Virginia Wade, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Virginia Wade

British tennis player

Date of Birth: 10-Jul-1945

Place of Birth: Bournemouth, England, United Kingdom

Profession: tennis player

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Virginia Wade

  • Sarah Virginia Wade, (born 10 July 1945) is a former professional tennis player from Great Britain.
  • She won three Grand Slam singles championships and four Grand Slam doubles championships, and is the only British woman in history to have won titles at all four Grand Slam tournaments.
  • She was ranked as high as No.
  • 2 in the world in singles, and No.
  • 1 in the world in doubles. Three times a Grand Slam singles champion, her most famous success was winning Wimbledon on 1 July 1977, the tournament's centenary year, and the year of the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II (the Queen attended Wimbledon for the first time since 1962 to watch the final).
  • Wade was the last British tennis player to have won a Grand Slam singles tournament until Andy Murray won the US Open in 2012.
  • She remains the most recent British woman to have won a Grand Slam singles title.
  • After retiring from competitive tennis, she coached for four years and has also worked as a tennis commentator and game analyst for the BBC and Eurosport.

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