Evonne Goolagong Cawley defeated Chris Evert Lloyd in the final, 6–1, 7–6(7–4) to win the ladies' singles tennis title at the 1980 Wimbledon Championships. It was her seventh and last major singles title, becoming the first (and still only) mother to win the Wimbledon singles title since World War I. The second-set tiebreak was the first played in the ladies singles final at Wimbledon, and the match was the first singles final (men's or women's) to end on a tiebreak. Goolagong Cawley was the first and only Wimbledon champion (man or woman) to defeat four top-ten seeded players en route to victory, since seeding was expanded to 16 players in 1978. Her path to victory also involved defeating six (of seven) players who themselves were Grand Slam singles finalists or champions in their careers.
Martina Navratilova was the two-time defending champion, but lost to Evert Lloyd in the semifinals in a rematch of the previous two year's finals.
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