“It’s difficult for most people to imagine the creative process in tennis. Seemingly it's just an athletic matter of hitting the ball consistently well within the boundaries of the court. That analysis is just as specious as thinking that the difficulty in portraying King Lear on stage is learning all the lines.”
- Virginia Wade
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Virginia Wade now[/caption]
Sarah Virginia Wade OBE, born in 1945 and currently aged 76, is a British former professional tennis player. She won three Major tennis singles championships and four Major doubles championships, and is the only British woman in history to have won titles at all four Majors. She was ranked as high as No. 2 in the world in singles, and No. 1 in the world in doubles. Wade's most famous success was winning Wimbledon in 1977, the tournament's centenary year, and the year of the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II.
The Queen attended Wimbledon for the first time since 1962 to watch the final. Wade was the most recent British tennis player to win a Major singles tournament until Andy Murray won the 2012 US Open, and was the most recent British woman to have won a Major singles title until Emma Raducanu won the 2021 US Open. After retiring from competitive tennis, she coached for four years and has also worked as a tennis commentator and game analyst for the BBC and Eurosport and CBS in the U.S.
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