Facts and Figures

Aces - Most

• Men: 98 - Philip Kohlschreiber (from five matches).
• Ladies: 102 - Serena Williams (all-time record).

Attendance

• Attendance was 484,805.

Catering

• 12,000 bananas (for players).
• 142,000 portions of strawberries.
• 1 million separate transactions made.

Centre Court Roof

• Closed at some stage during the day owing to poor weather on 9 of 13 days.
• Men’s Singles Final became the first Wimbledon singles final to be played under the roof (from third set).

Champions 2012

• Gentlemen’s Singles                                                Roger Federer
• Ladies’ Singles                                                        Serena Williams
• Gentlemen’s Doubles                                              Jonathan Marray & Frederik Nielsen
• Ladies’ Doubles                                                      Serena Williams & Venus Williams
• Mixed Doubles                                                        Mike Bryan & Lisa Raymond
• Boys’ Singles                                                          Filip Peliwo
• Girls’ Singles                                                           Eugenie Bouchard
• Boys’ Doubles                                                        Andrew Harris & Nick Kyrgios
• Girls’ Doubles                                                         Eugenie Bouchard & Taylor Townsend
• Gentlemen’s Invitational Doubles                              Greg Rusedski & Fabrice Santoro
• Ladies’ Invitational Doubles                                     Lindsay Davenport & Martina Hingis
• Gentlemen’s Senior Invitational Doubles                   Pat Cash & Mark Woodforde
• Gentlemen’s Wheelchair Doubles                             Tom Egberink & Michael Jeremiasz
• Ladies’ Wheelchair Doubles                                     Jiske Griffioen & Aniek Van Koot

Digital

• 16.9 million unique users to website (an 8.3% increase compared to 2011).
  • 1.53 million mobile app downloads (890,000 iPhone and 640,000 Android) representing a 90% increase on 2011.
  • Over 1 million streams of Live @ Wimbledon.
  • 965,000 Facebook likes.
  • More than 320,000 twitter followers.

Fastest Serve

• Men: Jo-Wilfried Tsonga - 140 mph.
• Ladies: Sabine Lisicki/Serena Williams - 120 mph.

Hawk-Eye Challenges (singles only)

• Men made 428 Challenges and 120 were correct, a 28.0% success rate.
• Ladies made 191 Challenges of which 49 were correct, a 25.7% success rate.

Merchandise

The top selling items in the Wimbledon Shop were: 

• 25,000 Championships’ towels.
• 15,000 mini tennis balls key rings (yellow and pink).
• 14,000 rubber wristbands.
• 10,000 umbrellas.
• 9,000 five-inch tennis ball.
• 7,000 cans of tennis balls.

Tennis Balls

• 54,000 Slazenger balls used during the Fortnight.

Ticket Resales

• Total net income was a record £167,000.
• HSBC match means the total funds available for charitable donation will be £334,000.

Viewing Figures

• UK: Peak audience of 16.9m tuned in to watch the Men’s Singles Final, believed to be the highest audience figure for a Wimbledon final since Borg v McEnroe in 1980.
• UK: Peak audience of 6.0m (4.8 in 2011) tuned in to watch Serena Williams take the Ladies’ Singles title.  
• US: ESPN’s unprecedented live matches led to its best rating for tennis of 2.9 (previously 2.3.). The 2.9 rating represents an average of 2,876,000 households and 3,925,000 viewers.
• Canada: TSN attained a record audience for the Men’s Singles Final of 515,000 making it the most watched Wimbledon final on Canadian television, up 16% on the previous best in 2008.  Over 2.9 million Canadians tuned in to watch some or all of Sunday’s final.  

Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum

Additions to the Museum’s unrivalled collection included:

• Roger Federer and Andy Murray – complete kits worn in the Men’s Singles final.
• Serena Williams – complete kit worn to win the Ladies’ Singles title.
• Jonathan Marray – racket used to win the Men’s Doubles title.
• Yaroslava Shvedova – racket used in achieving the ‘Golden’ set (no points conceded).