query: who won the women 's single wimbledon tournament in 2017

pos: 2017 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles reached the fourth round before losing to Halep. 2017 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles Serena Williams was the two-time defending champion, but did not participate this year due to . Garbiñe Muguruza won her second Grand Slam singles title, defeating Venus Williams in the final, 7–5, 6–0. Muguruza became the second Spanish woman to win Wimbledon after Conchita Martínez in 1994. Muguruza also became the first player to defeat both Williams sisters in Grand Slam singles finals. Williams was the oldest player to reach the final since Martina Navratilova, also in 1994, and played her 100th singles match at Wimbledon

pos: 2017 Wimbledon Championships 2017 Wimbledon Championships The 2017 Wimbledon Championships was a Grand Slam tennis tournament that took place at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The main draw matches commenced on 3 July 2017 and concluded on 16 July 2017. Roger Federer won the Gentlemen's Singles title for a record eighth time, surpassing Pete Sampras and William Renshaw, who both won the Gentlemen's Singles title seven times. Garbiñe Muguruza won the Ladies' Singles title. The 2017 tournament was the 131st edition of the championships, the 50th in the Open Era and the third Grand Slam

pos: 2015 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles Muguruza became the first Spanish woman to make the Wimbledon final since Arantxa Sánchez Vicario in 1996. Muguruza won the title two years later. This tournament is notable for being the first grand slam main draw appearance of 2017 French Open champion Jeļena Ostapenko. 2015 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles Petra Kvitová was the defending champion, but was defeated by Jelena Janković in the third round. Serena Williams won her sixth Wimbledon and 21st major title, becoming the oldest woman to win a major singles title in the Open Era. By defeating first-time finalist Garbiñe Muguruza, Serena also achieved her

pos: 2017 French Open – Women's Singles at the French Open in the Open Era, and the first time this had happened at any Grand Slam tournament since the 2001 Wimbledon Championships. This was the first Grand Slam tournament to feature neither Serena Williams nor Maria Sharapova since the 2002 Australian Open. Angelique Kerber "(First round)" 2017 French Open – Women's Singles Garbiñe Muguruza was the defending champion, having won the tournament in 2016, but she was defeated in the fourth round by Kristina Mladenovic. This was the first time at the French Open since 1977, and any Grand Slam event since the 1979 Australian Open that

neg: Rafael Nadal record nine Grand Slam tournament finals. From 2006 to 2008, they played in every French Open and Wimbledon final, and also met in the title match of the 2009 Australian Open, the 2011 French Open and the 2017 Australian Open. Nadal won six of the nine, losing the first two Wimbledon finals. Four of these matches were five-set matches (2007 and 2008 Wimbledon, 2009 and 2017 Australian Open), and the 2008 Wimbledon final has been lauded as the greatest match ever by many long-time tennis analysts. Nadal is the only player who has competed and won against Federer in the

neg: 2017 Wimbledon Championships Doubles Qualifiers Lucky Losers Ladies' Doubles Qualifiers Lucky Losers The following players were accepted directly into the main draw using a protected ranking: The following players were accepted directly into the main tournament, but withdrew with injuries, suspensions or personal reasons. 2017 Wimbledon Championships The 2017 Wimbledon Championships was a Grand Slam tennis tournament that took place at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The main draw matches commenced on 3 July 2017 and concluded on 16 July 2017. Roger Federer won the Gentlemen's Singles title for a record eighth time, surpassing Pete

neg: 1988 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles losing to Miloslav Mečíř in the quarterfinals, it would not be until 2010 that hard court, clay and grass Grand Slam titles would be won by one man in a single calendar year, when Rafael Nadal won the French Open, Wimbledon and US Open. As of 2017, Rod Laver's record of winning the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon in the same calendar year has not been broken. John McEnroe competed for the first time since 1985, losing in the second round to Wally Masur. This tournament also featured the first appearance of future champion Goran Ivanišević. Ivan Lendl "(Semifinals)"

neg: Jamie Murray career statistics Jamie Murray career statistics Jamie Murray is a professional tennis player who is the current British number one doubles player. He has reached ten grand slam finals in total: (4 Doubles, 6 Mixed), he has won the mixed doubles at the 2007 Wimbledon Championships, 2017 Wimbledon Championships, 2017 US Open and 2018 US Open, and the men's doubles at the 2016 Australian Open and 2016 US Open, and has finished as runner-up in the men's doubles tournament at the 2015 Wimbledon Championships and 2015 US Open and in mixed doubles at the 2008 US Open. Murray has been ranked as

neg: Wimbledon Pro Wimbledon Pro The Wimbledon World Lawn Tennis Professional Championships also known as the Wimbledon Pro, was a men's tennis tournament held in August 1967. The tournament was sponsored and broadcast by the BBC to mark the invention of colour television. It was the first tournament staged at Wimbledon that was open to male professional tennis players and it had a prize fund of US$45,000. The singles competition was an eight-man knockout event won by Rod Laver, who received £3,000, whilst the doubles was a four team knockout event won by Andrés Gimeno and Pancho Gonzales. During Wimbledon in 1966, Jack

neg: Bill Tilden international tennis in the first half of the 1920s, and during his 18-year amateur period of 1912–29, won 138 of 192 tournaments. He owns a number of all-time tennis achievements including a career match winning record and a career winning percentage at the U.S. National Championships. At the 1929 U.S. National Championships Tilden became the first player to reach 10 finals at a single Grand Slam event. His ten finals at a grand slam tournament remained a record until 2017, when Roger Federer reached his eleventh Wimbledon final. Tilden, who was frequently at odds with the rigid United States Lawn

neg: 2017 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles eight times, surpassing Pete Sampras and William Renshaw, who had each won it seven times. Federer also became only the second man in the Open era, after Björn Borg in 1976, to win Wimbledon without losing a set. This was Federer's 70th appearance at a Grand Slam, tying the record for male players and a record-breaking 11th men's singles final at the same Grand Slam tournament. In addition, by virtue of his third-round win over Mischa Zverev, Federer won his 317th Grand Slam singles match, surpassing Serena Williams' record of 316 match wins and giving him the all-time record for

neg: Claire Liu Claire Liu Claire Liu ( ; ; born May 25, 2000) is an American tennis player. In 2017, she was the World No. 1 in the junior rankings after winning the Junior Wimbledon title, and finishing runner-up at the Junior French Open. Liu also won a junior grand slam doubles title at Wimbledon with Usue Arconada in 2016. On the pro circuit, Liu has won three ITF singles titles and reached a career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 181. Liu won the Junior Wimbledon doubles tournament in 2016 with fellow American Usue Arconada, defeating Mariam Bolkvadze and Caty McNally in

