| Most Wins Singles |
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| 9 |
Martina Navratilova |
| 8 |
Helen (Wills) Moody |
| 7 |
Dorothea (Douglass) Chambers |
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Steffi Graf |
| 6 |
Billie Jean King |
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Suzanne Lenglen |
| 5 |
Lottie Dod |
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Charlotte (Cooper) Sterry |
| 4 |
Louise Brough |
| 3 |
Maria Bueno |
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Maureen Connolly |
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Margaret (Smith) Court |
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Chris Evert Lloyd |
| 2 |
Evonne (Goolagong) Cawley |
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Althea Gibson |
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Dorothy Round |
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May Sutton |
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Maud Watson |
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Venus Williams |
| Records |
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| Youngest Winner |
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| 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 |
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| 1921 First time British player not in Wimbledon women's singles final |
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| 1965 First time no British player seeded at Wimbledon |
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| 1968 First open championship - prizes £750 (finalist £450) |
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| 1902 Longest Wimbledon women's final |
7-5 6-1 after first day abandoned
at 4-6 13-11 (53 games) |
| 1970 2nd Longest 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
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| 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 |
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| 1901 Charlotte (Cooper) Sterry |
doubles not full championship till 1908
mixed not full championship till 1913 |
| 1920 Suzanne Lenglen |
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| 1922 Suzanne Lenglen |
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| 1925 Suzanne Lenglen |
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| 1939 Alice Marble |
mixed partner R L RIggs also triple champion that year |
| 1948 Louise Brough |
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| 1950 Louise Brough - top seeded in all 3 events |
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| 1951 Doris Hart |
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| 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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| 2005 Longest Wimbledon Women's Singles Finals ever |
Venus Williams bt Lindsay Davenport
4-6 7-6 (7-4) 9-7 in 2 hrs 45 min |
