1983 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles 1983 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles Martina Navratilova successfully defended her title, defeating Andrea Jaeger in the final, 6–0, 6–3 to win the Ladies' Singles tennis title at the 1983 Wimbledon Championships. Billie Jean King became the oldest semifinalist at a Grand Slam event at 39 years, 7 months and 9 days old, an Open Era record. Chris Evert Lloyd's loss in the 3rd round broke her streak of 34 consecutive Grand Slam semi-finals. She had made the semifinals in her first 34 Grand Slam appearances between the 1971 US Open and the 1983 French Open. Martina Navratilova (Champion) Tracy
2000 Wimbledon Championships finalists and the exclusion of doubles champions who had not won at least four titles was mildly controversial, with Frew McMillan bemoaning to BBC Radio that his two-time mixed doubles championship partner Betty Stöve had not been invited, despite the Dutch woman holding three Wimbledon doubles titles and having reached the singles final once; whereas Hana Mandlíková and Goran Ivanišević both attended, neither one of whom had ever won a Wimbledon title of any kind prior to Wimbledon 2000. The total prize money for 2000 championships was £8,056,480. The winner of the men's title earned £477,500 while the women's singles