barty’s win a 12 months in the past averaged 3.577 million; Saturday evening’s win by Aryna Sabalenka introduced in lower than one million nationally. The boys’s doubles remaining win by Aussies Rinky Hijikata and Jason Kubler averaged 576,000 after 11pm on Saturday.
Elsewhere, the knockout sport within the BBL drew 584,000 on Seven. Ten ended The Bachelors Australia with its greatest figures — 535,000 for the choice and 513,000 for the antics.
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