neg: Claire Liu Kerber. Liu was the only player in the tournament to win a set against Kerber. Claire Liu Claire Liu ( ; ; born May 25, 2000) is an American tennis player. In 2017, she was the World No. 1 in the junior rankings after winning the Junior Wimbledon title, and finishing runner-up at the Junior French Open. Liu also won a junior grand slam doubles title at Wimbledon with Usue Arconada in 2016. On the pro circuit, Liu has won three ITF singles titles and reached a career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 181. Liu won the Junior Wimbledon doubles

neg: Peter Doohan Peter Doohan Peter Doohan (2 May 1961 – 21 July 2017) was an Australian tennis player who won three consecutive Australian Hard Court Championships singles titles (1984, 1985, 1986) which remains an open era record for that tournament. He won a further two singles titles at the South Australian Open in 1984 and San Louis Potisi tournament in Italy in 1988. He also won five doubles titles during his career. The right-hander reached his highest Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) singles ranking of World No. 43 in August 1987. At the 1987 Wimbledon Championships, he unexpectedly defeated two-time defending champion

neg: Shirley Fry 10 women to have won each Grand Slam singles tournament at least once during her career. She is also one of seven women (with Hart, Court, Navratilova, Pam Shriver, Serena Williams, and Venus Williams) to have won all four Grand Slam doubles tournaments. At the U.S. National Championship (precursor of the U.S. Open) in 1942, Irvin reached the singles quarterfinals at the age of 15. At Wimbledon in 1953, Fry and Hart lost only four games during the entire women's doubles tournament and won three matches without losing a game, including the semifinals and finals, the latter over Connolly and

neg: 2017 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles the most Grand Slam singles wins by any player, male or female. The tournament marked the fifth time that Nadal and Federer won the French Open and Wimbledon respectively in the same year. This was also the first Grand Slam tournament since the 2009 French Open in which Murray, Nadal and Djokovic all failed to reach the semifinals, and the first time since 2004 that no player reached all 4 quarterfinals in a year. With his win over Murray, Querrey became the first American man to reach a Grand Slam semifinal since Andy Roddick at the 2009 Wimbledon Championships and

neg: Ace (tennis) 1,477 in 1996. He also has the second most in a tournament with 213 when he won the 2001 Wimbledon title. Roger Federer hit 50 aces in the 2009 Wimbledon final, the record for a Grand Slam final. He is also third on the career list. Serena Williams holds the record for most aces in a tournament with 102 en route to winning the 2012 Wimbledon title. Karolína Plíšková has the most aces in a single season with 530 in 2016, which broke her own record of 517 in 2015. Ace (tennis) In tennis, an ace is a legal serve

neg: Football at the 2017 Maccabiah Games – Women's tournament David scoring the game winner. The city of Jerusalem served as the venue for the matches. "All times are Israel Summer Time ()." Football at the 2017 Maccabiah Games – Women's tournament The women's association football tournament at the 2017 Maccabiah Games was held in Jerusalem, Israel from 9 July to 16 July. For these Games, the women competed in an 8-team tournament. Preliminary matches commenced on 9 July. The teams were grouped into two pools of four teams each for a round-robin preliminary round. The top two teams in each pool advanced to a four-team single-elimination bracket. Israel won

neg: 2017 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles 2017 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles Andy Murray was the defending champion, and top seed, but was defeated by Sam Querrey in the quarterfinals. Despite his loss, Murray retained the ATP No. 1 singles ranking at the end of the tournament, as Rafael Nadal, Stan Wawrinka, and Novak Djokovic all failed to gain enough ranking points to surpass him. Roger Federer won the title, achieving his unprecedented eighth Wimbledon Gentleman's Singles Title and 19th Grand Slam men's singles title, defeating Marin Čilić in the final, 6–3, 6–1, 6–4. Federer thus became the only player to win the Gentleman's singles title

neg: Football at the 2017 Maccabiah Games – Women's tournament Football at the 2017 Maccabiah Games – Women's tournament The women's association football tournament at the 2017 Maccabiah Games was held in Jerusalem, Israel from 9 July to 16 July. For these Games, the women competed in an 8-team tournament. Preliminary matches commenced on 9 July. The teams were grouped into two pools of four teams each for a round-robin preliminary round. The top two teams in each pool advanced to a four-team single-elimination bracket. Israel won the gold medal with a 2–1 victory over the United States in the final, with Eden Avital giving Israel the lead and Shani

neg: Tom Brown (tennis) his era. As Private First Class Brown won the singles title of the prestigious Pacific Coast Championships in October 1945, the second oldest tennis tournament in the U.S. Brown won it four times, twice in singles, twice in doubles. Then, fresh out of the Army after WWII, he reached the 1946 Wimbledon semifinals, in which he led that year's eventual champion, France's Yvon Petra, by two sets before losing. In demand as a doubles partner amongst the world's best, both men and women, Brown, with Jack Kramer, won the 1946 Wimbledon mens doubles against Australia's Geoff Brown and Dinny Pails.

neg: 2017 NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship 2017 NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship The 2017 NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship was the second annual tournament deciding the NCAA championship of beach volleyball, which competition is open to women only. It took place May 5-7 in Gulf Shores, Alabama, hosted by the University of Alabama at Birmingham. It was a double elimination tournament, with a single championship match. The USC Trojans won their second consecutive national title, defeating the Pepperdine Waves 3-2 in the championship match. The tournament is open to teams from Divisions I, II, and III. The top three teams each in the East and West Regions will

neg: 2018 Wimbledon Championships 2018 Wimbledon Championships The 2018 Wimbledon Championships was a Grand Slam tennis tournament which took place at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The main tournament began on Monday, 2 July 2018 and finished on Sunday, 15 July 2018. Novak Djokovic won the Gentleman's Singles title and Angelique Kerber won the Ladies Singles title. The 2018 tournament was the 132nd edition of The Championships, the 125th staging of the Ladies’ Singles Championship event, the 51st in the Open Era and the third Grand Slam tournament of the year. It was played on grass

neg: 2018 Wimbledon Championships the main draw using a protected ranking: The following players were accepted directly into the main tournament but withdrew with injuries, suspensions, or personal reasons: 2018 Wimbledon Championships The 2018 Wimbledon Championships was a Grand Slam tennis tournament which took place at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The main tournament began on Monday, 2 July 2018 and finished on Sunday, 15 July 2018. Novak Djokovic won the Gentleman's Singles title and Angelique Kerber won the Ladies Singles title. The 2018 tournament was the 132nd edition of The Championships, the 125th staging of

neg: Björn Borg lost to the Italian Adriano Panatta, who remains the only player to defeat Borg at this tournament. Panatta did it twice: in the fourth round in 1973, and in the 1976 quarterfinals. Borg won Wimbledon in 1976 without losing a set, defeating the favored Ilie Năstase in the final. Borg became the youngest male Wimbledon champion of the modern era at 20 years and 1 month (a record subsequently broken by Boris Becker, who won Wimbledon aged 17 in 1985). It would be the last time Borg played Wimbledon as an underdog. Năstase later exclaimed, "We're playing tennis, he's [Borg]

