Virginia Wade
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1945 (81 years old)
Bournemouth, EnglandPosition
Tennis Player
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Sarah Virginia Wade OBE (born 10 July 1945) is a British former professional tennis player. She won three Major tennis singles championships and four major doubles championships, and is the only British woman in history to have won titles at all four majors. She was ranked as high as No. 2 in the world in singles, and No. 1 in the world in doubles.
Wade was the most recent British tennis player to win a major singles tournament until Andy Murray won the 2012 US Open, and was the most recent British woman to have won a major singles title until Emma Raducanu won the 2021 US Open. After retiring from competitive tennis, she coached for four years, and has also worked as a tennis commentator and game analyst for the BBC and Eurosport and CBS in the U.S.
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 Wimbledon Women |  _Retired Tennis | 1977 | |
 Australian Open Women | _Retired Tennis | 1972 | |
 WTA Cincinnati Open |  WTA Tour Womens | 1971 | |
 WTA Italian Open | WTA Tour Womens | 1971 | |
 US Open Women | _Retired Tennis | 1968 |
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