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Wimbledon Ladies’ Singles Champions
LocationLondon
 United Kingdom
VenueAELTC
Governing bodyAELTC / LTA
Created1884 (established)
Open Era: 1968
(47 editions)
SurfaceGrass (1884–Present)
Prize money£ 1,760,000 (2014)
TrophyVenus Rosewater Dish
Websitehttp://aeltc2010.wimbledon.org/en_GB/about/history/rolls/ladiesroll.html
Most titles
Amateur era7: Dorothea Lambert Chambers
(challenge round)
8: Helen Wills Moody
(regular)
Open era9: Martina Navratilova
Most consecutive titles
Amateur era3: Lottie Dod
Suzanne Lenglen
(challenge round)
4: Helen Wills Moody
(regular)
Open era6: Martina Navratilova
Current champion
Serena Williams
(Sixth title)

The Championships, Wimbledon is an annual tennis tournament first contested in 1877 and played on outdoor grass courts[a][b][1] at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (AELTC) in the Wimbledon suburb of London, United Kingdom.[2] The Ladies' Singles was started in 1884.[3]

History

Wimbledon is played in the last week of June and the first week of July, and has been chronologically the third of the four Grand Slam tournaments of the tennis season since 1987.[2] The event was not held from 1915 to 1918 because of World War I and again from 1940 to 1945 because of World War II.[4]

The Ladies' Singles' rules have undergone several changes since the first edition. From 1886 until 1921, the event started with a knockout phase, the All Comers' Singles, whose winner then faced the defending champion in a challenge round. The All Comers' winner was automatically awarded the title six times (1887, 1891, 1895, 1907, 1908) in the absence of the previous year's champion. The challenge round system was abolished with the 1922 edition.[5] Since the first championships, all matches have been played at the best-of-three sets. Between 1884 and 1883, the winner of the next game at five games-all took the set in every match except the All Comers' final, and the challenge round, which were won with six games and a two games advantage. All sets were decided in this advantage format from 1884 to 1970.[5] The lingering death best-of-12 points tie-break was introduced in 1971 for the first two sets, played at eight games-all until 1978 and at six games-all since 1979.[5][6][7]

The Ladies' Singles champion receives a sterling silver salver commonly known as the "Venus Rosewater Dish", or simply the "Rosewater Dish". The salver, which is 18.75 inches (about 48 cm) in diameter, is decorated with figures from mythology.[8] New singles champions are traditionally elected honorary members of the AELTC by the club's committee.[c][9] In 2012, the Ladies' Singles winner received prize money of £1,150,000.[10]

These records include the Amateur Era only, Dorothea Lambert Chambers (1903–1904, 1906, 1910–1911, 1913–1914) holds the record for most titles, with seven, and Lottie Dod (1891–1893) and Suzanne Lenglen (1919–1921) holds the record for most consecutive wins in the Ladies' Singles during the challenge round era, with three victories each. The record for most consecutive and most wins post challenge round during the Amateur Era is Helen Wills Moody (1927–1930), with four straight wins, and Moody holds the record for most victories in this era with eight (1927–1930, 1932–1933, 1935, 1938).[4]

These records only include the Open Era, since the inclusion of the professional tennis players, Martina Navratilova (1978–1979, 1982–1987, 1990) holds the record for most victories with nine. Navratilova holds the record for most consecutive victories with six (1982–1987).[4]

This event has been won without the loss of a set, during the Open Era of Tennis, by the following players: Chris Evert in 1981, Martina Navratilova in 1983, 1984, 1986, and 1990, Lindsay Davenport in 1999, Serena Williams in 2002 and 2010, Venus Williams in 2008 and Marion Bartoli in 2013.

Champions

Regular competition
All Comers' winner, Challenge round winner ‡
Defending champion, Challenge round winner †
All Comers' winner, no Challenge round ◊

