by Iga Swiadek was surprised for the first time on Saturday in Wimbledon Champion by thriving as Queen of Clay at the All England Club Gras after her reign.
Swiatek beat the 13th seed Amanda Anisimova 6-0, 6-0 to gain the sixth Grand Slam title of her career in a historical way on Saturday.
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Against her own expectations of the Polish eighth seed, she added the four French open titles that she won on the Paris clay, and the US Open Crown 2022 on hard places in New York.
Swiadek won the Junior Wimbledon title seven years ago, but she had never been in the main event until this year.
When asked whether her success was a surprise, she said: “Yes, sure. To be honest, I never dreamed that I would be possible to play in the final.
“I thought I had experienced everything on the pitch, but I didn’t see that I could play well on grass.”
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The Wimbledon title was particularly cute for Swiatek after a difficult year after its high standards.
After Swiatek had won at least one Grand Slam in the past three years, in 2025 he experienced the painful semi -finals at the Australian Open and French Open.
She did not reach a final for a year after winning the 2024 French Open.
The semi -finals of the Olympic Games last year was another blow for Swiatek, who said that after the defeat in Paris, she cried for “six hours”.
In November 2024, Swiatek tested positively on forbidden substance trimetazidine and received a one-month suspension after the international tennis integrity agency (ITIA) accepted the result that was caused by contamination.
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– Fire of glory –
Her two -year reign was the number one in the world by Aryna Sabalenka, which led to a change of coach at the end of last year when Wim Fissette Tomasz Wiktorowski replaced.
These suffering was a strong contrast to the fire of glory, which followed her first Grand Slam title at the French Open 2020.
Swiatek at the age of 19 and took 54th place. He defeated Sofia Kenin in the final and became the first Polish player to win a big singles title.
Swiatek, whose father was a former rower who started at the Olympic Games in 1988, was the youngest French women’s master since Monica Seles in 1992.
In Roland Garros, three more titles followed between 2022 and 2024 before Sabalenka ended her unbeaten strip in Paris last month.
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But not for the first time in 2021 the French Open won, Swiatek gave more time to prepare for grass, initially in a training camp in Mallorca before a first final on the surface in the quiet German Spa city of Bad Homburg.
Although Jessica Pegula took the trophy home in Germany, Swiadek had laid the foundations for her success at SW19.
“I have the feeling that I developed as a player and had time to practice a little more,” she said.
“I will have no seasons in which the pressure is forced to externally forced.
“It’s kind of the same every year, but sometimes I have the feeling that I can handle it better or ignore it.”
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Swiatek dropped only one sentence on her run on the well -kept lawns in the southwest of London.
Her appearance in the Center Court Sunshine on Saturday was forever when she became the first player in the Open era to win a Wimbledon final without dropping a game.
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