Virginia Wade won the Wimbledon Ladies Singles Championship in 1977 by beating Betty Stove in the finals 4-6, 6-3, 6-1.
Bjön Borg, beating Jimmy Connors 3-6 6-2 6-1 5-7 6-4
Bjorn Borg
Virgina Wade, the last British singles champion. Appropriately, she managed the feat in the Silver Jubilee year of the Queen's reign, so HM, who is not a tennis fan, appeared for the Final to present the trophy.
Bjorn Borg won the men's Wimbledon final in 1977.
Virginia Wade won the Wimbledon Women's Singles Championship on Friday the 1st of July 1977.
As of the 2008 Wimbledon Championship that would be Jamie Murray who won the mixed doubles with Jelena Jankovic of Serbia in 2007. He was born in Dunblane, Scotland and is the older brother of Andy Murray.
Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum was created in 1977.
The runner-up of the 1976 Wimbledon championship was Ilie Nastase of Romania who lost 6-4, 6-2, 9-7 to Bjorn Borg of Sweden, who would go on to win the next 4 successive champinships at Wimbledon.
Virginia Wade won the Wimbledon final on July 1, 1977.
Three Dangerous Ladies - 1977 was released on: USA: 1988 (video premiere)
Virginia Wade was the last English Woman to win Wimbledon, which was on 1 July 1977.