Iga Swiatek Claims Wimbledon Title With Historic Sweep of Amanda Anisimova

With the win at Wimbledon, Iga Swiatek won her sixth career major title.

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The last tennis player anyone wants to face when they’re feeling nervous is Iga Swiatek.

Not only does Swiatek, the 24-year-old from Poland, have the power, precision, and variety to punish the slightest mistake, but she also does it faster than anyone on tour. One break of serve quickly becomes two. Matches are over before her anxious opponents even know what’s happening.

Which is precisely what happened in Saturday’s Wimbledon final as Swiatek jumped all over first-time major finalist Amanda Anisimova in a historically one-sided final, 6-0, 6-0, in just 57 minutes.

Swiatek, who had never managed a championship here before, is now a six-time major winner and only an Australian Open short of completing her career slam. What she did on Saturday, however, was unprecedented—even for a player with a reputation for dishing out swift punishment.

The previous woman to post a bagel in the opening set of a final here was Martina Navratilova in 1983. And the only woman in the Open Era to double-bagel her opponent in any Grand Slam final was Steffi Graf at Roland-Garros in 1988.

“Honestly, I didn’t even dream about this,” Swiatek said. “It was just way too far. I feel like I’m already an experienced player after winning Slams before, but I never really expected this one.”

Anisimova reaching the final at all had become one of the more inspiring stories of this Wimbledon. Two years ago, she announced that she was stepping away from tennis indefinitely, because she could no longer bear life on the circuit. The pressure of being a teenage prodigy combined with the death of her father had simply become too much.

When she returned early last year, she quickly rediscovered the weapons that had made her so promising in the first place. But on Saturday, it was clear from the opening exchanges that the cocktail of Centre Court, a first Grand Slam final, and a ruthless Swiatek had her rattled.

Amanda Anisimova reacts during the final against Iga Swiatek.

In her first service game, Anisimova managed to take just one point. She then lost her second on a double fault. And within 19 minutes, Swiatek had jumped out to a 4-0 lead. By the time she closed out the first set—her 30th career 6-0 set at a major—it was fair to wonder whether Anisimova would even take a game.

Early in the second set, it was clear that the Centre Court crowd had started to worry about this very outcome—or was at least beginning to feel shortchanged by the speed of the match. It threw support behind Anisimova, even as she strung together mistakes. When it was all over, her grim stat line read: 28 unforced errors, five double faults, and just 24 points to Swiatek’s 55.

“Even though I ran out of gas a bit today—and I wish I could put on a better performance for all of you—you guys have been there for me,” a tearful Anisimova told the fans after the match.

Iga Swiatek celebrates after clinching the match.

The tennis world has seen Swiatek deliver this type of performance many times in Paris, where the four-time French Open treats the clay of Court Philippe-Chatrier like her living room. But grass had proven a trickier surface for her to crack—her best result until this year was a quarterfinal in 2023.

“There’s no place to overthink here,” Swiatek had said before the match. “You kind of have to follow your instincts. If that is going well and you can rely on them…it’s kind of fun and different than on other surfaces where you have more time to build the rally.”

On Saturday, time wasn’t what Swiatek needed. With a first title on the line, she simply went about her business more efficiently than anyone in modern Wimbledon history.