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Film & TV
Known for
- Sue Barker: Our Wimbledon — Self2017
- Wimbledon - Official film 2007 — Self2008
via TMDB
Key facts
- Full name
- Sarah Virginia Wade
- Country sports
- United Kingdom
- Born
- ( 1945-07-10 ) 10 July 1945 (age 80) , Bournemouth , Dorset , England
- Height
- 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
- Turned pro
- 1968 (amateur from 1962)
- Plays
- Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
- Prize money
- $1,542,278
- Int tennis hof
- 1989 ( member page )
- Career record
- 839–329
- Highest ranking
- No. 2 (3 November 1975)
- Australian open
- W ( 1972 )
- French open
- QF ( 1970 , 1972 )
- Wimbledon
- W ( 1977 )
- Us open
- W ( 1968 )
- Tour finals
- W ( 1975 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Tennis
- Position
- Tennis Player
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Virginia
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Bournemouth
- Occupation
- tennis player
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- 1967 Federation Cup
- Sport
- tennis
- Member of team
- Great Britain Billie Jean King Cup team
- Country for sport
- United Kingdom
- Image
- Virginia Wade by David Wynne 03.jpg
- Height
- 170
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- date of birth
- 1945-07-10
- handedness
- right-handedness
- singles record
- 839–329
- doubles record
- 42–48
- birth name
- Sarah Virginia Wade
- playing hand
- right-handedness
- prize money
- 1542278
- ranking
- 111
- end of work period
- 1986-00-00
- start of work period
- 1968-00-00
- competition won
- 1977 Wimbledon Championships – women's singles
- Commons category
- Virginia Wade
- name in native language
- Virginia Wade
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Sarah Virginia Wade (born 10 July 1945) is a British former professional tennis player. She won three major tennis singles championships and four major doubles championships, and is the only British woman in history to have won titles at all four majors. She was ranked as high as No. 2 in the world in singles, and No. 1 in the world in doubles.
Wade was the most recent British tennis player to win a major singles tournament until Andy Murray won the 2012 US Open, and was the most recent British woman to have won a major singles title until Emma Raducanu won the 2021 US Open. After retiring from competitive tennis, she coached for four years, and has also worked as a tennis commentator and game analyst for the BBC and Eurosport, and (in the US) for CBS.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Virginia Wade” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.