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Iga Swiatek has been crowned this year's Wimbledon Singles Champion.
Per Al Jazeera, the Polish eighth seed, 24, defeated Amanda Anisimova 6-0, 6-0 within an hour, making history for the most one-tracked Wimbledon final in over a century. She has now officially nabbed the winning honors in all six of the finals she has competed in.
Iga Swiatek also made headlines on Saturday's game for becoming only the second woman ever to win the final with such a scoreline. The last time the Wimbledon women’s singles final saw such a scoreline was in 1911.
According to Forbes, Iga Swiatek was the first Polish tennis player to make it to the dominant position in the world in 2022, and at the age of 20 at that, also making her the youngest woman ever to take the spot in 12 years.
She has since amassed a net worth of $23.8 million and was the highest of all earnings among female athletes last year. $8.8 million is prize money alone, and she has reportedly raked in $15 million from endorsements. She has four French Open titles and one US Open title to her name, among other accolades.
Everything we know about Iga Swiatek's Wimbledon Singles finals game:
As reported by News 18, in all of women's tennis history, only three Grand Slam finals have finished with a double bagel. Back in 1988, Steffi Graf won the French Open women's singles final against Natasha Zvereva with a score of 6–0, 6–0. Iga Swiatek's Grand Slams now clock in at six.
The Guardian has reported that the last time a 6-0, 6-0 came, it was when Dorothea Lambert Chambers played against Dora Boothby, though at the time, the rules were far different from the sport we know today. In the challenge match era at the time, the defending champion had played just once, the outlet states.
This year, as reported by Al Jazeera, US 13th-seed Anisimova was expected to put on a tough show after having ousted world number one Aryna Sabalenka in the previous match, i.e., the semifinals. After the game, visibly devastated, she exited the court, only to return for the trophy presentation.
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Iga Swiatek is now the eighth woman in a row to win the women's championship for the first time ever since 2016. At the time, legendary tennis player Serena Williams had nabbed her seventh and last title when she played at the All England Club.
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