All in the family

* Maud Watson beat her sister Lilian in the first women's final in 1884 from a draw of just 13 players. It was the only time at Wimbledon that two sisters played each other.

Watson received a silver cup worth 21 English pounds. This year's Wimbledon women's singles winner will take home more than US$250,000.

* Brothers have played each other in four singles finals. Willie Renshaw beat his brother Ernest in three finals in the 1890s, and Reggie Doherty defeated his brother Laurie in 1902.

* The remarkable Maleeva trio of sisters from Bulgaria made history in 1993 by all being seeded at Wimbledon. Magdalena Maleeva, the youngest of the trio, was upset by Indonesia's Yayuk Basuki in that year and in 1994.

* Tracy Austin and her brother John are the only brother-sister team to win the mixed doubles. They saved match points to win in 1980 and lost in the final the next year.

* Brooke Shields, companion to ATP Tour World Number One Andre Agassi, has a long tennis tradition in her family. Frank Shields, Brooke's paternal grandfather, was a top player for the United States in the 1930s.

Shields slipped and fell on a tennis ball during the closing stages of his 1931 Wimbledon semifinal. He won, but he had to default the final match to compatriot Sidney Wood, the only Championship match walkover in Wimbledon history.

* Has there ever been a male winner of the Wimbledon Women's Singles title? Sort of. Margaret Smith Court was three months' pregnant when she won the title in 1970. She later gave birth to a son.

* Top seed Beverley Baker Fleitz discovered in the third round of Wimbledon in 1956 that she was three months' pregnant. She decided to withdraw from the tournament. A losing finalist in 1955, Fleitz is one of a few top-ranked players who were ambidextrous, or capable of hitting with both the left and right hands.

Compiled by Russell Barlow, ATP TOUR World Doubles Championship Consultant