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Virginia Wade

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British tennis player

Person · Open Library

Works
44

Top works

  • Courting Triumph by Virginia Wade (1978-06-01)
  • Winning Big
  • Cum For The Genie
  • Naughty Emma
  • Daddy's Little Cherries

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Film & TV

Acting

Known for

  • Sue Barker: Our Wimbledon — Self2017
  • Wimbledon - Official film 2007 — Self2008

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
6
Total plays
31

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Key facts

Full name
Sarah Virginia Wade
Country sports
United Kingdom
Born
( 1945-07-10 ) 10 July 1945 (age 80) , Bournemouth , Dorset , England
Height
5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Turned pro
1968 (amateur from 1962)
Plays
Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Prize money
$1,542,278
Int tennis hof
1989 ( member page )
Career record
839–329
Highest ranking
No. 2 (3 November 1975)
Australian open
W ( 1972 )
French open
QF ( 1970 , 1972 )
Wimbledon
W ( 1977 )
Us open
W ( 1968 )
Tour finals
W ( 1975 )

via Wikipedia infobox

Sports profile

Sport
Tennis
Team
_Retired Tennis
Position
Tennis Player
Nationality
United Kingdom

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Encyclopedic overview

Sarah Virginia Wade (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, and has also worked as a tennis commentator and game analyst for the BBC and Eurosport, and (in the US) for CBS.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Virginia Wade” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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