Day One at Wimbledon: ESPN+ to Stream 14 Courts, including Court Two with Cilic, Five-Time Champ Venus Williams, Monfils-Gasquet, Svitolina

• Wimbledon is the Major Tennis Debut for ESPN+

The Wimbledon fortnight commences tomorrow, Monday, July 2, with 64 singles matches on the docket and ESPN has all the action exclusively in the U.S. with ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN3 and – making its Major tennis debut – the new ESPN+ service.  The latter’s offerings will include Court Two where the order of play begins with last year’s Gentlemen’s finalist, #3 seed Marin Cilic, five-time champion #9 seed Venus Williams, an intriguing matchup of French veterans – Gael Monfils and #24 Richard Gasquet, and #5 Elina Svitolina who has reached at least the fourth round in her last four Majors.

For the first time, every match from the 18 courts at the All England Lawn Tennis Club – celebrating its 150^th anniversary – will be played in front of cameras.  ESPN’s coverage – first ball to last ball – includes more than 500 matches, all available for fans between ESPN3 and the new ESPN+ on the ESPN app; 140 hours of action will be on TV.  The action will climax with the Ladies’ Championship and the Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s Doubles Championships on ESPN on Saturday, July 14, and the Gentlemen’s Championship on Sunday, July 15, followed by the Mixed Doubles Championship.

ESPN+ will stream live the following 14 courts at Wimbledon, Monday, July 2 (action on each court begins at 11:30 a.m. ET; all matches available on demand for until the end of the tournament):

In addition to live matches, throughout Wimbledon ESPN+ also will offer:

• March Replays – every match that airs live on ESPN+ will be available for the entire tournament
• Wimbledon Archive Matches – 50 of the great Wimbledon matches of all time
• Official Wimbledon Films – Up to 30 one-hour films produced by AELTC and IMG.
• Daily Highlights Show – 52-minute show produced by IMG each day

About ESPN+

Launched in April, ESPN+ is the first-ever multi-sport, direct-to-consumer subscription streaming service from The Walt Disney Company’s Direct-to-Consumer and International division in partnership with ESPN.  Its lineup includes hundreds of MLB, NHL and MLS games, Top Rank boxing, Grand Slam tennis, PGA TOUR golf, college sports, international rugby, cricket, original shows and series, the full library of ESPN Films (including 30 for 30) and more. Fans can subscribe to ESPN+ for just $4.99 a month (or $49.99 per year).  It is available within the newly redesigned ESPN App and through ESPN.com.

ESPN and Tennis

Tennis has been part of ESPN since its first week on the air, providing numerous memorable moments from around the world, but it has never been as important as today, with the unprecedented position of presenting three of the sport’s Major events from start to finish (Australian Open, Wimbledon, US Open, with exclusivity at the latter two).

ESPN & WIMBLEDON 2018

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