WIMBLEDON 2016 WRAP BY THE NUMBERS & MISC. INFORMATION – PASSING SHOTS AND HEAPS OF TIDBITS

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WIMBLEDON 2016 WRAP BY THE NUMBERS & MISC. INFORMATION - PASSING SHOTS AND HEAPS OF TIDBITS

epa05418838 Andy Murray of Britain kisses the championship trophy following his win over Milos Raonic of Canada in the men's singles final of the Wimbledon Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis Club, in London, Britain, 10 July 2016. EPA/ANDREW COULDRIDGE POOL EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO COMMERCIAL SALES  |

PASSING SHOTS FROM WIMBLEDON 2016

Aces – most

·         Ladies:       74 – Serena Williams

·         Men:           145 – Milos Raonic

Broadcast (early headline audience figures)

·         BBC:  The Gentlemen’s Singles Final peaked at 13.3 million with a 69% peak share.  The Ladies’ Singles Final audience peak was 4.8m. On the website there were 10.2 million unique browsers and     1.9 million requests for the Wimbledon live stream. The Mixed Doubles Final featuring Heather Watson peaked at 2.8m and the Gentlemen’s Wheelchair Singles Final on BBC2 with Gordon Reid at         peaked 1.1m 

·         ESPN:  Most-watched Wimbledon to-date on WatchESPN – up 35% vs. 2015

·         TSN (Canada):  The Gentlemen’s Singles Final featuring Milos Raonic became the most watched tennis match in Canada peaking at 2.4 million

Catering

·         177,135 – glasses of Pimm’s

·         139,435 – portions of strawberries

·         133,800 – traditional English scones

·         2772 – kilos of bananas (for players)

Champions 2016

Gentlemen’s Singles                                          Andy Murray (GBR)

Ladies’ Singles                                                  Serena Williams (USA)

Gentlemen’s Doubles                                        Pierre-Hugues Herbert (FRA) & Nicolas Mahut (FRA)

Ladies’ Doubles                                                Serena Williams (USA) & Venus Williams (USA) 

Mixed Doubles                                                  Henri Kontinen (FIN) & Heather Watson (GBR)

Boys’ Singles                                                    Denis Shapovalov (CAN)

Girls’ Singles                                                     Anastasia Potapova (RUS)

Boys’ Doubles                                                  Kenneth Raisma (EST) & Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE)

Girls’ Doubles                                                   Usue Maitane Arconada (USA) & Claire Liu (USA) 

Gentlemen’s Wheelchair Singles                         Gordon Reid (GBR)

Ladies’ Wheelchair Singles                                 Jiske Griffioen (NED)

Gentlemen’s Wheelchair Doubles                       Alfie Hewett (GBR) & Gordon Reid (GBR)

Ladies’ Wheelchair Doubles                               Yui Kamiji (JPN) & Jordanne Whiley (GBR)

Gentlemen’s Invitational Doubles                        Greg Rusedski (GBR) & Fabrice Santoro (FRA)

Ladies’ Invitational Doubles                               Martina Navratilova (USA) & Selima Sfar (TUN)

Gentlemen’s Senior Invitational Doubles             Todd Woodbridge (AUS) & Mark Woodforde (AUS)

Digital (initial observations)

·         Unique devices – 20.9m (21.1m in 2015) 

·         Visits – 69.4m (72.0m in 2015)

·         Page views – 395m (542m in 2015) 

·         mobile .com uniques: 9.6m (8.4m in 2015) 

·         mobile .com visits: 23.6m (19.7m in 2015) 

·         mobile .com page views: 88.3m (73.7m in 2015) 

·         App downloads: 1.5m

·         .com to apps uniques split: 93% to 7%

·         .com to apps page views split: 51% to 49%

·         Social media audience: 10.5m (8.5m in 2015)

·         106m video views (85m in 2015)

·         Live @ Wimbledon TV: 1.5m (global excl Spain, Austria, Italy, Germany) (1.6m in 2015)

·         Bespoke social media feeds in Chinese (Sina Weibo and WeChat – 65k followers), WeChat prediction game (55k users) and geo-targeted content posted in Japanese on Facebook and Line.

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Farewell to Court 19

·         Court 19 has been retired after 20 consecutive Championships to make way for a new public plaza as part of the No.1 Court redevelopment project

·         Andy Murray was the last player to hit a ball on the court when practising on Sunday morning prior to the Gentlemen’s Singles Final

Fastest Serve

·         Ladies:       124mph – Serena Williams 

·         Men:           147mph – Milos Raonic

Merchandise 

The top selling items through 158,000 retail transactions in the Wimbledon Shop were: 

·         18,070 – Gentlemen’s Championships’ towel 

·         15,407 – Championships’ pen

·         10,907 – Ladies’ Championships’ towel

·           7,905 – Racket key ring

·           6,944 – Championships’ magnet 

·           6,144 – Yellow autograph ball medium

·           5,451 – Men’s classic logo navy cap

Middle Sunday

·           Play took place on Middle Sunday (3 July) for the fourth time (1991, 1997, 2004)

·           22,000 tickets available online via Ticketmaster sold out in 27 minutes. 111,000 people applied. 

·           Tickets: Centre Court x 10,000 (£70); No.1 Court x 8,000 (£40) and Grounds Passes x 4,000 (£20) with a maximum of two per household.

·           Attendance: 24,623

Wimbledon Foundation – Ticket Resale for charity 

·         £170,682 – money raised from the Ticket Resale scheme, whereby show court tickets no longer required are re-sold to spectators already in the grounds

·         £341,364 – total funds donated to the Wimbledon Foundation after matching by HSBC.  Proceeds distributed to charities through the Wimbledon Foundation’s grant programmes

Wimbledon Foundation – Coin Toss

·         Ladies’ Singles Final – performed by Uma Baker-Bahl, representing Barnardo’s 

·         Gentlemen’s Singles Final – performed by Yousef Maza, representing Jigsaw4U

Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum  

Additions to the Museum’s unrivalled collection included:

·         Serena Williams – winning outfit

·         Andy  Murray –  winning outfit

·         Milos Raonic – items from his outfit

·         Marcus Willis – outfit

·         Zhang Shuai – example of the ‘Nightie’ dress  

·         Coin used for the coin toss in the first Ladies’ Wheelchair Singles Final

·         Costume worn by ‘Strawberry Man’ during The Championships

Pierre-Hughes Herbert (centre left) and Nicolas Mahut of France (centre right) lift trophies after winning their Gentleman’s Doubles Final against Julien Benneteau and Edouard Roger-Vasselin of France during Wimbledon Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis Club, in London, Britain, 09 July 2016 EPA/GERRY PENNY

Serena Williams of the US lifts the championship trophy as she celebrates her win over Angelique Kerber of Germany in their ladies’ singles final during the Wimbledon Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis Club, in London, Britain, 09 July 2016. EPA/FACUNDO ARRIZABALAGA

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