2017 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles 2017 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles Serena Williams was the two-time defending champion, but did not participate this year due to . Garbiñe Muguruza won her second Grand Slam singles title, defeating Venus Williams in the final, 7–5, 6–0. Muguruza became the second Spanish woman to win Wimbledon after Conchita Martínez in 1994. Muguruza also became the first player to defeat both Williams sisters in Grand Slam singles finals. Williams was the oldest player to reach the final since Martina Navratilova, also in 1994, and played her 100th singles match at Wimbledon when she defeated reigning French Open champion Jeļena
2013 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles final and Victoria Azarenka, and Scotland's First Minister, Alex Salmond, were also among those who paid tribute. Additionally, BBC Sport writer Tom Fordyce hailed Andy Murray's Wimbledon victory as "the 'holy grail' for British sport". Murray's Wimbledon victory dominated most of the British newspapers ranging from "The Guardian" to "The Daily Telegraph" and "The Daily Mail", among many others. It also even made front-page headlines on Serbia's two biggest newspapers, "Blic" and "Politika", and also dominated the sports sections of "The New York Times" in the United States and Australia's Sydney Morning Herald. 2013 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles final The