Tennis: 3.6 million viewers in Australia for the final of the Australian Open, Federer versus Nadal

The victory of Roger Federer (SUI) over Rafael Nadal (ESP) (6-4, 3-6, 6-1, 3-6, 6-3, in 3 hours and 37 minutes) in the final of the 2017 Australian Open tennis tournament, drew 3.6 million viewers on average on the Australian private, free-TV Channel Seven on Sunday, 29/01/2017 (beginning of the match at 19:30 local time in Melbourne).

This figure represented an audience share of 50.6%, with a peak audience of 4.4 million viewers in Australia. This is the best audience for a tennis match in Australia in the past 10 years, according to Australian press on 30/01/2017. The record is still held by the 2005 Australian Open final, Leyton Hewitt (AUS) - Marat Safin (RUS) (1-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4), which drew an average 5.56 million viewers on 30/01/2005.

In Spain, the match drew 1.31 million viewers on average in the Spanish private, free-TV channel Dmax (which began broadcasting at 09:38 local time). This figure represented an audience share of 20.5% in Spain for the channel of the Discovery Communications group.