Wimbledon Championships 1938

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◄ Wimbledon Championships 1938 ►
Date: June 20 - July 1, 1938
Edition: 58th  Wimbledon Championships
Place: Church Road, London
Covering: race
Defending champion
Men's singles : United StatesUnited States Don Budge
Ladies singles : United KingdomUnited Kingdom Dorothy Round
Men's double : United StatesUnited States Don Budge Gene Mako
United StatesUnited States 
Ladies doubles : FranceFrance Simone Mathieu Billie Yorke
United KingdomUnited Kingdom 
Mixed : United StatesUnited States Alice Marble Don Budge
United StatesUnited States 
winner
Men's singles : United StatesUnited States Don Budge
Ladies singles : United StatesUnited States Helen Wills Moody
Men's double : United StatesUnited States Don Budge Gene Mako
United StatesUnited States 
Ladies doubles : United StatesUnited States Sarah Fabyan Alice Marble
United StatesUnited States 
Mixed : United StatesUnited States Alice Marble Don Budge
United StatesUnited States 
Grand Slams 1938

The 58th edition of the Wimbledon Championships took place in 1938 on the grounds of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on Church Road.

Don Budge again won all three competitions in which he competed. He was also the first player to win all four Grand Slam tournaments that year .

Men's singles

Don Budge defeated Henry Austin in three sets in the final .

Ladies singles

Helen Wills Moody won her eighth and final individual title at Wimbledon. This record was only exceeded in 1990 by Martina Navrátilová . Helen Jacobs reached the final as the first unseeded player since the seed list was introduced in 1927 .

Men's doubles

Don Budge and Gene Mako defended their title in the men's doubles .

Ladies doubles

Sarah Fabyan and Alice Marble were successful in women's doubles .

Mixed

As in the previous year, Alice Marble and Don Budge won the mixed competition .

source

  • J. Barrett: Wimbledon: The Official History of the Championships. HarperCollins Publishers, London 2001, ISBN 0-00-711707-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barrett (2001), p. 4