Iga Swiatek of Poland holds the trophy to celebrate winning the women’s singles final match

Iga Swiatek of Poland holds the trophy to celebrate winning the women’s singles final match against Amanda Anisimova of the U.S. at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, Saturday, July 12, 2025.(AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

She had just thrashed Amanda Anisimova 6-0, 6-0 in less than an hour in a one-sided blitz. The 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024 French Open and 2022 US Open champion had never won the Wimbledon. 1 Swiatek alluded to includes a title drought going back to the 2024 French Open. At the 2024 Olympics, held in Paris at the site of the Roland Garros, she lost in the semi-finals and cried for six hours. There was also a one-month doping ban in November 2024 for accidentally taking a contaminated medicine. As she went 6-0 in major title finals, she won 55 of 79 points; served as high as 121mph; got 78% of her first serves in and bagged 80% of points that lasted five shots or more. The 6-0, 6-0 win is only the second in Wimbledon’s history – the last coming in 1911 – 114 years ago!

Because there’s no tournament like that, new Delhi: “I want to thank everybody who is making this tournament unique. Because of that… walking around here, on the Centre Court, it felt a huge pressure and a bit too much,” said Iga Swiatek in the trophy ceremony at Wimbledon, i was always anxious.

It’s something that is just surreal and tennis keeps surprising me and I keep surprising myself,” she said. The Polish player had reasons to be anxious every year considering her strong record on other surfaces but grass. “It’s a lot, especially after a season of ups and downs and a lot of expectations from the outside which I didn’t match by winning Wimbledon. The ups and downs that former World No. She then went more than a year without reaching the final of a tournament.

On Saturday, she didn’t step a foot wrong.

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