List of British singles finalists at Grand Slam tennis tournaments

Despite being the founders of the sport of tennis, Britain has not enjoyed much success in the four Grand Slams, the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and the US Open. The most recent winner was Andy Murray, who won the 2016 Wimbledon title against Milos Raonic. The last woman to win a major was Virginia Wade, who won Wimbledon in 1977.

The greatest British tennis player was Fred Perry. He is easily Britain's most successful player ever, and the only one to have won all four Grand Slams. Angela Mortimer, Ann Haydon-Jones and Virginia Wade have won three of the Grand Slams. Andy Murray is the only British player, apart from Fred Perry, to have reached the final of all four Grand Slams.

This table lists British Grand Slam singles tennis finalists. Competitors normally only competed in their home countries in the early years of the championships, and British players always won the men's tournament at Wimbledon until 1906, and the women's tournament until 1905.

Key

  • Heavy type means champion
  • Light type means losing finalist

Men's singles

NameWimbledon[1]French[2][3]USA[4]Australian[5]
Spencer Gore1877 1878
William Marshall1877
Frank Hadow1878
John Hartley1879 1880 1881
Vere St. Leger Goold1879
Herbert Lawford1880 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888
William Renshaw1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1889 1890
Ernest Renshaw1882 1883 1887 1888 1889
Willoughby Hamilton1890
H. Briggs1891
Wilfred Baddeley1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896
Joshua Pim1891 1892 1893 1894
Wilberforce Eaves18951897
Harold Mahony1896 1897
Reginald Doherty1897 1898 1899 1900 19011902
Francky Wardan1897
Laurence Doherty1898 1902 1903 1904 1905 19061903
Arthur Gore1899 1901 1902 1907 1908 1909 1910 1912
Sydney Smith1900
Frank Riseley1903 1904 1906
Herbert Barrett1908 1911
Josiah Ritchie1909
James Cecil Parke1912
Alfred Beamish1912
Gordon Lowe1915
Algernon Kingscote1919
Randolph Lycett1922
Colin Gregory1929
Bunny Austin1932 19381937
Fred Perry1934 1935 19361935 19361933 1934 19361934 1935
John Lloyd1977
Greg Rusedski1997
Andy Murray2012 2013 201620162008 20122010 2011 2013 2015 2016

Women's singles

NameWimbledon[6][7]French[2][8][9]USA[4]Australian[10]
Maud Watson1884 1885 1886
Lillian Watson1884
Blanche Bingley1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1891 1892 1893 1894 1897 1899 1900 1901
Lottie Dod1887 1888 1891 1892 1893
Lena Rice1889 1890
May Jacks1890
Mabel Cahill1891 1892
Edith Austin1894
Charlotte Cooper1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1904 1908 1912
Helen Jackson1895
Alice Simpson-Pickering1896
Louisa Martin1898
Muriel Robb1902
Dorothea Chambers1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1910 1911 1913 1914 1919 1920
Ethel Thomson Larcombe1903 1912 1914
Agnes Morton1908 1909
Dora Boothby1909 1910 1911
Winifred McNair1913
Germaine Golding[11]1922 1923
Kathleen McKane Godfree1923 1924 192619251925
Joan Fry1925
Eileen Bennett Whittingstall19281931
Phoebe Holcroft Watson1929
Betty Nuthall19311927 1930
Margaret Scriven1933 1934
Dorothy Round Little1933 1934 19371935
Kay Stammers1939
Patricia Ward Hales1955
Angela Buxton1956
Angela Mortimer1958 19611955 19561958
Shirley Brasher1957 1958
Christine Truman196119591959
Ann Haydon-Jones1967 19691961 1963 1966 1968 19691961 1967
Sue Barker1976
Virginia Wade197719681972

See also

References

  1. ↑ Wimbledon, Gentlemen's Singles Finals Archived 2013-05-07 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. 1 2 Roland Garros, Past Winners Archived 2012-05-13 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ List of French Open Men's Singles champions and finalists
  4. 1 2 Authentic Tennis, US Open
  5. ↑ List of Australian Open Men's Champions, yahoo sports
  6. ↑ Wimbledon Roll of Honour, Ladies Singles Finals Archived 2013-05-07 at the Wayback Machine.
  7. ↑ United States Tennis Association, Grand Slam Tournaments Archived 2011-05-20 at the Wayback Machine.
  8. ↑ List of French Open women's singles champions
  9. ↑ La France.Com women's singles
  10. ↑ List of Australian Open women's champions, yahoo sports
  11. ↑ Germaine Golding was Franco-British
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