When Britain’s Jack Draper faces Gael Monfils on the French Open on Thursday, it can as soon as once more spotlight an eye-opening statistic. It is one which raises the query of whether or not the clay-court Grand Slam ought to do extra to advertise the ladies’s recreation.

Not since 2023 has a girls’s singles match occupied the primetime evening session slot on Courtroom Philippe Chatrier – a run stretching to 19 successive matches.

In actual fact, for the reason that match launched evening classes in 2021, solely 4 matches have been from the ladies’s draw.

It’s a placing imbalance that hits the headlines 12 months after 12 months, and one which former world quantity two Ons Jabeur believes impacts girls’s sport as a complete.

“It is unlucky for girls’s sports activities normally. Not for tennis, however normally,” mentioned three-time Grand Slam finalist Jabeur following her first-round exit on Tuesday.

“I hope whoever is making the choice, I do not assume they’ve daughters, as a result of I do not assume they need to deal with their daughters like this.

“It’s kind of ironic. They do not present girls’s sport, they do not present girls’s tennis, after which they ask the query, yeah, however principally they [viewers] watch males. In fact they watch males extra since you present males extra. All the pieces goes collectively.”

The final girls’s singles match to be performed within the night at Roland Garros was Aryna Sabalenka’s fourth-round win over Sloane Stephens two years in the past.

When requested for a remark in response to Jabeur’s feedback, the French Tennis Federation (FFT) didn’t present one.

As a substitute it mentioned match director Amelie Mauresmo would “discuss this matter shortly” with the previous world primary anticipated to carry a information convention later this week.