Iga Swiatek claims 1st Wimbledon title with 6-0, 6-0 win

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 who was participating in her first Slam final.

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. "I feel like I'm already an experienced player after winning the Slams before, but I never really expected this one."

She won 55 of Saturday's 79 points despite needing to produce merely 10 winners. Anisimova was shaky from the start and made 28 unforced errors.

"You're such an incredible player. It obviously showed today," Anisimova told Swiatek. "You've been such an inspiration to me. Just an unbelievable athlete."

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