Iga Swiatek needed just 57 minutes to earn her first Wimbledon title and sixth major championship, overwhelming American Amanda Anisimova 6-0, 6-0 on Saturday in the first women’s final at the tournament in 114 years in which one player failed to claim a single game.
Swiatek, a 24-year-old from Poland, improved to 6-0 in major finals, adding Wimbledon — the first title of her professional career at any grass-court tournament — to her collection of four French Open trophies and one US Open. She becomes the eighth women’s player all time — and only active one — to win a major title on all three surfaces.
Swiatek finished with a 55-24 edge in total points and accumulated that despite needing to produce merely 10 winners. Anisimova was shaky from the start and made 28 unforced errors.
It was only the third double bagel to happen in a women’s major final all time, and first since 1988, when Steffi Graf defeated Natasha Zvereva at the French Open. Before that, a women’s final hadn’t featured a 6-0, 6-0 score since 1911 Wimbledon, when Dorothea Lambert Chambers won against Dora Boothby.
Kate, the Princess of Wales, was sitting in the Royal Box on Saturday and took part in the on-court ceremony afterward.
“Honestly I didn’t even dream, because for me it was too far … I feel like I’m already an experienced player, but I never really expected this one,” Swiatek said during the ceremony. “I want to thank my team — they believed in me more than I did.”
Swiatek’s victory on a sunny, breezy afternoon at Centre Court was her 100th at a major, coming in her 120th career Grand Slam match. She’s the fastest woman to 100 major match wins since Serena Williams, who reached the mark in 116 matches at the 2004 US Open.
And it ended a long-for-her drought: Swiatek last won a title anywhere more than a year ago, at Roland-Garros in June 2024.
Swiatek is the eighth consecutive first-time women’s champion at Wimbledon, but her triumph stands out from the others because it came in a stunningly dominant performance against Anisimova, a 23-year-old who was participating in her first final at a major.
Anisimova eliminated No. 1-ranked Aryna Sabalenka in the semifinals but never looked like she was the same player on Saturday. Not at all. When it was over, while Swiatek climbed into the stands to celebrate with her team, Anisimova sat on the sideline in tears.
Swiatek was a junior champion at the All England Club in 2018 but had never been past the quarterfinals in the main draw. Her only other final on grass came when she was the runner-up at a tune-up event in Germany right before Wimbledon began.
“I was really competing throughout the whole two weeks … I just trusted the process and things my coach wanted me to do on grass,” Swiatek told ESPN. “I think I was serving great and leaned on that.”
Swiatek spent most of 2022, 2023 and 2024 at No. 1 in the WTA rankings but was seeded No. 8 at the All England Club after going more than a year — 15 straight WTA main draw events — without claiming a title, the second-longest drought of her career. She served a one-month doping ban last year after failing an out-of-competition drug test; an investigation determined she was inadvertently exposed to a contaminated medical product used for trouble sleeping and jet lag.
Anisimova, who was born in New Jersey and grew up in Florida, was a semifinalist at age 17 at the 2019 French Open.
She took a mental health break away from the tour a little more than two years ago. A year ago, she tried to qualify for Wimbledon, because her ranking of 189th was too low to get into the field automatically, but lost in the preliminary event.
Anisimova will break into the top 10 in the rankings for the first time next week.
ESPN Research and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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