Amateur era

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Lottie Dod was a five-time champion and is the youngest ever winner of the ladies' singles championships (15 years and 285 days).
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Charlotte Cooper Sterry was a five-time champion and is the oldest ladies’ singles champion (37 year and 282 days).
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Dorothea Lambert Chambers was a seven-time champion between 1903 and 1914.
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Suzanne Lenglen was a six-time champion
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Helen Wills Moody was an eight-time champion between 1927 and 1938.
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Maureen Connolly competed in 1952, 1953 and 1954 and won the title on all three occasions.
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Althea Gibson won the title in 1957, the first tennis player of color to do so, and successfully defended her title in 1958.
Year[d] Country Champion Country Runner-up Score in the final[4]
1884  BRI[e] Maud Watson  BRI Lillian Watson 6–8, 6–3, 6–3
1885  BRI Maud Watson  BRI Blanche Bingley 6–1, 7–5
1886  BRI Blanche Bingley ‡  BRI Maud Watson 6–3, 6–3
1887  BRI Lottie Dod ‡  BRI Blanche Bingley 6–2, 6–0
1888  BRI Lottie Dod †  BRI Blanche Bingley Hillyard 6–3, 6–3
1889  BRI Blanche Bingley Hillyard ◊  BRI Lena Rice 4–6, 8–6, 6–4
1890  BRI Lena Rice ◊  BRI May Jacks 6–4, 6–1
1891  BRI Lottie Dod ◊  BRI Blanche Bingley Hillyard 6–2, 6–1
1892  BRI Lottie Dod †  BRI Blanche Bingley Hillyard 6–1, 6–1
1893  BRI Lottie Dod †  BRI Blanche Bingley Hillyard 6–8, 6–1, 6–4
1894  BRI Blanche Bingley Hillyard ◊  BRI Edith Austin 6–1, 6–1
1895  BRI Charlotte Cooper ◊  BRI Helen Jackson 7–5, 8–6
1896  BRI Charlotte Cooper †  BRI Alice Simpson Pickering 6–2, 6–3
1897  BRI Blanche Bingley Hillyard ‡  BRI Charlotte Cooper 5–7, 7–5, 6–2
1898  BRI Charlotte Cooper ◊  BRI Louise Martin 6–4, 6–4
1899  BRI Blanche Bingley Hillyard ‡  BRI Charlotte Cooper 6–2, 6–3
1900  BRI Blanche Bingley Hillyard †  BRI Charlotte Cooper 4–6, 6–4, 6–4
1901  BRI Charlotte Cooper Sterry ‡  BRI Blanche Bingley Hillyard 6–2, 6–2
1902  BRI Muriel Robb ‡  BRI Charlotte Cooper Sterry 7–5, 6–1
1903  BRI Dorothea Douglass ◊  BRI Ethel Thomson Larcombe 4–6, 6–4, 6–2
1904  BRI Dorothea Douglass †  BRI Charlotte Cooper Sterry 6–0, 6–3
1905  USA May Sutton ‡  BRI Dorothea Douglass 6–3, 6–4
1906  BRI Dorothea Douglass ‡  USA May Sutton 6–3, 9–7
1907  USA May Sutton ‡  BRI Dorothea Lambert Chambers 6–1, 6–4
1908  BRI Charlotte Cooper Sterry ◊  BRI Agnes Morton 6–4, 6–4
1909  BRI Dora Boothby ◊  BRI Agnes Morton 6–4, 4–6, 8–6
1910  BRI Dorothea Lambert Chambers ‡  BRI Dora Boothby 6–2, 6–2
1911  BRI Dorothea Lambert Chambers †  BRI Dora Boothby 6–0, 6–0
1912  BRI Ethel Thomson Larcombe ◊  BRI Charlotte Cooper Sterry 6–3, 6–1
