ESPN Wimbledon Audience Spikes for QF and SF

By Richard Pagliaro | @TennisNow | Wednesday, July 16, 2025
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Wimbledon quarterfinal and semifinal matches had been scores winners for ESPN.

ESPN reviews probably the most considered Wimbledon quarterfinals and semifinals of the previous six years, probably the most considered Women’ semifinals in a decade and probably the most considered Wimbledon Day One ever on ESPN platforms.

ESPN stats from Wimbledon protection:

The Finals:

Sunday’s Gents’s Championship between Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz averaged 2.9 million viewers, +31% vs. 2024 The viewership peaked on the finish of the match with 4.0 million viewers.

The match solely (excluding trophy ceremony and post-match evaluation) averaged 3.2 million viewers, +26% vs. final 12 months’s match.

The Finals, Women’ and Gents’s, protection averaged 2.2 million viewers, +19% vs. 2024

The Saturday’s Women’ Closing averaged 1.3 million viewers

The match solely (excluding trophy ceremony and post-match evaluation) averaged 1.9 million viewers, up +18% vs. final 12 months’s match. This was a lopsided match, with Iga Świątek delivering a dominant efficiency over Amanda Anisimova.

Semifinals:

The viewers throughout each the Women’ and Gents’s Semifinals was probably the most considered of the previous six years Semifinals protection averaged 1.1 million viewers, +33% vs. 2024.

The July 10 Women’ Semifinals

This was probably the most considered Women’ Semifinals in a decade (the 2015 version featured Serena Williams), with No. 13 Anisimova defeating No. 1 Sabalenka and No. 8 Swiatek’s victory over Belinda Bencic.

Viewership averaged 897,000, +31% vs. 2024.

The July 11 Gents’s Semifinals This was the most-viewed Gents’s Semifinals in six years, and featured No. 2 Alcaraz vs. No. 5 Fritz and No. 1 Sinner vs. No. 6 Djokovic (the 2019 version featured Nadal and Federer). Viewership averaged 1.3 million, a rise of 34% vs. 2024.

Quarterfinals: The July 8 and 9 Quarterfinals on ESPN and ESPN2 had been probably the most considered in six years Viewership averaged 488,000 viewers, +25% vs. 2024.