List of Wimbledon ladies' singles champions

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Template:Short description Template:Infobox GrandSlamTournamentsDisciplines Wimbledon Championships, is an annual tennis tournament first contested in 1877 and played on outdoor grass courtsTemplate:EfnTemplate:Efn<ref name=2009aetlcGrass>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (AELTC) in the Wimbledon suburb of London, United Kingdom.<ref name=WProfile>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The ladies' singles was started in 1884.<ref name=2009aetlcHistory>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

History

Wimbledon has historically been played in the last week of June and the first week of July (though changed to the first two weeks of July in 2017), and has been chronologically the third of the four Grand Slam tournaments of the tennis season since 1987.<ref name=WProfile/> 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.<ref name=2009aetlcFinals>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The tournament was also not contested in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<ref name="WimbledonCovid">Template:Cite news</ref>

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 eleven times (1889, 1890, 1891, 1894, 1895, 1898, 1903, 1908, 1909, 1912, 1913) in the absence of the previous year's champion. The challenge round system was abolished with the 1922 edition.<ref name=Barrett>Template:Cite book</ref> Since the first championships, all matches have been played at the best-of-three sets. Between 1877 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 two-game advantage format from 1884 to 1970.<ref name=Barrett/> 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.<ref name=Barrett/><ref name=Tie-break>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=SuddenLingering>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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.<ref name=2009aetlcTrophy>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> New singles champions are traditionally elected honorary members of the AELTC by the club's committee.Template:Efn<ref name=2009aetlcClub>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2012, the ladies' singles winner received prize money of £1,150,000.<ref name=2009aetlcPrize>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In the Amateur–challenge round era, Dorothea Lambert Chambers (1903–1904, 1906, 1910–1911, 1913–1914) holds the record for most titles, with seven. However, it's noteworthy that three of Chambers' titles were won in the challenge round. Lottie Dod (1891–1893) and Suzanne Lenglen (1919–1921) hold the record for most consecutive wins in the ladies' singles with three victories each. The record for most wins and most consecutive wins post-challenge round in the Amateur Era, belongs to Helen Wills Moody (1927–1930, 1932–1933, 1935, 1938) with eight, including four straight victories (1927–1930).<ref name=2009aetlcFinals/>

In 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).<ref name=2009aetlcFinals/>

This event has been won without the loss of a set during the Open Era, by the following players: Billie Jean King in 1968, 1972, 1973 and 1975, Margaret Court in 1970, Evonne Goolagong Cawley in 1971 and 1980, Chris Evert in 1974 and 1981, Martina Navratilova in 1979, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, and 1990, Steffi Graf in 1992 and 1996, Jana Novotná in 1998, Lindsay Davenport in 1999, Venus Williams in 2000, 2007 and 2008, Serena Williams in 2002, 2009, 2010, 2015 and 2016, Petra Kvitová in 2011 and 2014 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 over a twelve-year period from 1903 to 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 black tennis player to do so, and successfully defended her title in 1958.
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Open Era

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Billie Jean King is a six-time champion.
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Martina Navratilova is a nine-time singles champion, a Grand Slam record in the Open Era for women (Margaret Court won the Australian 11 times). She won six consecutive titles from 1982 to 1987.
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Steffi Graf is a seven-time champion over a nine-year period from 1988 to 1996.
Serena Williams is a seven-time champion.
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Venus Williams is a five-time champion over a nine-year period from 2000 to 2008.
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Petra Kvitová is a two-time champion, and created a first in 2011, when she became the first player, male or female, born in the 1990s to win a Grand Slam tournament title.
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1968 Template:Flag Template:Sortname (3) Template:Flag Template:Sortname 9–7, 7–5
1969 Template:Flag Template:Sortname Template:Flag Template:Sortname 3–6, 6–3, 6–2
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2020 No competition (due to COVID-19 pandemic)<ref name=WimbledonCovid/>
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Statistics

Multiple champions

Title defended in the challenge round
Player Amateur Era Open Era All-time Years
Template:FlagathleteTemplate:Efn 0 9 9 1978, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1990
Template:Flagathlete 8 0 8 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1932, 1933, 1935, 1938
Template:Flagathlete 7 0 7 1903, 1904, 1906, 1910, 1911, 1913, 1914
Template:Flagathlete 0 7 7 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996
Template:Flagathlete 0 7 7 2002, 2003, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2016
Template:Flagathlete 6 0 6 1886, 1889, 1894, 1897, 1899, 1900
Template:Flagathlete 6 0 6 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1925
Template:Flagathlete 2 4 6 1966, 1967, 1968, 1972, 1973, 1975
Template:Flagathlete 5 0 5 1895, 1896, 1898, 1901, 1908
Template:Flagathlete 5 0 5 1887, 1888, 1891, 1892, 1893
Template:Flagathlete 0 5 5 2000, 2001, 2005, 2007, 2008
Template:Flagathlete 4 0 4 1948, 1949, 1950, 1955
Template:Flagathlete 3 0 3 1952, 1953, 1954
Template:Flagathlete 3 0 3 1959, 1960, 1964
Template:Flagathlete 2 1 3 1963, 1965, 1970
Template:Flagathlete 0 3 3 1974, 1976, 1981
Template:Flagathlete 2 0 2 1957, 1958
Template:Flagathlete 2 0 2 1934, 1937
Template:Flagathlete 2 0 2 1924, 1926
Template:Flagathlete 2 0 2 1905, 1907
Template:Flagathlete 2 0 2 1884, 1885
Template:Flagathlete 0 2 2 1971, 1980
Template:Flagathlete 0 2 2 2011, 2014

Championships by country

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The Ladies' Singles plate (right) with the Gentlemen's Singles trophy (left).
Country Amateur Era Open Era All-time First title Last title
Template:Flagteam 28 29 57 1905 2016
Template:Flagteam 34 2 36 1884 1977
Template:FlagteamTemplate:Efn 1 8 9 1931 2018
Template:Flagteam 6 2 8 1919 2013
Template:Flagteam 2 4 6 1963 2021
Template:Flagteam 0 5 5 1998 2024
Template:Flagteam 3 0 3 1959 1964
Template:Flagteam 0 2 2 1994 2017
Template:Flagteam 0 1 1 1997 1997
Template:Flagteam 0 1 1 2004 2004
Template:Flagteam 0 1 1 2019 2019
Template:Flagteam 0 1 1 2022 2022
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See also

Wimbledon Open other competitions

Grand Slam women's singles

Notes

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References

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