JWSport Jacek Waszak – Sport journalist
Wimbledon is ours. Iga Świątek won the final for the first time in her career, winning the Grand Slam Wimbledon. She has already won five previous Grand Slam titles on clay or hard courts and has won all the Grand Slam finals she has participated in.
I watched the match and it was a wonderful moment for every Pole to be proud that a Polish woman won Wimbledon here in England. When I watched it at home in Bristol, it was something else, we were all shouting ‘win, win, win!’ It was a fantastic moment for me too.
Iga simply knocked out, or rather outclassed, her rival Amanda Anisimova on the court and won the grand final 6-0, 6-0. The last such result at this stage took place 114 years ago. What’s more, it was her 100th match won in Grand Slam competition.
Iga Swiątek won the Wimbledon Tennis Tournament in a historic and unprecedented manner in the history of tennis. The match lasted 57 minutes and was a steamroller and knockout victory over Amanda. Alan Wzny won in the junior doubles. This is incredible because no woman has won the Wimbledon final with a double bagel, which is the name given to a victory without losing a single game, since 1911, when Dorothea Lambert Chambers won the Wimbledon women’s final 6-0, 6:0 against Dora Boothby No such result has ever been recorded in men’s history because it has never happened .
Iga Swiatek is the second woman to achieve such a result, so it needs to be repeated and written about because it is history being made on our doorstep, where we have been living in England for 114 years. She is the woman who won the Wimbledon tournament without losing a single set, 6:0, 6:0 over her rival at Wimbledon and won with a score of 2 – 0 in the final settlement. Previously, she won the French Open (2020, 2022-24) and once at the US Open in New York (2022). After her victory on the grass courts in London, she is the only top tennis player to have won the Grand Slam on all three surfaces.
She ruthlessly exploited Amanda Anisimova’s nervousness to win her first Wimbledon title and inflict the heaviest defeat in the women’s final at the All England Club in over a century.
For Anisimova, reaching the final was the greatest success of her career. The American is a promising teenager, but she needs to overcome her nervousness in such events to achieve good results on the courts, as last year she was eliminated in London in the qualifiers. This is a big change and success for this player in her career.
Anisimova, who had a solid serve, was broken in the opening game. She had a clear problem with her first serve, recording an effectiveness of only 33 per cent in the first set, and then she tried to improve, but she lacked the arguments because our compatriot found the recipe for her that day and rolled on like a steamroller.
Both players were appearing in the Wimbledon final for the first time, but Świątek looked more confident from the start and defeated the American to win her sixth Grand Slam title.
‘It seems very surreal,’ ‘To be honest, I never even dreamed of winning Wimbledon because it was too far away for me,’ said Iga Świątek in an interview with the BBC.
