The record for most wins and most consecutive wins post-challenge round in the Amateur Era, belongs to Helen Wills Moody (1927–1930, 1932–1933, 1935, 1938) with eight, including four straight victories (1927–1930). Lottie Dod (1891–1893) and Suzanne Lenglen (1919–1921) hold the record for most consecutive wins in the ladies' singles with three victories each. However, it's noteworthy that three of Chambers' titles were won in the challenge round. In the Amateur–challenge round era, Dorothea Lambert Chambers (1903–1904, 1906, 1910–1911, 1913–1914) holds the record for most titles, with seven.

In 2012, the ladies' singles winner received prize money of £1,150,000. New singles champions are traditionally elected honorary members of the AELTC by the club's committee. The salver, which is 18.75 inches (about 48 cm) in diameter, is decorated with figures from mythology. The ladies' singles champion receives a sterling silver salver commonly known as the ' Venus Rosewater Dish', or simply the 'Rosewater Dish'. The lingering death best-of-12 points tie-break was introduced in 1971 for the first two sets, played at eight games-all until 1978 and at six games-all since 1979. All sets were decided in two-game advantage format from 1884 to 1970. Between 18, the winner of the next game at five games -all took the set in every match except the all comers' final, and the challenge round, which were won with six games and a two games advantage. Since the first championships, all matches have been played at the best-of-three sets.

The challenge round system was abolished with the 1922 edition. From 1886 until 1921, the event started with a knockout phase, the all comers' singles, whose winner then faced the defending champion in a challenge round. The ladies' singles' rules have undergone several changes since the first edition. The tournament was also not contested in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The event was not held from 1915 to 1918 because of World War I and again from 1940 to 1945 because of World War II. Wimbledon has historically been played in the last week of June and the first week of July (though changed to the first two weeks of July in 2017), and has been chronologically the third of the four Grand Slam tournaments of the tennis season since 1987.

Wimbledon Championships, is an annual tennis tournament first contested in 1877 and played on outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (AELTC) in the Wimbledon suburb of London, United Kingdom. Annual tennis tournament winners Wimbledon ladies' singles champions Location

Wimbledon women's scores