August 27, 2025
The final Jannik Sinner-Carlos Alcaraz Wimbledon draws the biggest grades in 6 years while the next generation of tennis takes over

The final Jannik Sinner-Carlos Alcaraz Wimbledon draws the biggest grades in 6 years while the next generation of tennis takes over

If the notes of the Wimbledon 2025 male singles final are judges, fans are starting to adopt the most recent generation of tennis.

The final between Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz, which Sinner won 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4, pulled an average of 2.9 million viewers in ESPN, the network announced on Wednesday. The figures would have culminated at 4 million viewers at the end of the match.

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On the female side, 6-0, 6-0, 6-0, 6-0 of Amanda Anisimova, in the last, on average of 1.3 million viewers, not a surprise given to what extent the match was not competitive.

This men’s audience is not only an increase of 31% compared to last year’s final between Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic. This is the best number that the tournament has seen since the 2019 final between Djokovic and Roger Federer, the last time that two members of the previous Big 3 of the Sport (with Rafael Nadal) clashed in Wimbledon. This 2019 match saw an average of 3.8 million listening viewers.

Since then, Wimbledon has seen finals featuring Djokovic against lower opponents in 2021 and 2022 and Alcaraz beating Djokovic in 2022 and 2023. The tournament did not take place in 2020 due to the Pandemic COVID-19.

Tennis needed Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz

Since the moment when Federer and Nadal have started to decrease more than half a decade ago, tennis was waiting for a new generation to take over after seeing three guys win 45 of the 59 Grand Chelem from 2004 to 24. Add Andy Murray and he became 48 out of 59.

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Some talented players emerged and even won a slam in the cases of Daniil Medvedev and Dominic Thiem, but none of them stayed until the 23 -year -old sinner and Alcaraz, 22. Together, the Italians and the Spaniard have won all the great chelems since the last title of Djokovic at the US Open of 2023 and now apparently enter all the major tournament on a collision course with each other.

It appeared that the tennis sport would be in a worst place when Djokovic, the standard bearer of the previous generation, described it as a career, which it recently alluded. Now there are two other players on Pace for a career of all time, with a lot of tennis in front of them.

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