The championships were not held from 1915-1918 and 1940-1945 owing to the two World Wars.
Year held | Winner | Finalist | Score |
2003 | Serena Williams (United States) | Venus Williams (United States) | 4:6 6:4 6:2 |
2002 | Serena Williams (United States) | Venus Williams (United States) | 6(4):7(7) 3:6 |
2001 | Venus Williams (United States) | Justine Henin (Belgium) | 6:1 3:6 6:0 |
2000 | Venus Williams (United States) | Lindsay Davenport (United States) | 6:3 7(7):6(3) |
1999 | Lindsay Davenport (United States) | Steffi Graf (Germany) | 6:4 7:5 |
1998 | Jana Novotna (Czech Republic) | Nathalie Tauziat (France) | 6:4 7:6 |
1997 | Martina Hingis (Switzerland) | Jana Novotna (Czech Republic) | 2:6 6:3 6:3 |
1996 | Steffi Graf (Germany) | Aranxta Sanchez Vicario (Spain) | 6:3 7:5 |
1995 | Steffi Graf (Germany) | Aranxta Sanchez Vicario (Spain) | 4:6 6:1 7:5 |
1994 | Conchita Martinez (Spain) | Martina Navratilova (United States) | 6:4 3:6 6:3 |
1993 | Steffi Graf (Germany) | Jana Novotna (Czech Republic) | 7:6 1:6 6:4 |
1992 | Steffi Graf (Germany) | Monica Seles (Yugoslavia) | 6:2 6:1 |
1991 | Steffi Graf (Germany) | Gabriela Sabatini (Argentina) | 6:4 3:6 8:6 |
1990 | Martina Navratilova (United States) | Zina Garrison (United States) | 6:4 6:1 |
1989 | Steffi Graf (West Germany) | Martina Navratilova (United States) | 6:2 6:7 6:1 |
1988 | Steffi Graf (West Germany) | Martina Navratilova (United States) | 5:7 6:2 6:1 |
1987 | Martina Navratilova (United States) | Steffi Graf (West Germany) | 7:5 6:3 |
1986 | Martina Navratilova (United States) | Hana Mandlikova (Czechoslovakia) | 7:6 6:3 |
1985 | Martina Navratilova (United States) | Chris Evert (United States) | 4:6 6:3 6:2 |
1984 | Martina Navratilova (United States) | Chris Evert (United States) | 7:6 6:2 |
1983 | Martina Navratilova (United States) | Andrea Jaeger (United States) | 6:0 6:3 |
1982 | Martina Navratilova (United States) | Chris Evert (United States) | 6:1 3:6 6:2 |
1981 | Chris Evert (United States) | Hana Mandlikova (Czechoslovakia) | 6:2 6:2 |
1980 | Evonne Goolagong Cawley (Australia) | Chris Evert (United States) | 6:1 7:6 |
1979 | Martina Navratilova (Czechoslovakia) | Chris Evert (United States) | 6:4 6:4 |
1978 | Martina Navratilova (Czechoslovakia) | Chris Evert (United States) | 2:6 6:4 7:5 |
1977 | Virginia Wade (United Kingdom) | Betty Stove (Netherlands) | 4:6 6:3 6:1 |
1976 | Chris Evert (United States) | Evonne Goolagong Cawley (Australia) | 6:3 4:6 8:6 |
1975 | Billie Jean King (United States) | Evonne Goolagong Cawley (Australia) | 6:0 6:1 |
1974 | Chris Evert (United States) | Olga Morozova (USSR) | 6:0 6:4 |
1973 | Billie Jean King (United States) | Chris Evert (United States) | 6:0 7:5 |
1972 | Billie Jean King (United States) | Evonne Goolagong (Australia) | 6:3 6:3 |
1971 | Evonne Goolagong (Australia) | Margaret Smith Court (Australia) | 6:4 6:1 |
1970 | Margaret Smith Court (Australia) | Billie Jean King (United States) | 14:12 11:9 |
1969 | Ann Haydon Jones (United Kingdom) | Billie Jean King (United States) | 3:6 6:3 6:2 |
1968 | Billie Jean King (United States) | Judy Dalton Tegart | 9:7 7:5 |
1967 | Billie Jean King (United States) | Ann Haydon Jones (United Kingdom) | 6:3 6:4 |
1966 | Billie Jean King (United States) | Maria Bueno | 6:3 3:6 6:1 |
1965 | Margaret Smith (Australia) | Maria Bueno | 6:4 7:5 |
1964 | Maria Bueno | Margaret Smith (Australia) | 6:4 7:9 6:3 |
1963 | Margaret Smith (Australia) | Billie Jean Moffitt (United States) | 6:3 6:4 |
1962 | Karen Susman | Vera Sukova | 6:4 6:4 |
