The women's singles was an event on the Tennis at the 1900 Summer Olympics program in Paris.

France's Hélène Prévost was the silver medalist, while American Marion Jones Farquhar and Hedwig Rosenbaum of Bohemia are credited with bronze medals.

The event made Cooper the first female individual Olympic champion (Hélène de Pourtalès won a gold medal in a team event in sailing earlier; Margaret Abbott would win the women's golf tournament later, in October).

Great Britain's Charlotte Cooper was a three-time Wimbledon champion (1895, 1896, 1898).

)[1] The competition was a single-elimination tournament with no bronze-medal match (both semifinal losers tied for third).