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New world No. 3 tennis star Iga Świątek won her first Wimbledon Championship on Saturday, needing only 57 minutes to dominate US finalist No. 7 Amanda Anisimova 6-0, 6-0 to top the 2025 London Slam.
To date, Świątek has never lost a Grand Slam final.
Saturday’s title is the 24-year-old’s first tournament win this season and the sixth Grand Slam trophy of her career alongside her four French Open wins and her 2022 US Open victory.
Świątek is now the first woman to win Wimbledon without dropping a single game in the final in over 100 years, with Saturday’s performance joining only Dorothea Lambert Chambers’s 1911 London title win over Dora Boothby in that elite club.
Even more, Świątek and legendary German star Steffi Graf are now the only women’s players to win a Slam by a perfect 6-0, 6-0 scoreline in the Open Era, with Graf doing so at the 1988 French Open.
“[It’s] pretty surreal,” said Świątek afterwards. “I’m just proud of myself because… who would have expected that?!”
With grass proving to be one of the trickiest surfaces in the modern calendar, Świątek is now the eighth straight first-time Wimbledon women’s champion, and the first to hail from Poland.
“Today I just wanted to enjoy the time that I had on the Centre Court and enjoy the last hours of me playing well on grass, because who knows if it’s going to happen again,” she said. “I just focused on that, and I really had fun.”
While Świątek celebrates, the tennis world will now switch back to the hardcourt — many players’ preferred surface — as the 2025 US Open kicks off next month to wrap up the Grand Slam calendar.