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Ann Haydon Jones
Ann Haydon-Jones is a former table tennis and lawn tennis champion. She won a total of eight Grand Slam championships during her career: three in singles, three in women’s doubles, and two in mixed doubles. Career Her parents were prominent table tennis players, her father, Adrian Haydon, having been British...

John Hartley
John Thorneycroft Hartley (Died: 21 August 1935) was a tennis player from England, and the only clergyman to win Wimbledon. Born in Tong, Shropshire, as the winner of the All Comer’s Final, Hartley won the 1879 Gentlemans Singles title by default, after the 1878 Champion, Frank Hadow failed to defend his title....

Lottie Dod
Charlotte “Lottie” Dod was an English sportswoman best known as a tennis player. She won the Wimbledon Ladies’ Singles Championship five times, the first one when she was only fifteen in the summer of 1887. She remains the youngest ladies’ singles champion, though Martina Hingis was three days...

Reginald Doherty
Reginald (Reggie) or R.F. Frank Doherty was a former World No. 1 British male tennis player, and the older brother of Laurie Doherty. He was known in the tennis world as “R.F.” rather than “Reggie”. Career Reggie Doherty began tennis early in life and as a boy at Westminster School showed great...

Blanche Bingley
Blanche Bingley was an English tennis player. Born in Greenford in the London Borough of Ealing, Blanche Bingley was a member of the “Ealing Lawn Tennis & Archery Club.” In 1884, she competed in the first ever Wimbledon championships for women and two years later captured the first of her six singles...

Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers
Dorothea Katherine Lambert Chambers was an English female tennis player who was born in Ealing in the United Kingdom. Biography She was born in 1878 as Dorothea Katherine Douglass. In 1900, Douglass made her debut at Wimbledon. Three years later, she won her first of seven ladies singles titles. In 1907, she married...

Spencer Gore
Spencer William Gore was an English cricketer who played for Surrey County Cricket Club in 1874 and 1875 and a tennis player who won the first Wimbledon Championships in 1877. Early years Spencer William Gore was the son of Charles Alexander Gore and Augusta Lavinia Priscilla (née Ponsonby). His brother was Charles...

Laurence Doherty
Hugh Laurence “Laurie” Doherty is a former World No. 1 English tennis player and younger brother of Reggie Doherty. He was an Olympic gold medalist in the sport. Career Doherty was the shorter of the two brothers, at 1.78m, who played championship tennis in their native England and at Wimbledon at the turn...

Maud Watson
Maud Edith Eleanor Watson was an English tennis player and the first female Wimbledon champion. Born in Harrow, London, the daughter of a local vicar Henry William and Emily Frances Watson. She began playing competitive tennis in 1881, the year ladies’ open events were introduced in England. Her first public...

William Renshaw
William “Willie” Charles Renshaw was a British male tennis player active during the late 19th century. He was one of the most successful male players in the history of the Wimbledon Championships. The right-hander was known for his power and technical ability which put him ahead of competition at the...

Virginia Wade
Sarah Virginia Wade (OBE) is a former English tennis player. She won three Grand Slam singles championships and four Grand Slam doubles championships. She won the women’s singles championship at Wimbledon on 1 July 1977, in that tournament’s centenary year, the last time any Briton has won a singles...