Wimbledon 2018 will be the third of four Grand Slam tournaments of the season. From 02 to 15 July, the matches will be played on grass in London and record winner Roger Federer is looking to clinch his ninth Wimbledon victory. SPOX looks back on the history of the winners of the most lucrative tennis tournament.
The Grand Slam tournament is entering its 132nd edition this year. Can Garbine Muguruza and Roger Federer defend their titles from last year?
In the women’s singles, the record winner on Church Road is Czech-American dual national Martina Navratilova with nine individual victories between 1978 and 1990, six times in a row. In 2006 Navratilova finished her time as an active professional sportswoman with 167 career titles.
Between 2003 and 2017 Roger Federer from Switzerland won the Wimbledon title in the men’s singles eight times. This makes him the record winner of the tournament since 2017. Federer, who is number two this year behind Nadal in Wimbledon, could expand his record and also reappoint himself first in the world rankings.
Steffi Graf had her real breakthrough at the age of 19 when she became world-famous with her victories at the 1988 Grand Slam tournaments in Melbourne, Paris, Wimbledon, New York and the Olympic Games. No other tennis player has managed this so-called’Golden Slam’ so far. The German stayed in first place in the world tennis rankings for 377 weeks. She won the Wilmbledon title seven times.
Boris Becker was the youngest player to win the Wimbledon tournament at the age of 17. In London he won a total of three times, four more times he was in the final. He ended his tennis career in 1999.