neg: 2017 Novak Djokovic tennis season 2017 Novak Djokovic tennis season The 2017 Novak Djokovic tennis season began on 1 January 2017 with the start of the Qatar ExxonMobil Open and ended with a quarterfinal loss at the 2017 Wimbledon Championships in July. Djokovic's first tournament of the season was in Qatar, where he was the defending champion. In his semi-final match against Fernando Verdasco, Djokovic saved five match points, eventually winning in three sets. He would go on to win the tournament defeating long-time rival and the number one ranked Andy Murray in the final. In Melbourne, Djokovic won his first round match against Verdasco

neg: Chuck McKinley and concentrate on tennis. In 1960 McKinley enrolled at Trinity University where he joined Frank Froehling, another leading American player, under the tutelage of coach Clarence Mabry, who also coached John Newcombe and other professionals. This gave Trinity arguably the best collegiate men's tennis team in Athe U.S. However, during this period Trinity never won the NCAA championship because the NCAA scheduled the championship tournament opposite Wimbledon, and both McKinley and Froehling chose to participate in Wimbledon rather than the collegiate tournament. McKinley’s decision to play Wimbledon was justified when in 1961, as a college sophomore, he reached the Wimbledon

neg: Sam Querrey Juan Martin del Potro in straight sets. At the ATP Acapulco tournament he beat David Goffin, Dominic Thiem, and Nick Kyrgios, before defeating world No. 6 Rafael Nadal for his first career victory over the former world No. 1 player and his ninth career ATP singles title. At Wimbledon, Querrey defeated Murray in five sets to earn a spot in his first semi-final at Wimbledon. Querrey lost to Marin Čilić in the semifinals in 4 sets. Furthering his success in Mexico, he won the 2017 Los Cabos Open in August, defeating Thanasi Kokkinakis in the final. At the 2017 US

neg: 2012 Serena Williams tennis season Radwańska took advantage of a sloppy Williams, coming back and winning the set. In the final and deciding set, Williams took the final five games to take the match. It was Williams' fifth Wimbledon singles title, tying her with sister Venus; this is also her 14th Slam singles title and her first since 2010 Wimbledon. She also recorded 102 aces in the entire tournament, the most of any men and women. After the win she moved to number 4 in rankings. After she won the Wimbledon singles title, former world no. 1 John McEnroe described Williams as the greatest female

neg: Ulviyya Fataliyeva Ulviyya Fataliyeva Ulviyya Fataliyeva (; born 1996) is an Azerbaijani chess player who holds the title of Woman grandmaster (WGM, 2017). Ganja chess school alumni. Ulviyya Fataliyeva participated in Azerbaijani Girls' Championships and won this tournament in 2011 (age category U20). Also she participated in European Youth Chess Championships and World Youth Chess Championships. In 2010 in Batumi Ulviyya Fataliyeva won European Youth Chess Championship in Girls U14 age category. In 2014 she won European Youth Chess Championship in Girls U18 age category. In 2017 she won silver medal in Azerbaijani Women Chess Championship (tournament won Gunay Mammadzada), and won

neg: John C. S. Rendall John C. S. Rendall John Charles Shuttleworth Rendall (1882 – 1965) was a British professional tennis player of the 1920s. He won the Bristol Cup in France in 1921 (beating A. Page in final), 1922 (beating Joseph Negro in final) and 1923 (beating Joseph Negro in final). The Bristol Cup was the top professional tournament in the early 1920s. Before turning professional in 1921, Rendall had been an amateur tennis player. He lost in the third round of Wimbledon men's singles in 1907 to Karl Behr . He lost in the second round of Wimbledon men's singles in 1912 to

neg: 2006 Rafael Nadal tennis season second round before coming back to win in five sets. In the third round, Nadal defeated world No. 20 Andre Agassi in straight sets in Agassi's last career match at Wimbledon. Nadal also won his next three matches in straight sets, which set up his first Wimbledon final, which was against Federer, who had won this tournament the three previous years. Nadal was the first Spanish man since Manuel Santana in 1966, to reach the Wimbledon final, but Federer won the match in four sets to win his fourth consecutive Wimbledon title. During the lead up to the US Open,

neg: 2013 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles 2013 Wimbledon Championships, claiming her first Wimbledon title and becoming the first French Grand Slam champion since Amélie Mauresmo at the 2006 Wimbledon Championships. By winning a Grand Slam title in her 47th appearance, she broke the previous women's record of 45, set by Jana Novotná in 1998, for most appearances in a Grand Slam tournament before winning. This was later broken again by Flavia Pennetta, who won the 2015 US Open on her 49th Grand Slam appearance. The exits of Li Na and Petra Kvitová in the quarterfinals ensured that the eventual tournament victor would be a first-time Grand

neg: 2017 Wimbledon Championships Grand Slam category. The tournament was played only on grass courts; main draw matches were played at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, Wimbledon; qualifying matches were played at the Bank of England Sports Ground, in Roehampton. Below are the tables with the point distribution for each discipline of the tournament. The Wimbledon total prize money for 2017 has been increased to £31.6m. The winners of the men's and women's singles titles will earn £2.2m. Prize money for the men’s and women’s doubles and wheelchair players were also increased for the 2017 competition. Seeds are adjusted on a

neg: Big Four (tennis) since 2014. Nadal, Murray and Djokovic all lost before the semifinals. Federer, however, advanced to the Wimbledon final without dropping a set and won the title in straight sets against Marin Čilić. Federer's victory was a historic and record-breaking eleventh Wimbledon final and eighth title win. This led to the Big Four being the ATP top four again. Djokovic announced in late July that he would be skipping the rest of the 2017 season to recover from the elbow injury, and Murray would not play another tournament in 2017 as well due to a hip injury. Federer reached the final

neg: 2008 Wimbledon Championships 2008 Wimbledon Championships The 2008 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament played on grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London in England. It was the 122nd edition of the Wimbledon Championships and were held from 23 June to 6 July 2008. It was the third Grand Slam tennis event of the year. Spanish player Rafael Nadal won the first Wimbledon title of his career; the first Grand Slam tournament he had won other than the French Open. Nadal defeated five-time defending champion Roger Federer in the final in what many regard as the

neg: 2008 Wimbledon Championships or personal reasons. 2008 Wimbledon Championships The 2008 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament played on grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London in England. It was the 122nd edition of the Wimbledon Championships and were held from 23 June to 6 July 2008. It was the third Grand Slam tennis event of the year. Spanish player Rafael Nadal won the first Wimbledon title of his career; the first Grand Slam tournament he had won other than the French Open. Nadal defeated five-time defending champion Roger Federer in the final in what many

