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Day Six at Wimbledon marks the end of the third round Saturday, July 6, and ESPN will present 10 hours of coverage starting at 7 a.m. ET with a one-hour Breakfast at Wimbledon. ESPN’s matches are highlighted by #11 Serena Williams vs. #18 Julia Goerges on Court 1 plus #3 Rafael Nadal vs. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga sandwiched on Centre Court by matches beforehand with #1 Ash Barty facing Harriett Dart and afterward when #2 Roger Federer plays Lucas Pouille. Also, American #9 Sloane Stephens faces Britain’s #19 Johanna Konta.
On ESPN+, two-time Wimbledon champ #6 Petra Kvitova playing Magda Linette will headline the matches starting at 6 a.m. Other matches will include #8 Kei Nishikori vs. American Steve Johnson, #4 Kiki Bertens vs. Barbora Strycova and American Alison Riske vs. #13 Belinda Bencic.
On Saturday, ESPN+ will also present notable doubles teams in action:
- Coco Gauff in mixed doubles with Brit Jay Clarke vs. Robert Lindstedt and Jelena Ostapenko.
- Andy Murray teams with Pierre-Hugues Herbert in Gentlemen’s doubles
- The legendary American brothers Bob and Mike Bryan vs. Marcelo Arevalo and Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela
- In addition, although not currently slated for a time and court, the Mixed doubles team of Serena Williams and Murray will be seen on ESPN+.
ESPN is presenting all the Wimbledon action exclusively in the U.S. with ESPN, ESPN+ and ESPN3. Overall, ESPN+ will stream live matches from 16 courts: 2-12 and 14-18.
ESPN & Wimbledon
As in 2018, every match from the 18 courts at the All England Lawn Tennis Club will be played in front of cameras. ESPN’s coverage – first ball to last ball – includes 145 hours on television plus more than 500 matches all available for fans between ESPN+ and ESPN3 on the ESPN app. The action will climax with the Ladies’ Championship and the Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s Doubles Championships on ESPN on Saturday, July 13, and the Gentlemen’s Championship on Sunday, July 14, followed by the Mixed Doubles Championship.
ESPN+ will stream live the following 14 courts at Wimbledon, Friday, July 5 (player’s ranking in brackets):
| Court | Matches |
| Court 2 | Magda Linette (POL) 59 vs Petra Kvitova (CZE) [6] 64
Pierre-Hugues Herbert (FRA) / Andy Murray (GBR) 30 vs Nikola Mektic (CRO) / Franko Skugor (CRO) [6] 32 Robert Lindstedt (SWE) / Jelena Ostapenko (LAT) 21 vs Jay Clarke (GBR) / Cori Gauff (USA) 22 |
| Court 3 | Kei Nishikori (JPN) [8] 97 vs Steve Johnson (USA) 101
Kiki Bertens (NED) [4] 33 vs Barbora Strycova (CZE) 39 Marcelo Arevalo (ESA) / Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela (MEX) 14 vs Bob Bryan (USA) / Mike Bryan (USA) [7] 16 |
| Court 4 | Juniors action |
| Court 5 | Juniors action |
| Court 6 | Juniors action |
| Court 7 | Juniors action |
| Court 8 | Doubles action |
| Court 9 | Doubles action |
| Court 10 | Juniors action |
| Court 11 | Doubles and Girls Singles |
| Court 12 | Alison Riske (USA) 10 vs Belinda Bencic (SUI) [13] 16
Doubles Action |
| Court 14 | Doubles action |
| Court 15 | Doubles action |
| Court 16 | Doubles action |
| Court 17 | Doubles action |
| Court 18 | Elise Mertens (BEL) [21] 41 vs Qiang Wang (CHN) [15] 48
Matteo Berrettini (ITA) [17] 113 vs Diego Schwartzman (ARG) [24] 120 Doubles Action |
In addition to live matches, throughout Wimbledon ESPN+ also offers:
- 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
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