1913  BRI Dorothea Lambert Chambers ◊  BRI Winifred McNair 6–0, 6–4
1914  BRI Dorothea Lambert Chambers †  BRI Ethel Thomson Larcombe 7–5, 6–4
1915 None[f]
1916 None
1917 None
1918 None
1919  FRA Suzanne Lenglen ‡  BRI Dorothea Lambert Chambers 10–8, 4–6, 9–7
1920  FRA Suzanne Lenglen †  BRI Dorothea Lambert Chambers 6–3, 6–0
1921  FRA Suzanne Lenglen †  USA Elizabeth Ryan 6–2, 6–0
1922  FRA Suzanne Lenglen  USA Molla Bjurstedt Mallory 6–2, 6–0
1923  FRA Suzanne Lenglen  GBR Kitty McKane Godfree 6–2, 6–2
1924  GBR Kitty McKane Godfree  USA Helen Wills 4–6, 6–4, 6–4
1925  FRA Suzanne Lenglen  GBR Joan Fry 6–2, 6–0
1926  GBR Kathleen McKane Godfree  ESP Lili de Alvarez 6–2, 4–6, 6–3
1927  USA Helen Wills  ESP Lili de Alvarez 6–2, 6–4
1928  USA Helen Wills  ESP Lili de Alvarez 6–2, 6–3
1929  USA Helen Wills  USA Helen Jacobs 6–1, 6–2
1930  USA Helen Wills Moody  USA Elizabeth Ryan 6–2, 6–2
1931  GER Cilly Aussem  GER Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling 6–2, 7–5
1932  USA Helen Wills Moody  USA Helen Jacobs 6–3, 6–1
1933  USA Helen Wills Moody  GBR Dorothy Round Little 6–4, 6–8, 6–3
1934  GBR Dorothy Round Little  USA Helen Jacobs 6–2, 5–7, 6–3
1935  USA Helen Wills Moody  USA Helen Jacobs 6–3, 3–6, 7–5
1936  USA Helen Jacobs  DEN Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling 6–2, 4–6, 7–5
1937  GBR Dorothy Round Little  POL Jadwiga Jędrzejowska 6–2, 2–6, 7–5
1938  USA Helen Wills Moody  USA Helen Jacobs 6–4, 6–0
1939  USA Alice Marble  GBR Kay Stammers 6–2, 6–0
1940 None[g]
1941 None
1942 None
1943 None
1944 None
1945 None
1946  USA Pauline Betz  USA Louise Brough Clapp 6–2, 6–4
1947  USA Margaret Osborne duPont  USA Doris Hart 6–2, 6–4
1948  USA Louise Brough  USA Doris Hart 6–3, 8–6
1949  USA Louise Brough  USA Margaret Osborne duPont 10–8, 1–6, 10–8
1950  USA Louise Brough  USA Margaret Osborne duPont 6–1, 3–6, 6–1
1951  USA Doris Hart  USA Shirley Fry Irvin 6–1, 6–0
1952  USA Maureen Connolly  USA Louise Brough Clapp 6–4, 6–3
1953  USA Maureen Connolly  USA Doris Hart 8–6, 7–5
1954  USA Maureen Connolly  USA Louise Brough Clapp 6–2, 7–5
1955  USA Louise Brough  USA Beverly Baker Fleitz 7–5, 8–6
1956  USA Shirley Fry Irvin  GBR Angela Buxton 6–3, 6–1
1957  USA Althea Gibson  USA Darlene Hard 6–3, 6–2
1958  USA Althea Gibson  GBR Angela Mortimer 8–6, 6–2
1959  BRA Maria Bueno  USA Darlene Hard 6–4, 6–3
1960  BRA Maria Bueno  ZAF Sandra Reynolds Price 8–6, 6–0
1961  GBR Angela Mortimer  GBR Christine Truman Janes 4–6, 6–4, 7–5
1962  USA Karen Hantze Susman  CZE Věra Pužejová Suková 6–4, 6–4
1963  AUS Margaret Court  USA Billie Jean King 6–3, 6–4
1964  BRA Maria Bueno  AUS Margaret Court 6–4, 7–9, 6–3
1965  AUS Margaret Court  BRA Maria Bueno 6–4, 7–5
1966  USA Billie Jean King  BRA Maria Bueno 6–3, 3–6, 6–1
1967  USA Billie Jean King  GBR Ann Haydon Jones 6–3, 6–4

