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The 1995 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament played on grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London in the United Kingdom. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was the 109th edition of the Wimbledon Championships and were held from 26 June to 9 July 1995.
Two-time defending champion Pete Sampras defeated Boris Becker in the final, 6–7 (5–7), 6–2, 6–4, 6–2 to win the gentlemen's singles tennis title at the 1995 Wimbledon Championships. [1] It was his third Wimbledon title and sixth major title overall. This is the most recent Wimbledon where the top four seeds all reached the semifinals.
1995: Steffi Graf (x2) Jana Novotná Arantxa Sánchez Vicario: Martina Navratilova Jonathan Stark: 1996: Richard Krajicek: Martina Hingis Helena Suková Helena Suková Cyril Suk (x2) 1997: Pete Sampras (x4) Martina Hingis: Gigi Fernández Natasha Zvereva 1998: Jana Novotná: Jacco Eltingh Paul Haarhuis: Martina Hingis Jana Novotná Serena ...
Winning a Wimbledon title is a big deal — after all, it’s one of the most prestigious and difficult tennis tournaments in the world. The annual Wimbledon championships will begin on July 1 ...
Wimbledon Championships is an annual British tennis tournament created in 1877 and played on outdoor grass courts [a] [b] [3] at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (AELTC) in the Wimbledon suburb of London, United Kingdom. [4] The Gentlemen's Singles was the first event contested in 1877. [2]
The 2001 Wimbledon title was the last grand slam (individual) win of Ivanišević's career. He temporarily retired in 2002 due to shoulder surgery. He returned to tennis sparingly in the following years but, in 2004, retired after a third-round loss to Lleyton Hewitt at Wimbledon, held on the Centre Court, the scene of his greatest triumph.
Monica Seles [a] (born December 2, 1973) is a former world No. 1 tennis player who represented Yugoslavia and the United States. She won nine major singles titles, eight of them as a teenager while representing Yugoslavia, and the final one while representing the United States.
She then beat Sánchez Vicario in the finals of both the French Open and Wimbledon. The 1995 Wimbledon final is regarded as one of the most dramatic women's major finals in history as Graf and Sánchez Vicario battled in a tight third set that included a 16-minute long, 13-deuce game on Sanchez Vicario's serve at 5–5. [69]