LONDON – Iga Swiatek won her first Wimbledon title in a 6-0, 6-0 win over Amanda Anisimova on Saturday, the first women’s final in 114 years, with one player failing to play a single game.
Swiatek’s victory at Central Stadium took only 57 minutes on a sunny, breeze afternoon and gave Swiatek’s sixth Grand Slam title overall. She is now 6-0 in the main championship game.
The 24-year-old from Poland ended the game with a total score of 55-24, accumulating that despite winning only 10 winners. Anisimova has been shaky from the beginning and made 28 non-compulsory mistakes.
Swiatek already owns four trophys from the French Open Red Clay, and one from the hard court of the U.S. Open, but it is her first title in her career in any Grass-Court Championship. It ended a long-standing drought: Swiatek won the trophy a year ago anywhere in Roland-Garros in June 2024.
Princess Kate of Wales sat in the Royal Box on Saturday before attending the ceremony on the field.
Swiatek is Wimbledon’s eighth-straight first-time women’s championship, but her victory stands out because it’s a great show against Anisimova, a 23-year-old American, who was her first final in her major.
Anisimova eliminated No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka in the semifinals, but never looked like Saturday’s player. not at all. When it was over, Anisimova burst into tears as Swiatek climbed into the stands to celebrate with her team.
Back in 1911, Dorothea Lambert Chambers defeated Dora Boothby 6-0, 6-0.
Swiatek never surpassed the quarterfinals of the All-British clubs, and her only final was her delicate surface when she became runner-up in a Tuneup event in Germany before Wimbledon began.
Swiatek spent most of 2022, 2023 and 2024 in the WTA rankings, but ranked No. 1 in Wimbledon and No. 8 in Wimbledon without any place to win a title. Last year, she served a one-month doping ban after a failed drug test. A survey determined that she had accidentally exposed to contaminated medical products for sleep and jet lag.
Born in New Jersey, Anisimova grew up in Florida and was a 17-year-old semi-final at the 2019 French Open.
She took the time to leave the tour due to burnout. A year ago, she tried to qualify for Wimbledon because her 189th ranking was too low to automatically enter the venue but lost in the preliminary event.
Anisimova will be in the top 10 for the first time next week.
