(1945-07-10) 10 July 1945 (age 78) Bournemouth, England
Height
5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Turned pro
1962 (amateur circuit)
Retired
1986
Plays
Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Prize money
$1,542,278
Int. Tennis HoF
1989 (member page)
Singles
Career record
839–329[1]
Career titles
55[1]
Highest ranking
No. 2 (3 November 1975)[2]
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open
W (1972)
French Open
QF (1970, 1972)
Wimbledon
W (1977)
US Open
W (1968)
Doubles
Career record
42–48[1]
Highest ranking
No. 1 (1973)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open
W (1973)
French Open
W (1973)
Wimbledon
F (1970)
US Open
W (1973, 1975)
Other doubles tournaments
Tour Finals
W (1975)
Mixed doubles
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
French Open
SF (1969, 1972)
Wimbledon
QF (1981)
US Open
QF (1969, 1985)
Sarah Virginia WadeOBE (born 10 July 1945) is a British former professional tennis player. She won three Major tennis singles championships and four major doubles championships, and is the only British woman in history to have won titles at all four majors. She was ranked as high as No. 2 in the world in singles, and No. 1 in the world in doubles.Wade was the most recent British tennis player to win a major singles tournament until Andy Murray won the 2012 US Open, and was the most recent British woman to have won a major singles title until Emma Raducanu won the 2021 US Open. After retiring from competitive tennis, she coached for four years,[3] and has also worked as a tennis commentator and game analyst for the BBC and Eurosport, and (in the US) for CBS.
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Sarah VirginiaWade OBE (born 10 July 1945) is a British former professional tennis player. She won three Major tennis singles championships and four...
Mary VirginiaWade (May 21, 1843 – July 3, 1863), also known as Jennie Wade or Ginnie Wade, was a resident of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania during the Battle...
singles title, defeating VirginiaWade in the quarterfinals 7–5, 6–2 and Jones. At the Wightman Cup, King again defeated Wade and Jones. King won her second...
is the first British woman to win a Grand Slam singles title since VirginiaWade at the 1977 Wimbledon Championships. Raducanu was born in Toronto and...
tournament was held from 22 April to 27 April 1968. Ken Rosewall and VirginiaWade won the first open singles titles while the men's team of Roy Emerson...
reached the Wimbledon semi-final that year. She looked set to meet VirginiaWade in the Wimbledon final in 1977, but unexpectedly lost her semi-final...
Evert was: 40–6 against VirginiaWade, 37–43 against Martina Navratilova, 26–13 against Evonne Goolagong Cawley, 24–0 against Virginia Ruzici, 23–1 against...
Tine Scheuer-Larsen, Czechoslovakia's Renáta Tomanová and Britain's VirginiaWade, the latter in the Soviet Union's quarter-final loss. She extended her...
Brighton, before once again contending with Navratilova at the season-ending Virginia Slims Championships in New York. This time, Navratilova beat Graf 7–6,...
at her last Wimbledon (partnering Marty Riessen), she partnered with VirginiaWade at the US Open to win her 62nd Grand Slam title and 19th Grand Slam...
Championships & The Cellular South Cup in Memphis, Tennessee. She tied VirginiaWade for seventh place on the list of most singles titles won during the...
2-6 Virginia Slims Chicago, Illinois USA: Champion. F d. VirginiaWade 3-6 6-4 6-2 Virginia Slims Akron, Ohio USA: Champion. F d. VirginiaWade 6–2 3–6...
1936 and Andy Murray in 2013, while no British woman has won since VirginiaWade in 1977, although Annabel Croft and Laura Robson won the Girls' Championship...
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