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· Wimbledon is the Major Tennis Debut for ESPN+
- Monfils, Wawrinka Matches on ESPN+
- Many Doubles Matches as Gentlemen’s, Ladies’ Competitions Get Underway
Day Three at Wimbledon will begin the second round Wednesday, July 4, and ESPN has all the action exclusively in the U.S. with ESPN, ESPN3 and – making its Major tennis debut this week – the new ESPN+ service with coverage of 14 courts. The latter’s offerings will include Court Two where action will include matches with #13 seed Milos Raonic, #32 Agnieszka Radwanska, US Open finalist #8 Kevin Anderson and #23 Barbara Strycova.
ESPN+ will also stream:
- Court 3 where both Gael Monfils and three-time Major champion Stan Wawrinka will play.
- Numerous doubles matches as the Gentlemen’s and Ladies events get underway.
For the first time, there are cameras on every court at the All England Lawn Tennis Club. 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, Wednesday, July 4 (action on each court begins at 6:30 a.m. ET; all matches available on demand until the end of the tournament):
| Court | Matches |
| Court 2 | John Millman vs #13 Milos Raonic
#32 Agnieszka Radwanska vs Lucie Safarova Andreas Seppi vs #8 Kevin Anderson Lesia Tsurenko vs #23 Barbora Strycova |
| Court 3 | Katie Swan vs #29 Mihaela Buzarnescu
Paolo Lorenzi vs Gael Monfils Thomas Fabbiano vs Stan Wawrinka Tatjana Maria vs Kristina Mladenovic |
| Court 5 | Ana Bogdan / Kaitlyn Christian vs Yingying Duan / Aliaksandra Sasnovich
Taro Daniel / Yoshihito Nishioka vs Antonio Sancic / Andrei Vasilevski Dominic Inglot / Franko Skugor vs Marton Fucsovics / Mischa Zvere |
| Court 6 | Mirza Basic / Dusan Lajovic vs Fabrice Martin / Purav Raja
Shuko Aoyama / Jennifer Brady vs Darija Jurak / Qiang Wang Pierre-Hugues Herbert / Nicolas Mahut vs Roberto Carballes Baena / Marco Cecchinato Gabriela Dabrowski / Yifan Xu vs Alison Riske / Olga Savchuk |
| Court 7 | Anett Kontaveit / Monica Puig vs Nicole Melichar / Kveta Peschke
Matteo Berrettini / Maximilian Marterer vs Roman Jebavy / Andres Molteni Maria Irigoyen / Carina Witthoeft vs Kaia Kanepi / Andrea Petkovic Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi / Jean-Julien Rojer vs David Ferrer / Marc Lopez |
| Court 8 | Rebecca Peterson vs Donna Vekic
Mackenzie McDonald vs Nicolas Jarry #25 Philipp Kohlschreiber vs Gilles Muller |
| Court 9 | Andre Begemann / Yasutaka Uchiyama vs Pablo Cuevas / Marcel Granollers
Christina McHale / Jelena Ostapenko vs Naomi Broady / Asia Muhammad Katie Boulter / Katie Swan vs Lucie Hradecka / Su-Wei Hsieh Elise Mertens / Demi Schuurs vs Sorana Cirstea / Sara Sorribes Tormo |
| Court 10 | Robin Haase / Robert Lindstedt vs Ivan Dodig / Rajeev Ram
Sofia Kenin / Sachia Vickery vs Nicola Geuer / Viktorija Golubic Yulia Putintseva / Ajla Tomljanovic vs Kirsten Flipkens / Monica Niculescu Max Mirnyi / Philipp Oswald vs Julio Peralta / Horacio Zeballos |
| Court 11 | Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova / Samantha Stosur vs Nadiia Kichenok / Anastasia Rodionova
Liam Broady / Scott Clayton vs Frances Tiafoe / Jackson Withrow Matthew Ebden / Taylor Fritz vs Peter Gojowczyk / Benoit Paire Maria Sakkari / Donna Vekic vs Xinyun Han / Luksika Kumkhum |
| Court 14 | Sorana Cirstea vs Evgeniya Rodina
Adrian Mannarino vs Ryan Harrison Julia Goerges vs Vera Lapko Jay Clarke / Cameron Norrie vs Marcelo Arevalo / Hans Podlipnik-Castillo |
| Court 15 | Jonathan Erlich / Marcin Matkowski vs Jonathan Eysseric / Hugo Nys
Ivo Karlovic vs Jan-Lennard Struff Veronika Kudermetova / Aryna Sabalenka vs Danielle Collins / Jessica Moore |
| Court 16 | Ken Skupski / Neal Skupski vs Ilija Bozoljac / Damir Dzumhur
Aljaz Bedene vs Radu Albot Belinda Bencic / Kateryna Kozlova vs Lara Arruabarrena / Arantxa Parra Santonja |
| Court 17 | Andrea Petkovic vs Yanina Wickmayer
Guillermo Garcia-Lopez vs Daniil Medvedev Madison Brengle vs Camila Giorgi Alex Bolt / Lleyton Hewitt vs Raven Klaasen / Michael Venus |
| Court 18 | #17 Lucas Pouille vs Dennis Novak
#20 Kiki Bertens vs Anna Blinkova #31 Stefanos Tsitsipas vs Jared Donaldson |
In addition to live matches, throughout Wimbledon ESPN+ also will offer:
- Match 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).
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