Sports Ratings Tracker

Last week’s U.S. Open mixed doubles semifinals and final averaged 492,000 viewers, up 43% from last year, which was the first year of the revamped mixed doubles tournament. That figure includes 552,000 for the final.

The previous day’s mixed doubles coverage averaged 363,000, peaking at 502,000 during the 5 PM ET quarter-hour that included the pairing of Serena Williams and Carlos Alcaraz.

Coverage of Wimbledon was averaging 759,000 viewers on the ESPN networks through the quarterfinals, up 24% from last year and the networks’ highest average at this point of the tournament.

On Wednesday, Novak Djokovic’s five-set win over Felix Auger-Aliassime averaged 1.1 million, peaking at 1.5 million in the 5:45 PM ET quarter-hour.

The Carlos Alcaraz-Novak Djokovic Australian Open men’s final averaged 730,000 viewers on ESPN in the overnight hours of last Sunday, up 57% from last year and the largest audience for the event since 2017, when Rafael Nadal faced Roger Federer.

The Elena Rybakina-Aryna Sabalenka women’s final drew 487,000 the previous night, up 8% from last year, when American Madison Keys won in three sets. But that is within the range that can be explained by Nielsen’s methodological changes of the past year.

Neither match was the most-watched of the tournament, as last Friday’s Alcaraz-Alexander Zverev semifinal drew 743,000.

The full Australian Open averaged 303,000 viewers, up 29%.

Sunday’s Carlos Alcaraz-Jannik Sinner US Open men’s final averaged 3.0 million viewers on ABC, marking the largest audience for the event in a decade and an 82% increase over last year’s final between Sinner and Taylor Fritz.

The previous day’s Aryna Sabalenka-Amanda Anisimova women’s final averaged 2.4 million, up 50% from Sabalenka-Jessica Pegula a year ago.

Keep in mind that Nielsen as of last week began using a new methodology that combines its existing panel with “Big Data” for set-top boxes and smart TVs, a figure that will generally be higher than the panel-only numbers that were the currency previously.

Having said that, the year-over-year gains were so substantial that it is highly likely viewership would have been up considerably all things being equal.

(Correction 9/10: The men’s final had 3.0 million, not 3.2 million. The 3.2 million figure is the decade-ago 2015 figure.)