{"id":772153,"date":"2026-09-16T04:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T04:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/772153\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T04:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T04:52:12","slug":"ben-shelton-vs-alexander-zverev-us-open-final-delivers-record-viewership-how-many-fans-watched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/772153\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Shelton vs. Alexander Zverev US Open Final Delivers Record Viewership, How Many Fans Watched?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">There was no shortage of interest in the US Open finals this weekend, namely the men&#8217;s final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">According to an <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong mui-mlpnpn\" href=\"https:\/\/espnpressroom.com\/press-release\/us-open-mens-championship-averages-3-2m-viewers-espns-largest-audience-ever\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN press release<\/a>, &#8220;Sunday&#8217;s US Open men&#8217;s championship match between Ben Shelton and eventual champion Alexander Zverev attracted an average audience of 3.2 million viewers on ABC, the largest viewership on record since ESPN began televising the tournament in 2009. Viewership peaked at 4.0 million from 5:30-5:45 p.m. ET.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Elena Rybakina&#8217;s victory over Aryna Sabalenka in the women&#8217;s final averaged 2.7 million viewers and peaked at 3.2 million viewers. The two finals combined averaged 3.0 million viewers, up nine percent year-over-year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">ESPN also noted it was the most-watched US Open since 2022 and averaged 1.2 million\u00a0viewers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was no shortage of interest in the US Open finals this weekend, namely the men&#8217;s final. According&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-772153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}