TNT Sports' Inaugural Roland-Garros Coverage in U.S. Delivers Record-Breaking Audience & Engagement
Women's Singles Final - Coco Gauff's Comeback Victory - Across TNT and truTV up 94% vs. 2024; Most Watched Roland-Garros Women's Final Since 2016
Sunday's Men's Singles Final - an All-Time Classic Won by Carlos Alcaraz - Peaked with 2.6 Million Viewers; Most-Watched Roland-Garros Men's Final Since 2021
Bleacher Report & House of Highlights Garner More Than 800 Million Social Video Views Throughout Roland-Garros, the Most-Viewed Tennis Tournament on Social by a Media Partner Ever
TNT Sports' inaugural U.S. coverage of Roland-Garros, the world's preeminent clay court tennis tournament, delivered record-breaking audience and engagement numbers across TNT, truTV, Bleacher Report and House of Highlights, culminating with epic matchups for both the Women's and Men's Singles Finals this past weekend.
Saturday's thrilling come-from-behind victory for World #2 Coco Gauff over World #1 Aryna Sabalenka delivered 1.5 million average viewers across TNT and truTV, up 94% vs. 2024, and it is the most watched Roland-Garros Women's Singles Final since 2016. TNT Sports' coverage of the match drove massive increases across key demos, including up 105% among P25-54 vs. 2024.
Sunday's Men's Singles Final between World #2 Carlos Alcaraz and World #1 Jannik Sinner - at five hours and 29 minutes, the longest Final in Roland-Garros history - peaked at 2.6 million viewers at 2:30 p.m. ET and averaged 1.8 million average viewers across TNT and truTV for the entire telecast, up 8% vs. 2024. It is the most watched Roland-Garros Men's Singles Final since 2021. The Alcaraz/Sinner match also drove a 16% increase among P25-54 viewers vs. 2024.
Across TNT and truTV, TNT Sports delivered the most consumed Roland-Garros in terms of total hours watched (through Friday's matches, the latest available data). Overall viewership for TNT's Roland-Garros coverage throughout the two-week event is up 25% vs. last year.
Bleacher Report and House of Highlights re-wrote the playbook for covering a major sporting event across social and digital platforms, and elevated Roland-Garros to new heights with around-the-clock highlights, original content, behind-the-scenes moments and more throughout the fortnight. This led to more than 800+ million video views across its collective social platforms and delivered the most socially viewed tennis tournament by a media partner ever.
Highlights across B/R and HoH platforms included:
Personality-led interviews - like Ben Shelton's sit-down with the Broadcast Boys - which averaged 1.3 million views per post on TikTok
Coco Gauff x John Isner interview discussing Coco forgetting her racquets generated 3 million views on B/R
The 41-shot rally between Alexander Zverev and Novak Djokovic was HoH's most-watched moment from Roland-Garros with over 10 million views on TikTok alone
Full match recaps on HoH platforms generated 16 million views and more than 1.7 million total hours consumed
B/R and HoH's collab with Roland-Garros featuring four legends of the game racked up over 30 million views on Instagram
Trinity Rodman going through the emotions watching Ben Shelton's match vs. Alcaraz generated 2.5 million views on B/R's TikTok
The moment Nadal became emotional with his footprint being revealed at Roland-Garros was one of HoH's most-watched moments on TikTok with 3 million views
On-set content extended to a digital audience, including TNT's 16-minute segment that brought together Venus Williams, Coco Gauff and Sloane Stephens, and has more than 450,000 views on B/R's YouTube
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