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SINGLES TITLE LEADERS
9 - Miss M. Navratilova (USA) 1978, '79, '82-87, '90
8 - Miss H.N. Wills-Moody (USA) 1927-30, '32, '33, '35, '38
7 - Miss D.K. Douglass- Chambers (BRI) 1903, '04, '06, '10, '11, '13, '14
7 - Miss S.M. Graf (GER) 1988, '89, '91-93, '95, '96
7 - Miss S.J. Williams (USA) 2002, 2003, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2016

YOUNGEST CHAMPION
Miss C. Dod, 1887, 15 years, 285 days

OLDEST CHAMPION
Mrs A Sterry, 1908, 37 years, 282 days

MISC
Lowest ranked women's winner: No. 42 Marketa Vondrousova
Longest women's final by time: Venus Williams d Lindsay Davenport 2hrs 45mins (2005)
Longest women's match by time: Chanda Rubin d  Patricia Hy-Boulais 3hrs 45mins (1995)
Set won without losing a point (golden set): Yaroslava Shvedova (3rd round vs S Errani, 1st set) 15 mins (2012)
Oldest competitor: 1922, Mrs A O’Neill (GBR) – 54 years, 304 days
Youngest competitor: 1990, Jennifer Capriati (USA) – 14 years, 90 days
Fastest recorded serve: Venus Williams, 129mph in 2008

- Maria Sharapova (2004), Venus Williams (2005, 2007), Marion Bartoli (2013), Garbine Muguruza (2017), Angelique Kerber (2018), Elena Rybakina (2022) and Marketa Vondrousova (2023) are only players to win Wimbledon when seeded outside Top 10
- The top seed has won the Wimbledon women’s singles 23 times in the Open Era, only four No.1 seeds have won here in the last 15 years (Ash Barty in 2021, Serena Williams in 2003 and 2010, Amelie Mauresmo in 2006)
- The women's title has been successfully defended 15 times in the Open Era
- Five players have won the singles title after saving match point (Blanche Hillyard (1889), Suzanne Lenglen (1919), HelenWills-Moody (1935), VenusWilliams (2005) and SerenaWilliams (2009)
- In 2010, Serena Williams became the 28th woman towin the singles title without dropping a set (9th in Open Era)
- In 2004, Maria Sharapova became the first woman not seeded in the Top 8 to win theWimbledon singles title since seeding began in 1927.
- Elena Rybakina (2022), Marion Bartoli (2013), Angelique Kerber (2018), Garbiñe Muguruza (2017), Maria Sharapova (2004) and Venus Williams (2005, 2007) are the only players to win here seeded outside Top 10
- Marketa Vondrousova (2023) becaame the first unseeded woman to win Wimbledon in the Open Era
- Only 4 players have won the Wimbledon women’s singles title after winning the Wimbledon girls singles title (Haydon-Jones, Susman, Hingis and Mauresmo).
- The player with the most women’s doubles titles is Elizabeth Ryan, who won 12 between 1914 and 1934
- Serena Williams was the last player to win both the singles and doubles titles in the same year – 2012; the Williams sisters have won both singles and doubles titles on 5 occasions (3 Serena)
- Ann Jones (1969), Martina Navratilova (9 times) and Petra Kvitova (once) are the only three left-handers to win the Wimbledon women’s singles title in the Open Era

Wimbledon’s oldest women’s singles champion of all time is Britain’s Charlotte Sterry, who won the title in 1908 at the age of 37 years, 282 days. The oldest champion at Wimbledon in the Open Era is Martina Navratilova of the USA, who won the last of her record nine Wimbledon singles titles at the age of 33 years, 263 days in 1990.

NO.1 SEEDS’ PERFORMANCES AT WIMBLEDON
The women's top seed has won singles title at Wimbledon on 25 occasions in Open Era¸ most recently in 2021 with Ash Barty.

WINNING FRENCH OPEN AND WIMBLEDON IN SAME YEAR (Open Era):
Margaret Court 1970
Evonne Goolagong 1971
Billie Jean King 1972
Chris Evert 1974
Martina Navratilova 1982, 1984
Steffi Graf 1988, 1993, 1995, 1996
Serena Williams 2002, 2015

WIMBLEDON PLAY ON MIDDLE SUNDAY
Only four times in Wimbledon history has play been scheduled for the middle Sunday, most recently in 2016. That changed in 2022 with the permanent Sunday schedule.
2016
2004
1997
1991