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Wimbledon men's champions

Order by the year each man first won the title. You place all 36 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.

Wimbledon men's champions
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How the Wimbledon men's champions timeline works

The cards are men who won the Wimbledon singles title, sorted by the year of their first triumph there. A short description under each name gives their nationality and a hint about their game or story. One champion starts on the timeline with the year showing. Drop each new card into a gap. A right guess reveals the year, and a wrong one moves the player to his correct place and uses up one of three lives.

Multiple champions count only once, at their first title, so a player you remember lifting the trophy repeatedly may sit earlier than you think. The deck runs from the amateur days on grass through the serve-and-volley years to the baseline champions of today. Read the description closely, especially for the many Americans and Australians whose careers overlap.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 36 cards you might be dealt, with 8 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Jack Kramer American serve-and-volley pioneer
  • Ted Schroeder American who entered only Wimbledon that year
  • Budge Patty American based in Paris
  • Dick Savitt American; also won that year's Australian title
  • Vic Seixas American veteran
  • Jaroslav Drobny Egyptian-registered exile from Czechoslovakia
  • Tony Trabert American who lost only one set all fortnight
  • Ashley Cooper Australian
  • Neale Fraser left-handed Australian
  • Rod Laver Australian left-hander, later a Grand Slam winner
  • Chuck McKinley American
  • Manuel Santana Spaniard, first from his country to win
  • John Newcombe big-serving Australian
  • Stan Smith American in the boycott-hit draw
  • Jimmy Connors brash American left-hander
  • Arthur Ashe American who out-thought Connors
  • Bjorn Borg Swede who began a five-year reign
  • John McEnroe fiery American; ended Borg's streak
  • Pat Cash Australian who climbed to his box
  • Stefan Edberg elegant Swedish volleyer
  • Michael Stich German who upset Becker in the final
  • Pete Sampras American; first of seven titles
  • Richard Krajicek big-serving Dutchman
  • Goran Ivanisevic Croatian wildcard's fairytale run
  • Lleyton Hewitt Australian counterpuncher
  • Rafael Nadal Spaniard, in a classic five-set final
  • Novak Djokovic Serbian world number one
  • Andy Murray first British men's champion in decades

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