The world watched Carlos Alcaraz out-duel Novak Djokovic in a Wimbledon closing thriller.
Alcaraz’s five-set conquest of defending champion Djokovic captivated a world viewers and was a giant rankings winner for ESPN.
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The four-hour, 42-minute males’s closing drew 3.2 million viewers for ESPN.
It’s the most-watched Wimbledon males’s closing on ESPN since 2019 when Djokovic denied championship factors defeating Roger Federer in 5 units. That marathon match drew 3.4 million viewers for ESPN.
In the UK, the boys’s closing was a large rankings hit.
The dramatic duel peaked on BBC One with an viewers of 11.3 million. It’s the largest BBC viewers for a Wimbledon males’s closing since 2016 when Andy Murray’s victory over Milos Raonic drew a excessive of 13.3 million viewers, the BBC studies.
Marketa Vondrousova’s straight-sets win over Ons Jabeur within the Wimbledon women closing drew 1.3 million viewers, a ten% enhance from final yr’s telecast that includes Elena Rybakina’s three-set comeback victory over Ons Jabeur.
The Gentlemen’s Singles Championship on ESPN Deportes was the second most-watched Wimbledon telecast on the community behind the 2019 Men’s Singles Championship.
ESPN studies its Wimbledon streaming is the most-watched tennis event on ESPN+ so far. Across all ESPN+ feeds, viewership was up triple digits from 2022.
The community stated that elevated is because of “a larger number of available feeds and expanded coverage time, including the Gentlemen’s and Ladies’ Singles Championships.”
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Source: www.tennisnow.com