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WIMBLEDON 2009 - SOME FINAL FACTS AND FIGURES

Aces - most
· Men: Andy Roddick 187 (from 7 matches)
· Ladies: Serena Williams 72 (from 7 matches – a new Championship record)
· Roger Federer served the most Aces in a final – 50

Attendance
· 511,043 - total attendance figure for the 13 days of The Championships was a record high, beating the previous 13-day high of 475,812 (2008) by 35,231.
· 9 day records were set
· Wednesday 24 June was the highest day attendance in history - 46,826.
· 160,600 people queued for tickets and ground passes

Catering
· Glasses of Pimm’s – 200,000 (+50,000 on 2008)
· Bottles of champagne – 20,000 (+3,000 on 2008)
· Strawberries – 28,000 kilos (no change)

Fastest Serve
· Men: Andy Roddick - 143 mph
· Women: Venus Williams - 124 mph (she holds the Championships record of 129mph set in 2008)

Gentlemen’s Singles Final – statistics
· Men’s Final saw most games ever played at 77 (2008 was previous highest at 62)
· Most games in a fifth set of a final – 30 (16-14) (previous highest 2008 9-7)
Merchandise

The top selling items in the Wimbledon Shop were:
· 36,632 items of headwear (hats, caps etc.)
· 18,243 mini yellow tennis ball key-rings
· 13,500 Men’s Championship Towels,
· 10,000 Twin Wrist Bands,
· 8,300 Ladies’ Championship Towels
· 7,100Mini pink tennis ball key-rings,
· 6,500 4 tennis ball can and
· 6,200 5” tennis balls for signatures.

Tennis Balls
· Over 54,200 Slazenger balls used during the Fortnight.

Viewing Figures (UK)
· Wimbledon Men’s Singles Final: Roger Federer’s victory over Andy Roddick was watched by a peak audience of 11.2m (6.25pm) viewers on BBC One.
· This peak figure represented a 57% share of the TV audience while an average audience of 7.5m watched Federer secure his 15th Grand Slam title.
· Ladies’ Singles Final between Serena and Venus Williams was watched by a peak audience of 4.2m (with the match averaging 3.4m).
· Wimbledon 2009 saw more users than ever logging on to follow the BBC coverage online. The BBC Sport Website received a record breaking 2.1m requests for Centre Court coverage on Friday 3 July as users logged on to follow the Murray v Roddick match, proving the most popular single live video stream for sport beating the record seen during the Olympics 2008.
· Across the fortnight, the BBC Sport Website received a total of 19.3m requests for Wimbledon audio visual content (live and on-demand) of which 16.2m was to live coverage – three and a half times more than for live streams in 2008.
· BBC Red Button once again proved extremely popular with viewers and an impressive 7.5m chose to press red and follow the dedicated BBC coverage of The Championships.
www.wimbledon.org
· 12.3m unique users (up 23% from 10.5m in 2008) logged onto the Wimbledon Website
· Total page views 359m (up 28% on 280m in 2008).
· Average dwell time was 82mins (up 19% on 2008).
· The new Wimbledon iPhone ‘App’ was downloaded some 700,000 times.


From AELTC PR

[berdyanskdotsu]

The BBC Sport Website received a record breaking 2.1m requests for Centre Court coverage on Friday 3 July as users logged on to follow the Murray v Roddick match, proving the most popular single live video stream for sport beating the record seen during the Olympics 2008. Wow!

[Super-Luser]

57% is a lot, right? Has USO achieved that or better in recent years?

[Lxbsvksl]

57% is a lot, right? Has USO achieved that or better in recent years?

I seriously doubt it. Tennis just doesn't have that kind of popularity in the US, and there are too many other sports competing (start of football season, baseball season pennant races)