On 19 July 1884, two sisters -Maud and Lilian Watson - played a game of tennis with a prize of a silver flower basket worth 20 guineas.
One hundred years later, Martina Navratilova hopes to win 190,000 in the fight to become Ladies' Champion of the greatest tournament in the world - Wimbledon.
Whoever wins, their name will join those of Suzanne Lenglen , Helen Wills Moody, Maureen Connolly , Margaret Court, Billie Jean King , and the many more inscribed on the winner's salver. From a reconstruction of that very first final in 1884, Peter Ustinov , Liza Goddard and Virginia Wade recall the triumphs of the game's immortals, in a celebration of the centenary of this famous championship.
Producers
PHIL PILLEY, GRAHAM MAUGHAN
Produced in association with Trans World International