2008 Wimbledon Championships or personal reasons. 2008 Wimbledon Championships The 2008 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 122nd edition of the Wimbledon Championships and were held from 23 June to 6 July 2008. It was the third Grand Slam tennis event of the year. Spanish player Rafael Nadal won the first Wimbledon title of his career; the first Grand Slam tournament he had won other than the French Open. Nadal defeated five-time defending champion Roger Federer in the final in what many
2013 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles Slam winner. Sabine Lisicki was the first German finalist of either sex in a Grand Slam since Rainer Schüttler at the 2003 Australian Open, while Marion Bartoli was the first French female player to appear in a major final since her own 2007 Wimbledon final. The 2013 Wimbledon final marked the first time since 1998 that none of the finalists were former Grand Slam champions, and also only the second Wimbledon final in the Open Era that none of the former Grand Slam champions have reached a Wimbledon final. Serena Williams "(Fourth round)" 2013 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles Serena