Media caption, Swiatek dominates Anisimova to win first Wimbledon title
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BBC Sport tennis news reporter at Wimbledon
Iga Swiatek ruthlessly took advantage of Amanda Anisimova’s nerves to win her maiden Wimbledon title and inflict the heaviest women’s final defeat at the All England Club in more than a century.
Both players were appearing in their first Wimbledon final but Poland’s Swiatek looked more assured from the very start as she stormed to a 6-0 6-0 victory over the American in just 57 minutes to win a sixth Grand Slam title.
No woman had won a Wimbledon final with a double bagel – the name given to a victory without dropping a game – since Dorothea Lambert Chambers in 1911.
“It seems super surreal,” said 24-year-old Swiatek, whose five previous major titles came on clay or hard courts and who has won every Slam final she has contested.
“Honestly, I didn’t even dream of winning Wimbledon because it was way too far.
“I feel like I’m an experienced player, having won other Slams, but I didn’t expect this.”
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Image caption, Iga Swiatek has added Wimbledon to her four French Open titles and one US Open victory
Eighth seed Swiatek drew on all of her greater experience to race through the first set in just 25 minutes.
Anisimova, just three months younger than Swiatek, looked tense from the very start and made a flurry of errors in an opener where she won just nine points.
Despite a sympathetic Centre Court crowd willing her on, things did not improve in the second set for the 13th seed.
A total of 28 unforced errors, plus five double faults, starkly illustrated Anisimova’s struggles.
Fighting back the tears as she addressed the crowd, Anisimova said: “It’s been an incredible fortnight fo
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