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[1] [2] It was the 123rd edition of the Wimbledon Championships and was held from 22 June to 5 July 2009. It was the third Grand Slam tennis event of the year. Rafael Nadal did not defend his title as he withdrew from the tournament due to knee tendonitis. Roger Federer won his 6th Wimbledon title defeating rival Andy Roddick in the final in ...
Laura Robson was the defending champion but lost in the third round to Quirine Lemoine. Noppawan Lertcheewakarn defeated Kristina Mladenovic in the final, 3–6, 6–3, 6–1 to win the girls' singles tennis title at the 2009 Wimbledon Championships.
In the women's side of the draw, last year's finalist and two-time Wimbledon Champion Serena Williams easily won in straight sets; she was joined by Shahar Pe'er, Jill Craybas, Urszula Radwańska, Russian players Elena Dementieva, Alisa Kleybanova, Elena Vesnina, Nadia Petrova, and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, 2004 Wimbledon Champion Maria ...
Winning a Wimbledon title is a big deal — after all, it’s one of the most prestigious and difficult tennis tournaments in the world. The annual Wimbledon championships will begin on July 1 ...
Danica Patrick joined the list of notable athletes to pose for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue back in 2008. The race car driver posed for the magazine again in 2009. “I had so much fun.
This edition of the tournament saw the top four seeds all reach the semifinals, the most recent occurrence of this happened at a major (as of 2023). The match between Serena Williams and Dementieva was the longest women's semifinal at Wimbledon in the Open Era , lasting two hours and 49 minutes, before the record was broken at the 2024 .
A birthday trip with her fiancé might be the perfect way for Caroline Wozniaki to move past a big loss.
Martina Navratilova is a nine-time singles champion, a Grand Slam record in the Open Era for women (Margaret Court won the Australian 11 times). She won six consecutive titles from 1982 to 1987. Steffi Graf is a seven-time champion over a nine-year period from 1988 to 1996.