Iga Swiatek defeats Amanda Anisimova 6-0, 6-0 to win her first Wimbledon title
Iga Swiatek crushed Amanda Anisimova 6-0, 6-0 to win her first Wimbledon title and sixth Grand Slam overall, marking the most dominant women’s final at the tournament since 1911
London: Iga Swiatek won her first Wimbledon championship with a 6-0, 6-0 victory over Amanda Anisimova on Saturday — the first women’s final in 114 years at the tournament in which one player failed to win a single game.
Swiatek’s dominant victory on a sunny, breezy afternoon at Centre Court took just 57 minutes and gave her a sixth Grand Slam title overall. She is now 6-0 in major finals.
The 24-year-old from Poland finished with a 55–24 edge in total points, despite needing just 10 winners. Anisimova, shaky from the start, made 28 unforced errors.
Swiatek already owned four French Open titles on clay and one US Open title on hard courts, but this was her first title at any grass-court tournament. It also ended a long drought — Swiatek last won a title over a year ago at Roland-Garros in June 2024.
Kate, the Princess of Wales, was in the Royal Box and participated in the on-court ceremony afterward.
Swiatek became the eighth consecutive first-time women’s champion at Wimbledon. However, her win stood out for its sheer dominance against Anisimova, a 23-year-old American playing in her first Grand Slam final.
Anisimova had eliminated No. 1-ranked Aryna Sabalenka in the semifinals but looked far from her best on Saturday. While Swiatek climbed into the stands to celebrate with her team, Anisimova sat on the sideline in tears.
The last time a 6-0, 6-0 result occurred in a Wimbledon women’s final was in 1911, when Dorothea Lambert Chambers defeated Dora Boothby.
Swiatek had never been past the quarterfinals at the All England Club before, and her only other final on grass came earlier this year when she was runner-up at a tune-up event in Germany.
She spent most of 2022, 2023, and 2024 at No. 1 in the WTA rankings but was seeded No. 8 at this Wimbledon after going more than a year without a title. She served a one-month doping ban last year after failing an out-of-competition drug test; an investigation determined the cause was inadvertent exposure to a contaminated medical product used for sleep and jet lag.
Anisimova, born in New Jersey and raised in Florida, had been a French Open semifinalist at 17 in 2019. She took a break from the tour two years ago due to burnout. Just last year, she failed to qualify for Wimbledon because of her low ranking (189) but will now break into the top 10 in the WTA rankings for the first time next week.
(AP)