neg: Evgeniya Doluhanova 2011 in Saint Petersburg she taken 2nd place in Lyudmila Rudenko memorial (tournament won Aleksandra Goryachkina). In 2012 in Jakarta she taken 3rd place in international women's chess tournament "Japfa Chess Festival". In 2014 she won international women's chess tournament in Sautron. In 2017, she took second place in the Maria Albulet Memorial in Braila. In 2003, she was awarded the FIDE International Women Master (WIM) title and received the FIDE International Women Grandmaster (WGM) title three year later. Evgeniya Doluhanova Evgeniya Doluhanova (; born 10 June 1984) is an Ukrainian chess player who holds the title of Woman grandmaster

neg: The Championships, Wimbledon the 2017 tournament would begin on Monday 3 July. Other grass-court tournaments before Wimbledon are Eastbourne, England, and Rosmalen in the Netherlands, both combining mixed events. The other women's warm-up tournament for Wimbledon is Birmingham, also in England. The only grass-court tournament scheduled after the Championships is the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships at Newport, Rhode Island, USA, which takes place the week after Wimbledon. Wimbledon is scheduled for 14 days, beginning on a Monday and ending on a Sunday. Before 1982 it ended a day earlier, with the women's singles final on the Friday and the men's singles final

neg: 1878 Wimbledon Championship 1878 Wimbledon Championship The 1878 Wimbledon Championships took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament ran from 15 July until 20 July. It was the 2nd staging of the Wimbledon Championships, and the first Grand Slam tennis event of 1878. There were 34 competitors, excluding Spencer Gore who as champion was not required to participate until the best of the challengers had won the All comers' final. The winner of the All Comers' final was Frank Hadow, a planter from Ceylon who was on leave

neg: Filippo Baldi Filippo Baldi Filippo Baldi (born 10 January 1996) is an Italian tennis who was single semifinalist at the 2013 Australian Open Junior and single quarterfinalist at the 2014 Wimbledon Junior in the Singles competition. With Gianluigi Quinzi he won the 2012 Junior Davis Cup defeating the Australian team: it was the first time ever for an Italian team. Baldi's first success came as a doubles player, winning 9 Futures titles between 2014 and 2017. His first two singles titles on the Futures tour came in 2017 (both in Hammamet, Tunisia). In 2018, Filippo Baldi made his first ATP main draw

neg: Rafael Nadal and was two points from defeat against American qualifier Robert Kendrick in the second round before coming back to win in five sets. In the third round, Nadal defeated No. 20 Andre Agassi in straight sets in Agassi's last career match at Wimbledon. Nadal also won his next three matches in straight sets, which set up his first Wimbledon final, which was against Federer, who had won this tournament the three previous years. Nadal was the first Spanish man since Manuel Santana in 1966, to reach the Wimbledon final, but Federer won the match in four sets to win his

neg: Andy Murray career statistics Birmingham, before sitting out the quarter final in Belgrade against Serbia which fell just after Wimbledon. Andy Murray career statistics Andy Murray is a professional tennis player who is the current world No. 262 in the ATP rankings. He is the reigning Olympic champion, having won the men's singles tennis tournament at the 2016 Rio Olympics. He has reached eleven grand slam finals in total: he won the 2016 Wimbledon Championships, 2013 Wimbledon Championships and the 2012 US Open, and finished as runner-up at the 2008 US Open, the 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2016 Australian Opens, at Wimbledon in

neg: 2004 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles became the third-youngest woman to win Wimbledon (behind Lottie Dod and Martina Hingis) and the second Russian woman (after Anastasia Myskina won the French Open earlier that year) to win a Grand Slam title. Venus Williams, who had appeared in the previous four Wimbledon finals, winning in 2000 and 2001, suffered her earliest exit from Wimbledon since her debut, being upset in the second round by Karolina Šprem. This was also the last Grand Slam singles tournament that former world No. 1 Martina Navratilova competed in; having been awarded a wild card, she won her first round match and became,

neg: Dorothy Round Dorothy Round Dorothy Edith Round Little ("née" Round; 13 July 1908 – 12 November 1982) was a British tennis player who was active in the 1930s. She won the singles title at Wimbledon in 1934 and 1937, and the Australian Championships in 1935. Dorothy Round was born on 13 July 1908 in Dudley, Worcestershire, England, the youngest of four children. She attended the Dudley Girls High School and entered her first junior tournament when she was 16. At the following tournament, the Worcestershire championships, she won her first junior title. Round entered her first Wimbledon Championships in 1928, after coming

neg: 1878 Men's Tennis tour italics were events that were staged only once that season" "No events" "No events" Important tournament in bold Source: The Concise History of Tennis, 6th edition, 2016 1878 Men's Tennis tour The 1878 Men's tennis tour was composed of the second annual pre-open era tour. It now incorporated 6 tournaments staged in Great Britain and Ireland the Wimbledon championships was won by Patrick Francis Hadow defeating the challenger and defending champion Spencer Gore. Notes 1: Challenge Round: the final round of a tournament, in which the winner of a single-elimination phase faces the previous year's champion, who plays only that

neg: Petra Kvitová career statistics title in Wuhan. She also won the WTA Elite Trophy on debut, thus becoming the first player to win both categories of year-ending championships on debut, having won the WTA Finals in 2011 on debut. She ended 2016 as world No. 11. Highlights of Kvitová's 2017 season include winning the title in Birmingham, her first title on grass outside of Wimbledon, and a quarterfinal appearance at the US Open. She finished 2017 as world No. 29. In 2018, Kvitová won titles in back-to-back tournament appearances, namely the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy and the Qatar Total Open. On clay, she won

neg: 2008–09 Four Hills Tournament 2008–09 Four Hills Tournament The 2008–09 Four Hills Tournament was held at the four traditional venues of Oberstdorf, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Innsbruck and Bischofshofen, located in Germany and Austria. The tournament was won by Austria's Wolfgang Loitzl, who previously had not won a single World Cup event in his career. Loitzl won the last three competitions at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Innsbruck and Bischofshofen to claim the overall victory, and became the first Austrian to win the Four Hills since Andreas Widhölzl in 1999–2000. The opening event at Oberstdorf was won by Switzerland' s Simon Ammann, who was the overall World Cup leader at the

neg: Maud Watson 6–3, 6–2, 6–2. She was also victorious in the mixed doubles tournament winning the title with multiple Wimbledon champion William Renshaw. Undefeated in tournament play, in 1884 the nineteen-year-old Watson won the first ever Ladies' Singles title at Wimbledon. Playing in white corsets and petticoats, from a field of thirteen competitors, she defeated Lilian 6–8, 6–3, 6–3 in the final to claim the title and a silver flower basket valued at 20 Guineas. 1885 was a year of great success for Maud, who remained unbeaten in singles and lost only one set. Maud repeated her success at the 1885 Wimbledon

neg: Astrid Suurbeek and lost in straight sets, 1–6, 3–6. Australia won the final 3–0. In the same year, she reached the women's singles quarterfinals of the Australian Open which she lost to eventual champion Billie Jean King. Suurbeek played in the ladies' singles competition at Wimbledon in 1967, 1968 and 1969 but did not make it past the second round. In 1980, she was voted Female Player of the Year by the USA Tennis Florida Adult Competitive Tennis Council. In 1983 she won the USTA National Indoor Women`s 35 Championships in St. Louis and was ranked first in the USTA women`s 35s.

