Angela Mortimer, a British tennis champion who dealt with dysentery and partial deafness during a career in which she won three Grand Slam singles titles, including her last, at Wimbledon in 1961, died on Monday in London. She was 93.

Her death, from cancer in a hospital, was confirmed by Robert McNicol, the historian of the All England Club, the home of Wimbledon.

Mortimer was 29 and near the end of her playing days in tennis’s amateur era when she faced a fellow British player, Christine Truman, in the Wimbledon women’s singles final.

After winning the first set and leading in the second, Truman was hampered by a fall and a leg cramp. Capitalizing on her opponent’s misfortune, Mortimer won the second and third sets.

“Astute court craft and ability to penetrate searchingly against opposition weakness, superb driving control and command of length, these are the merits of Miss Mortimer’s lawn tennis,” Lance Tingay wrote in The Daily Telegraph after her victory. He described her as a lonely, introverted figure, but “also a much-loved one.”