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1957 Wimbledon Championships

71st staging of the Wimbledon Championships

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 16, 2025
Entity authorityQ657950 ↗
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The 1957 Wimbledon Championships took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament was held from Monday 24 June until Saturday 6 July 1957. It was the 71st staging of the Wimbledon Championships, and the third Grand Slam tennis event of 1957. Lew Hoad and Althea Gibson won the singles titles.

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“1957 Wimbledon Championships” enters the record as 71st staging of the Wimbledon Championships. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Wimbledon, Championships and 71st can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “1957 Wimbledon Championships” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.