neg: 2015 Wimbledon Championships achieved her second non-calendar year Grand Slam after winning the 2014 US Open, 2015 Australian Open and 2015 French Open. With this win, Williams also became the oldest woman to win a Grand Slam singles title in the Open Era at 33 years and 289 days old by 26 days, beating Martina Navratilova, who won the 1990 Wimbledon Championships at 33 years and 263 days old. The 2015 Wimbledon Championships was the 129th edition of the tournament and was held at All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London. The tournament was an event run by the International Tennis

neg: 1999 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles day later to Agassi, who in addition to his run to the Wimbledon Final, had recently won the 1999 French Open. This tournament is also notable as being the last Grand Slam in which former World No. 1 Boris Becker would compete and the first Wimbledon appearances for future champions Lleyton Hewitt and Roger Federer. Pete Sampras (Champion) 1999 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles Pete Sampras successfully defended his title, defeating Andre Agassi in the final, 6–3, 6–4, 7–5 to win the Gentlemen's Singles tennis title at the 1999 Wimbledon Championships. With this win, his sixth at Wimbledon, Sampras broke

neg: Lew Hoad to play the final. In May Hoad won the International Golden Ball tournament in Wiesbaden, West Germany after a straight-sets victory in the final over Art Larsen but in the Trofeo Conde de Godó in Barcelona he lost in the quarterfinal to Bob Howe. As a preparation for Wimbledon Hoad elected to play the singles event at the Northern Championships in Manchester instead of the Queen's Club Championships. He reached the final but had to bow for 34-year old Jaroslav Drobný who won the deciding set 7–5. Hoad was seeded first for the Wimbledon Championships and was the pre-tournament favorite.

neg: 1896 Wimbledon Championships 1896 Wimbledon Championships The 1896 Wimbledon Championships took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament ran from 13 July until 21 July. It was the 20th staging of the Wimbledon Championships, and the first Grand Slam tennis event of 1896. The number of entries for the men's singles competition was 31, the highest since 1881. Harold Mahony and Charlotte Cooper won the singles titles. The All England Plate was introduced for players who had lost in the first or second round of the singles. Harold Mahony defeated

neg: 2017 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament top sixteen seeds for the tournament, with those teams receiving an automatic bye into the second round of the tournament. The remaining 32 teams play in a single-elimination match in the first round of the tournament for the right to play a seeded team in the second round. Of the 24 schools that had previously won the championship, 13 qualified for this year's tournament. Host Institution* Host Institution* Host Institution* Host Institution* 2017 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament The 2017 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament (also known as the 2017 College Cup) was the 59th annual single-elimination tournament

neg: 2009 Wimbledon Championships 2009 Wimbledon Championships The 2009 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament played on grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London in England. It was the 123rd edition of the Wimbledon Championships and was held from 22nd June to 5th July 2009. It was the third Grand Slam tennis event of the year. Rafael Nadal did not defend his title as he withdrew from the tournament due to knee tendonitis. Roger Federer won his 6th Wimbledon title defeating rival Andy Roddick in the final in five sets. Federer's victory marked his fifteenth Grand Slam

neg: Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi Aisam started out in 2007 playing a number of Futures tournaments. He won two doubles titles in the UK, one with Stéphane Robert and the second with Purav Raja. Aisam won two more doubles titles with Jamie Baker. He went to the UAE where he won a single futures title and two doubles titles with partner Rameez Junaid. In Kuwait, Aisam won another single and doubles title, this time with Purav Raja. He qualified at the ATP tournament in Halle, Germany, for the Gerry Weber Open where he beat World number 11, and Wimbledon Semi-finalist Richard Gasquet, 7–6(10) 6–4, which

neg: Dan Evans (tennis) good and in the end I was the best.” Evans also has a single figure golf handicap and is still a capable squash player. Evans was a member of the British team that won the World Junior Tennis competition in the Czech Republic aged 14. Evans was guided by LTA Academy coaches Mark Taylor and Leighton Alfred, who both continued working with him sporadically over the years. In March, Evans won the junior title at Marcq-en-Baroeul, putting him at the top of the European under-16 rankings. The Lawn Tennis Association withdrew him from the Wimbledon junior tournament for being, in

neg: 2015 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles final grand slam finals. This was the first time the top two seeds have met in a men's grand slam final since the 2014 French Open, which pitted Rafael Nadal (1) against Djokovic (2). Federer, a winner of 17 grand slams, was appearing in his 26th grand slam final and tenth Wimbledon final. He was seeking a record eighth Wimbledon title, which would rank him above Pete Sampras, who won the tournament seven times. Djokovic, a winner of eight grand slams, was appearing in his 17th grand slam final and fourth Wimbledon final. He was seeking his third Wimbledon title, and

neg: 2017 WTA Finals For Yung-jan, it will be her fourth appearance at the Finals. For Hingis, it will be her eight appearance, winning the title thrice. Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina started the new season by reaching the final in the Premier Brisbane tournament. They then won their second joint Premier 5 tournament in Dubai. The duo improved their results in Miami and Indian Wells as they reached the quarterfinals and the semifinals respectively. They reached their only clay court final in Rome. The Russian duo then won their third joint Grand Slam doubles title in Wimbledon, winning the final in a rare

neg: 1877 Wimbledon Championship a coffee planter from Ceylon, who effectively used the lob to counter Gore's net play. It was Gore's last appearance at the Wimbledon Championships. The tournament generated a profit of £10 and the pony roller stayed in use. When the tournament was finished, Henry Jones gathered all the score cards to analyse the results and found that, of the 601 games played during the tournament, 376 were won by the server ("striker-in") and 225 by the receiver ("striker-out"). At a time when the service was either made underarm or, usually, at shoulder height, this was seen as a serving dominance

neg: Donald Stewart (tennis) Donald Stewart (tennis) Donald Stewart (1859–1885) was a British tennis player in the early years of Wimbledon who was ranked World No 6 in 1883 and 1884. He won four career singles titles. He played his first tournament at the Sussex Championships in April 1882 on indoor hard courts where he reached the final. He lost in the first round of Wimbledon 1882 to Richard Richardson. At Wimbledon 1883 Stewart beat Harry Grove, Claude Farrer, Herbert Wilberforce and William Taylor and then lost in the all comer's final to Ernest Renshaw (despite taking the first set 6-0). He won his

