The last Jamaican man to play at Wimbledon was Richard Russell in 1970. He failed to qualify in 1972. Russell was also the last Jamaican man to appear in a Grand Slam tournament, losing in the ...

She in fact won the first Wimbledon of the Open Era in 1968, beating Judy Tegart-Dalton in the final, before finishing as the runner-up in 1969 and 1970. But the pioneering figure then beat ...

So Wimbledon made a long-overdue gesture in the ... women players make to the game and to Wimbledon.” From King in the 1970s to Venus Williams in the first decade of this century, generations ...