List of Wimbledon women's singles champions:
2019 Simona Halep (Romania) beat Serena Williams (US) 6-2, 6-2
2018 Angelique Kerber (Germany) beat Serena Williams (US) 6-3, 6-3
2017 Garbine Muguruza (Spain) beat Venus Williams (US) 7-5, 6-0
2016 Serena Williams (US) beat Angelique Kerber (Germany) 7-5, 6-3
2015 Serena Williams (US) beat Garbine Muguruza (Spain) 6-4, 6-4
2014 Petra Kvitova (Czech Republic) beat Eugenie Bouchard (Canada) 6-3, 6-0
2013 Marion Bartoli (France) beat Sabine Lisicki (Germany) 6-1, 6-4
2012 Serena Williams (US) beat Agnieszka Radwanska (Poland) 6-1, 5-7, 6-2
2011 Kvitova (Czech Republic) beat Maria Sharapova (Russia) 6-3, 6-4
2010 Serena Williams (US) beat Vera Zvonareva (Russia) 6-3, 6-2
2009 Serena Williams (US) beat Venus Williams (US) 7-6(3), 6-2
2008 Venus Williams (US) beat Serena Williams (US) 7-5, 6-4
2007 Venus Williams (US) beat Bartoli (France) 6-4, 6-1
2006 Amelie Mauresmo (France) beat Justine Henin (Belgium) 2-6, 6-3, 6-4
2005 Venus Williams (US) beat Lindsay Davenport (US) 4-6, 7-6(4), 9-7
2004 Sharapova (Russia) beat Serena Williams (US) 6-1, 6-4
2003 Serena Williams (US) beat Venus Williams (US) 4-6, 6-4, 6-2
2002 Serena Williams (US) beat Venus Williams (US) 7-6(4), 6-3
2001 Venus Williams (US) beat Henin (Belgium) 6-1, 3-6, 6-0
2000 Venus Williams (US) beat Davenport (US) 6-3, 7-6(3)
1999 Davenport (US) beat Steffi Graf (Germany) 6-4, 7-5
1998 Jana Novotna (Czech Republic) beat Nathalie Tauziat (France) 6-4, 7-6(2)
1997 Martina Hingis (Switzerland) beat Novotna (Czech Republic) 2-6, 6-3, 6-3
1996 Graf (Germany) beat Arantxa Sanchez Vicario (Spain) 6-3, 7-5
1995 Graf (Germany) beat Sanchez Vicario (Spain) 4-6, 6-1, 7-5
1994 Conchita Martinez (Spain) beat Martina Navratilova (US) 6-4, 3-6, 6-3
1993 Graf (Germany) beat Novotna (Czech Republic) 7-6(6), 1-6, 6-4
1992 Graf (Germany) beat Monica Seles (Yugoslavia) 6-2, 6-1
1991 Graf (Germany) beat Gabriela Sabatini (Argentina) 6-4, 3-6, 8-6
1990 Navratilova (US) beat Zina Garrison (US) 6-4, 6-1
1989 Graf (Germany) beat Navratilova (US) 6-2, 6-7(1), 6-1
1988 Graf (Germany) beat Navratilova (US) 5-7, 6-2, 6-1
1987 Navratilova (US) beat Graf (Germany) 7-5, 6-3
1986 Navratilova (US) beat Hana Mandlikova (Czechoslovakia) 7-6(1), 6-3
1985 Navratilova (US) beat Chris Evert Lloyd (US) 4-6, 6-3, 6-2
1984 Navratilova (US) beat Evert Lloyd (US) 7-6(5), 6-2
1983 Navratilova (US) beat Andrea Jaeger (US) 6-0, 6-3
1982 Navratilova (US) beat Evert Lloyd (US) 6-1, 3-6, 6-2
1981 Evert Lloyd (US) beat Mandlikova (Czechoslovakia) 6-2, 6-2
1980 Evonne Cawley (Goolagong) (Australia) beat Evert Lloyd (US) 6-1, 7-6(4)
1979 Navratilova (Czechoslovakia) beat Evert Lloyd (US) 6-4, 6-4
1978 Navratilova (Czechoslovakia) beat Evert (US) 2-6, 6-4, 7-5
1977 Virginia Wade (Britain) beat Betty Stove (Netherlands) 4-6, 6-3, 6-1
1976 Evert (US) beat Cawley (Australia) 6-3, 4-6, 8-6
1975 Billie Jean King (Moffitt) (US) beat Cawley (Australia) 6-0, 6-1
1974 Evert (US) beat Olga Morozova (Soviet Union) 6-0, 6-4
1973 King (US) beat Evert (US) 6-0, 7-5
1972 King (US) beat Goolagong (Australia) 6-3, 6-3
1971 Goolagong (Australia) beat Margaret Court (Smith) (Australia) 6-4, 6-1
1970 Court (Australia) beat King (US) 14-12, 11-9
1969 Ann Jones (Britain) beat King (US) 3-6, 6-3, 6-2
1968 King (US) beat Judy Tegart (Australia) 9-7, 7-5
Pre-Open era:
1967 King (US) beat Jones (Britain) 6-3, 6-4
1966 King (US) beat Maria Bueno (Brazil) 6-3, 3-6, 6-1
1965 Smith (Court) (Australia) beat Bueno (Brazil) 6-4, 7-5
1964 Bueno (Brazil) beat Smith (Australia) 6-4, 7-9, 6-3
1963 Smith (Australia) beat Moffitt (King) (US) 6-3, 6-4
1962 Karen Susman (US) beat Vera Sukova (Czechoslovakia) 6-4, 6-4
