Wimbledon’s large momentum continued with the third Grand Slam of 2025 drawing its greatest tv scores since earlier than the COVID-19 pandemic.
Iga Swiatek’s first Wimbledon title — the primary 6-0, 6-0 “double bagel” in a girls’s Wimbledon remaining since 1911 — averaged 1.9 million viewers. That was an 18 % bump over the 2024 girls’s remaining between Barbora Krejcikova and Jasmine Paolini.
That was adopted by the three.2 million viewers who tuned into Jannik Sinner’s first triumph on the All England Garden Tennis & Croquet Membership over Carlos Alcaraz. A rematch of final month’s French Open remaining received by Alcaraz, the scores for the Wimbledon males’s remaining have been up 26 % from final yr when the Spaniard confronted Novak Djokovic.
In all, the Grand Slam averaged 721,000 viewers throughout ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC, essentially the most since 2019. That was the final time Roger Federer and Serena Williams each reached the finals of the boys’s and girls’s attracts, though each misplaced that yr — Federer to Djokovic and Williams to Simona Halep.
It’s the fourth-highest scores since ESPN started airing protection solely in 2012, and represents a 6 % enhance over final yr. ESPN has broadcast rights to Wimbledon by way of 2035 in america.
The scores information got here on the heels of Sportico’s report final week that Wimbledon was anticipated to usher in greater than a half a billion {dollars} by its two-week conclusion.
The annual championship produced a 2024 haul of $555 million at present change charges, per the report. The All England Garden Tennis & Croquet Membership, operator of the occasion and the enjoying grounds, filed studies that confirmed a 7 % enhance from 2023 and 162 % greater than a decade in the past.
–Area Degree Media