Iga Swiatek ruthlessly took advantage of Amanda Anisimova’s nerves to win her maiden Wimbledon title and inflict the heaviest women’s final defeat at the All England Club in more than a century.
Both players were appearing in their first Wimbledon final but Poland’s Swiatek looked more assured from the very start as she stormed to a 6-0 6-0 victory over the American in just 57 minutes to win a sixth Grand Slam title.
No woman had won a Wimbledon final with a double bagel – the name given to a victory without dropping a game – since Dorothea Lambert Chambers in 1911.
“It seems super surreal,” said 24-year-old Swiatek,whose five previous major titles came on clay or hard courts and who has won every Slam final she has contested.
“Honestly, I didn’t even dream of winning Wimbledon because it was way too far.
“I feel like I’m an experienced player, having won other Slams, but I didn’t expect this.” (BBC News)