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
1990 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles 1990 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles Steffi Graf was the defending champion, but lost in the semifinals to Zina Garrison. This was the first time since the 1986 US Open that Graf did not reach a Grand Slam final, ending a record of 13 consecutive major finals. Martina Navratilova defeated Garrison in the final, 6–4, 6–1 to win the Ladies' Singles tennis title at the 1990 Wimbledon Championships. This was Navratilova's ninth singles title at Wimbledon, which would be her 18th and final Grand Slam singles title, tying the then - Open Era record of Chris Evert. Steffi Graf "(Semifinals)"