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Ashleigh Barty defeated Karolína Plíšková in the final, 6–3, 6–7 (4–7), 6–3 to win the ladies' singles tennis title at the 2021 Wimbledon Championships. [1] [2] It was her first Wimbledon title and second major singles title overall. She became the first Australian to win the title since Evonne Goolagong Cawley in 1980, the first ...
The 2021 Wimbledon Championships was a Grand Slam tennis tournament that took place at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom, the first since 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Novak Djokovic successfully defended his gentlemen's singles title to claim his record-equalling 20th major title, defeating ...
She reached a career-high ranking of No. 10 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) on 11 July 2022, and is a former British No. 1. Raducanu is the first British woman to win a Grand Slam singles title since Virginia Wade at the 1977 Wimbledon Championships .
Amateur Era. Lottie Dod was a five-time champion and is the youngest ever winner of the ladies' singles championships (15 years and 285 days). Charlotte Cooper Sterry was a five-time champion and is the oldest ladies' singles champion (37 year and 282 days). Dorothea Lambert Chambers was a seven-time champion between 1903 and 1914.
Between 1935 and 2021, Wimbledon had a sponsorship deal with Robinsons fruit squash – one of the longest sponsorships in sport. [99] In February 2024, alongside the Australian, French and US Open Tennis Championships, it is announced that Emirates (airline) would sponsor Wimbledon for the first time in the tennis tournament's 147-year history.
Women's doubles. Defending champion Hsieh Su-wei and her partner, Elise Mertens, defeated Veronika Kudermetova and Elena Vesnina in the final, 3–6, 7–5, 9–7, to win the ladies' doubles tennis title at the 2021 Wimbledon Championships. The pair saved two championship points en route to their first major title together.
The 2021 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles Qualifying was a series of tennis matches that took place from 22 to 25 June 2021 (was originally to end on 24 June 2021 resulting a heavy rain on the first day) to determine the sixteen qualifiers into the main draw of the 2021 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles, and, if necessary, the lucky losers.
Wheelchair women's singles. Diede de Groot defeated Kgothatso Montjane in the final, 6–2, 6–2 to win the ladies' singles wheelchair tennis title at the 2021 Wimbledon Championships. It was her third Wimbledon singles title, completed a non-calendar-year Grand Slam, and was the third step in an eventual Super Slam .