2011 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles came from Europe. Caroline Wozniacki "(Fourth round)" 2011 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles Serena Williams was the two-time defending champion, but she was defeated in the fourth round by 2007 finalist, Marion Bartoli. Petra Kvitová defeated 2004 champion Maria Sharapova in the final, 6–3, 6–4 to win the Ladies' Singles tennis title at the 2011 Wimbledon Championships. It was her first Grand Slam final and title of her career. She became the first Czech woman to win the title since Jana Novotná in 1998 and the first female left-handed player to win Wimbledon since Martina Navratilova in 1990. For the
Women's tennis in the United States an American tennis player who won the Grand Slam of tennis in 1953. Women's tennis in the United States Tennis has been played in the United States for a long time. There are several important and famous female players from the country. By 1888, American women tennis players were agitating for their own championship competition. USLTA claimed that they lacked the authority to organise such a competition. In 1923, the Wightman Cup was created as a national women's tennis competition between the United States and Great Britain. The trophy for the event was paid for by Hazel Wightman, an American