Following Serena Williams’s win over Angelique Kerber for her 7th Wimbledon crown, here is a list of Wimbledon women's singles champions since 1922:
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2016 Serena Williams (US) beat Angelique Kerber (Germany) 7-5, 6-3
2015 Serena Williams (US) beat Garbine Muguruza (Spain) 6-4, 6-4
2014 Petra Kvitova (CzechRepublic) beat Eugenie Bouchard(Canada) 6-3, 6-0
2013 Marion Bartoli (France) beat Sabine Lisicki (Germany) 6-1, 6-4
2012 Serena Williams (US) beat Agnieszka Radwanska (Poland) 6-1, 5-7, 6-2
2011 Kvitova (CzechRepublic) beat Maria Sharapova (Russia) 6-3, 6-4
2010 Serena Williams (US) beat Vera Zvonareva (Russia) 6-3, 6-2
2009 Serena Williams (US) beat Venus Williams (US) 7-6(3), 6-2
2008 Venus Williams (US) beat Serena Williams (US) 7-5, 6-4
2007 Venus Williams (US) beat Bartoli (France) 6-4, 6-1
2006 Amelie Mauresmo (France) beat Justine Henin (Belgium) 2-6, 6-3, 6-4
2005 Venus Williams beat Lindsay Davenport (US) 4-6, 7-6(4), 9-7
2004 Sharapova (Russia) beat Serena Williams (US) 6-1, 6-4
2003 Serena Williams beat Venus Williams 4-6, 6-4, 6-2
2002 Serena Williams beat Venus Williams 7-6(4), 6-3
2001 Venus Williams beat Henin 6-1, 3-6, 6-0
2000 Venus Williams beat Davenport 6-3, 7-6(3)
1999 Davenport beat Steffi Graf (Germany) 6-4, 7-5
1998 Jana Novotna (Czech Republic) beat Nathalie Tauziat (France) 6-4, 7-6(2)
1997 Martina Hingis (Switzerland) beat Novotna 2-6, 6-3, 6-3
1996 Graf beat Arantxa Sanchez Vicario (Spain) 6-3, 7-5
1995 Graf beat Sanchez Vicario 4-6, 6-1, 7-5
1994 Conchita Martinez (Spain) beat Martina Navratilova (US) 6-4, 3-6, 6-3
1993 Graf beat Novotna 7-6(6), 1-6, 6-4
1992 Graf beat Monica Seles (Yugoslavia) 6-2, 6-1
1991 Graf beat Gabriela Sabatini (Argentina) 6-4 3-6 8-6
1990 Navratilova beat Zina Garrison (US) 6-4, 6-1
1989 Graf beat Navratilova 6-2, 6-7(1) 6-1
1988 Graf beat Navratilova 5-7, 6-2, 6-1
1987 Navratilova beat Graf 7-5, 6-3
1986 Navratilova beat Hana Mandlikova (Czechoslovakia) 7-6(1), 6-3
1985 Navratilova beat Chris Evert Lloyd (US) 4-6, 6-3, 6-2
1984 Navratilova beat Evert Lloyd 7-6(5), 6-2
1983 Navratilova beat Andrea Jaeger (US) 6-0, 6-3
1982 Navratilova beat Evert Lloyd 6-1, 3-6, 6-2
1981 Evert Lloyd beat Mandlikova 6-2, 6-2
1980 Evonne Cawley (Goolagong) (Australia) beat Evert Lloyd 6-1, 7-6(4)
1979 Navratilova (Czechoslovakia) beat Evert Lloyd 6-4, 6-4
1978 Navratilova beat Evert 2-6, 6-4,7-5
1977 Virginia Wade (Britain) beat Betty Stove (Netherlands)4-6, 6-3, 6-1
1976 Evert beat Cawley 6-3, 4-6, 8-6
1975 Billie Jean King (Moffitt) (US) beat Cawley 6-0, 6-1
1974 Evert beat Olga Morozova (Soviet Union) 6-0, 6-4
1973 King beat Evert 6-0, 7-5
1972 King beat Goolagong (Australia) 6-3, 6-3
1971 Goolagong (Australia) beat Margaret Court (Smith) (Australia) 6-4, 6-1
1970 Court beat King 14-12, 11-9
1969 Ann Jones (Britain) beat King 3-6, 6-3, 6-2
1968 King beat Judy Tegart (Australia) 9-7, 7-5
1967 King beat Jones 6-3, 6-4
1966 King beat Maria Bueno (Brazil) 6-3, 3-6, 6-1
1965 Smith (Court) beat Bueno 6-4, 7-5
1964 Bueno beat Smith 6-4, 7-9, 6-3
1963 Smith beat Moffitt (King) 6-3, 6-4
1962 Karen Susman (US) beat Vera Sukova (Czechoslovakia) 6-4, 6-4
1961 Angela Mortimer (Britain) beat Christine Truman (Britain) 4-6, 6-4, 7-5
1960 Bueno beat Sandra Reynolds (South Africa) 8-6, 6-0
1959 Bueno beat Darlene Hard (US) 6-4, 6-3
1958 Althea Gibson (U.S.) beat Mortimer 8-6, 6-2
1957 Gibson beat Hard 6-3, 6-2
1956 Shirley Fry (US) beat Angela Buxton (Britain) 6-3, 6-1
1955 Louise Brough (US) beat Beverly Fleitz (U.S.) 7-5 8-6
1954 Maureen Connolly (US) beat Brough 6-2, 7-5
1953 Connolly beat Doris Hart (US) 8-6, 7-5
1952 Connolly beat Brough 7-5, 6-3
1951 Hart beat Fry 6-1, 6-0
1950 Brough beat Margaret du Pont (Osborne) (US) 6-1, 3-6, 6-1
1949 Brough beat Du Pont 10-8 ,1-6, 10-8
1948 Brough beat Hart 6-3, 8-6
1947 Osborne beat Hart 6-2, 6-4
1946 Pauline Betz (US) beat Brough 6-2, 6-4
1945-40 No tournament held
1939 Alice Marble (US) beat Kay Stammers (Britain) 6-2, 6-0
1938 Helen Moody (Wills) (US) beat Helen Jacobs (US) 6-4, 6-0
1937 Dorothy Round (Britain) beat Jadwiga Jedrzejowska (Poland) 6-2, 2-6, 7-5
1936 Jacobs beat Hilde Sperling (Germany) 6-2, 4-6, 7-5
1935 Moody beat Jacobs 6-3, 3-6, 7-5
1934 Round beat Jacobs 6-2, 5-7, 6-3
1933 Moody beat Round 6-4, 6-8, 6-3
1932 Moody beat Jacobs 6-3, 6-1
1931 Cilly Aussem (Germany) beat Hilde Krahwinkel (Germany) 6-2, 7-5
1930 Moody beat Elizabeth Ryan (US) 6-2, 6-2
1929 Wills (Moody) beat Jacobs 6-1, 6-2
1928 Wills beat Lili de Alvarez (Spain) 6-2, 6-3
1927 Wills beat de Alvarez (Spain) 6-2, 6-4
1926 Kathleen Godfree (Britain) beat de Alvarez (Spain) 6-2, 4-6, 6-3
1925 Suzanne Lenglen (France) beat Joan Fry (Britain) 6-2, 6-0
1924 Kathleen McKane (Britain) beat Wills 4-6, 6-4, 6-4
1923 Lenglen (France) beat McKane 6-2, 6-2
1922 Lenglen beat Molla Mallory (US) 6-2, 6-0
Note: Before 1922 the women's singles was decided on a challenge-round system.
