By Alberto Amalfi | @Tennis_Now | Tuesday, September 12, 2024
Coco Gauff’s impressed comeback win within the US Open last rocked Arthur Ashe Stadium and enthralled American tv viewers.
The 19-year-old Gauff’s three-set win over Aryna Sabalenka within the last made historical past as essentially the most considered ladies’s Grand Slam ever on ESPN.
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After dropping the primary set, Gauff rallied to defeat new world No. 1 Sabalenka and be part of Serena Williams and Tracy Austin because the third American teenager within the Open Period to seize the US Open championship.
Gauff’s dramatic run to the ultimate that noticed her rating three-set wins over German qualifier Laura Siegemund and former world No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki in addition to a crushing conquest of 2017 Roland Garros champion Jelena Ostapenko was a large rankings winner for ESPN.
Gauff’s victory ranks because the second most-viewed telecast for the US Open total, behind solely her tennis hero, Serena Williams’, last match in 2022, and the most-streamed telecast of the 2023 match on ESPN+.
The 2023 US Open Males’s and Girls’s Championship on ESPN this previous weekend averaged 2.8 million viewers, up +40% in comparison with 2022, making it the second most-viewed US Open of all time on ESPN, behind solely 2019’s Championships.
ESPN issued these stats from its US Open protection:
Girls’s Championship: Coco Gauff vs. Aryna Sabalenka
Gauff’s win delivered 3.4 million viewers on ESPN, up +92% vs final 12 months’s Girls’s Championship making it the most-viewed Main Girls’s Championship ever.
The ladies’s championship was the most-streamed telecast of the match on ESPN+. Gauff beat Sabalenka 2:6, 6:3 and 6:2 to win her first main title.
Males’s Championship: Daniil Medvedev vs. Novak Djokovic
Novak Djokovic’s victory over Daniil Medvedev, Djokovic’s record-setting twenty fourth Grand Slam title, averaged 2.3 million viewers, up +8% year-over-year, changing into the most-viewed US Open males’s last since Rafael Nadal confronted Medvedev within the 2019 last (2.8 million viewers). Djokovic received in three units 6:3, 7:6, 6:3.
Semifinals
The ladies’s and males’s semifinals mixed had been the most-viewed of all time on ESPN, averaging 1.9 million viewers, up 1 % from the earlier report in 2022.
Girls’s Semifinals
Thursday’s ladies’s semifinal matches between Gauff and Karolina Muchova and American Madison Keys vs. Aryna Sabalenka delivered 1.8 million viewers on ESPN. That represents a rise of 56% over final 12 months.
Gauff defeated Muchova 6:4, 7:5 and Sabalenka beat Madison Keys in three units 0:6, 7:6, 7:6.
For the whole match, 2023 US Open protection throughout ABC, ESPN and ESPN2 averaged 1 million viewers total, up 25% from 2021, and down 17% 12 months over 12 months due partially to the impression of the numerous curiosity round Serena Williams’ last US Open look in 2022.
Photograph credit score: Pete Staples/USTA/US Open Fb
