Seven’s Tennis has 858,000 for first night of Australian Open
The first day of the Australian open brought just 858,000 metro viewers to Channel Seven last night, a drop from 1.246m this time last year, preliminary overnight ratings from OzTam show.
Evening play started at 7pm with a match between reigning champion Novak Djokovic who beat Slovakian Lukas 
Lacko in straight sets before Australian teenager Ashleigh Barty played world number one Serena Williams, with the match over in just under an hour ending play on the Rod Laver Arena just before 10.30pm.
Seven’s tennis was second in its timeslot from 7pm to 7.30pm as Nine’s A Current Affair averaged 991,000 in its new later home.
Important to note that Tennis figure had a figure of 0 for Perth metro in the Oztam numbers.
That’s because it ran on 7TWO in Perth. Perth ran up to 6pm on Seven.
… and to be fair those zeroes were the 7am Preview and an early 8am game on 7TWO and a big jump at 9am on TVW7.
What zeroes? Preview was 2,000, then early game was 6,000 in Perth before switching to Seven at 9am
Zero TARPs … not 000s.