Iga Swiatek Wins Her First Wimbledon with Perfect Display
Wimbledon
July 12, 2025
Iga Swiatek played the perfect final on a scorching Centre Court. You dream about performances like this. The brilliant Pole made it a brutal reality.
For poor Amanda Anisimova, the experience turned into a nightmare. The American will learn from this, we hope, and return even stronger.
Iga Swiatek showed no weakness at all. Only total focus on victory. The relentless pressure was entirely without mercy.
The result was a 6-0, 6-0 super-show inside an hour. It had never happened in the Open Era. You had to go back a hundred years or more to find something similar.
And while the Centre Court crowd longed for Anisimova to take a game, mercy is not something true winners are obliged to show when the most prestigious Grand Slam title of them all is on the line.
Swiatek applied wounding accuracy from the start. She played on her less experienced adversary’s obvious tightness and self-doubt.
Her own doubts had been removed about a week earlier. She realised she could enjoy the grass and embrace Wimbledon at last.
Here at WDH we highlighted this transformation. We pointed out that Swiatek was talking like a woman who finally believed she could win Wimbledon.
Iga Swiatek was starting to enjoy every round. Even her favourite pasta dish included strawberries. She was always made for Wimbledon. She had won the girls’ title years earlier.
We knew her time would come. But only Swiatek herself seemed to be determined to deny her potential on grass. Now all that has changed forever.
Iga Swiatek has supplied the missing piece in the jigsaw – belief in her own destructive ability on grass.
It had been over forty years since a woman had won a first set 6-0 in the final. The first bagel had taken decades to prepare. It took barely twenty-five minutes to deliver.
You can’t blame Swiatek for making it such a one-sided final. And in truth the outcome of the showpiece itself was painfully predictable.
Anisimova had talked of enjoying the occasion and reflecting upon how far she had come. Swiatek came out thinking of one thing only – winning.
Iga had played five Grand Slam finals and won five. Anisimova had never even been in a major final.
Fourteen unforced errors and only a 33% first serve success rate doomed the American in the first set.
The second set was not much different as Swiatek closed in for the kill and Anisimova felt powerless to turn the tide.
It told a story of nervousness. It hinted at being overawed by the occasion – and by a very hungry and ruthless opponent.
Iga Swiatek produced the most devastating performance ever seen in a Wimbledon final. And she will be back for more glory, you suspect.
The men’s final won’t be so one-sided. We can’t wait for Carlos Alcaraz against Jannik Sinner. How about you?