1897 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles
1897 tennis event results
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Blanche Hillyard defeated Alice Pickering 6â2, 7â5 in the All Comers' Final, and then defeated the reigning champion Charlotte Cooper 5â7, 7â5, 6â2 in the challenge round to win the ladies' singles tennis title at the 1897 Wimbledon Championships.[1][2]
| Women's singles | |
|---|---|
| 1897 Wimbledon Championships | |
| Champion |  Blanche Hillyard |
| Runner-up | Charlotte Cooper |
| Score | 5â7, 7â5, 6â2 |
| Draw | 7 |
| Seeds | â |
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 | |||||||||||||||||