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1958 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles

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Champion
  
Althea Gibson

Final score
  
8–6, 6–2

Seeds
  
8

Runner-up
  
Angela Mortimer

Draw
  
96 (10Q)

Singles
  
men

First-seeded Althea Gibson (USA) defeated unseeded Angela Mortimer (GBR) 8–6, 6–2 in the final to win the Ladies' Singles tennis title at the 1958 Wimbledon Championships. It was Gibson's second successive Wimbledon singles title.

Contents

Seeds

The seeded players are listed below. Althea Gibson is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.

  1. Althea Gibson (Champion)
  2. Christine Truman (Fourth round)
  3. Dorothy Knode (Second round)
  4. Maria Bueno (Quarterfinalist)
  5. Shirley Bloomer (Quarterfinalist)
  6. Zsuzsa Körmöczy (Semifinalist)
  7. Janet Hopps (Second round)
  8. Karol Fageros (Third round)

Key

  • Q = Qualifier
  • WC = Wild Card
  • LL = Lucky Loser
  • r. = retired
  • References

    1958 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles Wikipedia