Amelie Mauresmo speaks on French Open night match scheduling - "You have more appeal for the men's matches"

Roland Garros tournament director Amelie Mauresmo says there has only been one women's night match at the event so far because men's matches have more appeal.

Mauresmo was appointed into the prestigious role at Roland-Garros last year, and is overseeing her first edition this year. But there have been some questions around the night session, which features just one match and has seen some very late finishes.

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Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic's quarter-final didn't finish until gone 1am local time on Wednesday morning, and now Mauresmo has been asked why women had only featured in one of the 10 night-match slots.

“In this era that we are in, I don't feel bad or unfair - as a woman and former women's player - saying that right now you have more appeal in general, for the men's matches," said the former World No.1. "My goal when I was doing the schedule every day was to try and see, from the first round when the draw came out, which women's match I could put there, honestly.

"The confrontation or the star that I could put there. You have all those parameters. So that was tough. Honestly, I did really consider every day - not every day, that would be wrong - but most of the days, trying to see, and all the team, we were really focusing on this most of the time.

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"But yes, I admit it was tough. It was tough for more than one night to find, as you say, the match of the day. When you have this it's an interesting one because the fact that it's right now a one-match night session is tough on this. It is tough."