French Open Update – Women’s Finals

A live update the morning of the French Open Women’s Final! Sloane Stephens is the first American woman to represent the US other than Serena Williams since Venus Williams in 2002. Venus lost to Serena that year. Jennifer Capriati, also from the US, won the French open the year prior (2001).

Simona Halep, from Romania, is the world’s #1 tennis player but has yet to win a major. She has lost in the finals of the French open twice and lost in the finals of this year’s Australian Open.

Web Search Fan Interest

Worldwide interest, in Google web search, has favored Simona Halep heavily vs. Sloane.

Simona has more search interest in every country except Nigeria.

Sloane is close in the US, but still behind Halep.

Hailing from Romania, Halep also has similar high interest from several other countries in the European region.

United States Search Comparison

There is a much closer interest comparison in the United States between Halep and Stephens. The race is pretty tight in the past seven days on Google.

Sloane is getting higher interest from the southeastern United States. DC, Maryland, and Georgia have the highest proportion of interest for Sloane Stephens. DC, New York, and Delaware have the highest proportion of interest for Halep.

French Open Women’s Final Twitter Engagement

Both players have a larger male interest on Twitter with Halep having a slightly higher interest from Females. Looking at Trendsmap twitter data we can get further insight on twitter engagement.

Sloane Stephens Male/Female ENGAGEMENT

Simona Halep Male/Female Engagement

With Halep’s larger fan base and #1 ranking, she has slightly higher engagement over the last two weeks, according to Trendsmap.

Both players have the highest volume of engagement from their home country. France appears more active for Halep.

City level engagement is a similar story. London is beating out New York for the highest level of engagement for Sloane but is fairly level but still close in percentage of matching tweets from London for both players at 5%.

Sloane Stephens

Sloane Stephens had an incredible follower increase following last year’s US Open win. Can she do it again today?

Swinging into the @rolandgarros FINALS!!! 🎉 Thank you for all the love and support. I hear you! 🧡#FrenchOpen pic.twitter.com/pZ4KKWMbYX — Sloane Stephens (@SloaneStephens) June 7, 2018

Simona Halep

Simona Halep has continued to increase her followers on Twitter consistently over the last year vs. the immediate jump for Sloane.

Enjoy the match!

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