What did one in 13 Australians do at midnight Saturday?
More than 2 million Australians stayed up well past pumpkin hour on Saturday night to watch Ash Bartys fairytale win in the Wimbledon womens final. That equates to roughly one in 13 of us at a time when many would normally be fast asleep. The match between the Australian and the Czech Republics Karolina Pliskova began at 11pm and finished at 1.04am on Sunday on Nine, averaging 2.013 million viewers nationally (1.511 million in the five capital cities and 502,000 regionally), according to OzTam figures. The match, which saw Barty become the first woman to win Wimbledon since Evonne Goolagong-Cawley in 1980, also had a live audience of 92,000 on online platform 9Now. Nine is the owner of this masthead. Ash Barty was overcome with emotion after the final point. Credit:AP  The broadcast was the third-highest rating program of 2021, after the first two State of Origin rugby league matches. By way of comparison, the most-watched non-news or current affair program the previous Saturday was Sevens Saturday night football, which was watched by an average 445,000 people in the metro markets. Its a fantastic result firstly for Ash, but also for Australia, said Nine chief executive Mike Sneesby.