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Wimbledon 2009 Facts and Figures
Monday, 6 July 2009

Written by AELTC

Attendance

  • 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

20082009
Monday 22 June 200939,03542,811 !!
Tuesday23 June 200940,65345,955 !!
Wednesday24 June 200940,83546,826 !!
Thursday25 June 200940,88145,370 +
Friday26 June 200939,98241,870 +
Saturday27 June 200940,876 +43,432 +
Monday29 June 200940.95244,478 +
Tuesday30 June 200939,262 +38,682
Wednesday1 July 200935,202 *39,849 +
Thursday2 July 200929,615 *30,842
Friday3 July 200931,27031,078
Saturday4 July 200928,65028,983
Sunday5 July 200928,59930,867
475,812511,043

* 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.

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