Editing Virginia Wade (section)

==After tennis==
Since 1981, while she was still playing, Wade has been a reporter on tennis events for the [[BBC]].<ref name="BBC bio">{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/biographies/biogs/sport/virginiawade.shtml|title=Biographies – Virginia Wade|publisher=[[BBC]]|access-date=19 June 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090106044803/http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/biographies/biogs/sport/virginiawade.shtml|archive-date=6 January 2009}}</ref> In 1982, she became the first woman to be elected to the Wimbledon Committee.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://virginia-wade.com/|title=Official Website of Virginia Wade O.B.E - Last British Women's Wimbledon Tennis Singles Champion, 1977|access-date=5 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180808081753/http://virginia-wade.com/|archive-date=8 August 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Wade was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the [[1986 Birthday Honours]] for services to lawn tennis.<ref name="BBC bio" /><ref>{{London Gazette |issue=50551 |date=14 June 1986 |page=11 |supp=y}}</ref>

In 1989, Wade was inducted into the [[International Tennis Hall of Fame]] in [[Newport, Rhode Island]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tennisfame.com/famer.aspx?pgID=867&hof_id=113|title=International Tennis Hall of Fame|access-date=17 September 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070304104809/http://www.tennisfame.com/famer.aspx?pgID=867&hof_id=113|archive-date=4 March 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref>