2003 Wimbledon Championships

Broadcast coverage of the 2003 Championships was distributed to 159 territories worldwide and the tournament received more than 5,717 hours of coverage. This was an increase of 565 hours from the 2002 figure and surpassed all previous records for the event. The BBC transmitted 160 hours of coverage in the United Kingdom on BBC One and BBC Two. The official Championships website www.wimbledon.org received 242 million page views and 4.3 million visitors.^[4]

Prior to the start of the 2003 Championships, the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club announced that it would begin purchasing insurance cover that would allow the club to cover losses in the event that a future tournament would be canceled as a result of a pandemic; this policy was announced in the wake of the SARS outbreak and required the club to pay £1.6 million per year.^[5]

The total prize money for 2003 championships was £9,373,990. The winner of the men's title earned £575,000 while the women's singles champion earned £535,000.^[6][7]

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  Roger Federer defeated   Mark Philippoussis, 7–6^(7–5), 6–2, 7–6^{(7–3) [8]}

• It was Federer's 5th title of the year, and his 9th overall. It was his 1st career Grand Slam title. He became the first Swiss male player to win a Grand Slam singles title. It was the first, in what was to become 5 consecutive Wimbledon titles, and 8 overall. It was also the first Grand Slam title of the 20 won by Federer through the course of his career, a third place for the most Grand Slam singles titles in the history of the men's game.

  Serena Williams defeated   Venus Williams, 4–6, 6–4, 6–2 ^[9]

• It was Serena's 4th title of the year, and her 23rd overall. It was her 6th career Grand Slam title, and her 2nd at Wimbledon.

  Jonas Björkman /   Todd Woodbridge defeated   Mahesh Bhupathi /   Max Mirnyi, 3–6, 6–3, 7–6^(7–4), 6–3 ^[10]

  Kim Clijsters /   Ai Sugiyama defeated   Virginia Ruano Pascual /   Paola Suárez, 6–4, 6–4 ^[11]

  Leander Paes /   Martina Navratilova defeated   Andy Ram /   Anastasia Rodionova, 6–3, 6–3 ^[12]

  Florin Mergea defeated   Chris Guccione, 6–2, 7–6^{(7–3) [13]}

  Kirsten Flipkens defeated   Anna Chakvetadze, 6–4, 3–6, 6–3 ^[14]

  Florin Mergea /   Horia Tecău defeated   Adam Feeney /   Chris Guccione, 7–6^(7–4), 7–5 ^[15]

  Alisa Kleybanova /   Sania Mirza defeated   Kateřina Böhmová /   Michaëlla Krajicek, 2–6, 6–3, 6–2 ^[16]

• Official Wimbledon Championships website