Overview

• The All England Club said she died in the early hours of Monday, with chair Deborah Jevans noting she was Wimbledon’s oldest surviving ladies’ singles champion.
• Mortimer Barrett won three Grand Slam singles titles — the 1955 French Championships1958 A1958 Australian Championships961 WimbleWimbledon — and the 1955 Wimbledon doubles with Anne Shilcock.
• Her 1961 run included a semifinal upset of top seed Sandra Reynolds and a three-set final win over fellow Brit Christine Truman, the last all-British women’s final and the first home champion since 1937.
• She contended with progressive hearing loss and recurrent entamoebic dysentery treated by a three-week starvation regimen, and played through tennis elbow during her Wimbledon victory year.
• She received an MBE in 1967 and was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1993; her husband John Barrett joined in 2014, and she is commemorated at Wimbledon with a sculpture and honorary membership.