The very first Wimbledon Championship was in 1877 when it was watched by some 200 spectators.There were 22 competitors and the championship was won by Spencer Gore.
British Player Greg Rusedski has the world’s fastest serve, clocked at a staggering 149 mph. In 1999 he served 685 aces.
Slazenger has provided every tennis ball for The Championships Wimbledon since 1902.
Pete Sampras is the tennis world’s record breaker. He has now won 12 Grand Slam titles and his tennis career has earned him in excess of £38 Million. Sampras has won Wimbledon 6 times, just one behind the current record holder William Renshaw (1881-1889). He also holds the record for the longest unbroken run. Between June and August last year he won 24 matches in succession.
Boris Becker is another tennis record breaker. In 1985 he became the youngest , the 1st German and the 1st unseeded player to ever win Wimbledon.
Along with Don Budge, Fred Perry and Roy Emerson, American Andre Agassi is one of only a handful of players to have won all four Grand Slam titles, the first player to achieve this feat for 31 years.
Monica Seles is a partner in the All-Star Café, a sports restaurant chain, with athletes Andre Agassi, Tiger Woods, & Joe Montana.
In Wimbledon, women’s singles and men’s doubles events began seven years later, in 1884.
May Sutton of the United States became the first non-European champion in 1905 when she captured the women’s singles title.
American Althea Gibson became the first black player to win a Wimbledon singles championship when she captured the title in 1957.
Charlotte (Lottie) Dod became the youngest player ever to win a Wimbledon singles event when, in 1887, she won at the age of 15 years, 285 days.
In 1996 Martina Hingis became a Wimbledon doubles champion at 15 years, 282 days.
