Iga Swiatek wanted simply 57 minutes to earn her first Wimbledon title and sixth main championship, overwhelming American Amanda Anisimova 6-0, 6-0 on Saturday within the girls’s remaining.
It was solely the third double bagel to occur in a girls’s main remaining all time, and first since 1988, when Steffi Graf defeated Natasha Zvereva on the French Open. Earlier than that, a girls’s remaining hadn’t featured a 6-0, 6-0 rating since 1911 Wimbledon, when Dorothea Lambert Chambers received in opposition to Dora Boothby.
Swiatek, a 24-year-old from Poland, improved to 6-0 in main finals, including the grass-court Slam to her assortment of 4 French Open trophies and one US Open. She turns into the eighth girls’s participant all-time — and solely lively one — to win a significant title on all three surfaces.
Swiatek broke her opponent within the opening sport and added two extra breaks to clinch the primary set in 25 minutes. She completed with a 55-24 edge in whole factors and gathered that regardless of needing to supply merely 10 winners. Anisimova was shaky from the beginning and made 28 unforced errors.
A junior champion at Wimbledon in 2018, it took time for Swiatek to actually discover her footing and get snug on grass. She began her profession with a 6-5 tour-level file on the floor, however since 2023 has received 19 of twenty-two such matches. Wimbledon marks her first profession WTA grass-court title.
Swiatek spent most of 2022, 2023 and 2024 at No. 1 within the WTA rankings however was seeded No. 8 on the All England Membership after going greater than a yr — 15 straight WTA fundamental draw occasions — with out claiming a title, the second-longest drought of her profession. Earlier than Saturday, her final title had come on the 2024 French Open.
She served a one-month doping ban final yr after failing an out-of-competition drug take a look at; an investigation decided she was inadvertently uncovered to a contaminated medical product used for bother sleeping and jet lag.
Swiatek’s victory on a sunny, breezy afternoon at Centre Courtroom was her one hundredth at a significant, coming in her a hundred and twentieth profession Grand Slam match. She’s the quickest girl to 100 main match wins since Serena Williams, who reached the mark in 116 matches on the 2004 US Open. Earlier than Saturday, there had been just one participant within the Open Period to earn their one hundredth main match win in a remaining — Andy Murray on the 2012 US Open.
The championship match was the primary for the 23-year-old Anisimova at any Grand Slam match. She was a semifinalist at age 17 on the 2019 French Open and took a psychological well being break free from the tour just a little greater than two years in the past.
A yr in the past, Anisimova tried to qualify for Wimbledon, as a result of her rating of 189th was too low to get into the sector robotically, however misplaced within the preliminary occasion. She’s going to break into the highest 10 within the rankings for the primary time subsequent week.
ESPN Analysis and The Related Press contributed to this report.