Poland's Iga Swiatek celebrates with the winner's trophy, the Venus Rosewater Dish, after winning against US player Amanda Anisimova during their women's singles final tennis match. HENRY NICHOLLS/AFP via Getty Images

Iga Swiatek shut out Amanda Anisimova in the Wimbledon women's final Saturday in a match that lasted just under an hour.

Swiatek won in consecutive sets, 6-0, 6-0. It was the first women's final at the tournament in 114 years in which one player failed to claim a single game.

On the sunny, breezy afternoon, Swiatek, a 24-year-old from Poland, won her sixth Grand Slam title overall in just 57 minutes. She is now 6-0 in major title matches. She's been the champion on the French Open's red clay four times and on the U.S. Open's hard courts once.

The final began at 4 p.m. local time, which is 11 a.m. EDT. Kate, the Princess of Wales, attended the match in the Royal Box and took part in the trophy ceremony afterward.

Saturday's title match at Centre Court was the first for Anisimova, a 23-year-old American, at any Grand Slam tournament. She had taken a several-month career break in 2023, exhausted, she said, by the relentless demands of elite competition.

They've never played each other as pros. Both were stars as juniors: Anisimova defeated Coco Gauff for the 2017 U.S. Open junior title, while Swiatek was the Wimbledon junior champion the next year.

Swiatek spent most of 2022, 2023 and 2024 at No. 1 in the WTA rankings but is seeded No. 8 at Wimbledon after going more than a year without claiming a title anywhere. She served a one-month doping ban last year after failing an out-of-competition drug test; an investigation determined she was inadvertently exposed to a contaminated medical product used for trouble sleeping and jet lag.

Anisimova, who was born in New Jersey and grew up in Florida, was a semifinalist at age 17 at the 2019 French Open.

A year ago, she tried to qualify for Wimbledon because her ranking of 189th was too low to get into the field automatically, but she lost in the preliminary event. She ousted the world's No. 1 female tennis player, Aryna Sabalenka, on Thursday in the Wimbledon semi-finals — shocking the sports world.

Anisimova returned to the tennis circuit about 12 months ago, and when asked about her journey after beating Sabalenka, she said, "To be honest, if you told me I would be in the finals at Wimbledon, I would not believe you."

Anisimova will break into the top 10 in the rankings for the first time next week, no matter what happens Saturday.

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