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Wimbledon Ladies' Trivia

Most Wins Singles .
9 Martina Navratilova
8 Helen (Wills) Moody
7 Dorothea (Douglass) Chambers
. Steffi Graf
6 Billie Jean King
. Suzanne Lenglen
5 Lottie Dod
. Charlotte (Cooper) Sterry
4 Louise Brough
3 Maria Bueno
. Maureen Connolly
. Margaret (Smith) Court
. Chris Evert Lloyd
2 Evonne (Goolagong) Cawley
. Althea Gibson
. Dorothy Round
. May Sutton
. Maud Watson
. Venus Williams
Records .
Youngest Winner .
1996 Martina Hingis doubles champion at 15 years, 282 days
1887 Singles - Charlotte (Lottie) Dod 15 years, 285 days (Dodd was also 1908 Olympic silver medallist in archery, 1904 British amateur golf champion, and a British field hockey international. Born 24th Sept 1871 she died 27 June 1960)
1887 Lottie Dodd youngest Wimbledon champion until 1996 15 years 285 days
1908 Charlotte Sterry oldest Wimbledon women's singles champion 37 years 282 days
1907 Mita Klima (AUT) youngest Wimbledon player, aged 13 years - lost 1st round singles (v Mrs O'Neil 1-6 2-6) (Sister Willy Klima also lost in 1st round, together lost 1st round doubles, both lost 1st round mixed )
1981 Kathy Rinaldi (US) yougest Wimbledon match winner 14 years 92 days 1st round bt Sue Rollinson (S Africa) 6-3 2-6 9-7
1980 Andrea Jaeger youngest Wimbledon women's seed until 1990 15 years 19 days seeded 14th reached quarter-finals
1900 Marion Jones (US) first woman from overseas at Wimbledon
1919 Suzanne Lenglen first foreign Wimbledon women's singles champion
1920 All five championships won by overseas players .
1921 First time British player not in Wimbledon women's singles final .
1965 First time no British player seeded at Wimbledon .
1968 First open championship - prizes £750 (finalist £450) .
1902 Longest Wimbledon women's final 7-5 6-1 after first day abandoned at 4-6 13-11 (53 games)
1970 Longest single Wimbledon women's singles final (46 games) 2 hours 28 minutes
longest semifinal Maria Bueno (Brasil) bt Ann Jones (GB) 6-3 9-11 7-5 (41 games)
1960 Longest set in Wimbledon women's singles final (26 games)
1922 Mrs A E O’Neil (GB) oldest player in a Wimbledon women's singles championship 54 years 304 days
1931 Cilly Aussem first German to win Wimbledon singles title
1957 Althea Gibson first black player to win at Wimbledon
1963 Margaret Smith first Australian to win singles title
1983 B J King oldest player to be seeded in a ladies' championship 39 years 210 days
1987 Martina Navratilova wins record sixth successive singles title
1990 Martina Navratilova wins record ninth singles title
1990 Jennifer M Capriati (USA) youngest player in a Wimbledon women's singles championship 14 years 92 days Also youngest player to be seeded at Wimbledon (seeded 12)
Most games played in a Wimbledon women's singles championship 1979 Martina Navratilova (Czechoslovaklia) 155 games (won 96) in 17 sets (won 14) Navratilova played a record 284 matches during her Wimbledon career Winning 119 of 132 singles 83 of 98 doubles 44 of 54 mixed doubles
Longest match in a Wimbledon women's championship 1995 2nd round C Rubin (USA) bt P Hy-Boulais (CAN) 7-6 (7-4) 6-7 (5-7) 17-15 58 games 3 hours 45 minutes
Triple Champions Singles/Doubles/Mixed .
1901 Charlotte (Cooper) Sterry doubles not full championship till 1908 mixed not full championship till 1913
1920 Suzanne Lenglen .
1922 Suzanne Lenglen .
1925 Suzanne Lenglen .
1939 Alice Marble mixed partner R L RIggs also triple champion that year
1948 Louise Brough .
1950 Louise Brough - top seeded in all 3 events .
1951 Doris Hart .
1967 B J (Moffitt) King most games played by a woman at a Wimbledon championships 17 matches, 34-4 sets, 231-126 games (357 games)
1973 B J (Moffitt) King .

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