1990 Wimbledon Championships 1990 Wimbledon Championships The 1990 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament played on grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London in England. It was the 104th edition of the Wimbledon Championships and were held from 25 June to 8 July 1990. The total prize money for 1990 championships was £3,819,730. The winner of the men's title earned £230,000 while the women's singles champion earned £207,000. Stefan Edberg defeated Boris Becker, 6–2, 6–2, 3–6, 3–6, 6–4 Martina Navratilova defeated Zina Garrison, 6–4, 6–1 Rick Leach / Jim Pugh defeated Pieter Aldrich / Danie Visser,
Martina Navratilova Graf in a close semi-final winning 6-1, 6-7 (7-3), 7-6 (10-8), before handily winning the final over Helena Sukova 6-3, 6-2. Navratliva, with partner Pam Shriver, also won the women's doubles title. Seventeen-year-old German player Steffi Graf emerged on the scene in 1987 when she narrowly beat Navratilova in the final of the French Open, 6–4, 4–6, 8–6. Navratilova defeated Graf in straight sets in the 1987 Wimbledon and US Open finals (and at the US Open became only the third player in the Open Era, joining tennis legends Margaret Court and Billie Jean King, to win the women's singles,