neg: Andy Murray career statistics Andy Murray career statistics Andy Murray is a professional tennis player who is the current world No. 262 in the ATP rankings. He is the reigning Olympic champion, having won the men's singles tennis tournament at the 2016 Rio Olympics. He has reached eleven grand slam finals in total: he won the 2016 Wimbledon Championships, 2013 Wimbledon Championships and the 2012 US Open, and finished as runner-up at the 2008 US Open, the 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2016 Australian Opens, at Wimbledon in 2012 and the 2016 French Open. Murray made his professional tennis debut on the main tour

neg: Serena Williams was Serena's first major final since the 2017 Australian Open. Following her Wimbledon finals run, Williams entered the 2018 Silicon Valley Classic, her first appearance in a US Open series tournament since 2015. She recorded her most lopsided loss in her career to Johanna Konta in the first round, winning just a single game. Williams later revealed in an interview with "Time" that she checked Instagram ten minutes prior to the match starting, and found out that the man who had fatally shot her half-sister, Yetunde, in 2003 was released on parole earlier in the year. She said in the

neg: Gilbert Shea Roy Emerson (who won 6 titles in the 1960s) before losing in the quarter finals to Neale Fraser. Shea lost in round two of Wimbledon. He reached the last 16 at U. S. championships, losing to Fraser. In 1957 Shea lost in round two of Roland Garros, round one of Wimbledon and round three at U. S. championships. Shea then lost in round one of Wimbledon 1958 and round two at U. S. championships in 1959 and then retired. In later life he played a lot of golf recreationally. Gilbert Shea Gilbert Shea (born 5 October 1928) is a former

neg: Michael Venus (tennis) started their grass court season at 's-Hertogenbosch, where Venus had won the title two years earlier with Mate Pavić. Ironically it had been Klaasen who was on the losing end that day, and his then partner, Dominic Inglot, faced the pair in the final, this time alongside Croatian Franko Škugor. In a very tight match, it was the European pair who prevailed 7–6 (3), 7–5. They then moved on to Halle where, as seeds, it was a surprise that they were beaten in the first round by Tim Puetz and Jan-Lennard Struff. Their last tournament before Wimbledon was at Eastbourne

neg: Marta Kostyuk tour, Kostyuk has a career-high ranking of No. 2, achieved on 30 October 2017. She won the 2016 Petits As and 2017 Australian Open girls' singles championships. In May 2017, she won a ITF tournament in Dunakeszi (Hungary), becoming the youngest Ukrainian to win a professional title in singles-player category. In the whole tournament, Marta did not lose a single set. In October 2017, she won the year-end junior girls tournament, the ITF Junior Masters in Chengdu, China. Kostyuk made her main draw tour-level debut at the Australian Open. Having received a wildcard-entry into the qualifying tournament, she defeated Arina

neg: Wimbledon Pro a long-sustained low. Cowgill suggested a trial pro tournament at Wimbledon for the following year, and in late August, 1967, the tournament was held at Wimbledon with total prize money of US$ 35,000 for singles and US$ 10,000 for doubles, making it the largest prize-money event in tennis history at that time. All matches were played on Centre Court. The Wimbledon Pro tournament was deemed very successful with over 30,000 spectators attending the three days of play. There was an 8 player draw for singles and a 4 teamsdraw for doubles, all professionals. Most of these players had won honours

neg: Africa Cup of Nations records and statistics 44 years, 21 days, Essam El-Hadary, (), vs Cameroon 5 February 2017 Most championships Most nations coached Most appearances Championships with different nations Won tournament both as player and coach Up to and including the 2017 tournament. Africa Cup of Nations records and statistics This is a list of records and statistics of clubs and players who have taken part in the Africa Cup of Nations football tournament. "As of January 29th, 2017" Youngest goal scorer Shiva N'Zigou of in 20000, 16 years and 91 days old. Top goal scorer of single tournament 9, Ndaye Mulamba of in 1974 A

neg: 2017 Rafael Nadal tennis season He was scheduled to play the Aegon Championships, however withdrew citing a need for rest. Instead of an official tournament, Nadal played two matches in an exhibition tournament at The Hurlingham Club in London before his Wimbledon campaign, losing to Tomáš Berdych, but later defeating Tommy Haas. Nadal was seeded 4th behind Federer, Djokovic and Murray for Wimbledon despite being ranked No. 2 and was in contention for the world No. 1 ranking at the start of the tournament. He began his campaign to win a 3rd Wimbledon title by defeating Australia's John Millman in straight sets. In the round

neg: Federer–Nadal rivalry placed on opposite sides of the draw, 24 of Nadal and Federer's 38 matches have been in tournament finals, including an all-time record nine Grand Slam finals and 12 ATP World Tour Masters 1000 finals. Another nine have been semifinals, two have been quarterfinals, with only three taking place before the last-8 stage. In 31 out of 38 matches between Nadal and Federer, the winner of the first set won the match. The 2006 Italian Open final, 2007 Wimbledon final, 2008 Wimbledon final, 2009 Australian Open final and 2017 Australian Open final are classified as the greatest and most notable

neg: Stanley Matthews (tennis) ended his tournament in the fourth round. At Beaulieu the same year he was knocked out in straight sets in the first round by Peter Pokorney. In June, at Wimbledon, Matthews was knocked out in straight sets in the first round by Scott Eugene. At 1966's Border Championships, Pat Cramer knocked Matthews out in the first round. At Wimbledon, his first-round match with Ismail El Shafei went to four sets, but the Egyptian won the final set 7–5. In 1973 Matthews quit playing tennis and tried his hand in the business world, selling air bubbles to cover tennis courts; however,

neg: 2017 World Seniors Championship event for the first time having replaced the WPBSA who previously sanctioned the event. Peter Lines won the tournament without losing a single frame. He beat John Parrott 4–0 in the final. The breakdown of the tournament prizes is shown below: Players were seeded based on the titles won during their professional careers: Steve Davis, Ray Reardon, Terry Griffiths, Tony Meo and Doug Mountjoy were invited to take part, but declined. Four qualifying events took place during February and March 2017: Each qualifier took their place alongside the eight invited players in the main draw of the championship. 2017 World

neg: 1971 Wimbledon Championships 1971 Wimbledon Championships The 1971 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament was held from Monday 21 June until Saturday 3 July 1971. It was the 85th staging of the Wimbledon Championships, and the third Grand Slam tennis event of 1971. John Newcombe and Evonne Goolagong won the singles titles. The total prize money for the 1971 championships was £37,790. The winner of the men's title earned £3,750 while the women's singles champion earned £1,800. John Newcombe

neg: 1974 Wimbledon Championships 1974 Wimbledon Championships The 1974 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament was held from Monday 24 June until Saturday 6 July 1974. It was the 88th staging of the Wimbledon Championships, and the second Grand Slam tennis event of 1974. Jimmy Connors and Chris Evert won the singles titles. The total prize money for 1974 championships was £97,100. The winner of the men's title earned £10,000 while the women's singles champion earned £7,000. Jimmy Connors defeated

