From the Wimbledon Publicity office:

Aces - most
* Men: Andy Roddick 187 (from 7 matches)
* Ladies: Serena Williams 72 (from 7 matches – a new Championship record)
* Roger Federer served the most Aces in a final – 50

Attendance
*  511,043 - total attendance figure for the 13 days of The Championships was a record high, beating the previous 13-day high of 475,812 (2008) by 35,231.
* 9 day records were set
* Wednesday 24 June was the highest day attendance in history - 46,826.
* 160,600 people queued for tickets and ground passes

Catering
* Glasses of Pimm’s – 200,000 (+50,000 on 2008)
* Bottles of champagne – 20,000 (+3,000 on 2008)
* Strawberries – 28,000 kilos (no change)

Fastest Serve
* Men: Andy Roddick - 143 mph
* Women: Venus Williams - 124 mph (she holds the Championships record of 129mph set in 2008)

Gentlemen’s Singles Final – statistics
* Men’s Final saw most games ever played at 77 (2008 was previous highest at 62)
* Most games in a fifth set of a final – 30 (16-14) (previous highest 2008 9-7)

Viewing Figures (UK)
* Wimbledon Men’s Singles Final: Roger Federer’s victory over Andy Roddick was watched by a peak audience of 11.2m (6.25pm) viewers on BBC One.
* This peak figure represented a 57% share of the TV audience while an average audience of 7.5m watched Federer secure his 15th Grand Slam title.
* Ladies’ Singles Final between Serena and Venus Williams was watched by a peak audience of 4.2m (with the match averaging 3.4m).
* Wimbledon 2009 saw more users than ever logging on to follow the BBC coverage online. The BBC Sport Website received a record breaking 2.1m requests for Centre Court coverage on Friday 3 July as users logged on to follow the Murray v Roddick match, proving the most  popular single live video stream for sport beating the record seen during the Olympics 2008.
* Across the fortnight, the BBC Sport Website received a total of 19.3m requests for Wimbledon audio visual content (live and on-demand) of which 16.2m was to live coverage – three and a half times more than for live streams in 2008.
* BBC Red Button once again proved extremely popular with viewers and an impressive 7.5m chose to press red and follow the dedicated BBC coverage of The Championships.

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