Iga Swiatek dominates Amanda Anisimova for her first Wimbledon title

For years, Iga Swiatek never quite felt comfortable on Wimbledon's grass courts, never thought she could add a trophy there to her other Grand Slam triumphs. Oh, did that turn out to be wrong. And how.

Not only is Swiatek now the champion of the All England Club, she did it with a 6-0, 6-0 victory over Amanda Anisimova on Saturday in the first women's final at the tournament in 114 years in which one player failed to claim a single game.

"It seems," said Swiatek, a 24-year-old from Poland who is now 6-0 in major title matches, "super surreal".

That's also a good way to describe the way things unfolded at a sunny, breezy Centre Court against the 13th-seeded Anisimova, a 23-year-old American in her first Slam final.

"I was a bit frozen there, with my nerves. Maybe the last two weeks I got a bit tired or something," said Anisimova, who skipped practice on Friday because of fatigue and felt pain in her right shoulder while warming up before the match.

"It was a bit tough to digest, obviously, especially during and right after," Anisimova said, "a little bit in shock".

With Kate, the Princess of Wales, sitting in the Royal Box and on hand to present the trophies, the whole thing took just 57 minutes. The previous 6-0, 6-0 Wimbledon women's final was all the way back in 1911.

"Honestly, I didn't even dream (of this), because for me, it was just, like, way too far, you know?" Swiatek said.

Maybe, Swiatek said, the lower expectations she and plenty of other people held for her at Wimbledon helped. For once, she wasn't the top seed. Her name was not listed by many among the title contenders.

"I could really focus on getting better and developing as a player," Swiatek said, "rather than everybody just asking me to win, win, and nothing is good besides winning."

She won 55 of 79 points in the final despite needing to produce merely 10 winners. Anisimova was shaky from the start, put only 33 percent of her first serves in during the first set and finished with 28 unforced errors.

Certainly the pressure she was under from Swiatek's near-perfect play was a factor. Swiatek delivered serves at up to 121 miles per hour (about 194.7 kilometers per hour), got 78% of her first serves in, and used deep groundstrokes to grab 16 of the 20 points that lasted five shots or more.

Swiatek already owned four titles from the French Open's red clay and one from the U.S. Open's hard courts, but this is first one of her professional career at any grass-court tournament. And it ended a long-for-her drought: Swiatek last won a trophy at Roland-Garros in June 2024.

She is the eighth consecutive first-time women's champion at Wimbledon, but this stands out because of just how stunningly dominant it was.

Julian Cash, Lloyd Glasspool win historic men's doubles title

Fifth seeds Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool capped their dream summer with the Wimbledon men's doubles crown and first Grand Slam title as a pair when the British team downed Rinky Hijikata and David Pel 6-2, 7-6 (3) in the final.

Queen's Club and Eastbourne champions Cash and Glasspool became the first all-British pairing to win the All England Club trophy since 1936, when Pat Hughes and Raymond Tuckey defeated their compatriots Charles Hare and Frank Wilde in the final.

"When you say it, it sounds incredible," Glasspool said. "We've had a Brit win it last year (Henry Patten), the year before that (Neal Skupski) so I didn't think too much of it, but now we needed to give you two so we did our best."

The local favorites shot out of the blocks after an early break thanks to a poor service game from Pel and raced through the opening set, leaving their home crowd buzzing on a sun-bathed Centre Court.

The Australian-Dutch duo of Hijikata and Pel saved a break point at the start of the second set and applied pressure in the fourth game but their opponents were equal to the task and took a step towards the title when they went 4-2 up.

Hijikata and Pel, who entered the tournament as alternates and survived match points in their first two rounds, drew level after eight games before Cash and Glasspool moved up a gear in the tiebreak to prevail and spark huge celebrations.