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	Wimbledon Tennis Championships Facts and Figures
		The winner of the men's championships wins £575,000 and the winner of the women's £535,000 (get more information on all prize money at Wimbledon).
		The last Englishman to win Wimbledon Singles title was Fred Perry in 1936 and the last Englishwoman was Virginia Wade in 1977, coincidentally HM The Queen's Silver Jubilee year.
		It's too late for this year's championships but from the 1st August 2004 you can send for a form to apply to enter the public ballot for 2005.
	london.allinfo-about.com /features/wimbfacts.html (526 words)

	Don Johnson Joins Carolina Tennis Staff :: Elite professional doubles player comes on as Coach Sam Paul's top assistant.
		The Wimbledon title was the first for an American doubles team since 1990.
		Altogether, Johnson was 23 ATP Tour doubles championships in his professional career which began in 1992.
		He won the mixed doubles championship in 2000 with Kimberly Po as the duo teamed to defeat Australia's Lelyton Hewitt and Kim Clijsters 6-2, 7-6 in the final.
	tarheelblue.collegesports.com /sports/m-tennis/spec-rel/100703aaa.html (509 words)

	ESPN.com Soccernet Lsistings0619
		A programme packed with some of the greatest rallies from the Wimbledon tournament - singles and doubles.
		This lighthearted programme focuses on alternative amusement and entertainment at Wimbledon: the rain, funny rallies, players antics, and amusing press conferences
		This programme looks at possibly the biggest upset in sporting history - James 'Buster' Douglas's victory over Mike Tyson in 1990.
	www.soccernet.com /listings/2003/0619 (210 words)

	The Championships, Wimbledon 2005 - Grand Slam Tennis - Official Site by IBM
		Wimbledon is acknowledge to be the premier tennis tournament in the world and the priority of The All England Lawn Tennis Club, which hosts The Championships, is to maintain its leadership into the twenty first century.
		On the second Friday, The Championships were honoured by the presence of HM The Queen, who presented the Ladies' Singles trophy to Virginia Wade on the Centre Court, together with a special trophy to mark Her Majesty's Silver Jubilee.
		By the turn of the century, Wimbledon had assumed an international character and in 1905, May Sutton of the United States became the first Champion from overseas when she won the Ladies' Singles.
	championships.wimbledon.org /en_GB/about/history.html (2428 words)

	The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club
		Martina Navratilova was chosen as Wimbledon’s greatest ladies’ singles champions in a poll of BBC television viewers held during the 2003 Championships.
		Singles Champion: 1978, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1990
		She has won a record number of nine singles titles, spanning three decades and involving some of the fiercest rivalries in women’s tennis history.
	www.wimbledon.org /en_GB/history/martina_navratilova.html (510 words)

	MSN Encarta - Martina Navratilova
		Navratilova dominated Wimbledon from 1982 to 1987, winning six consecutive singles titles, and she won the title again in 1990 to set a record with nine Wimbledon singles championships during her career.
		Navratilova won the Wimbledon singles championship in 1978 and again in 1979, when she finished the year as the world's top-ranked player.
		Navratilova also won a match for the American team in the 2003 finals of the Fed Cup, running her career record in the international competition to 39-0.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761576078/Martina_Navratilova.html (510 words)

	MSN Encarta - Martina Navratilova
		Navratilova dominated Wimbledon from 1982 to 1987, winning six consecutive singles titles, and she won the title again in 1990 to set a record with nine Wimbledon singles championships during her career.
		Navratilova won the Wimbledon singles championship in 1978 and again in 1979, when she finished the year as the world's top-ranked player.
		Navratilova also won a match for the American team in the 2003 finals of the Fed Cup, running her career record in the international competition to 39-0.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761576078/Navratilova_Martina.html (647 words)

	SPORTS
		1990: Zina Garrison reaches the singles final at Wimbledon becoming the first African-American woman to reach the final of one of the four major championships of tennis since Althea Gibson.
		Garrison retired from tennis in 1997 after a successful 15-year professional career, winning 37 pro championships (14 singles, 20 doubles, 3 mixed doubles).
		Garrison is the Captain of the U.S. Fed Cup team and served as the coach for the U.S. women’s tennis team at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
	newvoiceofnewyork.dostweb.com /sportsbeat.html (647 words)

	WTA Tour Notes & Netcords
		She plans to make a farewell splash at Wimbledon where she was beaten by Martina Navratilova in the final of 1990, the year she last won the Birmingham event.
		WTA TOUR Notes & Netcords June 19, 1995 GARRISON JACKSON WINS WIMBLEDON TUNE-UP AT DFS CLASSIC IN BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND; DATE HEADS FIELD THIS WEEK AT DIRECT LINE INSURANCE CHAMPIONSHIPS IN EASTBOURNE, ENGLAND A DIFFERENT ENDING: Zina Garrison Jackson recaptured the DFS Classic singles title, ending her former Texas neighbor Lori McNeil's dominance of the event.
		Garrison Jackson has confirmed that her last Grand Slam event will be the U.S. Open in August.
	www.tennisserver.com /wta/WTA_6_19_95.html (647 words)

	ESPN.com: Billie Jean won for all women
		In 1966, King (by now she had married law-student Larry King) won her first singles Wimbledon title and was ranked No. 1, the first of three straight years at the top.
		Billie Jean King won six Wimbledon singles championships and four U.S. Open titles.
		It was for King's crusading that Life magazine in 1990 named her one of the "100 Most Important Americans of the 20th Century." Not sports figures, but Americans.
	espn.go.com /sportscentury/features/00016060.html (1262 words)

