Past champions - Women
Wimbledon tennis women's singles champions since 1922:
2012 - Serena Williams (US) beat Agnieszka Radwanska (Poland) 6-1 5-7 6-2
2011 - Petra Kvitova (Czech Republic) beat Maria Sharapova (Russia) 6-3 6-4
2010 - Serena Williams (US) beat Vera Zvonareva (Russia) 6-3 6-2
2009 - Serena Williams (US) beat Venus Williams (US) 7-6(3) 6-2
2008 - Venus Williams (US) beat Serena Williams (US) 7-5 6-4
2007 - Venus Williams (US) beat Marion Bartoli (France) 6-4 6-1
2006 - Amelie Mauresmo (France) beat Justine Henin (Belgium) 2-6 6-3 6-4
2005 - Venus Williams beat Lindsay Davenport (US) 4-6 7-6(4) 9-7
2004 - Maria Sharapova (Russia) beat Serena Williams (US) 6-1 6-4
2003 - Serena Williams beat Venus Williams 4-6 6-4 6-2
2002 - Serena Williams beat Venus Williams 7-6(4) 6-3
2001 - Venus Williams beat Henin 6-1 3-6 6-0
2000 - Venus Williams beat Davenport 6-3 7-6(3)
1999 - Davenport beat Steffi Graf (Germany) 6-4 7-5
1998 - Jana Novotna (Czech Republic) beat Nathalie Tauziat (France) 6-4 7-6(2)
1997 - Martina Hingis (Switzerland) beat Novotna 2-6 6-3 6-3
1996 - Graf beat Arantxa Sanchez Vicario (Spain) 6-3 7-5
1995 - Graf beat Sanchez Vicario 4-6 6-1 7-5
1994 - Conchita Martinez (Spain) beat Martina Navratilova (US) 6-4 3-6 6-3
1993 - Graf beat Novotna 7-6(6) 1-6 6-4
1992 - Graf beat Monica Seles (Yugoslavia) 6-2 6-1
1991 - Graf beat Gabriela Sabatini (Argentina) 6-4 3-6 8-6
1990 - Navratilova beat Zina Garrison (US) 6-4 6-1
1989 - Graf beat Navratilova 6-2 6-7(1) 6-1
1988 - Graf beat Navratilova 5-7 6-2 6-1
1987 - Navratilova beat Graf 7-5 6-3
1986 - Navratilova beat Hana Mandlikova (Czechoslovakia) 7-6(1) 6-3
1985 - Navratilova beat Chris Evert Lloyd (US) 4-6 6-3 6-2
1984 - Navratilova beat Evert Lloyd 7-6(5) 6-2
1983 - Navratilova beat Andrea Jaeger (US) 6-0 6-3
1982 - Navratilova beat Evert Lloyd 6-1 3-6 6-2
1981 - Evert Lloyd beat Mandlikova 6-2 6-2
1980 - Evonne Cawley (Goolagong) (Australia) beat Evert Lloyd 6-1 7-6(4)
1979 - Navratilova (Czechoslovakia) beat Evert Lloyd 6-4 6-4
1978 - Navratilova beat Evert 2-6 6-4 7-5
1977 - Virginia Wade (Britain) beat Betty Stove (Netherlands) 4-6 6-3 6-1
1976 - Evert beat Cawley 6-3 4-6 8-6
1975 - Billie Jean King (Moffitt) (US) beat Cawley 6-0 6-1
1974 - Evert beat Olga Morozova (Soviet Union) 6-0 6-4
1973 - King beat Evert 6-0 7-5
1972 - King beat Goolagong (Australia) 6-3 6-3
1971 - Goolagong (Australia) beat Margaret Court (Smith) (Australia) 6-4 6-1
1970 - Court beat King 14-12 11-9
1969 - Ann Jones (Britain) beat King 3-6 6-3 6-2
1968 - King beat Judy Tegart (Australia) 9-7 7-5
1967 - King beat Jones 6-3 6-4
1966 - King beat Maria Bueno (Brazil) 6-3 3-6 6-1
1965 - Smith (Court) beat Bueno 6-4 7-5
1964 - Bueno beat Smith 6-4 7-9 6-3
1963 - Smith beat Moffitt (King) 6-3 6-4
1962 - Karen Susman (US) beat Vera Sukova (Czechoslovakia) 6-4 6-4
1961 - Angela Mortimer (Britain) beat Christine Truman (Britain) 4-6 6-4 7-5
1960 - Bueno beat Sandra Reynolds (South Africa) 8-6 6-0
1959 - Bueno beat Darlene Hard (US) 6-4 6-3
1958 - Althea Gibson (US) beat Mortimer 8-6 6-2
1957 - Gibson beat Hard 6-3 6-2
1956 - Shirley Fry (US) beat Angela Buxton (Britain) 6-3 6-1
1955 - Louise Brough (US) beat Beverly Fleitz (US 7-5 8-6
1954 - Maureen Connolly (US) beat Brough 6-2 7-5
1953 - Connolly beat Doris Hart (US) 8-6 7-5
1952 - Connolly beat Brough 7-5 6-3
1951 - Hart beat Fry 6-1 6-0
1950 - Brough beat Margaret du Pont (Osborne) (US) 6-1 3-6 6-1
1949 - Brough beat Du Pont 10-8 1-6 10-8
1948 - Brough beat Hart 6-3 8-6
1947 - Osborne beat Hart 6-2 6-4
1946 - Pauline Betz (US) beat Brough 6-2 6-4
1945-40 No tournament held
1939 - Alice Marble (US) beat Kay Stammers (Britain) 6-2 6-0
1938 - Helen Moody (Wills) (US) beat Helen Jacobs (US) 6-4 6-0
1937 - Dorothy Round (Britain) beat Jadwiga Jedrzejowska (Poland) 6-2 2-6 7-5
1936 - Jacobs beat Hilde Sperling (Germany) 6-2 4-6 7-5
1935 - Moody beat Jacobs 6-3 3-6 7-5
1934 - Round beat Jacobs 6-2 5-7 6-3
1933 - Moody beat Round 6-4 6-8 6-3
1932 - Moody beat Jacobs 6-3 6-1
1931 - Cilly Aussem (Germany) beat Hilde Krahwinkel (Germany) 6-2 7-5
1930 - Moody beat Elizabeth Ryan (US) 6-2 6-2
1929 - Wills (Moody) beat Jacobs 6-1 6-2
1928 - Wills beat Lili de Alvarez (Spain) 6-2 6-3
1927 - Wills beat de Alvarez (Spain) 6-2 6-4
1926 - Kathleen Godfree (Britain) beat de Alvarez (Spain) 6-2 4-6 6-3
1925 - Suzanne Lenglen (France) beat Joan Fry (Britain) 6-2 6-0
1924 - Kathleen McKane (Britain) beat Wills 4-6 6-4 6-4
1923 - Lenglen (France) beat McKane 6-2 6-2
1922 - Lenglen beat Molla Mallory (US) 6-2 6-0
Note: Before 1922 the women's singles was decided on a challenge-round system
