List Of All Wimbledon Men’s Singles Winners Till Date

One of the few sports which has been played for a few centuries and more is tennis and in this game, there are some really historic competitions as well. The Championships, Wimbledon is easily the most prestigious of these tournaments, an annual event launched in 1877 with the gentleman’s singles tournament and played on outdoor grass.

The tournament takes place every year at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (AELTC) in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. Since inception nearly a century and a half ago, only thrice has the competition being kept on hold or postponed: (i) World War I (ii) World War II (iii) Covid-19 pandemic. Today, we’re going to talk about every men’s single winner in the history of Wimbledon…

Ever since 1987, Wimbledon is chronologically the third of the four Grand Slam tournaments on the annual tennis calendar and it’s usually played around the June-July time every year. Every since the first tournament in 1877, the only times it was missed was between 1915-1918 for World War I, 1940-1945 for World War II, and then 2020 for the Covid-19 pandemic.

In the early days (first 90 years of Wimbledon), players were not paid to play in Wimbledon. As time progressed, the better players started getting commercial deals and started avoiding this tournament because they were being paid elsewhere. That finally led to a change in the structure of Wimbledon and we saw a shift from ‘Amateur Era’ to the ‘Open Era’ from 1968 onwards.

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Regardless of amateur era or the open/modern era, only the greatest in the game have gone on to win the men’s singles titles at Wimbledon. Here, Read Scoops has put up a list of each and every men’s single champion in the history of Wimbledon, right from inception in 1877 till date, updated 20th June 2022, prior to the start of the Wimbledon 2022 tournament. See the full list below:

List of all Wimbledon men’s singles champions

Holding the record for the most Wimbledon gentlemen’s singles titles during the Amateur Era is William Renshaw who won the title a total of seven times (1881-1886, 1889), while having one runner-up finish in 1890 as well. Technically though, most of his titles came because of the challenge round format, with just two of them coming after he played the complete Wimbledon tournament draw.

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If you notice the above table, each and every winner from 1877 to 1906 were those from Great Britain itself. The tournament saw a little bit of growth and expansion as a global brand when outsiders started winning. Norman Brookes was the first non-Brit finalist in 1905 and then a couple of years later, the Aussie tennis player became the first outsider to win Wimbledon, and then the trend just continued. See here:

Amateur era got its name because the professionals started moving away from the game and thus, only the amateurs continued playing here. The format initially included a knockout phase, the All Comers’ Singles. The winner of this phase then played the defending champion in a challenge round, and on six different occasions, the All Comers’ winner won the title because of an absence of the defending champion.

The organisers finally got rid of Wimbledon’s challenge round system in 1922. The best-of-12-points tie-break was introduced in 1971 for the first four sets of the game, played at eight games all until 1978. It was moved to six games all since 1979, but ever since the start of the Wimbledon men’s singles, the tournament was always played in the 5-set format.

Wimbledon men’s winners post World War II

Wimbledon – men’s singles winners in Open Era

The only person to have multiple titles in both the eras was Australia’s Rod Laver who had two in the amateur era and two in the open era as well. Sweden’s Björn Borg was a revelation early in the open era as he won five consecutive titles between 1976-1980, while Peter Sampras and Novak Djokovic are other heroes at Wimbledon, with seven titles each to their name.

However, no men’s player has a better record at Wimbledon Championships than Roger Federer, someone who has a total of eight titles at this grass court competition. He has the most men’s singles titles at Wimbledon while also having five consecutive titles between 2003-2007 which is a joint-highest in terms of successive titles, tied with Borg.

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