Iga Swiatek served a merciless display of tennis to win her first Wimbledon championship on Saturday, dominating 13th seed United States' Amanda Anisimova 6-0, 6-0 in 57 minutes.
The eighth seed Pole was in total dominance from the beginning to the end, eliciting continual mistakes from her rival to claim her sixth Grand Slam title. With the Venus Rosewater Dish now in her possession, only the Australian Open is missing from her career slam collection.
Swiatek also became the first to achieve a women's singles Grand Slam title with a double bagel since Steffi Graf's victory over Natasha Zvereva at the 1988 French Open. The achievement is even more remarkable for Swiatek as he was competing in her first professional grass-court final.
The surface was no problem, though; though she landed just 10 winners, 28 unforced errors by Anisimova aided Swiatek as she closed the match with a whopping 55-24 edge in points. Swiatek has captured four Grand Slam championships on the red clay of Roland-Garros and one on the hard courts of the US Open.
Swiatek previously never progressed beyond the Wimbledon quarter-finals, and rightly, could never have dreamt that winning her first Wimbledon crown could have been so effortless.
Anisimova, 23, was playing in her first Grand Slam final and had already achieved a career-best breakthrough by making it to the title match. But the nerves got to her, and she never seemed comfortable. As Swiatek mounted the stands to congratulate her team after the match, Anisimova sat frozen on the sidelines, crying.
The American, nonetheless, can be proud of her campaign as she pulled off an incredible performance against World No.1 Aryna Sabalenka, winning despite dropping the first set in the semifinals. She also beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the quarters in straight sets.
Swiatek, on the other hand, also dominated in the semifinals, losing just two games to Belinda Bencic.
The victory of the Poland star also kept Wimbledon's run of first-time women's singles champions going for eight years.
