Wimbledon has decided to remove the titles ‘Miss and ‘Mrs’ in front of past female winners on the famous honours boards.
The All England Lawn Tennis Club’s winners boards – with the most prominent being in the clubhouse – have the honorifics in front of female winners, but not men.
From the start of the tournament in 1884, the female winner has had her title-first-name initial-surname on the board, with last year’s winner Ashleigh Barty reading ‘Miss A Barty.’
Yet the men’s winner, Novak Djokovic, was just N Djokovic and having dropped using ‘Miss’ and ‘Mrs’ when umpires announced the names of female players during matches in 2019, the AELTC have modernised further by updating the honours boards so the women’s names also now go by first-name initial, then surname.