{"id":830310,"date":"2026-07-29T02:20:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T02:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/830310\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T02:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T02:20:14","slug":"wimbledon-rides-a-rain-free-fortnight-to-record-high-attendance-nbc4-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/830310\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon rides a rain-free fortnight to record-high attendance \u2013 NBC4 Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wimbledon<\/a>\u00a0reached a record-high attendance of 550,151 over the Grand Slam tournament’s two weeks, up slightly over last year, the All England Club said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Attendance at the 139th edition of tennis’ grass-court major was aided by the first rain-free Championships since 2019. The total attendance was 1,381 more than in 2025.<\/p>\n

Wimbledon still trails in total attendance compared to the other three Grand Slams.<\/p>\n

The main draw of this year\u2019s Australian Open attracted more than 1.1 million fans. Last year\u2019s U.S. Open<\/a> drew more than 900,000 and the main draw for\u00a0the 2026 French Open<\/a>\u00a0was 589,500.<\/p>\n

The other three feature main-draw competition\u00a0over 15 days; Wimbledon remains at 14 days. The rival tournaments also hold their qualifying events on site in the week prior, allowing them to host more fans and boost revenues. Wimbledon’s qualifying event is off site.<\/p>\n

The All England Club said daily attendance records were set this year on Days 7 and 12 \u2014 as well as on Day 14 when\u00a0Jannik Sinner beat Alexander Zverev<\/a>\u00a0in the men\u2019s final. A day earlier,\u00a0Linda Noskova defeated Karolina Muchova<\/a>\u00a0in an all-Czech women’s final.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWimbledon is keeping the World Cup off its official screens, even in the players\u2019 lounge. Fans and players can still watch on their phones, but tournament TVs will stay focused on tennis.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wimbledon\u00a0reached a record-high attendance of 550,151 over the Grand Slam tournament’s two weeks, up slightly over last year,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":830311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747,749],"class_list":["post-830310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-wimbledon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}