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Sarah Virginia Wade (born 10 July 1945) is a British former professional tennis player. She won three Major tennis singles championships and four major doubles championships, and is the only British woman in history to have won titles at all four majors. She was ranked as high as No. 2 in the world in singles, and No. 1 in the world in doubles.Wade was the most recent British tennis player to win a major singles tournament until Andy Murray won the 2012 US Open, and was the most recent British woman to have won a major singles title until Emma Raducanu won the 2021 US Open. After retiring from competitive tennis, she coached for four years, and has also worked as a tennis commentator and game analyst for the BBC and Eurosport, and (in the US) for CBS. Early life Wade was born in Bournemouth, England, UK, on 10 July 1945. Her father was the archdeacon of Durban. At one year old, Wade moved to South Africa with her parents. There, she learned how to play tennis. When she was aged 15, the family moved back to England, and she went to Tunbridge Wells Girls' Grammar School and Talbot Heath School, Bournemouth. In 1961, she was on the tennis team of Wimbledon County Girls' Grammar School. She studied mathematics and physics at the University of Sussex, graduating in 1966. Tennis career Wade's tennis career spanned the end of the amateur era and the start of the Open Era. In 1968, as an amateur, she won the inaugural open tennis competition – the British Hard Court Open at Bournemouth. She turned down the £300 first prize, choosing to play for expenses only. Five months later, after turning professional, she won the women's singles championship at the first US Open (and prize-money of $6,000 - $52,570 today), defeating Billie Jean King in the final. Her second Major tennis singles championship came in 1972 at the Australian Open when she defeated Australian Evonne Goolagong in the final 6–4, 6–4. She was appointed a member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1973 Birthday Honours for services to lawn tennis. Wade won Wimbledon in 1977. It was the 16th year in which she had played at Wimbledon, and she secured her first appearance in the final by beating the defending champion Chris Evert in the semifinal 6–2, 4–6, 6–1. In the final, she beat Betty Stöve in three sets to claim the championship, nine days before her 32nd birthday. 1977 was the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Wimbledon Championships as well as the Silver Jubilee year of Elizabeth II, who attended the final for the first time since 1962. Wade also won four Major women's doubles championships with Margaret Smith Court – two of them at the US Open tennis tournament, one at the Australian Open, and one at the French Open. In 1983, at the age of 37, she won the Italian Open women's doubles championship with Virginia Ruzici of Romania. Over her career, Wade won 55 professional singles championships and amassed $1,542,278 dollars in career prize money. She was ranked in the world's top 10 continuously from 1967 to 1979. Her career spanned a total of 26 years. She retired from singles competition at the end of the 1985 tennis season, and then from doubles at the end of 1986. She played at Wimbledon on 26 occasions, an all-time record; 24 of those times were in the women's singles. After tennis Since 1981, while she was still playing, Wade has been a reporter on tennis events for the BBC. In 1982, she became the first woman to be elected to the Wimbledon Committee. Wade was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1986 Birthday Honours for services to lawn tennis. In 1989, Wade was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island. Major finals Grand Slam finals Singles: 3 (3 titles) Women's doubles: 10 (4 titles, 6 runner-ups) Year-end championships finals Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner–up) Singles titles (78) Bold type indicates a Major championship 1967 – Connaught Hard Courts 1968 – US Open, Bloemfontein, Bournemouth, East London, Dewar Cup London 1969 – Cape Town, Hoylake, Dewar Cup Perth, Dewar Cup Stalybridge, Dewar Cup Aberavon, Dewar-Crystal Palace, East London 1970 – German Indoors, West Berlin Open, Irish Open, Stalybridge, Aberavon 1971 – Cape Town, Catania International Open, Rome, Newport-Wales, Cincinnati, Dewar Cup Billingham, Dewar-Aberavon, Dewar Cup Final-London, Clean Air Classic 1972 – Australian Open, VS Indoors-Mass., Merion, Buenos Aires 1973 – Dallas, Bournemouth, Dewar-Aberavon, Dewar Cup Edinburgh, Dewar-Billingham, Dewar Cup Final-Albert Hall 1974 – VS Chicago, Bournemouth, VS Phoenix, Dewar-Edinburgh, Dewar Cup-London 1975 – VS Dallas, VS Philadelphia, Paris Indoors, Eastbourne, Dewar Cup, Stockholm 1976 – US Indoor Championships, Dewar Cup 1977 – Wimbledon, World Invitational Hilton Head, Tokyo Sillook 1978 – Mahwah, Tokyo Sillook, Florida Open (Source: WTA) Grand Slam singles performance timeline Note: The Australian Open was held twice in 1977, in January and December. Personal life Wade has no children and has never married. She has said "If I'd done better earlier, and my career had been at its peak earlier and I'd faded, I would probably have had a totally different life." She lives mostly in New York and in Chelsea, London. She posed for sculptor David Wynne for the 17-foot-high fountain Girl with a Dolphin, installed at Tower Bridge in 1973. See also Performance timelines for all female tennis players who reached at least one Grand Slam final References External links Virginia Wade at the International Tennis Hall of Fame Virginia Wade at the Women's Tennis Association Virginia Wade at the International Tennis Federation Virginia Wade at the Billie Jean King Cup . Discover the Virginia Wade popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Virginia Wade books.
