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· Wimbledon is the Major Tennis Debut for ESPN+
- Isner to Resume Play in Fifth Set vs. Bemelmans on ESPN+
Day Four at Wimbledon will conclude the second round Thursday, July 5, 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 15 courts. The latter’s offerings will include the continuation of matches halted by rain and darkness on Wednesday and 12-time Major champion Novak Djokovic vs. Horacio Zeballos.
ESPN+ will stream:
- Court 2 where #18 Naomi Osaka, Djokovic, #24 Kei Nishikori and defending champion #3 Garbine Muguruza will all After Osaka finishes, US Open finalist #8 Kevin Anderson will resume his match against Andreas Seppi leading 2-1 in sets and at 1-1 in the fourth.
- Court 12 where two-time Major winner #11 Angelique Kerber will lead off play, followed by the resumption of #9 John Isner’s match, locked in a fifth-set battle with Ruben Bemelmans of Belgium.
- Courts 2, 4-11, 12, and 14-18. Singles matches are listed in the grid below (action on each court begins at 6:30 a.m. ET; all matches available on demand until the end of the tournament).
For the first time at the All England Club there are cameras on every court. 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.
| Court | Matches |
| Court 2 | Katie Boulter vs #18 Naomi Osaka
Andreas Seppi vs #8 Kevin Anderson T/F 3/6 7/6(5) 3/6 1/1 Horacio Zeballos vs #12 Novak Djokovic Bernard Tomic vs #24 Kei Nishikori #3 Garbine Muguruza vs Alison Van Uytvanck |
| Court 4 | Doubles action |
| Court 5 | Doubles action |
| Court 6 | Doubles action |
| Court 7 | Doubles action |
| Court 8 | Lesia Tsurenko vs #23 Barbora Strycova
Philipp Kohlschreiber vs Gilles Muller T/F 7/6(6) 6/6 #27 Carla Suarez Navarro vs Sara Sorribes Tormo (ESP) 59 4 Diego Schwartzman (ARG) [14] 113 vs Jiri Vesely |
| Court 9 | Doubles action |
| Court 10 | Doubles action |
| Court 11 | Doubles action |
| Court 12 | #11 Angelique Kerber vs Claire Liu
John Isner vs Ruben Bemelmans T/F 6/1 6/4 6/7(6) 6/7(3) 3/4 Yulia Putintseva vs Daria Kasatkina #27 Damir Dzumhur vs Ernests Gulbis |
| Court 14 | Alex De Minaur vs Pierre-Hugues Herbert
Stephane Robert vs Matthew Ebden Jennifer Brady vs #28 Anett Kontaveit |
| Court 15 | Julien Benneteau vs Frances Tiafoe
Sachia Vickery vs #15 Elise Mertens |
| Court 16 | Katerina Siniakova vs Ons Jabeur
Alison Riske vs Belinda Bencic Taylor Townsend vs Aliaksandra Sasnovich |
| Court 17 | Matteo Berrettini vs Gilles Simon
Lara Arruabarrena vs Su-Wei Hsieh Sofia Kenin vs Vitalia Diatchenko ( |
| Court 18 | #26 Daria Gavrilova vs Samantha Stosur
#31 Stefanos Tsitsipas vs Jared Donaldson T/F 6/3 6/2 3/6 3/4 Marcos Baghdatis vs Karen Khachanov Simone Bolelli vs #19 Fabio Fognini |
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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