neg: 1976 Wimbledon Championships 1976 Wimbledon Championships The 1976 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament was held from Monday 21 June until Saturday 3 July 1976. It was the 90th staging of the Wimbledon Championships, and the second Grand Slam tennis event of 1976. Björn Borg and Chris Evert won the singles title. The total prize money for 1976 championships was £157,740. The winner of the men's title earned £12,500 while the women's singles champion earned £10,000. Björn Borg defeated

neg: 1975 Wimbledon Championships 1975 Wimbledon Championships The 1975 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament was held from Monday 23 June until Saturday 5 July 1975. It was the 89th staging of the Wimbledon Championships, and the second Grand Slam tennis event of 1975. Arthur Ashe and Billie Jean King won the singles titles. The total prize money for 1975 championships was £114,875. The winner of the men's title earned £10,000 while the women's singles champion earned £7,000. Arthur Ashe

neg: Four Hills Tournament victory was shared, with Jakub Janda, who claimed his first 4 Hills Tournament crown. Jens Weißflog and Bjørn Wirkola have both won ten Four Hills Tournament events. Janne Ahonen and Gregor Schlierenzauer are next with 9 victories, followed by Matti Nykänen who has seven. In 2000–01, the 49th edition of the tournament, Adam Małysz beat second placed Janne Ahonen by 104.4 points. This is the biggest winning margin in the tournament's history. He also won all four qualifications that year. The following year Sven Hannawald became the first person to win all four competitions in a single season. In 2017-18

neg: Lottie Dod top of the bounce and to adopt a modern, albeit single-handed, racquet grip. Her ground strokes were reported by contemporaries to be unusually firmly hit by the standards of the time, but – like many female players of the day – she served underhand and only rarely employed spin. Dod only entered one open tournament in 1889 (the Northern Championships, which she won), and failed to attend Wimbledon, much to the disappointment of her fans. Together with Annie and some friends, she was on a sailing trip off the Scottish coast, and didn't want to return in time for Wimbledon.

neg: Phil Roper Phil Roper Phil Roper (born 24 January 1992) is an English international field hockey player who plays as a midfielder or forward for England and Great Britain. He plays club hockey in the EHL Premier Division for Wimbledon. Roper made his international debut in 2013 and He competed for England in the men's hockey tournament at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where he won a bronze medal. Born in Chester he started playing hockey, aged 8, for Chester Hockey Club, he played there for ten years before going to university, where he played for Sheffield Hallam. On 24th May 2017 Roper

neg: Barbara Schett Silvia Farina Elia, Schett reached the semifinals of the women's doubles tournament in Paris, and the quarterfinals of Hanover and Rome (Rome with Patty Schnyder). At the second Grand Slam tournament of the season, the French Open, Schett retired from her first-round match. Her next tournament was at Wimbledon where she lost in the second round to Magdalena Grzybowska (6–4, 3–6, 2–6). Schett then reached her first consecutive final at Palermo, but lost to the second seed Sandrine Testud; also won the doubles title with Silvia Farina Elia. She then lost in the first round of J&S Cup in Warsaw

neg: Charlotte Cooper (tennis) Wimbledon title. She won the singles title at the Irish Lawn Tennis Championships in 1895 and 1898 , a prestigious tournament at the time . At the 1900 Summer Olympics, where women participated for the first time, Cooper Sterry won the tennis singles event. On 11 July 1900 she defeated Hélène Prévost in the final in straight sets and became the first female Olympic tennis champion as well as the first individual female Olympic champion. With Reginald Doherty, she won the mixed doubles title after a straight-sets victory in the final against Hélène Prévost and Harold Mahony. In 1901 she

neg: Turbo Tennis Turbo Tennis Turbo extra Tennis is a shortened form of tennis in which players play in a fast knockout tournament which consists of five matches of 30 minutes each, taking place over the course of a single afternoon. The idea was launched in London by former Wimbledon champion Pat Cash, American world number nine James Blake and English Entrepreneur Andi White. The first tournament took place on 15 September 2007 at the O2 Arena in London. It featured six players. The winner received prize money of £50,000. The first tournament at the O2 arena was won by Andy Murray, defeating

neg: 2017 Sun Belt Conference Baseball Tournament inclement weather the first round of the tournament was postponed.Alternative sites and make-up schedules are being examined. On Wednesday, May 24 the Sun Belt announced that the tournament would move to a single elimination format. The first two matchups of the tournament are single-elimination and will be held on Thursday May 25, 2017. Coastal Carolina will face the team that won on the day before with the lowest seed with the other winner against Texas-Arlington. The tournament was originally scheduled to be a double elimination tournament. Due to weather and poor field conditions they had to make the tournament single

neg: 2010 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles replaced in the draw by the highest-ranked non-seeded players Melanie Oudin and Kateryna Bondarenko, who became the #33 and #34 seeds. 2010 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles Serena Williams successfully defended her title, defeating Vera Zvonareva in the final, 6–3, 6–2 to win the Ladies' Singles tennis title at the 2010 Wimbledon Championships. She did not lose a set throughout the entire tournament. The victory meant that Serena and her sister Venus had won nine of the last eleven Wimbledon titles between them, with only 2004 and 2006 going to another player. Zvonareva reached her first ever Grand Slam final

neg: Karol Fageros Karol Fageros Karol Fageros (April 27, 1934 – April 4, 1988) was an American female tennis player who was active in the 1950s. As a junior, she won the Orange Bowl Championships in the under-18 category in 1951 and 1952. In 1954 she won the Canadian Championships singles title after a victory in the final against Ethel Norton. Together with Norton she also won the doubles title. Fageros best singles result at a Grand Slam tournament was reaching the fourth round at the 1957 Wimbledon Championships in which she was defeated by Rosie Reyes. In the Wimbledon doubles and mixed

neg: 2015 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles Jarkko Nieminen (who was also playing in his final Wimbledon) in five sets in the first round. In the second round, 102nd-ranked Germany's Dustin Brown upset world number ten Rafael Nadal, who had won Wimbledon in 2008 and 2010. Brown previously defeated Nadal at the 2014 Gerry Weber Open in Halle, the only other time the two had played each other. This marked the fourth straight year in which Nadal suffered an early-round exit from the tournament while losing to a player ranked 100 or lower: He had previously lost to Lukas Rosol (ranked 100th at the time) in 2012,

neg: England England and Scotland. The biennial golf competition, the Ryder Cup, is named after English businessman Samuel Ryder who sponsored the event and donated the trophy. Nick Faldo is the most successful Ryder Cup player ever, having won the most points (25) of any player on either the European or US teams. Tennis was created in Birmingham in the late 19th century, and the Wimbledon Championships is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, and widely considered the most prestigious. Wimbledon is a tournament that has a major place in the British cultural calendar. Fred Perry was the last Englishman to