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Cum For Bigfoot 7
Virginia WadeAfter Leonard goes missing, Porsche contacts Dr. Haynes in a desperate bid to find her Sasquatch lover. The scientists arrive, with a handsome forest ranger named Mike, and sparks ...
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Boarding School Confessions 4
Virginia WadeOnboard a luxury yacht, Diana Chambers comes face to face with her secret crush, Roger, while cruising the Caribbean for Thanksgiving. She spends a day with her old friend Blayne a...
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Bred By The Dark Lord
Virginia WadeOrphaned Hannah Stuart is sent to work at Darkfield Manor, where she finds herself at the mercy of its seductive owner, Lord Jasper Dark. Aroused by the young woman’s submissive de...
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Alone with Alexa
Virginia WadeAlexa Davenport has been harboring a secret, allconsuming crush towards her mother's sexy new boyfriend, Ryan. She loves snuggling in his arms on Saturday mornings and staring at h...
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Cum 4 Bigfoot
Virginia WadeBook Four of The Monster Sex SeriesLovers torn apart…Fleeing deeper into the woods, Porsche and Shelly are reunited with Leslie and the rest of the Bigfoot tribe. Their orgyfilled ...
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Cum for the Viking 5
Virginia WadeLove is the greatest treasure…After having successfully seduced the Viking Lord, Finn Vapnfjord, Lora Green is faced with the possibility of losing him to the ravages of war. The l...
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Cum for the Demon
Virginia WadeWhat begins innocently enough as an allgirl camping trip, soon descends into a night of lesbian debauchery, as a horny witch hatches a plan to conjure up a massively endowed demon,...
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Cum for the Viking 4
Virginia WadeThe sins of the flesh...Having been thoroughly seduced and corrupted by lusty Vikings, Lady Charlotte Abbot and her sister, Emma, are reunited with their parents, as they hide in a...
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Cum for the Viking
Virginia WadeIn the lawless age of the Vikings…Called a witch by the villagers, the lovely and abandoned Lora Green is confronted with an invasion of fairhaired raiders. Once captured, she find...
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Serious Money
Caroline Knowles'A latterday Canterbury Tales ... Serious Money has a serious mission' The Times'Eyeopening ... part guide, part indictment of a yawning wealth gap' Misha Glenny, Financial TimesLo...
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Cum for Bigfoot 5, Baby
Virginia WadeBook 5 of The Monster Sex SeriesTorn between two lovers…After returning from a trip home, Porsche is reunited with Leonard, but finds herself in Dale’s sticky paws, as he drags her...
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Bred At Bible Camp 2
Virginia WadeAt Bible camp for a week, Rachel Newman is about to have a religious experience. Pastor Arnold and his wife are on a quest to populate the world with likeminded souls. They enlist ...
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Cum for Bigfoot 16
Virginia WadeIn the sixteenth installment of the “Cum For Bigfoot” series, Porsche finds herself increasingly attracted to Brutus, who has a way with the ladies, especially when he finds them a...
