Amanda Anisimova put her 6-0, 6-0<\/a> thrashing by Iga Swaitek in the Wimbledon<\/a> final down to fatigue at the end of a long tournament played in high temperatures, saying her warm-up struggles on the morning of the match were a \u201cred flag\u201d that trouble was ahead.<\/p>\n Anisimova is the first women\u2019s singles finalist not to win a game for more than a century, going back to 1911. <\/p>\n The American 23-year-old was blown away by Swiatek, who secured her sixth grand-slam title and first at Wimbledon, and seemed gripped by nerves as she failed to recreate the performance which knocked out world No 1 Aryna Sabalenka<\/a> in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n A brave Anisimova delivered a speech in front of the Centre Court crowd, paying tribute to her family for their help in her journey, before collecting the runners-up plate from the Princess of Wales.<\/p>\n Speaking to the media, she admitted to pre-match nerves but said that was not the reason for her defeat.<\/p>\n \u201cI was nervous, but it wasn\u2019t anything out of this world. If anything, I was more excited to go out there and compete. But I mean, I didn\u2019t practice yesterday and I think that I was just really fatigued, and I could feel it also in my warm-up this morning. I had to take a break after every single rally out there in my warm up. <\/p>\n \u201cSo I think, if anything, it’s my physicality that I need to work on, and to be able to last two weeks in a grand slam is definitely something that you need to work a lot on. It\u2019s not an easy feat. So, there\u2019s a lot of areas for improvement, I think. I think it\u2019s more experience for me on how to handle nerves, and it\u2019s my first slam final. At least I have that experience now.\u201d<\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/p>\n Runner up Amanda Anisimova gives a speech after losing the women’s singles final (Reuters)<\/p>\n She added: \u201cIt’s been a long season, and I think it\u2019s just something that I need to work on. It\u2019s my physicality at the end of the day that I need to improve. It\u2019s just the way I felt. I don\u2019t really know what exactly but it\u2019s just a feeling I had, and I knew that that was a red flag.\u201d<\/p>\n Swiatek’s demolition job at the All England Club meant that she became the youngest woman since a 20-year-old Serena Williams in 2002 to lift major titles on all three surfaces.<\/p>\n Her superb display on the sun-drenched lawns of London also ensured she emerged as the first player since Monica Seles in 1992 to win all her first six major finals.<\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/p>\n Iga Swiatek of Poland lifts the trophy (Getty Images)<\/p>\n “It seems super surreal,” said Swiatek. “I didn’t even dream (about this) because for me it was just like way too far. I feel like I’m already an experienced player, but I never really expected this one.<\/p>\n “I want to congratulate Amanda for an amazing two weeks. No matter what happened today, you should be proud of the work that you’re doing. I hope we’re going to play many more finals here and other tournaments, you have a game for that.”<\/p>\n Swiatek’s triumph ended a barren 13-month run for the Polish 24-year-old, who served a short suspension late last year after an inadvertent doping violation linked to contaminated sleep medication melatonin.<\/p>\n “I want to thank my coach (Wim Fissette). With the ups and downs right now, we showed everybody that it’s working,” Swiatek added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-261053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114844855607798826","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Runner](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Runner-up-Amanda-Anisimova-of-the-U-S--gives-a-speech-after-losing-the-womens-singles-final.jpeg\")
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