Louise Brough successfully defended her title, defeating

Margaret duPont Margaret Osborne duPont (born Margaret Evelyn Osborne; March 4, 1918 – October 24, 2012) was a world No. 1 American female tennis player. DuPont won a total of 37 singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles Grand Slam titles, which places ...

in the final, 10–8, 1–6, 10–8 to win the ladies' singles tennis title at the 1949 Wimbledon Championships.

Seeds

Louise Brough (champion)

''(final)'' Pat Todd ''(semifinals)'' Gussie Moran ''(third round)'' Shirley Fry ''(fourth round)'' Jean Quertier ''(second round)''

Nelly Adamson Nelly Adamson Landry (28 December 1916 – 22 February 2010) was a tennis player from Belgium (became French citizen after marriage). She was the 1948 women's singles champion at the French Championships beating Shirley Fry. She had been a finali ...

''(third round)''

Joan Curry Patricia Joan Curry Hughesman (December 1918 – August 2020) was a British squash and tennis player who won the British Open Squash Championships three times in a row from 1947 to 1949. Her toughest victory was in 1948, when she beat the 10-tim ...

''(second round)''

Draw

Finals

Top half

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Bottom half

Section 5

Section 6

Section 7

Section 8

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:1949 Wimbledon Championships - Women's Singles Women's Singles Wimbledon Championship by year – Women's singles Wimbledon Championships Wimbledon Championships