ESPN, Tennis Channel: Game, Set, Match At Wimbledon ’23 Grand Slam Tournament.
Wednesday, June 28, 2023 at 07:22PM By Barry Janoff
UPDATED July 2, 2023: July 3 First Day Order Of Play includes Novak Djokovic, Iga Swiatek, Coco Gauff, Jessica Pegula, Sloane Stephens, John Isner and Venus Williams (ESPN).
UPDATED June 30: 2023: Wimbledon Draws unveiled:
• Men's Singles
• Women's Singles
June 28, 2023: To coincide with the unveiling of men’s and women’s seeding for the Wimbledon Grand Slam, ESPN has released its full coverage for the Tournament, which will run July 3 through the women’s singles championship on July 15 and the men’s singles championship on July 16.
ESPN will exclusively present live and in its entirety the third tennis Grand Slam of the season.
In addition to coverage on ESPN and streaming on ESPN+ and ESPN3, ABC will broadcast select live matches on the middle Saturday (July 8) and Sunday (July 9).
Breakfast at Wimbledon (analysis, behind-the-scenes stories, news) begins July 8 and then continues each day on ESPN.
ESPN Deportes will air more than 75 hours of live action in Spanish, including the Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s Semifinals and Championships.
Tennis Channel, which has been covering Wimbledon since 2008, has nearly 190 hours planned for the tournament, including match replays, original news shows and live on-site coverage.
Organizers said total prize money would be a record $56.5 million, a rise of more than 11% vs. last year and a 17.1% increase from the pre-pandemic Championships in 2019.
The winners of the men’s and women’s singles will each earn $2,954,747, according to the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club.
“We are delighted to offer record prize money to the players competing at The Championships this year, with double-digit increases across the majority of events,” Ian Hewitt, chairman of the All England Club, said via the organization.
Defending champions are Novak Djokovic and Elena Rybakina.
Missing from the event will be past winners Serena Williams (retired), Roger Federer (retired) and Rafael Nadal (injured).
Men’s and women’s world No.1 Carlos Alcaraz and Iga Swiatek have been named as top seeds at The Championships 2023 after the seeding lists were published today.
Alcaraz will be on the opposite side of the draw from Wimbledon seven-time champion and No.2 seed Djokovic, meaning they could meet in the men’s final on .July 16.
Djokovic will attempt to equal Roger Federer’s Wimbledon record of eight men’s singles titles and seeks to extend his Grand Slam tally to 24 after winning the Australian and Roland-Garros Grand Slams this year.
Daniil Medvedev, Casper Ruud, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Holger Rune, Andrey Rublev, Jannik Sinner and U.S. players Taylor Fritz and Frances Tiafoe are in the men’s Top Ten.
Swiatek, who just won the third Roland-Garros trophy of her career — and fourth Grand Slam overall — will be in the opposite draw from No. 2 seed Aryna Sabalenka.
Rybakina, who suffered from a virus that forced her to withdraw from the Eastbourne tournament this week, is seeded No. 3.
The women’s Top Ten also includes U.S. top-seeded player Jessica Pegula, Caroline Garcia, Ons Jabeur,, U.S. player Coco Gauff, Maria Sakkari, Petra Kvitova and Barbora Krejcikova.
Unseeded players include five-time Wimbledon champion and wild card Venus Williams, Wimbledon 2019 semi-finalist Elina Svitolina, and past U.S. Open winners Bianca Andreescu and Sloane Stephens.
(See the full men’s and women’s seeds here.)
The Draw for the ladies' and gentlemen's singles will be conducted June 30.
ESPN has televised Wimbledon since 2003, with exclusivity in the U.S. since 2012.
ESPN’s daily coverage will also feature the ESPN App as streaming home for Wimbledon with at least 500 matches across the two weeks from all 18 courts.
As a special presentation of ESPN Radio, SiriusXM will offer subscribers comprehensive live coverage throughout the tournament.
ESPN+ will also stream Wheelchair, Doubles Semifinals, Boys’ and Girls’ Juniors Championships, and Invitational Doubles.
Lead Tennis Channel commentators and analysts include Martina Navratilova, Lindsay Davenport, Jim Courier, Paul Annacone, Steve Weissman, Brett Haber and Jon Wertheim.
As previously unveiled, in a reversal from its controversial decision in 2022, organizers for the 2023 Wimbledon The Championships said Russian and Belarusian players would be able to compete at the Grand Slam.
“Our current intention is to accept entries from Russian and Belarusian players subject to them competing as ‘neutral’ athletes and complying with appropriate conditions,” the All England Club posted to its Web site today.
The players must sign declarations of neutrality and comply with “appropriate conditions,” including not expressing support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Wimbledon’s decision to ban athletes from Russia and Belarus last year impacted players including ATP Tour players Daniil Medvedev, Andrey Rublev, Karen Khachanov and Sebastian Korda; and Hologic WTA Tour players Aryna Sabalenka, Victoria Azarenka, Daria Kasatkina, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Liudmila Samsonova.
In response, the Hogolic WTA Tour and ATP Tour withdrew all ranking points from the Tournament.
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