Former Wimbledon champion Angela Mortimer-Barrett dies aged 93

Mortimer-Barrett won the 1961 ladies’ singles title at Wimbledon after having already secured the French Championship and Australian Championship.

Angela Mortimer, right, beat fellow Briton Christine Truman in the 1961 ladies’ singles final. Pic: PA

Former Wimbledon champion Angela Mortimer-Barrett has died at the age of 93.

Mortimer-Barrett beat fellow Briton Christine Truman to win the 1961 ladies’ singles title, three years after losing her first final to Althea Gibson.