BBC Says It Served 24.1 Million Stream Requests for This Year’s Wimbledon

The BBC served 24.1 million stream requests during this year’s Wimbledon tennis championships via BBC Sport and BBC iPlayer, making it the most streamed Wimbledon in history, the broadcaster said in a Monday announcement. The most popular match was the July 10 “epic” that Gilles Muller won over Rafael Nadal after 66 games, generating 1.4 million stream requests, it said. “With more people streaming this year’s tournament than ever before, BBC Sport also saw record numbers of users signing in,” it said. During the second week of the tournament a weekly record of 2.1 million “unique browsers” signed into BBC Sport, it said.