Wimbledon Men's Trivia





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Most Wins Singles
7 Willie Renshaw
Pete Sampras
6 Roger Federer
5 Bjorn Borg
Laurie Doherty
4 Reggie Doherty
Rod Laver
Rod Laver
Tony Wilding
3 Wilfred Baddeley
Boris Becker
Arthur Gore
John McEnroe
John Newcombe
Fred Perry
Bill Tilden
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Consecutive Wins
6 Willie Renshaw 1881-86
5 Laurie Doherty 1902-06
Bjorn Borg 1976-80
Roger Federer 2003-2007
4 Reggie Doherty 1897-00
Tony Wilding 1910-13
Pete Sampras 1997-00
3 Fred Perry 1934-36
Pete Sampras 1993-95
Consecutive Defeats
3 Herbert Lawford 1884-86
Gottfried von Cramm 1935-37
Fred Stolle 1963-65
Most appearances in finals
8(6) Willie Renshaw
7(3) Boris Becker
7 Pete Sampras
6(3) Wilfred Braddeley
(5) Laurie Doherty
(4) Rod Laver
(5) Bjorn Borg
Most appearances never won
4 Ken Rosewall
3 Frank Riseley
Gottfried von Cramm
Fred Stolle
Junior & Senior Champions Only 3 former Boy's Singles champions have won the senior title:
Bjorn Borg, Pat Cash & Stefan Edberg
Lowest scores Games Score
20 1936 Fred Perry 6-1 6-1 6-0
21 1881 Willie Renshaw 6-0 6-2 6-1
22 1923 Bill Johnston 6-0 6-3 6-1
1938 Don Budge 6-1 6-0 6-3 - won all 21 sets in championships (won 129 of 177 games)
1984 John McEnroe 6-1 6-1 6-2
23 1957 Lew Hoad 6-2 6-1 6-2
1962 Rod Laver 6-2 6-2 6-1
1967 John Newcombe 6-3 6-1 6-1
22 1923 Bill Johnston 6-0 6-3 6-1
1938 Don Budge 6-1 6-0 6-3
1984 John McEnroe 6-1 6-1 6-2
Highest scores
58 1954 Jaroslav Drobny 13-11 4-6 6-2 9-7
56 1933 Jack Crawford 4-6 11-9 6-2 2-6 6-4
1946 Yvon Petra 6-2 6-4 7-9 5-7 6-4
1884 J Dwight, R D Sears, A L Rivers (all US), E L Williams first overseas players at Wimbledon
1905 Norman Brookes first overseas finalist wimbledon men's singles
1907 Norman Brookes(Aus) (also doubles with Tony Wilding) first foreign born Wimbledon champions All three events played (men's singles/doubles,women's singles won by overseas players)
1909 Arthur W Gore (GB) oldest Wimbledon men's singles champion 41 years 182 days
1913 First Wimbledon final contested by overseas players
1920 All five championships won by overseas players
1921 First time no British player in Wimbledon men's singles semi-finals
1926 M J G Ritchie (GB) oldest player in a Wimbledon men's singles championship 55 years 247 days
1927 S B B Wood (USA) youngest player in a Wimbledon men's singles championship 15 years 231 days (also youngest in men's doubles) First radio broadcast
1937 First TV coverage
1953/58 Longest sets in singles final 13-11
1954 Longest Wimbledon singles final (58 games)
1959 Longest Wimbledon Semi-Final Rod Laver bt Barry McKay (US) 11-13 11-9 10-8 7-9 6-3 (87)
1965 First time no British player seeded at Wimbledon
1963 Chuck McKinlay never played another seed, nor did any seeded player play another seeded player
1968 First open championship - prizes £2000 (finalist £1300)
1969 Pancho Gonzales (USA) oldest player to be seeded at Wimbledon 41 years 45 days
1977 Ball girls first employed
1977 1980 Bjorn Borgfirst to win fifth successive singles title since William Renshaw in 1885
1982 Longest timed Wimbledon singles final 4 hours 16 minutes (54 games)
1985 Boris Becker youngest, first unseeded player, first German to win Wimbledon Men's singles 17 years 227 days
1986 Yellow balls used for first time
1987 Last year in which wooden rackets were used
2000 Pete Samprasequals William Renshaw's record of 7 singles titles
2001 Final played on a Monday for only the 3rd time (previous - 1919, 1922)
2002 Goran Ivanisevic first wild card entrant to win singles title
Most consecutive matches won 41 - Bjorn Borg
Longest match at Wimbledon 1969 1st round Pancho Gonzales bt Charlie Pasarell ((US) 22-24 1-6 16-14 6-3 11-9 (112 games in 5 hours 12 minutes over 2 days)
Longest set in Wimbledon singles - 46 games
1969Pancho Gonzales v Pasarell
1962 Nicola Pietrangeli (Italy) Nikki Pili (Yugoslavia) 24-22 6-2 6-4
Most sets played in a Wimbledon singles championships 1977 John McEnroe 31 sets - including 8 in 3 qualifying rounds (308 games)
1927 Jean Borotra (France) 30 sets (283 games)
Most games played in a Wimbledon singles championships 1958 Ashley Cooper (Aus) 312 gamesin 28 sets
Triple Champions
1937 Don Budge (US)
1938 Don Budge (US) - top seeded in all three events
1939 R L Riggs (US) - mixed partner Alice Marble also triple champion played most games in a Wimbledon championships 19 matches, 51-9 sets, 361-220 games (581)
1952 Frank Sedgman (Aus) - top seeded in all three events







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