Charlotte Cooper Sterry, known as Chattie, was an English tennis player who won five singles titles at the Wimbledon Championships, in 1895, 1896, 1898, 1901 and 1908, and in 1900 became the first female Olympic tennis champion and the first individual female Olympic champion, winning in Paris on 11 July 1900. Born in Ealing in 1870, the youngest daughter of a miller, she learned the game at the Ealing Lawn Tennis Club and took part in 21 Wimbledon tournaments between 1893 and 1917. She is the oldest Wimbledon ladies' singles champion. She died in 1966.
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She won her first singles title in 1895, defeating Helen Jackson in the final of the All-Comers event.
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who won five singles titles at the Wimbledon Championships and in 1900 became Olympic champion
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was an English female tennis player
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was an English female tennis player
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She won her first singles title in 1895, defeating Helen Jackson in the final of the All-Comers event.
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