Open era

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Billie Jean King is a six-time champion overall and a four-time champion in the open era.
A blond-haired women with a white shirt, black shorts, and white tennis shoes on about ready to serve the tennis ball in hand
Martina Navratilova is a nine-time singles champion, an all-time Grand Slam record for men and women. She won six consecutive titles from 1982 through 1987.
A blond-haired women wearing a white shirt
Steffi Graf is a seven-time champion over a nine-year period from 1988 through 1996.
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Serena Williams is a six-time champion.
A black woman is serving the ball, and is wearing a white sleeveless top and blue skirt
Venus Williams is a five-time champion.
Year[d] Country Champion Country Runner-up Score in the final[4]
1968  USA Billie Jean King  AUS Judy Tegart Dalton 9–7, 7–5
1969  GBR Ann Jones  USA Billie Jean King 3–6, 6–3, 6–2
1970  AUS Margaret Court  USA Billie Jean King 14–12, 11–9
1971  AUS Evonne Goolagong Cawley  AUS Margaret Court 6–4, 6–1
1972  USA Billie Jean King  AUS Evonne Goolagong 6–3, 6–3
1973  USA Billie Jean King  USA Chris Evert 6–0, 7–5
1974  USA Chris Evert  URS Olga Morozova 6–0, 6–4
1975  USA Billie Jean King  AUS Evonne Goolagong Cawley 6–0, 6–1
1976  USA Chris Evert  AUS Evonne Goolagong Cawley 6–3, 4–6, 8–6
1977  GBR Virginia Wade  NED Betty Stöve 4–6, 6–3, 6–1
1978  USA Martina Navratilova[i][11]  USA Chris Evert 2–6, 6–4, 7–5
1979  USA Martina Navratilova  USA Chris Evert-Lloyd 6–4, 6–4
1980  AUS Evonne Goolagong Cawley  USA Chris Evert-Lloyd 6–1, 7–6(7–4)
1981  USA Chris Evert-Lloyd  TCH[h] Hana Mandlíková 6–2, 6–2
1982  USA Martina Navratilova  USA Chris Evert-Lloyd 6–1, 3–6, 6–2
1983  USA Martina Navratilova  USA Andrea Jaeger 6–0, 6–3
1984  USA Martina Navratilova  USA Chris Evert-Lloyd 7–6(7–5), 6–2
1985  USA Martina Navratilova  USA Chris Evert-Lloyd 4–6, 6–3, 6–2
1986  USA Martina Navratilova  TCH Hana Mandlíková 7–6(7–1), 6–3
1987  USA Martina Navratilova  FRG[j] Steffi Graf 7–5, 6–3
1988  FRG[j] Steffi Graf  USA Martina Navratilova 5–7, 6–2, 6–1
1989  FRG Steffi Graf  USA Martina Navratilova 6–2, 6–7(1–7), 6–1
1990  USA Martina Navratilova  USA Zina Garrison 6–4, 6–1
1991  GER Steffi Graf  ARG Gabriela Sabatini 6–4, 3–6, 8–6
1992  GER Steffi Graf  YUG Monica Seles 6–2, 6–1
1993  GER Steffi Graf  CZE Jana Novotná 7–6(8–6), 1–6, 6–4
1994  ESP Conchita Martínez  USA Martina Navratilova 6–4, 3–6, 6–3
1995  GER Steffi Graf  ESP Arantxa Sánchez Vicario 4–6, 6–1, 7–5
1996  GER Steffi Graf  ESP Arantxa Sánchez Vicario 6–3, 7–5
1997   SUI Martina Hingis  CZE Jana Novotná 2–6, 6–3, 6–3
1998  CZE Jana Novotná  FRA Nathalie Tauziat 6–4, 7–6(7–2)
1999  USA Lindsay Davenport  GER Steffi Graf 6–4, 7–5
2000  USA Venus Williams  USA Lindsay Davenport 6–3, 7–6(7–3)
2001  USA Venus Williams  BEL Justine Henin 6–1, 3–6, 6–0
2002  USA Serena Williams  USA Venus Williams 7–6(7–4), 6–3
2003  USA Serena Williams  USA Venus Williams 4–6, 6–4, 6–2
2004  RUS Maria Sharapova  USA Serena Williams 6–1, 6–4
2005  USA Venus Williams  USA Lindsay Davenport 4–6, 7–6(7–4), 9–7
2006  FRA Amélie Mauresmo  BEL Justine Henin 2–6, 6–3, 6–4
2007  USA Venus Williams  FRA Marion Bartoli 6–4, 6–1
2008  USA Venus Williams  USA Serena Williams 7–5, 6–4
2009  USA Serena Williams  USA Venus Williams 7–6(7–3), 6–2
2010  USA Serena Williams  RUS Vera Zvonareva 6–3, 6–2
2011  CZE Petra Kvitová  RUS Maria Sharapova 6–3, 6–4
2012  USA Serena Williams  POL Agnieszka Radwańska 6–1, 5–7, 6–2
2013  FRA Marion Bartoli  GER Sabine Lisicki 6–1, 6–4
2014  CZE Petra Kvitová  CAN Eugenie Bouchard 6–3, 6–0
2015  USA Serena Williams  VEN Garbiñe Muguruza 6–4, 6–4

