1919 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles final
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The 1919 Wimbledon women's singles final was a championship match at the 1919 Wimbledon Championships, one of the three amateur tennis World Championship tournaments at the time and one of the four modern Grand Slam tournaments. The final was contested as a challenge round between French tennis player Suzanne Lenglen, the winner of the All Comers' bracket, and British tennis player Dorothea Lambert Chambers, the reigning champion from 1914. Lenglen won the match 10–8, 4–6, 9–7 for the title, her first of six Wimbledon singles titles and second major singles title out of 12 in total between her four world championship singles titles and eight Grand Slam singles titles. Lenglen also won the women's doubles title at the tournament with Elizabeth Ryan.
Suzanne Lenglen vs. Dorothea Lambert Chambers | |||||||||||||
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Date | 7 July 1919 | ||||||||||||
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Tournament | Wimbledon Championships | ||||||||||||
Location | All England Club, Worple Road, Wimbledon | ||||||||||||
Lenglen (left) and Lambert Chambers (right) |
With the victory, Lenglen became a global sport celebrity and elevated women's tennis to a similar stature as men's tennis instead of a sideshow. The attendance of 8000 at the match that was more than double the seating capacity led Wimbledon to build a much larger venue that opened three years later. The match set the record for most games in a Wimbledon women's singles final at 44, which stood until 1970. Lenglen and Lambert Chambers had a rematch in the Wimbledon challenge round the following year that Lenglen won easily.