1961 Angela Mortimer (Britain) beat Christine Truman (Britain) 4-6, 6-4, 7-5
1960 Bueno (Brazil) beat Sandra Reynolds (South Africa) 8-6, 6-0
1959 Bueno (Brazil) beat Darlene Hard (US) 6-4, 6-3
1958 Althea Gibson (US) beat Mortimer (Britain) 8-6, 6-2
1957 Gibson (US) beat Hard (US) 6-3, 6-2
1956 Shirley Fry (US) beat Angela Buxton (Britain) 6-3, 6-1
1955 Louise Brough (US) beat Beverly Fleitz (US) 7-5, 8-6
1954 Maureen Connolly (US) beat Brough (US) 6-2, 7-5
1953 Connolly (US) beat Doris Hart (US) 8-6, 7-5
1952 Connolly (US) beat Brough (US) 7-5, 6-3
1951 Hart (US) beat Fry (US) 6-1, 6-0
1950 Brough (US) beat Margaret du Pont (Osborne) (US) 6-1, 3-6, 6-1
1949 Brough (US) beat Du Pont (US) 10-8, 1-6, 10-8
1948 Brough (US) beat Hart (US) 6-3, 8-6
1947 Osborne (US) beat Hart (US) 6-2, 6-4
1946 Pauline Betz (US) beat Brough (US) 6-2, 6-4
1940-45 No competition
1939 Alice Marble (US) beat Kay Stammers (Britain) 6-2, 6-0
1938 Helen Moody (Wills) (US) beat Helen Jacobs (US) 6-4, 6-0
1937 Dorothy Round (Britain) beat Jadwiga Jedrzejowska (Poland) 6-2, 2-6, 7-5
1936 Jacobs (US) beat Hilde Sperling (Germany) 6-2, 4-6, 7-5
1935 Moody (US) beat Jacobs (US) 6-3, 3-6, 7-5
1934 Round (Britain) beat Jacobs (US) 6-2, 5-7, 6-3
1933 Moody (US) beat Round (Britain) 6-4, 6-8, 6-3
1932 Moody (US) beat Jacobs (US) 6-3, 6-1
1931 Cilly Aussem (Germany) beat Hilde Krahwinkel (Germany) 6-2, 7-5
1930 Moody (US) beat Elizabeth Ryan (US) 6-2, 6-2
1929 Wills (Moody) (US) beat Jacobs (US) 6-1, 6-2
1928 Wills (US) beat Lili de Alvarez (Spain) 6-2, 6-3
1927 Wills (US) beat de Alvarez (Spain) 6-2, 6-4
1926 Kathleen Godfree (Britain) beat de Alvarez (Spain) 6-2, 4-6, 6-3
1925 Suzanne Lenglen (France) beat Joan Fry (Britain) 6-2, 6-0
1924 Kathleen McKane (Britain) beat Wills (US) 4-6, 6-4, 6-4
1923 Lenglen (France) beat McKane (Britain) 6-2, 6-2
1922 Lenglen (France) beat Molla Mallory (US) 6-2, 6-0
Before 1922 the women's singles was decided on a challenge-round system with the previous year's winner automatically qualifying for the final (British unless stated):
1921 Lenglen (France) beat Elizabeth Ryan (U.S) 6-2, 6-0
1920 Lenglen (France) beat Dorothea Chambers 6-3, 6-0
1919 Lenglen (France) beat Chambers 10-8, 4-6, 9-7
1915-18 No competition
1914 Chambers beat Ethel Larcombe 7-5, 6-4
1913* Chambers beat Winifred McNair 6-0, 6-4
1912* Larcombe beat Charlotte Sterry 6-3, 6-1
1911 Chambers beat Dora Boothby 6-0, 6-0
1910 Chambers beat Boothby 6-2, 6-2
1909* Boothby beat Agnes Morton 6-4, 4-6, 8-6
1908* Sterry beat Morton 6-4, 6-4
1907 May Sutton (US) beat Chambers 6-1, 6-4
1906 Dorothea Douglass beat Sutton 6-3, 9-7
1905 Sutton beat Douglass 6-3, 6-4
1904 Douglass beat Sterry 6-0, 6-3
1903* Douglass beat Thomson (Larcombe) 4-6, 6-4, 6-2
1902 Muriel Robb beat Sterry 7-5, 6-1
1901 Sterry beat Blanche Hillyard 6-2, 6-2
1900 Hillyard beat Charlotte Cooper 4-6, 6-4, 6-4
1899 Hillyard beat Cooper 6-2, 6-3
1898* Cooper beat Louisa Martin 6-4, 6-4
1897 Hillyard beat Cooper 5-7, 7-5, 6-2
1896 Cooper beat Alice Pickering 6-2, 6-3
1895* Cooper beat Helen Jackson 7-5, 8-6
1894* Hillyard beat Edith Austin 6-1, 6-1
1893 Lottie Dod beat Hillyard 6-8, 6-1, 6-4
1892 Dod beat Hillyard 6-1, 6-1
1891* Dod beat Hillyard 6-2, 6-1
1890* Lena Rice beat May Jacks 6-4, 6-1
1889* Hillyard beat Rice 4-6, 8-6, 6-4
1888 Dod beat Hillyard 6-3, 6-3
1887 Dod beat Hillyard (Bingley) 6-2, 6-0
1886 Bingley beat Maud Watson 6-3, 6-3
1885 Watson beat Bingley 6-1, 7-5
1884 Watson beat Lillian Watson 6-8, 6-3, 6-3
* denotes no challenge round. Winner of all-comers' final declared champion.
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