1897 Wimbledon Championships – Ladies' Singles
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| Ladies' Singles | |
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| 1897 Wimbledon Championships | |
| Champion |  Blanche Hillyard[1] |
| Runner-up | Charlotte Cooper[1] |
| Final score | 5–7, 7–5, 6–2 |
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Blanche Hillyard (née Bingley) 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]
Main draw
Key
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| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | |||||||||||||||||
| Henrietta Horncastle |
12 | 6 | |||||||||||||||||
| E.M. Thynne |
10 | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| Mrs. WR Horncastle |
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| B. Hillyard |
w/o | ||||||||||||||||||
| B. Hillyard |
w/o | ||||||||||||||||||
| Edith Austin |
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| B. Hillyard |
6 | 7 | |||||||||||||||||
| A. Pickering |
2 | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
| Ruth Dyas |
6 | 6 | |||||||||||||||||
| E.J. Bromfield |
0 | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| R. Dyas |
4 | 6 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| A. Pickering |
6 | 4 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||
| bye | |||||||||||||||||||
| A Pickering |
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