The 1985 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 99th edition of the Wimbledon Championships and were held from 24 June to 7 July 1985.

Men's Singles

  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...

defeated   Kevin Curren

Kevin Curren

----Kevin Melvyn Curren is a former professional tennis player. He played in two Grand Slam singles finals and won four Grand Slam doubles titles.-Career:...

 6–3, 6–7 (4–7), 7–6 (7–3), 6–4

• It was Becker's 1st career Grand Slam title and his 1st Wimbledon title.

Women's Singles

  Martina Navratilova defeated   Chris Evert-Lloyd

Chris Evert

Christine Marie "Chris" Evert is a former world number 1 professional tennis player from the United States. She won 18 Grand Slam singles championships, including a record seven championships at the French Open and a record six championships at the U.S. Open. She was the year-ending World No...

 4–6, 6–3, 6–2

• It was Navratilova's 33rd career Grand Slam title and her 12th Wimbledon title.

Men's Doubles

  Heinz Günthardt

Heinz Günthardt

Heinz Peter Günthardt is a former tennis player from Switzerland, who won five singles titles during his professional career, including the Rotterdam WCT in 1980....

/   Balázs Taróczy

Balazs Taroczy

Balázs Taróczy is a former tennis player from Hungary, who won thirteen singles titles in his career. The right-hander achieved his highest ranking during the ATP Tour on February 8, 1982, when he became World Number 13. He's a six times Hungarain champion...

defeated   Pat Cash

Pat Cash

Patrick Hart "Pat" Cash is a retired Australian professional tennis player who won the men's singles title at Wimbledon in 1987.-Early career:...

 /   John Fitzgerald 6–4, 6–3, 4–6, 6–3

• It was Günthardt's 3rd career Grand Slam title and his only Wimbledon title. It was Taróczy's 2nd and last career Grand Slam title and his only Wimbledon title.

Women's Doubles

  Kathy Jordan

Kathy Jordan

Kathryn "Kathy" Jordan is a former American tennis player. During her career, she won 7 Grand Slam titles, 5 of them in women's doubles and 2 of them in mixed doubles...

/   Elizabeth Smylie

Elizabeth Smylie

Elizabeth Smylie is an Australian former tennis player.She won the Western Australian Sports Star of the Year award in 1985.She won the Comeback Player of the Year award in 1990 and 1993....

defeated   Martina Navratilova /   Pam Shriver

Pam Shriver

Pamela Howard Shriver Lazenby , is a former professional tennis player and is currently a sports broadcaster from the United States for ESPN2. During the 1980s and 1990s, she won 133 top-level titles, including 21 women's doubles titles and one mixed doubles title at Grand Slam tournaments...

 5–7, 6–3, 6–4

• It was Jordan's 5th career Grand Slam title and her 2nd Wimbledon title. It was Smylie's 2nd career Grand Slam title and her 1st Wimbledon title.

Mixed Doubles

  Martina Navratilova /   Paul McNamee

Paul McNamee

Paul McNamee is a retired Australian tennis player and prominent sports administrator.-Tennis career:...

defeated   Elizabeth Smylie

Elizabeth Smylie

Elizabeth Smylie is an Australian former tennis player.She won the Western Australian Sports Star of the Year award in 1985.She won the Comeback Player of the Year award in 1990 and 1993....

 /   John Fitzgerald 7–5, 4–6, 6–2

• It was McNamee's 5th and last career Grand Slam title and his 3rd Wimbledon title. It was Navratilova's 34th career Grand Slam title and her 13th Wimbledon title.

Boys' singles

  Leonardo Lavalle

Leonardo Lavalle

Leonardo Lavalle Moreno is a former tennis player from Mexico, who turned professional in 1985. He represented his native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, where he was defeated in the quarterfinals by Spain's eventual runner up Jordi Arrese. The left-hander won one career title in...

defeated   Eduardo Velez 6–4, 6–4

Girls' Singles

  Andrea Holikova

Andrea Holíková

Andrea Holíková is a former Czechoslovak tennis player. She comes from the family of successful hockey players — she is the daughter Jaroslav Holík, the elder sister of Bobby Holík, and the niece of Jiří Holík. Holíková is married to former hockey player František "Frank" Musil.Holíková was a very...

defeated   Jenny Byrne

Jenny Byrne

Jenny Byrne is a former professional tennis player from Australia who turned professional in 1987 and retired from the tour in 1997. Her career-high world rankings were World No. 45 in singles and World No. 27 in doubles...

 7–5, 6–1

Boys' Doubles

  Agustín Moreno

Agustin Moreno

Agustín Moreno is a former tennis player from Mexico.Moreno represented his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, where he was defeated in the second round by Sweden's Stefan Edberg. The right-hander reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on July 18, 1988, when he became the number...

/   Jaime Yzaga

Jaime Yzaga

Jaime Yzaga Tori is a former professional tennis player from Peru.Yzaga played on the professional tour from 1984 to 1996....

defeated   Petr Korda

Petr Korda

Petr Korda is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. He is best known for winning the Australian Open in 1998 and for testing positive for the banned substance, nandrolone, following a match at Wimbledon that same year.-Career:Korda was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia.He first...

 /   Cyril Suk

Cyril Suk

Cyril Suk III is a former professional tennis player. A doubles specialist, Suk has won one Grand Slam men's doubles title and four Grand Slam mixed doubles titles during his career....

 7–6 (7–3), 6–4

Girls' Doubles

  Louise Field /   Janine Thompson defeated   Elna Reinach

Elna Reinach

Elna Reinach is a South African former pro tennis player.With Patrick Galbraith, she won the US Open mixed doubles championship in 1994. She played in the 1992 Summer Olympics, where she lost in the first round to Jennifer Capriati. Reinach was runner-up at the French Open with Danie Visser in 1993...

 /   Julie Richardson

Julie Richardson

Julie Richardson is a former professional tennis player. She won six doubles titles in her career.-External links:...

6–1, 6–2

External links

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