1988 Wimbledon Championships
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The 1988 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament played on :grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club
All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club
The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club , also known as the All-England Club, based at Aorangi Park, Wimbledon, London, England, is a private members club. It is best known as the venue for the Wimbledon Championships, the only Grand Slam tennis event still held on grass...

 in Wimbledon
Wimbledon, London
Wimbledon is a district in the south west area of London, England, located south of Wandsworth, and east of Kingston upon Thames. It is situated within Greater London. It is home to the Wimbledon Tennis Championships and New Wimbledon Theatre, and contains Wimbledon Common, one of the largest areas...

 in London in England. It was the 102nd edition of the Wimbledon Championships and were held from 20 June to 4 July 1988.

Men's Singles

  Stefan Edberg
Stefan Edberg
Stefan Bengt Edberg is a former World No. 1 professional tennis player from Sweden. A major proponent of the serve-and-volley style of tennis, he won six Grand Slam singles titles and three Grand Slam men's doubles titles. He also won one season ending championship title the Masters Grand Prix...

defeated   Boris Becker
Boris Becker
Boris Franz Becker is a former World No. 1 professional tennis player from Germany. He is a six-time Grand Slam singles champion, an Olympic gold medalist, and the youngest-ever winner of the men's singles title at Wimbledon at the age of 17...

 4–6, 7–6 (7–2), 6–4, 6–2
  • It was Edberg's 5th career Grand Slam title and his 1st Wimbledon title.

Women's Singles

  Steffi Graf
Steffi Graf
Steffi Graf is a former World No. 1 German tennis player.In total, Graf won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, second among male and female players only to Margaret Court's 24...

defeated   Martina Navratilova 5–7, 6–2, 6–1
  • It was Graf's 4th career Grand Slam title and her 1st Wimbledon title.

Men's Doubles

  Ken Flach
Ken Flach
Kenneth Eliot "Ken" Flach is a former professional tennis player from the United States. A doubles specialist, he won 4 Grand Slam men's doubles titles , and 2 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles...

/   Robert Seguso
Robert Seguso
Robert Arthur Seguso is a former professional tennis player from the United States. A doubles specialist, he won 4 Grand Slam men's doubles titles . He also won the men's doubles Gold Medal at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, partnering Ken Flach. Seguso reached the World No...

defeated   John Fitzgerald /   Anders Järryd
Anders Järryd
Anders Per Järryd is a former professional tennis player from Sweden. During his career he won eight Grand Slam doubles titles , reached the World No. 1 doubles ranking, and achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 5.Järryd was born in Lidköping, Västra Götaland...

 6–4, 2–6, 6–4, 7–6 (7–3)
  • It was Flach's 5th career Grand Slam title and his 3rd and last Wimbledon title. It was Seguso's 4th and last career Grand Slam title and his 2nd Wimbledon title.

Women's Doubles

  Steffi Graf
Steffi Graf
Steffi Graf is a former World No. 1 German tennis player.In total, Graf won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, second among male and female players only to Margaret Court's 24...

/   Gabriela Sabatini
Gabriela Sabatini
Gabriela Beatriz Sabatini is a former professional Argentine tennis player. She was one of the leading players on the women's circuit in the late-1980s and early-1990s...

defeated   Larisa Savchenko
Larisa Neiland
Larisa Savchenko Neiland is a former tennis player who represented Latvia. A former number-one ranked doubles player, Neiland won two women's doubles Grand Slam titles. She also won two singles titles and sixty-five doubles titles.-Career:Neiland turned professional in 1983...

 /   Natasha Zvereva
Natasha Zvereva
Natalya "Natasha" Zvereva, or Zverava is a former tennis player from Belarus. Zvereva was the first major athlete in the Soviet Union to demand publicly that she should be able to keep her tournament earnings...

 6–3, 1–6, 12–10
  • It was Graf's 5th career Grand Slam title and her 2nd Wimbledon title. It was Sabatini's 1st career Grand Slam title and her only Wimbledon title.

Mixed Doubles

  Zina Garrison
Zina Garrison
Zina Lynna Garrison is a former professional tennis player from the United States. During her career, she was a women's singles runner-up at Wimbledon in 1990, a three-time Grand Slam mixed doubles champion, and a women's doubles gold medalist at the 1988 Olympic Games.-Career:An African-American...

/   Sherwood Stewart
Sherwood Stewart
Sherwood Stewart played amateur and professional tennis in the 1970s and 1980s. Stewart was ranked as high as No. 60 in the world in singles on the ATP Rankings on December 31, 1978, and No...

defeated   Gretchen Magers
Gretchen Magers
Gretchen Anne Magers is a former professional tennis player from the United States....

 /   Kelly Jones 6–1, 7–6 (7–3)
  • It was Garrison's 2nd career Grand Slam title and her 1st Wimbledon title. It was Stewart's 5th and last career Grand Slam title and his only Wimbledon title.

Boys' Singles

  Nicolás Pereira
Nicolas Pereira
Nicolás Pereira is a former tennis player from Venezuela, who became International Tennis Federation Junior World Champion in 1988 after winning the French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open....

defeated   Guillaume Raoux
Guillaume Raoux
Guillaume Raoux is a retired tennis player from France.-Career:Raoux turned professional in 1989. He represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States, where he was defeated in the first round by Zimbabwe's Byron Black...

 7–6 (7–4), 6–2

Girls' Singles

  Brenda Schultz
Brenda Schultz-McCarthy
Brenda Anne Marie Schultz-McCarthy is a Dutch tennis player. Primarily known for her maiden name Brenda Schultz, she married Sean McCarthy, a former American football player at University of Cincinnati, on 8 April 1995 and adopted his surname...

defeated   Emmanuelle Derly 7–6 (7–5), 6–1

Boys' Doubles

  Jason Stoltenberg
Jason Stoltenberg
Jason Stoltenberg is a former professional tennis player from Australia.Stoltenberg began playing tennis at age ten on an antbed court where his father owned a cotton farm in the Far West of New South Wales. In 1987, he won the boys' singles title at the Australian Open and was ranked the World No...

/   Todd Woodbridge
Todd Woodbridge
Todd Andrew Woodbridge is an Australian former tennis player. He was born in Sydney and turned professional in 1988. He is best known for his successful Doubles partnerships with Mark Woodforde and later Jonas Björkman...

defeated   David Rikl
David Rikl
David Rikl is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. The left-handed Rikl turned professional in 1989. The Czech's success came mostly in doubles, having been a runner-up at the 2004 US Open and 2001 Wimbledon Championships. However, Rikl did achieve a top-100 singles...

 /   Tomas Zdrazila 6–4, 1–6, 7–5

Girls' Doubles

  Jo-Anne Faull /   Rachel McQuillan
Rachel McQuillan
Rachel McQuillan is a retired professional tennis player from Australia. She won 5 WTA Tour doubles titles, as well as 14 singles and 21 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. She reached the mixed doubles semifinals at the 1995 and 1998 French Opens and at the 1996 US Open, each time...

defeated   Alexia Dechaume
Alexia Dechaume-Balleret
Alexia Dechaume-Balleret is a former professional tennis player from France. She reached her career high singles ranking of No. 46 in the world on August 17, 1992....

 /   Emmanuelle Derly 4–6, 6–2, 6–3

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