stream Wimbledon on Roku devices (2018)

Wimbledon - A brief history

The Wimbledon tournament, one of the most prestigious grand slam tournaments is one of the oldest tournaments which can be traced back to the year 1877 held at All England Club in Wimbledon at London, England. The Wimbledon tournament is the only grand slam out of the four grand slams in the world where the players play on a grass court. On the contrary, in the other Grand Slams like the Australian Open, players play on the normal ground.

More than 100’s of athletes all around the world complete for true glory at the Wimbledon Championships. The very first tournament was held in the hopes of raising funds to buy a pony driven roller for the croquet lawns.

Wimbledon - Schedule and How to watch the matches

Wimbledon 2018 starts on July the 2nd and ends with the ladies championships, the ladies and gentleman’s doubles championship and The men’s championship on July the 15th. The fans will speculate whether the defending champions Roger Federer and Garbine Muguruza will triumph once again. Else, the challengers Serena Williams, Rafael Nadal and many more are worthy of being champions of the Wimbledon tournament.

There are multiple ways to watch the tournament live, Several channels do a live telecast of the tournament with a detailed analysis of the players and minute by minute commentary of the action. Channels such as ESPN air all the 500 matches allowing you to enjoy the action live on your TV. Another way of watching the matches is to go to watchespn.com or via the Watch ESPN app available on all the popular mobile phone platforms like Android and IOS. Alternatively, you can also watch the tournament by subscribing to the Official Wimbledon 2018 YouTube channel. You can watch all of the tennis matches live on the YouTube channel.

If you have a media streamer like Roku or Chromecast things get a lot simpler. All you need to do is launch the ESPN app on your Roku device and you are ready to watch the Wimbledon games. Alternatively, you can also use the HULU and DirectTV Now channels to watch the Wimbledon games on Roku. Let’s take a brief look at how to activate ESPN on your Roku device.

Activating ESPN on Roku TV to watch matches

Activating ESPN on ROKU TV is simple, just follow the steps mentioned below to do so.

• Navigate to the Main menu by pressing the menu button on the Roku remote

• In the main menu, go to streaming channels section and search for ESPN or ESPN+ on the provided search bar and select search.

• Select Add Channel to proceed to add ESPN to your Roku Device.

• To initiate the streaming you will need to authorize and authenticate the ESPN channel with credentials provided by your TV Service provider.

• Similarly you can activate the roku channels.

On completion of the steps, enjoy the whole Wimbledon tournament in full 4k resolution. Also, relive each moment with a full detailed view using a Roku device.