The total attendance figure for the 13 days of The Championships was 511,043 a record high, beating the previous high of 475,812 set in 2008 by 35,231.
9 day records were set: Wednesday 24 June was the highest day attendance in history - 46,826.
160,600 people queued for tickets and ground passes
2008
2009
Monday
22 June 2009
39,035
42,811 !!
Tuesday
23 June 2009
40,653
45,955 !!
Wednesday
24 June 2009
40,835
46,826 !!
Thursday
25 June 2009
40,881
45,370 +
Friday
26 June 2009
39,982
41,870 +
Saturday
27 June 2009
40,876 +
43,432 +
Monday
29 June 2009
40.952
44,478 +
Tuesday
30 June 2009
39,262 +
38,682
Wednesday
1 July 2009
35,202 *
39,849 +
Thursday
2 July 2009
29,615 *
30,842
Friday
3 July 2009
31,270
31,078
Saturday
4 July 2009
28,650
28,983
Sunday
5 July 2009
28,599
30,867
475,812
511,043
* Bad Weather ** No Play !! All Time Record + Record for the day
Aces - most
Men: Andy Roddick (187 from 7 matches)
Ladies: Serena Williams (72 from 7 matches – a new Championship record)
Roger Federer served the most Aces in a final – 50
Final – stats
Men’s Final saw most games ever played at 77 (2008 was previous highest at 62)
Most games in a fifth set of a final – 30 (16-14) (previous highest 2008 9-7)
Catering
Strawberries - 26,500 kilos
Pimms – 200,000 glasses
Bottles of champagne - 20,000
Fastest Serve
Men: Andy Roddick (143 mph)
Women: Venus Williams - 124 mph (she holds the Championships record of 129mph set in 2008)
Merchandise
The top selling items in the Wimbledon Shop were: 18,243 Mini yellow tennis ball key-rings, 13,500 Men’s Championship Towels, 10,000 Twin Wrist Bands, 8,300 Ladies’ Championship Towels and 7,100Mini pink tennis ball key-rings, 6,500 4 tennis ball can and 6,200 5” tennis balls for signatures. A total of 36,632 items of headwear (hats, caps etc.)
Tennis Balls
Over 54,200 Slazenger balls used during the Fortnight.
Viewing Figures
Wimbledon Men’s Singles Final: Watched by a peak audience of 11.2 million viewers (6.25pm) on BBC One.
This peak figure represented a 57% share of the TV audience. Average audience of 7.5m watched the match.
Wimbledon Website
12.3m unique users (up 23% from 10.5m in 2008) logged onto the Wimbledon Website (www.wimbledon.org), total page views 359m (up 28% on 280m in 2008). Average dwell time was 82mins (up 19% on 2008).
The new Wimbledon iPhone ‘App’ was downloaded some 700,000 times.