Top odds for Wimbledon, record for mammoth rallies between Djokovic and Federer
The dramatic Wimbedon final between Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer also attracted many spectators on Sky - and a few more records.
by Florian Goosmann
last edit: Jul 18, 2019, 05:36 pm
Djokovic and Federer had raked on the Heilgen Rasen for almost five hours - and made for happy faces in Munich. Djokovic and Federer watched an average of 310,000 viewers on TV, which corresponded to a market share of 1.6 percent - in the target group it was as much as 2.7 percent, as the media magazine DWDL.de reports . This was more than twice as many spectators at the start as last year at the final between Djokovic and Kevin Anderson.
The women's final on Saturday had only 100,000 spectators and a market share of 0.4 percent in the target group - for comparison: a year ago there were twice as many. 2.3 million viewers had also tuned in to ZDF, which had also obtained the final rights at short notice.
In Great Britain, however, the viewing participation was still a lot higher, as Wimbledon announced in a press release: 9.6 million viewers were there during the free-to-air broadcast on BBC1, an additional 2.7 million via stream. In the USA, too, many were interested in tennis: the men's final on ESPN had been the most watched since 2012, and overall visual participation was 30 percent higher than in the previous year. And: It was said to be the third most successful tennis broadcast for ESPN.
Djokovic and Federer had also cleared up on social media like never before: 750,000 interactions on Twitter, 3.5 million on Instagram and 77,000 on Youtube. Video views were higher than ever, with 8.3 million on Twitter, 10.34 million on Instagram and 6.76 million on YouTube.
The audience participation on site was the second highest in history - with 500,397 visitors. Also because the total capacity of the site has increased to 42,000 visitors.
More Wimbledon 2019 numbers
A total of 146,860 points were played, 24,009 games and 1,520 hours of tennis
Djokovic vs Federer was the longest final ever at Wimbledon, with 4 hours and 57 minutes. A ball change with 35 strokes was also the longest ever in a Wimbledon final since the start of the recordings
The longest ball change of the tournament: the 45-stroke rally between Djokovic and Roberto Bautista Agut in the semi-finals
In the women's Cori Gauff and Polona Hercog made it to the annual record in Wimbledon with 32 strokes
In his semi-final game against Rafael Nadal, Federer overtook "Lord of the Aces", Goran Ivanisevic, with the most aces at Wimbledon (Ivanisevic had made 1,397)
- Simona Halep played the cleanest final since the beginning of the recordings - with only three mistakes without need