{"id":60323,"date":"2025-07-12T19:22:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T19:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/60323\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T19:22:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T19:22:14","slug":"princess-of-wales-presents-trophy-to-swiatek-at-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/60323\/","title":{"rendered":"Princess of Wales presents trophy to Swiatek at Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONDON (AP) \u2014 Kate, the Princess of Wales, handed out the trophy to Iga Swiatek and some consoling words to Amanda Anisimova after the women\u2019s Wimbledon<\/a> final on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Swiatek beat Anisimova 6-0, 6-0<\/a> for her first Wimbledon title.<\/p>\n

Kate, the wife of Prince William, is the patron of the All England Club and has regularly attended the men\u2019s and women\u2019s finals. However, she did not attend last year\u2019s women\u2019s final while she was recovering from cancer.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, she was greeted by a standing ovation from the Centre Court crowd as she entered the Royal Box just before the final between the eighth-seeded Swiatek and No. 13 Anisimova started.<\/p>\n

After the match, she took part in the trophy presentation on court, first handing the runner-up trophy to Anisimova and then the Venus Rosewater Dish to Swiatek. <\/p>\n

She also offered up some words of encouragement to Anisimova, who was in tears after the one-sided defeat.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wasn\u2019t sure if she was going to come out today, if she was going to be there,\u201d Anisimova said. \u201cSo it was just really nice to see her. She definitely had a few things to say that were making me emotional again. But yeah, she was really kind. She told me to keep my head high.\u201d<\/p>\n

After leaving the court following the ceremony, the princess and Swiatek had a conversation in a room inside the tournament\u2019s main stadium before the Polish player walked out onto a balcony to show the trophy to the crowd waiting outside.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t remember (what she said) really, because I was too overwhelmed,\u201d Swiatek said about that private conversaion. \u201cI didn\u2019t want to do any faux pas. I wanted to behave well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last year, Kate did hand the trophy to Carlos Alcaraz after his victory over Novak Djokovic<\/a> in the men\u2019s final, when she made only her second public appearance since announcing she was diagnosed with cancer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

She has been gradually returning to public duties since since announcing last fall that she had completed chemotherapy<\/a>, and took part in welcoming French President Emmanuel Macron<\/a> during his state visit to Britain this week.<\/p>\n

Alcaraz plays Jannik Sinner in the men\u2019s final<\/a> on Sunday. ___<\/p>\n

AP tennis: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON (AP) \u2014 Kate, the Princess of Wales, handed out the trophy to Iga Swiatek and some consoling…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":60324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[32349,235,1466,12756,8703,57,22298,1824,186,50,9125,62,1464,376,32405,2071,14374,15649,103,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-60323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-amanda-anisimova","9":"tag-cancer","10":"tag-carlos-alcaraz","11":"tag-chemotherapy","12":"tag-emmanuel-macron","13":"tag-general-news","14":"tag-iga-swiatek","15":"tag-jannik-sinner","16":"tag-kate-middleton","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-novak-djokovic","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-tennis","21":"tag-united-kingdom","22":"tag-wales","23":"tag-wimbledon","24":"tag-wimbledon-championships","25":"tag-womens-health","26":"tag-world","27":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114841894532459344","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}