Ash Barty’s fourth round AO win draws 877,000 metro viewers

Ash Barty’s win over American Shelby Rogers in the fourth round of the Australian Open attracted an average of 877,000 metro viewers to Nine. With the regions included, the match – which ran from 7:13pm to 8:25pm – secured 1.143 million viewers.

Elsewhere in the prime time tussle, The Amazing Race on Ten had a capital city audience of 546,000, and Holey Moley 468,000, but Seven’s mega mini golf format jumped ahead nationally with 748,000 to The Amazing Race’s 730,000.

Last night’s #ausopen match, in which Ash Barty defeated Shelby Rogers, saw the audience peak with 1.432m (metro: 1.087m reg: 345,000) viewers. The average national audience through the match was 1.143m (metro: 877,000 reg: 266,000). pic.twitter.com/uk2vK6JMEu