Statistics

Multiple champions

Title defended in the challenge round
Player Amateur Era Open Era All-time Years
 Martina Navratilova (USA)[i] 0 9 9 1978, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1990
 Helen Wills Moody (USA) 8 0 8 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1932, 1933, 1935, 1938
 Dorothea Lambert Chambers (UK) 7 0 7 1903, 1904, 1906, 1910, 1911, 1913, 1914
 Steffi Graf (GER) 0 7 7 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996
 Blanche Bingley (UK) 6 0 6 1886, 1889, 1894, 1897, 1899, 1900
 Suzanne Lenglen (FRA) 6 0 6 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1925
 Billie Jean King (USA) 2 4 6 1966, 1967, 1968, 1972, 1973, 1975
 Serena Williams (USA) 0 6 6 2002, 2003, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2015
 Charlotte Cooper Sterry (UK) 5 0 5 1895, 1896, 1898, 1901, 1908
 Lottie Dod (UK) 5 0 5 1887, 1888, 1891, 1892, 1893
 Venus Williams (USA) 0 5 5 2000, 2001, 2005, 2007, 2008
 Louise Brough Clapp (USA) 4 0 4 1948, 1949, 1950, 1955
 Maureen Connolly Brinker (USA) 3 0 3 1952, 1953, 1954
 Maria Bueno (BRA) 3 0 3 1959, 1960, 1964
 Margaret Court (AUS) 2 1 3 1963, 1965, 1970
 Chris Evert (USA) 0 3 3 1974, 1976, 1981
 Althea Gibson (USA) 2 0 2 1957, 1958
 Kitty McKane Godfree (UK) 2 0 2 1924, 1926
 May Sutton Bundy (USA) 2 0 2 1905, 1907
 Maud Watson (UK) 2 0 2 1884, 1885
 Evonne Goolagong Cawley (AUS) 0 2 2 1971, 1980
 Petra Kvitová (CZE) 0 2 2 2011, 2014

Championships by country

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The Gentlemen's Singles trophy (left), and the Ladies' Singles plate (right)
Country Amateur Era Open Era All-time First title Last title
 United States (USA) 28 28 56 1905 2015
 United Kingdom (UK) 34 2 36 1884 1977
 Germany (GER)[j] 1 7 8 1931 1996
 France (FRA) 6 2 8 1919 2013
 Australia (AUS) 2 3 5 1963 1980
 Brazil (BRA) 3 0 3 1959 1964
 Czech Republic (CZE) 0 3 3 1998 2014
 Spain (ESP) 0 1 1 1994 1994
  Switzerland (SUI) 0 1 1 1997 1997
 Russia (RUS) 0 1 1 2004 2004

Notes

  • a Since 2009, Centre Court features a retractable roof, allowing indoor and night-time play.[12]
  • b Wimbledon entered the Open Era with the 1968 edition, allowing professional players to compete alongside amateurs.[3]
  • c John McEnroe is the only player to have been denied membership in 1981, because of his on-court behaviour during the championships.[13][14]
  • d Each year is linked to an article about that particular years draws, but pre-1922 they did not have draws due to the challenge round system. In 1922 till the present they do have draws, but the years of 1925–1939 do not have draw pages made to link to, so it is linked to the year(s) articles instead.
  • e "British Isles" (BRI) is used for players from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922), distinct from "Great Britain" (GBR) used for players from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1922–present).[4][15]
  • f The tournament was not held from 1915 to 1918 because of World War I.[4]
  • g The tournament was not held from 1940 to 1945 because of World War II.[4]
  • h Czechoslovakia (TCH, 1918–1992) split into the Czech Republic (CZE, 1992–present) and Slovakia (SVK, 1992–present).
  • i Martina Navratilova was born in Czechoslovakia, but she competed as an American because she sought asylum in the United States, which made her have to relinquish her Czechoslovakian citizenship, so after the US Open in 1975 she competed as an American.[citation needed]
  • j FRG is West Germany, but after unification became just Germany (GER) after 1990.

References

General
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Specific
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  3. ^ a b "About Wimbledon - History: History". wimbledon.org. IBM, All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club. Retrieved 2009-06-24.
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  5. ^ a b c Barrett, John (1986). 100 Wimbledon Championships: A Celebration. Collins Willow. ISBN 978-0-00-218220-1.
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  12. ^ Harman, Neil (2009-04-22). "No more soaked strawberries - Centre Court, Wimbledon, gets a roof". The Times. Times Newspapers Ltd. Retrieved 2009-07-19.
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  15. ^ "History - Rolls of Honour: Country abbreviations". wimbledon.org. IBM, All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club. Retrieved 2009-07-17.

See also

Wimbledon Open other competitions

Grand Slam women's singles