According to the Wimbledon website (refer to the link, below), as of June 4, 2009, a number of men and women tennis players have won the Wimbledon singles championships exactly three times, as listed, below, in reverse date order (i.e., latest first): Ladies 3-time Wimbledon champions: * M.E.A. Bueno * M.C. Connolly * H.N. Wills * D.K. Douglass * C.R. Cooper
Mens 3-time Wimbledon champions: * B.F. Becker * J.P. McEnroe * J.D. Newcombe * F.J. Perry * W.T. Tilden * A.W. Gore * W. Baddeley
If you're speaking of singles titles, Martina Navratilova won 9 times at Wimbledon.
William Renshaw won 7 Wimbledon singles titles and 5 Wimbledon doubles titles.
In singles, he won three times (1981, 1983, 1984) In doubles, he won five times (1979, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1992)
Sampras won the Wimbledon men's singles title 7 times; Federer has won it 6 times.
Billie Jean King won a record 20 career titles at Wimbledon - 6 singles, 10 women's doubles, and 4 mixed doubles. (Martina Navratilova also has 20 career titles at Wimbledon.)
Venus Williams has won 5 Wimbledon singles titles: 2000, 2001, 2005, 2007 and 2008.
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Steffi Graf won the ladies' Wimbledon singles title 7 times.
Maria Bueno. She one in 1959, 1960 & 1964.
Overall, it is Martina Navratilova, with a total of 9 Wimbledon singles titles. In men's, it is a tie between Roger Federer from Switzerland, Pete Sampras from the US, and William Renshaw from Great Britain, all with 7 titles
As of the 2010 Wimbledon, Rafael Nadal has played in 9 Wimbledon Men's Singles tournaments. His first time came back in 2002.
She won Woman's Singles seven times (1923,24,25,27,28,29,31) and Doubles four times (1922,24,25,28). So, three in a row, twice.