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Anthony Wilding defeated Beals Wright 4–6, 4–6, 6–3, 6–2, 6–3 in the All Comers' Final, and then defeated the reigning champion Arthur Gore 6–4, 7–5, 4–6, 6–2 in the challenge round to win the gentlemen's singles tennis title at the 1910 Wimbledon Championships.
It was the 34th staging of the Wimbledon Championships, and the second Grand Slam tennis event of 1910. The All England Club laid asphalt pathways round the courts. [2] There was a field of 92 competitors for the men's singles. [2] This was the first Wimbledon tournament during the reign of King George V.
Roger Federer is the only player in history, in both the Amateur and Open Eras, to reach the Wimbledon Gentlemen's Singles Final twelve times. For 9 consecutive years, from 1992 to 2000, Pete Sampras reached the Wimbledon final winning 8 titles out of 9 [not in 1996], an open era record.
Singles Doubles Men Women Quad Men Women Quad 2005: No competition: No competition: No competition: Michaël Jérémiasz Jayant Mistry: No competition: No competition: 2006: Satoshi Saida Shingo Kunieda: 2007: Robin Ammerlaan Ronald Vink (x2) 2008: 2009: Stéphane Houdet Michaël Jeremiasz Korie Homan Esther Vergeer: 2010: Robin Ammerlaan ...
Brookes and his wife, Mabel, in 1914 Norman Brookes. Sir Norman Everard Brookes (14 November 1877 – 28 September 1968) was an Australian tennis player. During his career he won three Grand Slam singles titles; Wimbledon in 1907 and 1914 (the first non-British born individual to do so) and the Australasian Championships in 1911.
Wimbledon is a Grand Slam tennis tournament held in Wimbledon, England, United Kingdom at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in the area of SW19. [1] Since 1968, this tournament has been open to professionals, and it joined the Open Era of tennis.
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Yvon Petra (French pronunciation: [ivɔ̃ petʁa]; 8 March 1916 – 12 September 1984) was a French male tennis player. He was born in Cholon, French Indochina.. Petra is best remembered as the last Frenchman to win the Wimbledon Championships men's singles title (in 1946), beating Geoff Brown in five sets in the final.