FORMER Wimbledon ladies’ champion Angela Mortimer Barrett has died at the age of 93.

Mortimer – who married ex-player and famous commentator John Barrett in 1967 – holds a special place in the history of the Wimbledon Championships.

Plymouth-born Mortimer won four major Championships and was one of the best players in the world in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Her inaugural success came at the 1955 French Open in Paris, though she had been affected around that time by recurrent bouts of illness.

Next up she lifted the Australian Open in 1958 and then she beat fellow Brit Christine Truman across three sets in the 1961 Wimbledon final on Centre Court.

As a singles star, she lost in two major finals, both times to American Althea Gibson, first in the French capital in 1956 and then in

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