By HOWARD FENDRICH
LONDON — Iga Swiatek gained her first Wimbledon championship with a 6-0, 6-0 victory over Amanda Anisimova on Saturday within the first girls’s remaining on the match in 114 years through which one participant failed to say a single recreation.
Swiatek’s victory on a sunny, breezy afternoon at Centre Courtroom took simply 57 minutes and gave Swiatek her sixth Grand Slam title general. She is now 6-0 in main title matches.
The 24-year-old from Poland completed with a 55-24 edge in complete factors and accrued that regardless of needing to provide merely 10 winners. Anisimova was shaky from the beginning and made 28 unforced errors.
Swiatek already owned 4 trophies from the French Open’s purple clay and one from the U.S. Open’s onerous courts, however that is first title of her skilled profession at any grass-court match. And it ended a long-for-her drought: Swiatek final gained a trophy anyplace greater than a 12 months in the past, at Roland-Garros in June 2024.
Kate, the Princess of Wales, was sitting within the Royal Field on Saturday and took half within the on-court ceremony afterward.
Swiatek is the eighth consecutive first-time girls’s champion at Wimbledon, however her triumph stands out from the others as a result of it got here in a stunningly dominant efficiency towards Anisimova, a 23-year-old American who was collaborating in her first remaining at a serious.
Anisimova eradicated No. 1-ranked Aryna Sabalenka within the semifinals however by no means regarded like she was the identical participant on Saturday. In no way. When it was over, whereas Swiatek climbed into the stands to have fun together with her group, Anisimova sat on the sideline in tears.
All the way in which again in 1911, Dorothea Lambert Chambers was a 6-0, 6-0 winner towards Dora Boothby.
Swiatek by no means had been previous the quarterfinals of the All England Membership and her solely different remaining on the slick floor got here when she was the runner-up at a tuneup occasion in Germany proper earlier than Wimbledon started.
Swiatek spent most of 2022, 2023 and 2024 at No. 1 within the WTA rankings however was seeded No. 8 at Wimbledon after going greater than a 12 months with out claiming a title anyplace. She served a one-month doping ban final 12 months 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 hassle sleeping and jet lag.
Anisimova, who was born in New Jersey and grew up in Florida, was a semifinalist at age 17 on the 2019 French Open.
She took time away from the tour slightly greater than two years in the past due to burnout. A 12 months in the past, she tried to qualify for Wimbledon, as a result of her rating of 189th was too low to get into the sector mechanically, however misplaced within the preliminary occasion.
Anisimova will break into the highest 10 within the rankings for the primary time subsequent week.
