For men, Jean Borotra is the player who has played the most matches, 223, at Wimbledon, while for women, the record holder is Martina Navratilova with 326. John Isner and Nicolas Mahut have played the longest match ever played at Wimbledon (11 hours and 5 minutes), while in 2008 Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer played the longest final ever played at Church Road, with 4 hours and 48 minutes.
In 2001, Goran Ivanisevic won the tournament starting with a wild card, and today he is the lowest ranked player to have won, with his 125th place in the ATP rankings. Boris Becker is the youngest winner of the men’s singles (17 years and 227 days, in 1985) while Arthur Gore is the oldest winner (41 years and 182 days, in 1909).
Roger Federer has won the championship 8 times, surpassing, in 2017, the previous record he shared with William Renshaw and Pete Sampras. William Renshaw holds the record for consecutive titles won in men’s singles: 6, from 1881 to 1886.
Wimbledon: 145 years of broken records
Todd Woodbridge holds the record for men’s doubles titles won: 9, including 6 with Mark Woodforde and 3 with Jonas Björkman. Woodbridge and Woodforde, along with brothers Reginald Doherty and Lawrance Doherty, hold the record for consecutive men’s doubles titles won, 5.
Owen Davidson, Ken Fletcher and Vic Seixas hold the record for titles won in mixed doubles, 4. Williams Renshaw is the most successful male player at Wimbledon, with a total of 14 titles won: 7 in men’s singles, 7 in men’s doubles.
Lottie Dod is the youngest women’s singles winner (15 years and 285 days, in 1887) while Charlotte Cooper Sterry is the oldest women’s singles winner (37 years and 282 days, in 1908). Martina Navratilova holds two important records: with 9 titles, she is the most successful tennis player in women’s singles, and she is also the player who has won the most consecutive titles in women’s singles: 6, from 1982 to 1987.
In men’s and women’s singles, she is the most successful player with her 9 titles, one more than Roger Federer’s 8. With 12 titles, Elizabeth Ryan is the player who has won the most titles in women’s doubles.
Ryan and Suzanne Lenglen hold the record for consecutive titles won in women’s doubles: 6 titles. Ryan also holds the record for winning mixed doubles titles, 7, in three decades, from 1919 to 1932.
Billie-Jean King and Martina Navratilova have won a total of 20 titles in London and are therefore the most successful tennis players on the lawns of the All England Club.
