6-0, 6-0?! Iga Swiatek serves out Amanda Anisimova for first Wimbledon title

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Iga Swiatek capped a phenomenal fortnight at Wimbledon on Saturday, storming past American Amanda Anisimova in the final, 6-0, 6-0, to win the grass-court major for the first time in her career.

And with that, she completes the very rare feat of winning Grand Slam titles on all three surfaces—hard, clay and grass.

She had already won four majors on clay (Roland Garros in 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024) and one on hard (the US Open in 2022).

Swiatek is the eighth woman to achieve the feat, and the fourth this century after Serena Williams, Maria Sharapova and Ashleigh Barty.

And it gets even better—at 24, she’s the second-youngest woman this century to complete a Surface Slam, after Serena, who was 20 when she won Wimbledon in 2002, having already won one major on hard (the 1999 US Open) and one on clay (2002 Roland Garros).

WOMEN TO WIN GRAND SLAM TITLES ON ALL THREE SURFACES (all-time):

  • Chris Evert [3 on hard, 10 on clay, 5 on grass]
  • Martina Navratilova [4 on hard, 2 on clay, 12 on grass]
  • Hana Mandlikova [1 on hard, 1 on clay, 2 on grass]
  • Steffi Graf [9 on hard, 6 on clay, 7 on grass]
  • Serena Williams [13 on hard, 3 on clay, 7 on grass]
  • Maria Sharapova [2 on hard, 2 on clay, 1 on grass]
  • Ashleigh Barty [1 on hard, 1 on clay, 1 on grass]
  • Iga Swiatek [1 on hard, 4 on clay, 1 on grass]
Swiatek won her last 12 sets in a row at Wimbledon without even going to a tie-break.

Swiatek won her last 12 sets in a row at Wimbledon without even going to a tie-break.

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Swiatek winning the biggest grass-court tournament there is might come as a surprise to some, given her best result in five previous appearances at the event was one quarterfinal, in 2023.

But the signs were there that she was more than capable of doing it—since her junior days, in fact, as the only major title she won in the juniors was actually the Wimbledon girls’ title in 2018.

The biggest sign might have come the week before Wimbledon this year, as she made her first grass-court final at the WTA 500-level lead-up event in Bad Homburg, Germany. She defeated Jasmine Paolini—who reached the Wimbledon final last year—in straight sets in the semifinals there, 6-1, 6-3.

That was the first Top 10 win of her career on grass.

Then, after dropping the opening set to Caty McNally in the second round at Wimbledon, she stormed back to beat the American, 5-7, 6-2, 6-1, and gained momentum match by match until the last two rounds, where she dropped a total of two games against Belinda Bencic in the semifinals, 6-2, 6-0, and Anisimova in the final.

Now, another surface switch to hard courts—and if this past surface switch is anything to go by, Swiatek will be one to watch in Flushing Meadows later this summer.