Wimbledon Winners

S.W. Gore, winner of the 1877 Wimbledon was a British national and the first Wimbledon winner in history. In 1884, M.E.E. Watson, another British national, won the first Wimbledon Women's Singles. Since 1877, the Wimbledon championship game has enticed players from around the world to compete for the ultimate title in tennis.

Competition from abroad

British nationals dominated Wimbledon from its inception in 1877 until 1905 when a woman from the USA, M.G. Sutton, won the Women's Singles. In 1906, D.K. Douglass, a British national, reclaimed the Women's Singles Wimbledon for Britain. M.G. Sutton came back for the title in 1907, the same year Australian national N.E. Brookes broke Britain's winning streak in the Men's Singles. After that year the Wimbledon Men's Singles was never again dominated by Britain. British nationals did; however, hang on to the Women's Singles title for seven more years until S.R.F. Lenglen of France won the title.

Recent winners

In six of the last 11 years, the Wimbledon Women's Singles have been won by one or the other of the Williams sisters, Venus and Serena, both from the USA. R. Federer from SUI has virtually dominated the Wimbledon Men's Singles since 2000, winning six of the last 11 titles. The 2011 Wimbledon gave way to new faces, first time winner N. Djokovic from Serbia won the Men's Singles and Petra Kvitová from Czechoslovakia won the Women's Singles.

From its roots in Britain in 1877, Wimbledon has grown into an international tennis event. Tennis players from around the world compete for the Wimbledon title in a competition that values both men and women players equally.