Virginia Wade defeated Betty Stöve in the final, 4–6, 6–3, 6–1 in the final to win the Ladies' Singles tennis title at the 1977 Wimbledon Championships. Wade remains the last British woman to win a Wimbledon singles title. Chris Evert was the defending champion, but lost in the semifinals to Wade. This was the first time Wimbledon seeded more than 8 players for the ladies' championship, increasing the number (for this year only) to twelve players. The number increased to 16 in 1978. This was the last time a British woman would win or reach a major singles final until Emma Raducanu won the final of the 2021 US Open.

Zanthoxylum ovalifolium, commonly known as thorny yellowwood, oval-leaf yellow wood or little yellowwood, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae. It is a shrub or tree usually with trifoliate leaves, white, male and female flowers arranged in panicles in leaf axils or on the ends of branchlets and red, purple or brown follicles. It is a timber tree valued for its yellow heartwood.

Emma Raducanu (Romanian pronunciation: [rədu'kanu]; born 13 November 2002) is a British professional tennis player. She has won the 2021 US Open and three singles titles on the ITF Circuit. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 150 achieved on 23 August 2021. Ranked No. 338 in the world, she reached the fourth round on her debut with a wildcard into qualifying for the 2021 Wimbledon Championships. This helped her to access the qualifying competition for the 2021 US Open in August; after qualifying for the main draw, she went on to become the first qualifier in the Open Era, male or female, to reach and win a major singles final. In the final she defeated 19-year-old Leylah Fernandez to become the first British woman to win a major singles title since Virginia Wade at Wimbledon 1977. Raducanu did so without losing a single set throughout the tournament.

Svetozar Boroević (or Borojević) (13 December 1856 – 23 May 1920) was an Austro-Hungarian field marshal who was described as one of the finest defensive strategists of the First World War. He was given Hungarian nobility as Baron Boroëvić von Bojna, and later rising to the rank of Field Marshal before the end of the First World War in 1918.