The 1977 Wimbledon winner was Virginia WADE, a British tennis player who won three Grand Slam singles titles in her career. She defeated Betty Stöve in the final of the 1977 Wimbledon Championships to become the first British woman to win the tournament since Dorothy Round Little in 1937. Her opponent in the final was Renee St Peter, a Dutch player who had reached the semi-finals of the French Open earlier that year.