Top 5 British Tennis players of all time

Day Thirteen: The Championships - Wimbledon 2016
Day Thirteen: The Championships - Wimbledon 2016

3. Virginia Wade

Virginia Wade
Virginia Wade

Virginia Wade is a legendary former professional tennis player from Britain. She has three Grand Slam singles titles and four Grand Slam doubles to her credit. She also holds the record of being the only British woman to have won titles at each of the four Grand Slam Championships.

Wade’s career highest ranking was World Number 2 (1975), and she was also World Number 1 in the doubles category with Margaret Court.

Wade’s tennis career began taking shape when she won the British Hard Court Open at Bournemouth. Her first professional title win came when she defeated reigning champion Billie Jean King to win the US Open in 1968.

During her career of 26 years, Wade won a total of 55 professional titles. She participated 26 times at Wimbledon alone.

Wade was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1989. She taught tennis for a few years after her retirement from professional tennis.

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