Maria Sharapova defeated two-time defending champion Serena Williams in the final, 6–1, 6–4 to win the ladies' singles tennis title at the 2004 Wimbledon Championships.[1] It was her first major title. The 17-year-old's victory over the six-time major champion was described by commentators as "the most stunning upset in memory".[2] With the win, Sharapova entered the top 10 in the WTA rankings for the first time. She was the third-youngest woman to win Wimbledon (behind Lottie Dod and Martina Hingis)[3] and the second Russian woman to win a major (after Anastasia Myskina won that year's French Open).[4]
Serena Williams was attempting to become the first woman to win the title three consecutive times since Steffi Graf in 1991, 1992 and 1993.
This was the last major singles tournament for former world No. 1 Martina Navratilova. Awarded a wild card, she won her first-round match and became, at age 47, the oldest player in the Open Era to win a main draw match at Wimbledon and the second-lowest ranked player to do so (world No. 1,001, behind Barbara Schwartz who was unranked in 2001).[5][6]
Seeds
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Note: Patty Schnyder, who would have been placed in the entry list on the initial entry cutoff date of 10 May 2004, did not enter and was later awarded a wildcard at this tournament.
Qualifying
Draw
Key
Finals
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Bottom half
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
Championship match statistics
| Category |
Sharapova |
S. Williams
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| 1st serve % |
39/64 (61%) |
33/54 (61%)
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| 1st serve points won |
25 of 39 = 64% |
20 of 33 = 61%
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| 2nd serve points won |
15 of 25 = 60% |
9 of 21 = 43%
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| Total service points won |
40 of 64 = 62.50% |
29 of 54 = 53.70%
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| Aces |
2 |
3
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| Double faults |
4 |
1
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| Winners |
25 |
20
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| Unforced errors |
11 |
10
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| Net points won |
4 of 4 = 100% |
3 of 9 = 33%
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| Break points converted |
4 of 10 = 40% |
1 of 6 = 17%
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| Return points won |
25 of 54 = 46% |
24 of 64 = 38%
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| Total points won |
65 |
53
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| Source
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References
External links
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39 WTA Tour-Level Titles: 36 SGL & 3 DBL |
| Entourage |
- Yuri Sharapov (father & former coach)
- Riccardo Piatti (coach; Jul 2019—Jan 2020)
- Sven Groeneveld (coach; Nov 2013—Mar 2018)
- Jimmy Connors (coach; Jul—Aug 2013)
- Thomas Högstedt (coach; Jan 2011—Jul 2013, Mar 2018—Jul 2019)
- Michael Joyce (coach; Sep 2005—Jan 2011)
- Mauricio Hadad (coach; Mar 2004—Sep 2005)
- Robert Lansdorp (coach; Sep 1998—Sep 2005)
- Yuri Yudkin (coach; Nov 1991—May 1994)
- Max Eisenbud (former agent)
- Title-winning doubles partners
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| Career | |
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| Rivalries |
- Rivalry with Serena Williams
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| Seasons |
- 2004
- 2005
- 2006
- 2007
- 2008
- 2009
- 2010
- 2011
- 2012
- 2013
- 2014
- 2015
- 2016
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| Grand Slam titles | Australian Open | |
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French Open | |
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Wimbledon | |
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US Open | |
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| WTA Tour titles | |
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Other professional titles 4 singles | ITF Tour |
- SGL
- 2002 Gunma

- 2002 Vancouver

- 2002 Peachtree City

- 2003 Sea Island

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| National representation | |
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| Grand Slam events | |
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| Tier I tournaments |
- Tokyo (S, D)
- Indian Wells (S, D)
- Key Biscayne (S, D)
- Charleston (S, D)
- Berlin (S, D)
- Rome (S, D)
- San Diego (S, D)
- Montreal (S, D)
- Moscow (S, D)
- Zürich (S, D)
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| Tier II tournaments |
- Sydney (S, D)
- Paris (S, D)
- Antwerp (S, D)
- Dubai (S, D)
- Doha (S, D)
- Amelia Island (S, D)
- Warsaw (S, D)
- Eastbourne (S, D)
- Stanford (S, D)
- Los Angeles (S, D)
- New Haven (S, D)
- Beijing (S, D)
- Stuttgart (S, D)
- Linz (S, D)
- Philadelphia (S, D)
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| Tier III tournaments |
- Gold Coast (S, D)
- Memphis (S, D)
- Bogotá (S, D)
- Acapulco (S, D)
- Strasbourg (S, D)
- Birmingham (S, D)
- 's-Hertogenbosch (S, D)
- Sopot (S, D)
- Cincinnati (S, D)
- Bali (S, D)
- Hasselt (S, D)
- Guangzhou (S, D)
- Tokyo (S, D)
- Luxembourg (S, D)
- Quebec City (S, D)
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| Tier IV tournaments |
- Auckland (S, D)
- Hyderabad (S, D)
- Stockholm (S, D)
- Seoul (S, D)
- Tashkent (S, D)
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| Tier V tournaments |
- Hobart (S, D)
- Canberra (S, D)
- Casablanca (S, D)
- Estoril (S, D)
- Budapest (S, D)
- Palermo (S, D)
- Vancouver (S, D)
- Forest Hills (S)
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