https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/articles/cvg3j2nd83yo

Multiple grand slam champion, including wimbledon in 1961. She also had serious hearing loss, but still reached the top of her game. Now there are only 3 living British wimbledon singles champions alive. Murray, Wade, and Ann Jones, snf it doesn't look like the list will be added to anytime soon

Don't forget she also played another British woman in the final in 1961 too, Christine Truman, so an all Brit ladies singles final. It will probably be the next millennium before we see that again, if ever. Neither of them were seeded in the top five but another British woman was above them, Ann Haydon.

Both Wimbledon men's and ladies singles champions from the year I was born are still with us, Rod Laver and Ann Jones, but for how much longer, they are getting on a bit, born within weeks of each other in 1938. I always liked Ann Jones tennis commentating, great voice. I seem to recall Christine Truman doing commentary on 5 Live in the 90's

From the same period of time, the 1960 men's singles champion Neale Fraser passed away only a few months ago too.

This is true Rich, although we nearly had another all british final in 1977 when Virgina Wade reached the final and won and Sue Barker was surprisingly knocked out by Betty Stove in the semi.

robbiex wrote:
This is true Rich, although we nearly had another all british final in 1977 when Virgina Wade reached the final and won and Sue Barker was surprisingly knocked out by Betty Stove in the semi.

Good point Robbie.

Here's a half hour from that semi. It really looks so quaint and gentle now with those wooden rackets. There's an interesting comment about that match underneath the video attributed to Sue Barker alleging that she wished her match had been first on and that she would have won if so, because she felt added pressure to make it an all Brit final once she knew Wade had got there. I guess Wade may have felt the same if she'd been second on court. All I will say to that is she shouldn't have made herself aware of the first match result until after her own one in that case if she thought it would pile on pressure if Wade won and she knew it before her own match.

youtu.be/x_R1YQCCyn0?feature=shared