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FACTBOX: List of leading women's title winners

LONDON
Sat Jul 5, 2008 12:53pm EDT

LONDON (Reuters) - List of winners of most women's singles titles at Wimbledon after Venus Williams won for the fifth time on Saturday.

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Martina Navratilova (Czechoslovakia/U.S) 9

Helen Wills Moody (U.S.) 8

Dorothea Lambert Chambers (Britain) 7

Steffi Graf (Germany) 7

Blanche Bingley Hillyard (Britain) 6

Billie Jean King (U.S) 6

Suzanne Lenglen (France) 6

Charlotte Dodd (Britain) 5

Charlotte Cooper Sterry (Britain) 5

Venus Williams (U.S.) 5

(Editing by Pritha Sarkar)
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