BBC Sport · Aug 25, 2025
Wimbledon winner Mortimer Barrett dies aged 93
Image caption, Angela Mortimer, as she was known at the time, won the Wimbledon women's singles title in 1961Angela Mortimer Barrett, Britain's 1961 Wimbledon women's singles champion, has died at the age of 93.
Mortimer Barrett, who was born in Plymouth, won three Grand Slam singles titles and one in doubles, which came alongside Anne Shilcock at Wimbledon in 1955.
Her other Grand Slam singles wins came at the 1955 French Championships and 1958 Australian Championships, and she was runner-up at Wimbledon in 1958 when American Althea Gibson defeated her in the final.