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2004 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles

Field	Value
champ	RUS Maria Sharapova
runner	USA Serena Williams
score	6–1, 6–4
draw	128 (12Q / 8WC)
seeds	32
before_name	Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles
after_name	Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles

Main article: 2004 Wimbledon Championships

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. 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". 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) and the second Russian woman to win a major (after Anastasia Myskina won that year's French Open).

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).

Seeds

USA Serena Williams (final) RUS Anastasia Myskina (third round) USA Venus Williams (second round) FRA Amélie Mauresmo (semifinals) USA Lindsay Davenport (semifinals) RUS Elena Dementieva (first round) USA Jennifer Capriati (quarterfinals) RUS Svetlana Kuznetsova (first round) ARG Paola Suárez (quarterfinals) RUS Nadia Petrova (fourth round) JPN Ai Sugiyama (quarterfinals) RUS Vera Zvonareva (fourth round) RUS Maria Sharapova (champion) ITA Silvia Farina Elia (fourth round) SUI Patty Schnyder (second round) ISR Anna Smashnova-Pistolesi (first round)

USA Chanda Rubin (first round) ITA Francesca Schiavone (second round) COL Fabiola Zuluaga (first round) RUS Elena Bovina (second round) BUL Magdalena Maleeva (fourth round) ESP Conchita Martínez (first round) SCG Jelena Dokić (first round) FRA Mary Pierce (first round) FRA Nathalie Dechy (third round) USA Lisa Raymond (second round) AUS Alicia Molik (third round) FRA Émilie Loit (first round) RUS Dinara Safina (first round) GRE Eleni Daniilidou (first round) USA Amy Frazier (fourth round) USA Meghann Shaughnessy (third round)

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

Main article: 2004 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles qualifying

Draw

Finals

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Top half

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Bottom half

Section 5

Section 6

Section 7

Section 8

Championship match statistics

Category	RUS Sharapova	USA S. Williams
1st serve %	39/64 (61%)	33/54 (61%)
1st serve points won	25 of 39 = 64%	20 of 33 = 61%
2nd serve points won	15 of 25 = 60%	9 of 21 = 43%
Total service points won	40 of 64 = 62.50%	29 of 54 = 53.70%
Aces	2	3
Double faults	4	1
Winners	25	20
Unforced errors	11	10
Net points won	4 of 4 = 100%	3 of 9 = 33%
Break points converted	4 of 10 = 40%	1 of 6 = 17%
Return points won	25 of 54 = 46%	24 of 64 = 38%
Total points won	65	53

References

Barrett, John. (2014). "Wimbledon: The Official History". Vision Sports Publishing.
Liz Clarke. (April 7, 2004). "Sharapova Wins Wimbledon After Improbable Journey". The Washington Post.
(3 July 2004). "Sharapova storms to Wimbledon glory". [[BBC Sport]].
(4 July 2004). "Sensational Sharapova is a Russian revelation". [[The Guardian]].
(22 June 2004). "Navratilova rolls back the years in quick time". [[The Guardian]].
Harman, Neil (2004). ''The Official Wimbledon Annual 2004''. 2 Puddle Dock, London: Hazleton Publishing Ltd. {{ISBN. 1-903135 39 7.

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