Iga Swiatek is the Wimbledon champion for the first time in her career after dominating Amanda Anisimova in the final.
Swiatek beat Anisimova 6-0, 6-0 to hold the trophy aloft on Centre Court, becoming the eighth player in the Open Era to win a women’s singles Grand Slam title on all three surfaces.
She is the first Polish player in history to win Wimbledon in singles, and the third woman to win all their first six major finals, following Margaret Court and Monica Seles.
It’s an incredible feat for Swiatek, who former champion Marion Bartoli has a prediction for going forward.
Marion Bartoli’s prediction for Iga Swiatek in the near future
Speaking on BBC, Bartoli said the win “completely” changes her life.
She explained: “Coming back to the fact that she has not won a title since Roland Garros last year. Frankly, she had a lot of doubts coming into the grass, a surface she had not been able to master before. She was struggling and getting frustrated.
“To first get that final in Bad Homburg might be little bit it was actually massive because she got some confidence and momentum.
“She started out on Court Two at the beginning of the Championship, really under the radar, being seed number eight because those points from Bad Homburg were not contributing to the ranking, and nobody talked about her to get a title.
“Slowly but surely, she got the first week and then the second week, and then she was just another player.
“I think coming now saying that I can win across the board on any surface, I am the women’s champion winning 6-0, 6-0 in the final, you can’t tell me I am not a complete player any more.
“I think that will very much carry her momentum towards the hard-court season with the US Open and Australian Open.
“She is going to have Sabalenka, who is almost always in the final of the Australian Open and plays really well on hard courts as well, but now she has that pressure off her shoulders. She can open them up and be proud of herself.
“One thing that was interesting was that she mentioned her combination with her new coach Wim Fisette.
“A lot of people were saying maybe it is not the right fit, she can’t win on clay any more. Sticking with that, believing in that and believing in that process of making her a complete player, she got the fruit of that labour today by being an incredible Wimbledon champion this year.”
Iga Swiatek becomes the second player in the Open Era to achieve incredible feat
After handing Anisimova a heavy defeat, Swiatek has become the second player in the Open Era to win a women’s singles Grand Slam final with a 6-0, 6-0 scoreline.
The only other player to achieve the feat was Steffi Graf, who won the 1988 Roland Garros title with a double bagel.
The Pole’s lopsided win had more to do with the American’s mistakes, as Anisimova tallied 28 unforced errors throughout the 57-minute match.
It won’t matter for Swiatek, though, who has now completed the ‘surface slam’ at just 24 years of age, and it most likely won’t be her last major triumph.
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