Wimbledon 2023 has drawn to a close with 54.3m streams of the BBC’s coverage on iPlayer and BBC Sport online during the two-week long competition – up from 53.8m in 2022.
The Championships welcomed new faces to its hall of fame this year, with Vondroušová winning her first ever Grand Slam, and Alcaraz defeating seven-time Wimbledon winner Djokovic to become the Men’s Singles champion.
On BBC One a peak audience of 11.3m watched Djokovic fail to escape from Alcaraz in five sets, the biggest since Andy Murray won in 2016. The match was also streamed by 4.1m on BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport online, an increase of 58 per cent from 2022.
The final, which saw the Spaniard win his first Wimbledon, received a peak audience share of 66 per cent.
During the Women’s Singles Final, where Vondroušová become victorious over Jabeur, there
was another impressive peak audience of 4.5m on BBC One – a significant increase from 2022’s 3.1m. The match was streamed 1.3m times on BBC iPlayer, a huge 85 per cent increase from 2022.
Across The Championships, 25.6m watched Wimbledon 2023 on BBC TV.
Barbara Slater, director of BBC Sport said: “It’s great to see that we have been able to meet the viewing demands of audiences, with significant increases in streaming of both the men’s and women’s finals, and a huge peak on BBC One on Sunday. We are continually committed to bringing the very best coverage of Wimbledon to audiences across the UK, so I’m enormously proud that we have been able to do that once again this year.”