	Stella Artois Championships
		They contested three consecutive Wimbledon finals between 1988 and 1990 with Edberg winning the 1988 and 1990 finals and Becker triumphing in 1989.
		Edberg won the event in 1991and reached the final on two other occasions (1988 and 1996).
		Four-time Stella Artois champion Boris Becker and three-time finalist Stefan Edberg will face each other for the first time since their 1996 final at the Queen's Club to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the tournament.
	www.stellaartoistennis.com /newsstories/becker_edberg.asp (447 words)

	HoustonChronicle.com - Photo gallery
		Garrison picked up the game at age 8 at the city-operated MacGregor Park, and her career took her to two Olympic medals and a berth in the 1990 Wimbledon singles finals against Martina Navratilova.
		Won 14 singles and 20 doubles championships as a pro.
		Thirty-eight Houston sports legends will be on hand at the opening ceremonies for Super Bowl XXXVIII: A Houston Salute, Jan. 26 at Reliant Arena.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/special/04/superbowl/heroes/gallery/photo33.html (447 words)

	Navratilova, Martina
		By 1987 Navratilova had won the women's singles championships of the French Open twice (1982, 1984), the Australian Open three times (1981, 1983, 1985), the U.S. Open four times (1983, 1984, 1986, 1987), and Wimbledon a record nine times (1978, 1979, 1982-87, 1990).
		Navratilova pitted her serve and volley game against Evert's baseline style in 80 matches, winning 43 of them.
		One of the first sports superstars to publicly acknowledge that she is a lesbian, Navratilova also was active in the gay rights movement.
	search.eb.com /women/articles/Navratilova_Martina.html (447 words)

	Jennifer Capriati teamwta.com - Unofficial Womens Tennis News and Views
		Jennifer defeated Martina Navratilova at the 1991 Wimbledon Championships, Martina’s earliest exit in fourteen years and the first time that she did not reach the final since 1981.
		Jennifer made her WTA Tour debut in March 1990 at Boca Raton and was beaten in the final by Gabriela Sabatini.
		Jennifer, who was defeated by Gabriela Sabatini in the semi-finals (4-6 4-6), became the youngest player to reach the semi-finals in London at the age of 15.
	www.sportnetwork.net /main/s133/st7492.php (1318 words)

	Wimbledon - The Official Web Site of The All England Lawn Tennis Club
		It was the Great Helen's farewell to a tournament in which she had lost a total of four sets in all the years of Wimbledon participation.
		Wills Moody had only one real challenger for that honour, Suzanne Lenglen, and the astonishing statistic of two women who between them won 14 Wimbledon singles titles is that they only met once.
		It was not until 1990, 52 years after she had set the mark, that Helen Wills Moody's record of eight singles titles at The Championships was finally overtaken by Martina Navratilova's historic ninth Centre Court triumph.
	www.wimbledon.org /en_GB/about/history/helen_willsmoody.html (597 words)

	Wimbledon - The Official Web Site of The All England Lawn Tennis Club
		Wills Moody had only one real challenger for that honour, Suzanne Lenglen, and the astonishing statistic of two women who between them won 14 Wimbledon singles titles is that they only met once.
		It was the Great Helen's farewell to a tournament in which she had lost a total of four sets in all the years of Wimbledon participation.
		It was not until 1990, 52 years after she had set the mark, that Helen Wills Moody's record of eight singles titles at The Championships was finally overtaken by Martina Navratilova's historic ninth Centre Court triumph.
	www.wimbledon.org /en_GB/about/history/helen_willsmoody.html (597 words)

	Wimbledon - The Official Web Site of The All England Lawn Tennis Club
		It was not until 1990, 52 years after she had set the mark, that Helen Wills Moody's record of eight singles titles at The Championships was finally overtaken by Martina Navratilova's historic ninth Centre Court triumph.
		It was the Great Helen's farewell to a tournament in which she had lost a total of four sets in all the years of Wimbledon participation.
		Three years later Jacobs managed to collect just four games in a decidedly one-sided contest, the fourth time she had lost to Wills Moody in a Wimbledon final.
	www.wimbledon.org /en_GB/about/history/helen_willsmoody.html (597 words)

	www.sportright.com - Sports Online. Sports news, scores and features
		Double winner US Open 1991, 1992, double winner Lipton Championships 1990, 1991, Wimbledon Finalist 1992, Number one (January 7-9, 2005).
		Us open mens tennis champions Com is America's #1 source for all tickets to the US Open Tennis Tournament in Flushing, NY.
		Catch the reigning world champion Phelps down the stretch setting a US Open record in the mens 4x200m freestyle relay record was held by the 1996 US Olympic Team of.
	www.sportright.com /content/chapter135.html (16500 words)

	ANKE.html
		Anke began playing tennis at age seven, introduced to the sport by her father Edgar, she played in junior tournaments successfully winning the German U12’s in 1986, German U14’s in 1987, German U16’s in 1988, the European Championships in 1989 and even reached the junior Wimbledon semi-finals in 1990.
		Anke played Tennis at the Nordbadischer Tennisverband close to her home as a youngster.
		Unfortunately, Anke lost her first round match(August 31) of the 1998 US Open to Iva Majoli 6-3 6-3.
	www.angelfire.com /md/davejackCATS/ANKE.html (200 words)

	Articles - Wimbledon F.C.
		On the strength of three successive Southern League championships, and also the fame derived from their FA Cup heroics, they were finally elected to the Football League in 1977, after several failed attempts.
		Bobby Gould, manager of the FA Cup winning side, remained in charge until the summer of 1990 when he was replaced by Ray Harford, who in 1988 had guided Luton Town to victory in the League Cup.
		Wimbledon finished high enough in 1991â“92 to become founder members of the new Premier League, and Joe Kinnear was appointed manager at the start of 1992â“93.
	www.wathcesa.com /articles/Wimbledon_F.C. (1385 words)

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