Wimbledon: Past women's champions

List of Wimbledon women's singles champions since 1922:

- Complete Coverage: Wimbledon 2008

2007 Venus Williams (US) beat Marion Bartoli (France) 6-4 6-1

2006 Amelie Mauresmo (France) beat Justine Henin (Belgium) 2-6 6-3 6-4

2005 Venus Williams beat Lindsay Davenport (US) 4-6 7-6(4) 9-7

2004 Maria Sharapova (Russia) beat Serena Williams (US) 6-1 6-4

2003 Serena Williams beat Venus Williams 4-6 6-4 6-2

2002 Serena Williams beat Venus Williams 7-6(4) 6-3

2001 Venus Williams beat Henin 6-1 3-6 6-0

2000 Venus Williams beat Davenport 6-3 7-6(3)

1999 Davenport 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 2-6 6-3 6-3

1996 Graf beat Arantxa Sanchez Vicario (Spain) 6-3 7-5

1995 Graf beat Sanchez Vicario 4-6 6-1 7-5

1994 Conchita Martinez (Spain) beat Martina Navratilova (US) 6-4 3-6 6-3

1993 Graf beat Novotna 7-6(6) 1-6 6-4

1992 Graf beat Monica Seles (Yugoslavia) 6-2 6-1

1991 Graf beat Gabriela Sabatini (Argentina) 6-4 3-6 8-6

1990 Navratilova beat Zena Garrison (US) 6-4 6-1

1989 Graf beat Navratilova 6-2 6-7(1) 6-1

1988 Graf beat Navratilova 5-7 6-2 6-1

1987 Navratilova beat Graf 7-5 6-3

1986 Navratilova beat Hana Mandlikova (Czechoslovakia) 7-6(1) 6-3

1985 Navratilova beat Chris Evert Lloyd (US) 4-6 6-3 6-2

1984 Navratilova beat Evert Lloyd 7-6(5) 6-2

1983 Navratilova beat Andrea Jaeger (US) 6-0 6-3

1982 Navratilova beat Evert Lloyd 6-1 3-6 6-2

1981 Evert Lloyd beat Mandlikova 6-2 6-2

1980 Evonne Cawley (Goolagong) (Australia) beat Evert Lloyd 6-1 7-6(4)

1979 Navratilova (Czechoslovakia) beat Evert Lloyd 6-4 6-4

1978 Navratilova beat Evert 2-6 6-4 7-5

1977 Virgina Wade (Britain) beat Betty Stove (Netherlands) 4-6 6-3 6-1

1976 Evert beat Cawley 6-3 4-6 8-6

1975 Billie Jean King (Moffitt) (US) beat Cawley 6-0 6-1

1974 Evert beat Olga Morozova (Soviet Union) 6-0 6-4

1973 King beat Evert 6-0 7-5

1972 King beat Goolagong (Australia) 6-3 6-3

1971 Goolagong (Australia) beat Margaret Court (Smith) (Australia) 6-4 6-1

1970 Court beat King 14-12 11-9

1969 Ann Jones (Britain) beat King 3-6 6-3 6-2

1968 King beat Judy Tegart (Australia) 9-7 7-5

1967 King beat Jones 6-3 6-4

1966 King beat Maria Bueno (Brazil) 6-3 3-6 6-1

1965 Smith (Court) beat Bueno 6-4 7-5

1964 Bueno beat Smith 6-4 7-9 6-3

1963 Smith beat Moffitt (King) 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 beat Sandra Reynolds (South Africa) 8-6 6-0

1959 Bueno beat Darlene Hard (U.S.) 6-4 6-3

1958 Althea Gibson (US) beat Mortimer 8-6 6-2

1957 Gibson beat Hard 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 6-2 7-5

1953 Connolly beat Doris Hart (US) 8-6 7-5

1952 Connolly beat Brough 7-5 6-3

1951 Hart beat Fry 6-1 6-0

1950 Brough beat Margaret du Pont (Osborne) (US) 6-1 3-6 6-1

1949 Brough beat Du Pont 10-8 1-6 10-8

1948 Brough beat Hart 6-3 8-6

1947 Osborne beat Hart 6-2 6-4

1946 Pauline Betz (US) beat Brough 6-2 6-4

1945-40 No tournament held

1939 Alice Marble (US) beat Kay Stammers (Britain) 6-2 6-0

1938 Helen Moody (Wills) (U.S.) beat Helen Jacobs (US) 6-4 6-0

1937 Dorothy Round (Britain) beat Jadwiga Jedrzejowska (Poland) 6-2 2-6 7-5

1936 Jacobs beat Hilde Sperling (Germany) 6-2 4-6 7-5

1935 Moody beat Jacobs 6-3 3-6 7-5

1934 Round beat Jacobs 6-2 5-7 6-3

1933 Moody beat Round 6-4 6-8 6-3

1932 Moody beat Jacobs 6-3 6-1

1931 Cilly Aussem (Germany) beat Hilde Krahwinkel (Germany) 6-2 7-5

1930 Moody beat Elizabeth Ryan (US) 6-2 6-2

1929 Wills (Moody) beat Jacobs 6-1 6-2

1928 Wills beat Lili de Alvarez (Spain) 6-2 6-3

1927 Wills 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 4-6 6-4 6-4

1923 Lenglen (France) beat McKane 6-2 6-2

1922 Lenglen beat Molla Mallory (US) 6-2 6-0

Note: Before 1922 the women's singles was decided on a challenge-round system.