Epic Alcaraz-Djokovic last peaks at 11.3m BBC viewers

The epic males’s Wimbledon last between Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic had a peak viewers of 11.3m on BBC One.

The Alcaraz-Djokovic match was additionally streamed stay 4.1m instances on BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport on-line.

Spain’s Alcaraz, 20, beat defending champion Djokovic in a thrilling five-set match on Centre Court docket.

The BBC’s general protection in 2023 set a brand new report for digital viewing figures, with the event streamed 54.3m instances on iPlayer and on-line.

Unseeded Marketa Vondrousova’s straight-set victory in opposition to 2022 finalist Ons Jabeur of Tunisia within the girls’s singles last pulled in a peak viewers of 4.5m on BBC One – a rise from final 12 months’s 3.1m.

Czech Vondrousova’s maiden title at SW19 was streamed 1.3m instances on BBC iPlayer, an 85% improve from 2022.

Throughout the two-week occasion, 25.6m watched this 12 months’s Wimbledon on BBC TV.

BBC director of sport Barbara Slater stated: “It’s nice to see that now we have been in a position to meet the viewing calls for of audiences, with important will increase in streaming of each the lads’s and girls’s finals, and an enormous peak on BBC One on Sunday.

“We’re regularly dedicated to bringing the easiest protection of Wimbledon to audiences throughout the UK, so I’m enormously proud that now we have been in a position to do this as soon as once more this 12 months.”

The partnership between the BBC and the All England Garden Tennis Membership is the longest in sports activities broadcasting, spanning greater than 85 years on BBC TV and greater than 95 years on BBC radio.