Wimbledon women's champions

Order by the year each woman first won Wimbledon. You place all 32 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.

Wimbledon women's champions
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Order by the year each woman first won Wimbledon. Drag or tap it onto the line
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release years and dates
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How to play the Wimbledon women's champions timeline

This is the women's side of Wimbledon: champions sorted by the year of each player's first singles title there. A description under each name gives her nationality and a hint about her game or story. One champion begins on the timeline with the year showing. For each new card, choose a gap. Drop it in the right place and the year appears; a miss still moves the player to her real place and costs one of three lives.

Serve-and-volley specialists, baseline greats and surprise champions all appear, from the early postwar winners to recent ones. Repeat winners count only for their first title, so dominant champions often sit earlier than their best years. The descriptions help most when they mention style or a story; unseeded winners and one-time champions are the cards that take the most thought.

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 32 cards you might be dealt, with 4 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Louise Brough American serve-and-volleyer
  • Doris Hart American all-courter
  • Maureen Connolly American Grand Slam winner
  • Shirley Fry American champion
  • Althea Gibson American barrier-breaking champion
  • Maria Bueno Brazilian with elegant style
  • Angela Mortimer British champion
  • Margaret Court Australian record slam winner
  • Billie Jean King American six-time champion
  • Ann Jones British left-hander
  • Evonne Goolagong Australian graceful champion
  • Chris Evert American baseline great
  • Virginia Wade British home favorite
  • Martina Navratilova Czech-born nine-time champion
  • Conchita Martinez Spanish clay-courter who won on grass
  • Martina Hingis Swiss teenage champion
  • Jana Novotna Czech serve-and-volleyer
  • Lindsay Davenport American power hitter
  • Venus Williams American five-time champion
  • Serena Williams American seven-time champion
  • Maria Sharapova Russian teenage winner
  • Petra Kvitova Czech left-hander
  • Marion Bartoli French two-handed champion
  • Simona Halep Romanian baseliner
  • Ashleigh Barty Australian all-court number one
  • Elena Rybakina Kazakh big server
  • Marketa Vondrousova Czech unseeded champion
  • Barbora Krejcikova Czech multiple slam winner

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