LONDON — Over the weekend, the Wimbledon ultimate between Linda Noskova and Karolina Muchova was ESPN’s most-watched girls’s championship match at a grass-court Grand Slam, helped by mid-match drama.
In Saturday’s all-Czech ultimate, Noskova wasted 5 match factors and held a 5-2 lead within the second set earlier than finally successful 6-2, 5-7, 6-3. The common variety of viewers was 1.9 million. This was a 48% enhance in comparison with final 12 months’s girls’s ultimate, the place Iga Swiatek defeated Amanda Anisimova 6-0, 6-0 in 57 minutes.
ESPN started broadcasting Wimbledon in 2003 and has had unique rights since 2012.
Jannik Sinner’s four-set victory over Alexander Zverev within the males’s ultimate on Sunday averaged 2.4 million viewers, a 16% lower from 2025, when Sinner defeated Carlos Alcaraz in 4 units.
Total, it ranked because the second most-watched Wimbledon on ESPN, averaging 853,000 viewers per day, up 18% from final 12 months, the community stated. This 12 months’s numbers have been the one one to fall in need of 2019, when Novak Djokovic defeated Roger Federer in a memorable five-set ultimate and Simona Halep defeated Serena Williams to win the ladies’s trophy.
Williams’ return to Grand Slam tennis this 12 months for the primary time in almost 4 years additionally gave ESPN its largest viewers for the second day of Wimbledon, averaging 1.8 million viewers within the U.S. regardless that the match was performed on a Tuesday afternoon.
Sinner’s victory over Alcaraz final 12 months averaged 5.7 million viewers in Italy.
The finals started at 11 a.m. ET in the US and 5 p.m. ET in Italy.