1961 | Angela Mortimer | Christine Truman | 4:6 6:4 7:5 |
1960 | Maria Bueno | Sandra Reynolds | 8:6 6:0 |
1959 | Maria Bueno | Darlene Hard | 6:4 6:3 |
1958 | Althea Gibson (United States) | Angela Mortimer | 8:6 6:2 |
1957 | Althea Gibson (United States) | Darlene Hard | 6:3 6:2 |
1956 | Shirley Fry | Angela Buxton | 6:3 6:1 |
1955 | Louise Brough | Beverly Fleitz | 7:5 8:6 |
1954 | Maureen Connolly (United States) | Louise Brough | 6:2 7:5 |
1953 | Maureen Connolly (United States) | Doris Hart | 8:6 7:5 |
1952 | Maureen Connolly (United States) | Louise Brough | 7:5 6:3 |
1951 | Doris Hart | Shirley Fry | 6:1 6:0 |
1950 | Louise Brough | Margaret Osborne duPont | 6:1 3:6 6:1 |
1949 | Louise Brough | Margaret Osborne duPont | 10:8 1:6 10:8 |
1948 | Louise Brough | Doris Hart | 6:3 8:6 |
1947 | Margaret Osborne | Doris Hart | 6:2 6:4 |
1946 | Pauline Betz | Louise Brough | 6:2 6:4 |
1939 | Alice Marble | Kay Stammers | |
1938 | Helen Wills Moody (United States) | Helen Jacobs | |
1937 | Dorothy Round | Jadwiga Jedrzejowska | |
1936 | Helen Jacobs | Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling | |
1935 | Helen Wills Moody (United States) | Helen Jacobs | |
1934 | Dorothy Round | Helen Jacobs | |
1933 | Helen Wills Moody (United States) | Dorothy Round | |
1932 | Helen Wills Moody (United States) | Helen Jacobs | |
1931 | Cilly Aussem | Hilde Krahwinkel | |
1930 | Helen Wills Moody (United States) | Elizabeth Ryan | |
1929 | Helen Wills (United States) | Helen Jacobs | |
1928 | Helen Wills (United States) | Lili de Alvarez | |
1927 | Helen Wills (United States) | Lili de Alvarez | |
1926 | Kitty McKane Godfree | Lili de Alvarez | |
1925 | Suzanne Lenglen (France) | Joan Fry | |
1924 | Kitty McKane Godfree | Helen Wills | |
1923 | Suzanne Lenglen (France) | Kitty McKane Godfree | |
1922 | Suzanne Lenglen (France) | Frances Mallory | |
1921 | Suzanne Lenglen (France) | Elizabeth Ryan | |
1920 | Suzanne Lenglen (France) | Dorothea Douglass Chambers | |
1919 | Suzanne Lenglen (France) | Dorothea Douglass Chambers | |
1914 | Dorothea Douglass Chambers | Ethel Larcombe | |
1913 | Dorothea Douglass Chambers | Winifred McNair | |
1912 | Ethel Larcombe | Charlotte Cooper Sterry | |
1911 | Dorothea Douglass Chambers | Dora Boothby | |
1910 | Dorothea Douglass Chambers | Dora Boothby | |
1909 | Dora Boothby | Agatha Morton | |
1908 | Charlotte Cooper Sterry | Agatha Morton | |
1907 | May Sutton | Dorothea Douglass Chambers | |
1906 | Dorothea Douglass | May Sutton | |
1905 | May Sutton | Dorothea Douglass | |
1904 | Dorothea Douglass | Charlotte Cooper Sterry | |
1903 | Dorothea Douglass | Ethel Thomson | |
1902 | Muriel Robb | Charlotte Cooper Sterry | |
1901 | Charlotte Cooper Sterry | Blanche Bingley Hillyard | |
1900 | Blanche Bingley Hillyard | Charlotte Cooper | |
1899 | Blanche Bingley Hillyard | Charlotte Cooper | |
1898 | Charlotte Cooper | Louise Martin | |
1897 | Blanche Bingley Hillyard | Charlotte Cooper | |
1896 | Charlotte Cooper | Alice Simpson Pickering | |
1895 | Charlotte Cooper | Helen Jackson | |
1894 | Blanche Bingley Hillyard | Edith Austin | |
1893 | Lottie Dod | Blanche Bingley Hillyard | |
1892 | Lottie Dod | Blanche Bingley Hillyard | |
1891 | Lottie Dod | Blanche Bingley Hillyard | |
1890 | Lena Rice | M. Jacks | |
1889 | Blanche Bingley Hillyard | Lena Rice | |
1888 | Lottie Dod | Blanche Bingley Hillyard | |
1887 | Lottie Dod | Blanche Bingley Hillyard | |
1886 | Blanche Bingley | Maud Watson | |
1885 | Maud Watson | Blanche Bingley | |
1884 | Maud Watson | Louise Watson | |