Prior to Virginia Wade in 1977, who was the previous British winner of a Grand Slam tennis singles tournament?
1977 Virginia Slims Championships and the accompanying $50,000 first prize money. Chris Evert defeated Sue Barker, 2–6, 6–1, 6–1. Martina Navratilova / Betty Stöve defeated Françoise Dürr / Virginia Wade, 7–5, 6–3. 1977 Virginia Slims Championships The 1977 Virginia Slims Championships were the sixth season-ending WTA Tour Championships, the annual tennis tournament for the best female tennis players in singles on the 1977 WTA Tour. The singles event consisted of two round robin groups (Gold and Orange) of four players each. The winners of each group played each other in the final and additionally there was a play-off match for third place. The tournament
Virginia Wade Virginia Wade Sarah Virginia Wade, (born 10 July 1945) is a former professional tennis player from Great Britain. She won three Grand Slam singles championships and four Grand Slam doubles championships, and is the only British woman in history to have won titles at all four Grand Slam tournaments. She was ranked as high as No. 2 in the world in singles, and No. 1 in the world in doubles. Three times a Grand Slam singles champion, her most famous success was winning Wimbledon on 1 July 1977, the tournament's centenary year, and the year of the Silver Jubilee of