May Sutton won her second Wimbledon Ladies' Singles Championship in 1907, again defeating Dorothea Douglass Chambers.
In 1907, May Sutton returned to Wimbledon and once again defeated British rival Dorothea Douglass Chambers to capture her second Ladies' Singles Championship title. This victory reaffirmed her status as one of the finest players of the era and demonstrated that her historic 1905 win had not been an isolated fluke but the mark of a genuinely dominant international champion.
By winning Wimbledon twice, Sutton solidified the perception that American tennis, and particularly the aggressive Californian style she embodied, could compete with and defeat the best that Britain had to offer. Her rivalry with Chambers, one of the greatest British players of the period, became one of the most closely watched storylines in women's tennis during the pre-World War I era.
Sutton's continued success helped pave the way for subsequent American champions and elevated the profile of women's tennis in the United States. Her achievements at Wimbledon, combined with her successes in American national championships, made her a foundational figure in the sport, later recognized through her induction into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1956, one of its inaugural group of honorees and the first woman inducted.