<P> The men who have reached the final at least four times during the open era are Jimmy Connors, Björn Borg, John McEnroe, Boris Becker, Goran Ivanišević, Pete Sampras, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, and Novak Djokovic . Connors reached the final six times between 1974 and 1984 but won only two titles . Borg reached six consecutive finals between 1976 and 1981 and won all but the last final . McEnroe reached five consecutive finals from 1980 through 1984, and won three titles . Becker won three titles out of seven finals between 1985 and 1995 . Ivanišević reached four finals between 1992 and 2001, and finally won in 2001 . Sampras never lost a final, and he took seven titles between 1993 and 2000 . Federer has appeared in a record eleven finals overall, of which seven were consecutive from 2003 through 2009; he won six of them and he also won in 2012 and 2017 . Nadal has made five appearances in the Wimbledon finals from 2006 - 2008, and from 2010 to 2011, of which he won two . Since 2011, Djokovic has made five finals appearances, and four were wins and one a loss . </P> <P> The women who have reached the final at least four times during the open era are Billie Jean King, Evonne Goolagong Cawley, Chris Evert, Martina Navratilova, Steffi Graf, Venus Williams, and Serena Williams . King appeared in three consecutive finals from 1968 through 1970, of which she won only in 1968, before she took the victory in her last three finals in 1972, 1973, and 1975 . Goolagong Cawley reached five finals between 1971 and 1980 but won only her first and last finals . Evert reached ten finals out of 13 years between 1973 and 1985 but won only three titles . Navratilova won nine of her 12 finals between 1978 and 1994 . Graf reached nine finals between 1987 and 1999, which she won seven times . Since 2000, Venus Williams has won the final five times in nine attempts . Her sister Serena Williams has also appeared in ten finals since 2002, in which she won seven titles . </P> <P> During the 51 times that this tournament has been held in the open era, 40 men have reached the Wimbledon gentlemen's singles final . The final has included men from 18 different nationalities . The most represented nations are the United States and Australia with Sweden, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, Germany, and Serbia represented to a lesser extent . </P> <Ul> <Li> * = Champion </Li> </Ul>

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