1897 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles
| Women's singles | |
|---|---|
| 1897 Wimbledon Championships | |
| Champion |  Blanche Hillyard |
| Runner-up | Charlotte Cooper |
| Score | 5–7, 7–5, 6–2 |
| Draw | 7 |
| Seeds | – |
Blanche Hillyard defeated Alice Pickering 6–2, 7–5 in the All Comers' Final, and then defeated the reigning champion Charlotte Cooper 5–7, 7–5, 6–2 in the challenge round to win the ladies' singles tennis title at the 1897 Wimbledon Championships.[1][2]
Draw
Key
- Q = Qualifier
- WC = Wild card
- LL = Lucky loser
- Alt = Alternate
- ITF = ITF entry
- PR = Protected ranking
- SR = Special ranking
- SE = Special exempt
- JE = Junior exempt
- JR = Junior Accelerator Programme entrant
- CO = College Accelerator Programme entrant
- NG = Next Gen Accelerator Program entrant
- w/o = Walkover
- r = Retired
- d = Defaulted
Challenge round
| Challenge Round | ||||||
| Blanche Hillyard
| 5 | 7 | 6 | |||
| Charlotte Cooper
| 7 | 5 | 2 | |||
All Comers'
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||||||||
| Blanche Hillyard
| 6 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Edith Austin
| 0 | 1 | Blanche Hillyard
| |||||||||||||||||
| Henrietta Horncastle
| 12 | 6 | Henrietta Horncastle
| w/o | ||||||||||||||||
| Ellen Thynne
| 10 | 4 | Blanche Hillyard
| 6 | 7 | |||||||||||||||
| Ruth Dyas
| 6 | 6 | Alice Pickering
| 2 | 5 | |||||||||||||||
| Edith Bromfield
| 0 | 3 | Ruth Dyas
| 4 | 6 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Alice Pickering
| 6 | 4 | 6 | |||||||||||||||||
References
External links
- Source for the draw at Wimbledon.com