Virginia Wade won the Wimbledon final on July 1, 1977.
Virginia Wade.
Virginia Wade
Virginia Wade
Virginia Wade won the Wimbledon Women's Singles Championship on Friday the 1st of July 1977.
Virginia Wade was the last English Woman to win Wimbledon, which was on 1 July 1977.
Virginia Wade won the Wimbledon Ladies Singles Championship in 1977 by beating Betty Stove in the finals 4-6, 6-3, 6-1.
In the Open Era, Ann Haydon Jones (1969) and Virginia Wade (1977). Several other British women have also won Wimbledon prior to the Open Era.
Bjorn Borg won the men's Wimbledon singles title 5 consecutive years from 1976-1980. In women's Chris Evert won in 1976, Virginia Wade in 1977, Martina Navratilova 1978-1979, and Evonne Goolagong in 1980.
Sharapova won Wimbledon in 2004 at the age of 17.
Roger Federer was 21 years old when he won his first Wimbledon title in 2003.
Virginia Wade