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BRISTOL, Conn. — Jannik Sinner<\/a>‘s victory over Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> was the most-viewed Wimbledon men’s final since Novak Djokovic<\/a> edged Roger Federer<\/a> in a five-set thriller in 2019.<\/p>\n ESPN said Sunday’s match averaged 2.9 million viewers, a 31% increase over last year’s final and its best performance since about 3.8 million watched Djokovic win a fifth-set tiebreaker<\/a> in a match between two of tennis’ greatest champions.<\/p>\n The network also said Tuesday that ratings were up for the both the men’s and women’s semifinals. The women’s semis, which included American Amanda Anisimova<\/a> upsetting No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka<\/a>, averaged 897,000 viewers, the most since 2015, when Serena Williams<\/a> was part of the final four. The men’s average of 1.31 million was the highest since 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 15, 2025, 07:47 PM ET BRISTOL, Conn. — Jannik Sinner‘s victory over Carlos Alcaraz was the most-viewed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-13580","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}