1968 Wimbledon Championships - Women's Singles

Billie Jean King

Billie Jean King is a former professional tennis player from the United States. She won 12 Grand Slam singles titles, 16 Grand Slam women's doubles titles, and 11 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles. King has been an advocate against sexism in sports and society...

defeated Judy Tegart

Judy Tegart

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9–7 7–5 in the final to win the Ladies' Singles title at the 1968 Wimbledon Championships

1968 Wimbledon Championships

List of the 1968 Wimbledon Champions. This tournament marked the dawn of a new era for Wimbledon, as it became the second Grand Slam to allow professionals to compete. Champions Laver and King had already won Wimbledon twice before in the amateur era...

1968 Wimbledon Championships - Men's Singles

Rod Laver defeated Tony Roche 6-3 6-4 6-2 in the final to win the Gentlemen's Singles title at the 1968 Wimbledon Championships.-Seeds:# Rod Laver # Ken Rosewall # Andrés Gimeno ...

Seeds

Billie Jean King
Billie Jean King
Billie Jean King is a former professional tennis player from the United States. She won 12 Grand Slam singles titles, 16 Grand Slam women's doubles titles, and 11 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles. King has been an advocate against sexism in sports and society...

(Champion)

Margaret Court (Quarterfinals)
Nancy Richey
Nancy Richey
Nancy Richey is a former tennis player from the United States.Richey won two Grand Slam singles titles and four Grand Slam women's doubles titles . She was ranked World No...

(Semifinals)

Ann Jones
Ann Haydon-Jones
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(Semifinals)
Virginia Wade
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...

(First Round)

Maria Bueno
Maria Bueno
Maria Esther Andion Bueno is a former professional tennis player from Brazil. During her 11-year career , she won 19 Major titles ....

(Quarterfinals)
Judy Tegart
Judy Tegart
Judy Tegart Dalton is a retired professional Australian tennis player who won nine Grand Slam doubles titles. She won at least one women's doubles title at each Grand Slam tournament, a "Career Grand Slam". Five of her doubles titles were in partnership with Margaret Court...

(Final)

Lesley Bowrey (Quarterfinals)

Key

Q = Qualifier
WC = Wild Card
LL = Lucky Loser
r. = retired

Final Eight

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Section 5

Section 6

Section 7

Section 8

External links

1968 Wimbledon Championships on ITFtennis.com, the source for this draw

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