neg: 1884 Wimbledon Championships 1884 Wimbledon Championships The 1884 Wimbledon Championships took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament ran from 5 July until 19 July. It was the 8th staging of the Wimbledon Championships, and the first Grand Slam tennis event of 1884. The men's doubles (previously hosted by the Oxford University Club) and women's singles (originally planned by the London Athletic Club) were added to the Wimbledon championships, but these were not started until after the men's singles competition had been completed. The first prize for the women was

neg: 2007 Roger Federer tennis season after the loss, Federer announced that he was withdrawing from his usual warm-up tournament in Halle, which he had won the last four years, citing fatigue and fear of getting an injury. He, therefore, entered Wimbledon for the first time without having played a warm-up grass-court tournament. Federer, nevertheless, reached the finals of Wimbledon for the fifth time, only dropping one set. The final was a rematch of 2006 as Federer again faced his nemesis Rafael Nadal. The final would prove to be an epic, delivering the first five set final at Wimbledon since 2001. Federer won the first set

neg: Victoria Azarenka Heather Watson in a three set thriller 3–6 6–1 6–4 for 2 hours and 6 minutes. Azarenka lost to Simona Halep in the fourth round of Wimbledon. In Mixed Doubles event, Azarenka teamed up with the former world number one in men doubles Nenad Zimonjic where they lost in the first round of the championship to the 2016 Wimbledon mixed doubles champion Henri Kontinen and Heather Watson in straight set 3–6 4–6 at the same day when Azarenka defeated Watson in the women single event. In August 2017, Azarenka's custody battle for her 8-month old son resulted in her withdrawal

neg: David Goffin a single game. In the quarterfinals, he lost to second seed Andy Murray. At the 2016 French Open, he played the first round against wild card Grégoire Barrère. He won in straight sets. In the second round, he played against qualifier Carlos Berlocq and won again in straight sets. In the third round, he won in a more than 3 hours match against Nicolás Almagro. In the fourth round, he won in four sets against Ernests Gulbis. His tournament ended in the quarterfinals, where he lost to Dominic Thiem in four sets. At Wimbledon, he won in the first and

neg: Courtney Banghart a sixth "at-large" appearance in 2016. Her 2014–15 team, which went 30–0 in the regular season, was one of the 32 remaining teams in the 2015 tournament. On February 3, 2017, against Dartmouth, her alma mater, Banghart notched her 200th win as a head coach. In April 2017, Banghart was selected to be an assistant coach for the 2017 USA Basketball Women's U23 National Team, which is composed of women, age 23 or younger, who are currently freshmen, sophomores or juniors in college. The team competed in and won the inaugural U24 Four Nations Tournament in Tokyo, Japan. In 2015,

neg: 2014 Wimbledon Championships had previously won their maiden – and, prior to 2014, only – Wimbledon titles in 2011. The 2014 Wimbledon Championships was the 128th edition of the tournament and was held at All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London. The tournament was an event run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and was part of the 2014 ATP World Tour and the 2014 WTA Tour calendars under the Grand Slam category. The tournament consisted of both men's and women's singles and doubles draws as well as a mixed doubles event. There were singles and doubles events for both boys

neg: 2004 French Open a Grand Slam title. The next two Grand Slams were also won by Russian women (Maria Sharapova at Wimbledon and Svetlana Kuznetsova at the US Open). She also became the first French Open women's title winner after having saved a match point en route to the title (against Svetlana Kuznetsova in the 4th round). In the mixed doubles, French players Tatiana Golovin and Richard Gasquet (aged 16 and 17 respectively) won the tournament after entering as wildcards. France also saw success in the boys' singles, where Gaël Monfils won. Juan Carlos Ferrero and Justine Henin-Hardenne were both unsuccessful in defending

neg: Novak Djokovic the defending champion, he lost at Roland Garros in the quarterfinals to Dominic Thiem. He prepared for Wimbledon at the Eastbourne International, playing his first non-Wimbledon tournament on grass since the 2010 Aegon Championships. He won the tournament, beating Gaël Monfils in the final. This marked his first grass title outside of Wimbledon. He made it to the quarterfinals at Wimbledon before retiring against Tomas Berdych while down a set and a break, due to an elbow injury which he said had been bothering him for a year and a half. On 26 July, Djokovic announced that he would miss

neg: Laura Robson Laura Robson Laura Robson (born 21 January 1994) is a British tennis player. She debuted on the ITF Junior Tour in 2007, and a year later won the Wimbledon Junior Girls' Championship at the age of 14. As a junior, she also twice reached the final of the girls' singles tournament at the Australian Open, in 2009 and 2010. She won her first tournament on the ITF Women's Circuit in November 2008. In singles tennis, Robson was the first British woman since Samantha Smith at Wimbledon in 1998 to reach the fourth round of a Grand Slam tournament, doing so

neg: Radford University sports for men and women. The Radford men's basketball team won the Big South Conference tournament in 1998, 2009, and 2018. Radford also won the Big South Conference Men's Tennis Championship in 2007, 2008, and 2009 as well as the Big South Softball Championship in 2009. The Radford Baseball Team has won the Big South Conference Championship in 2015, and 2017. In 2015, they defeated the Chanticleers of Coastal Carolina with a walk-off single by Hunter Higgerson. The team finished with a final record of 45–16. The team was selected to compete in the Nashville Regional where they went 2–2,

neg: Caty McNally Caty McNally Catherine "Caty" McNally (born November 20, 2001) is an American tennis player. She is one of the reigning French Open junior doubles champions, along with her partner Iga Świątek. McNally was born in Cincinnati, Ohio to John McNally and Lynn Nabors-McNally. Her mother was briefly a professional tennis player who had a career best doubles ranking inside the Top 250. Her older brother John Jr. is also a professional and was a high-ranked junior player. Caty's favorite player is Roger Federer. McNally finished runner-up at the Wimbledon junior doubles tournament in 2016 and 2017. She won her first

neg: 1889 Wimbledon Championships 1889 Wimbledon Championships The 1889 Wimbledon Championships took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament ran from 1 July until 13 July. It was the 13th staging of the Wimbledon Championships, and the first Grand Slam tennis event of 1889. William Renshaw won his seventh singles title, which as late as 1977 was thought to be a feat unlikely to ever be surpassed. However, in 2000 Pete Sampras equaled this total, and in 2012 Roger Federer also won a seventh title. Ultimately the record was broken by

neg: All England Plate doubles competition. The last edition of the men's tournament was held in 1981 and for the women in 1989. All England Plate The All England Plate, also referred to as the Wimbledon Plate, was a tennis competition held at the Wimbledon Championships which consisted of players who were defeated in the first or second rounds of the singles competition. The first edition, for male players only, was held in 1896 and the winner was awarded £5 prize money and the runner-up £3. In 1933 the first women's edition was held. In 1975 the competition also became open to players who