When was the last british finalist at wimbledon

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Or an Australian or a Swiss national? Round was the last British woman to win the title until 8 July. The men are still waiting. They were sweeping aside all before them, they had the world's best player in Lionel Messi and their manager was arguably the greatest footballer of all time. However, their manager was also Diego Maradona, the ticking time bomb who had courted controversy throughout a career littered with drug scandals and infamous acts of cheating.

Somehow, Maradona had decided to leave two of his best defensive players, Javier Zanetti and Esteban Cambiasso, out of his Argentina squad despite the fact both players had been integral to an Inter Milan side that had just won the Treble. Without the pair, Argentina were battered by Germany in South Africa, in a game that rendered Messi helpless as the men behind him failed to cope with the Germans' lethal counter-attacking game.

In , Arthur 'Wentworth' Gore became the last British man to win the title before Perry in and the oldest player to win the men's or women's singles. Gore was already the oldest, having won the title the year before. He was 41 by now, but he outlasted MJG Ritchie, whose first name was Major and who was no spring chicken himself at Ritchie won the first set and the second But Gore had always been able to hit his famous forehand drive all day.

He won each of the last three sets The following year, he became the oldest player in any Wimbledon singles final. Already one of the world's best doubles players, she reached eight Wimbledon finals in that event, winning four. In , she finally broke through in singles. She's got the game for Wimbledon, they'd been saying. Mobility, good serve, waspish volleys. It's all in the mind, you know. Well, for once the brain took a back seat and let the instinctive talent drive her all the way to the final.

There she lost a first-set tie-break but won ten of the next twelve games to lead with her serve to come. Not for the first or last time, defending champion Steffi Graf crumbled under pressure. Not for the first or last time, she was let off the hook. She'd been gifted the final by Gabriela Sabatini. She double-faulted, dropped her serve, missed two points for a lead - and the rest was car crash telly.

Graf won five games in a row to win the title for the third year in a row. Contact us Sign up for newsletters. Log In Register now My account. Emma Raducanu, the last British woman at Wimbledon, shocks Marketa Vondrousova to reach the third round The year-old was born in Toronto but moved to London at the age of two and grew up in London Raducanu celebrates the biggest victory of her career against Vondrousova Photo: PA.

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