Without Nadal, it works too, and even better.
The twists and turns final between Novak Djokovic and Stefanos Tsitsipas brought together more than 4.4 million people on Sunday afternoon in front of their screens.
A nice score for France 2, which had not experienced such success since 2012.
In terms of market share, it's even a record since 2008, with 36.4% of viewers tuned into the Serbian's second coronation in Paris.
The day before, 1.7 million people had watched the ladies final between Barbora Krejcikova and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.
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More generally, the public service group welcomes its fortnight.
Faced with the arrival of Amazon, holder of the rights to the night sessions and its many posters (behind closed doors) and meetings on the Simonne-Mathieu court, France Télévisions had chosen to extend its hours, starting at 11 a.m. morning.
In total, 39 million viewers fell at least one minute on Roland-Garros, nearly a million more than in 2020. This represents the best coverage since 2013. Each afternoon, the audience was estimated at around 1.6 million people.
Finally, it should be noted that, if Amazon had the monopoly of "night sessions", France Televisions still had the chance to broadcast the semifinal anthology between Djokovic and Nadal. This Friday, June 11, up to 5.4 million French people attended this legendary fight until very late at night. For now, Amazon has not yet communicated its audience figures.
