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- William Renshaw was the first man to win seven championships. Reginald Doherty won Wimbledon four times and his brother Laurence won it five times. Fred Perry won three consecutive championships and was the last British man to win Wimbledon (1936) until Andy Murray's win 77 years later in 2013.
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The following is a list of Wimbledon champions in tennis : Champions. Senior. Wheelchair. Junior. ‡ = a player who won both the junior and senior title. † = a player who won the junior title and reached the senior final. Junior 14&U. See also. Lists of champions of specific events. List of Wimbledon gentlemen's singles champions.
YearSingles(gentlemen)Singles(ladies)Doubles(gentlemen)Wesley Koolhof Neal SkupskiNovak Djokovic (x2)Matthew Ebden Max PurcellNovak Djokovic (x2)Nikola Mektić Mate PavićNo tournament due to the COVID-19 ...No tournament due to the COVID-19 ...No tournament due to the COVID-19 ...In the Open Era, since the inclusion of professional tennis players in 1968, Roger Federer (2003–2007, 2009, 2012, 2017) holds the record for the most Gentlemen's Singles titles with eight. Björn Borg (1976–1980) and Roger Federer (2003–2007) share the record for most consecutive victories with five. [5]
This changed with the advent of the open era in 1968. No British man won the singles event at Wimbledon between Fred Perry in 1936 and Andy Murray in 2013, while no British woman has won since Virginia Wade in 1977, although Annabel Croft and Laura Robson won the Girls' Championship in 1984 and 2008 respectively.
Martina Navratilova have won most Wimbledon titles in the Open Era. Rate this Page! Complete list of Wimbledon Winners and Runners-up in both Men's and Women's single, Most US Wimbledon...
- Novak Djokovic in Men's singles and Angelique Kerber in Women's singles won the 2018 Wimbledon.
- Roger Federer has won Wimbledon a record eight times.
- Roger Federer in Men's singles (8 Wimbledon titles) and Martina Navratilova in Women's singles (9 Wimbledon titles).
- Martina Navratilova is the female tennis player with the most Wimbledon titles.
- Roger Federer have won Wimblemdon eight times.
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Wimbledon Championships, internationally known tennis championships played annually in London at Wimbledon.
The tournament, held in late June and early July, is one of the four annual “Grand Slam” tennis events—along with the Australian, French, and U.S. Opens—and is the only one still played on natural grass. The first Wimbledon championship was held in 1877 on one of the croquet lawns of the All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club (since 1899 the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club). In 1884 a women’s championship was introduced at Wimbledon, and the national men’s doubles was transferred there from Oxford. Mixed doubles and women’s doubles were inaugurated in 1913.
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In 1920 Suzanne Lenglen of France became the first person to win three Wimbledon championships (in singles and doubles events) in a single year; in 1937 Don Budge of the United States became the first man to win three Wimbledon championships in a single year. (In 1938 he repeated that feat, and he also won the other three championships of the Grand Slam.) In 1980 Björn Borg of Sweden won the men’s singles for a fifth consecutive year; this was a feat not achieved since the winning streaks of William Renshaw (1880s) and Laurie Doherty (1900s), which were held under the old challenge-round system that gave an advantage to defending champions. Martina Navratilova of the United States won six consecutive women’s championships (1982–87), eclipsing the record of Lenglen (1919–23). In 1990 Navratilova captured her ninth single’s title to break the record set by Helen Wills. Later notable players at Wimbledon include Pete Sampras of the United States, who in 2000 won his seventh title to tie Renshaw, and Roger Federer of Switzerland, whose fifth consecutive title in 2007 equaled Borg’s streak; in 2012 Federer also captured a record-tying seventh Wimbledon title.
The Wimbledon Championships, originally played by amateurs, were opened to professional players in 1968; Rod Laver of Australia and Billie Jean King of the United States won the singles events that year. The current championships, in addition to men’s and women’s singles and doubles and mixed doubles, include events for junior boys and girls. The Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum chronicles the history of the sport.
A list of Wimbledon singles champions is provided in the table.
A list of Wimbledon doubles champions is provided in the table.
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Wheelchair Events. Champions shows the concluding matches that have decided the five Championships, six wheelchair Championships and four Junior Championships over the years. From 1878 to 1921 the holder of the Gentlemen's Singles title did not compete until the Challenge Round, when he met the winner of the All Comers' Singles to decide The ...
He also took gold in the 2012 Olympics, held at Wimbledon, defeating Federer in the men’s event, then winning silver in the doubles with Laura Robson. Murray, Federer, Djokovic and the fourth member of the Big Four, Rafael Nadal, won all the men’s titles, usually defeating one of the others in the final.