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Cum for the Viking 3
Virginia WadeFrom innocent… to temptress…Believing in her mother’s prophetic words, Lora Green assumes that Matheus Hrolf is going to whisk her away from England and take her as his wife. To he...
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Boarding School Confessions 5
Virginia WadeWith only two weeks until Christmas break, Diana’s past is about to catch up with her in a dramatic way. She’s out of her depth during a photoshoot for Kitty Giordano, but a party ...
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Cum For Bigfoot 14
Virginia WadeIt’s six months later and the tribe is on the move, but tragedy strikes and a major character suffers a fatal blow. Reeling from the incident, Leslie is confronted with the reality...
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Cum For Bigfoot 9
Virginia WadeLovers will reunite…someone will die…and a shocking discovery will be made…In the life of every Sasquatch, there are challenges and obstacles that must be navigated. Leonard and Po...
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Cum for the Invisible Man
Virginia WadeSomebody’s watching… Kelly Eaton’s relationships with men are complicated, leaving her no choice but to seek selfgratification from sex toys. Unbeknownst to her, she is being obs...
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Cum for Bigfoot 2
Virginia WadeBook 2 of The Monster Sex SeriesA foiled escape…Kidnapped by horny, apelike creatures in Mt. Hood National Forest, Porsche, Shelly, and Leslie find themselves in a lusty situation,...
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Naughty Emma
Virginia WadeJane Austen would be scandalized… In this sultry, modern adaptation of the classic, Emma Woodhouse plays matchmaker for her slutty friend, Harriet, and lusts after the one person...
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The Virgins of Castle Bliss
Virginia WadeOnce upon a time…in a castle far away…After the death of her father, Lady Helen Owen finds herself in a predicament, as her father’s widow prepares to marry a handsome foreigner. T...
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Island Curves
Virginia WadeSlightly chubby, yet undeniably gorgeous, Marissa Powell finds herself in a reality TV show on a remote island in Fiji. Less than athletic and hardly an outdoorswoman, she must sur...
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Fifty Shades of Generals
Virginia WadeRipped from the headlines! Sex! Scandal! Outrageous lust!Paula Broadwine is on a mission. She’s determined to get an interview with General Petrocious, even if it means stripping n...
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Bred at Cheer Camp
Virginia WadeThe camp director’s gorgeous trophy wife, Alissa, is on a mission to get pregnant, by any means necessary. Her husband can’t provide the one thing she wantsa baby. Lucky for her, t...
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Cum for the Genie
Virginia WadeSome wishes do come true... Punished for the smallest of offenses, Princess Pari finds herself naked over the emperor's knees. She's also at the mercy of his jealous wife, who kid...
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Cum for the Viking 2
Virginia WadeDuring an invasion by aggressive Norsemen, Lady Charlotte Abbot and her sister, Emma, find themselves at the mercy of Finn Vapnfjord and a lusty contingent of Vikings. As their vil...
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Boarding School Confessions
Virginia WadeThe daughter of a billionaire, Diana Chambers is a spoiled brat, party girl, who is about to burn the fcking house down. In her last year at Foxner Academy, she will break ALL the ...
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The Housewife and the Pool Boy
Virginia WadeFrom the bestselling author of “Cum For Bigfoot” and “Total Nympho, The Stacy Collection.”Smart and sexy, Angie Zellerbach is a successful businesswoman, and used to calling the sh...
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A Cowboy at Midnight
Virginia WadeLeft alone on a dark and stormy night, Matilda encounters a handsome traveler by the name of Derrick McDavern, who has the light of lust in his eyes. After having disarmed the blon...
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The Nanny
Virginia WadeHired as a nanny for a toddler, Tawny Garber finds herself living in a luxurious mansion. Its owners, Mr. and Mrs. Stillwell, are young, successful, and attractive, but their appet...
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Cum For Bigfoot 8
Virginia WadeA small team of doctors and a pretty nurse named Ashley arrive to tend to Leonard’s brain injury. While her lover recuperates, Porsche finds herself drawn to the sexy forest ranger...