Yui Kamiji Loses to Wang Ziying of China in Women's Wheelchair Singles at Wimbledon
Wang had lost eight of her previous nine matches against Kamiji, who has 10 major titles in singles and was looking to complete a career Grand Slam with a first championship at Wimbledon.
But Wang converted her fifth set point in the first set after a marathon game that went to deuce nine times, and then clinched victory on her first match point when Kamiji netted a backhand.
In the men's wheelchair doubles final, No. 2 seeds Martin De la Puente of Spain and Ruben Spaargaren of the Netherlands won their first Wimbledon title by beating top-seeded British duo Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid 7-6 (1), 7-5.
Hewett and Reid have won six Wimbledon doubles titles, including the last two.
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Yomiuri Shimbun
6 hours ago
- Yomiuri Shimbun
Swiatek Thrashes Anisimova 6-0 6-0 to Win Wimbledon Title
LONDON, July 12 (Reuters) – Iga Swiatek thrashed American Amanda Anisimova 6-0 6-0 to become the first Polish player to win a Wimbledon singles title on Saturday, ending a ludicrously lop-sided final in 57 minutes. The 24-year-old eighth seed was merciless as she took brutal advantage of Grand Slam final debutant Anisimova's leg-sapping nerves in front of a stunned Centre Court. It turned into a nightmare afternoon for 13th seed Anisimova who became the first player to lose a Wimbledon final 6-0 6-0 for more than a century and the first to do so at any Grand Slam showpiece since Steffi Graf beat Natasha Zvereva at the 1988 French Open. Swiatek, who had never gone beyond the Wimbledon quarter-finals before this year despite winning four French Open crowns, could never have imagined that claiming her sixth Grand Slam title could have been as straightforward. She dropped only two games in her semi-final win against Belinda Bencic and was even more ruthless in the final, clinching victory with a backhand winner. It was Swiatek's sixth win from her first six Grand Slam finals and took her to 100 wins from 120 matches at the majors, the quickest to reach the century since Serena Williams in 2004. After winning her first trophy since triumphing at Roland Garros 13 months ago, she is also the youngest player to win Grand Slam titles on all the sport's three surfaces since Williams in 2002. 'It seems super surreal,' Swiatek, who arrived at Wimbledon under the radar with doubts about her ability to translate her claycourt skill to the lawns, said on court. '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.' One had to feel for Anisimova. She never settled, won only 24 points and made 28 unforced errors as her hopes of becoming the first American to win the title since Serena Williams in 2016 were trampled into the turf. With tears welling up in her eyes, she managed to compose herself to say a few words. 'Even though I ran out of gas a bit today and I wish that I could put on a better performance for all of you, you guys have still been there for me and lifted me up today,' she said. 'I know I didn't have enough today, but I'm gonna keep putting in the work, and I always believe in myself, so I hope to be back here again one day.'
The Mainichi
6 hours ago
- The Mainichi
Iga Swiatek's 6-0, 6-0 win over Amanda Anisimova delivers her her first Wimbledon title, 6th major
LONDON (AP) -- For years, Iga Swiatek never quite felt comfortable on Wimbledon's grass courts, never thought she could add a trophy there to her other Grand Slam triumphs. Oh, did that turn out to be wrong. And how. Not only is Swiatek now the champion of the All England Club, she did it with a 6-0, 6-0 victory over Amanda Anisimova on Saturday in the first women's final at the tournament in 114 years in which one player failed to claim a single game. "It seems," said Swiatek, a 24-year-old from Poland who is now 6-0 in major title matches, "super surreal." That's also a good way to describe the way things unfolded at a sunny, breezy Centre Court against the 13th-seeded Anisimova, a 23-year-old American in her first Slam final. "I was a bit frozen there, with my nerves. Maybe the last two weeks I got a bit tired or something," said Anisimova, who skipped practice on Friday because of fatigue and felt pain in her right shoulder while warming up before the match. "It was a bit tough to digest, obviously, especially during and right after," Anisimova said. "I was a little bit in shock." With Kate, the Princess of Wales, sitting in the Royal Box and on hand to present the trophies, the whole thing took just 57 minutes. The previous 6-0, 6-0 Wimbledon women's final was all the way back in 1911. "Honestly, I didn't even dream (of this), because for me, it was just, like, way too far, you know?" Swiatek said. Maybe, Swiatek said, the lower expectations she and plenty of other people held for her at Wimbledon helped. For once, she wasn't the top seed. Her name was not listed by many among the title contenders. "I could really focus on getting better and developing as a player," Swiatek said, "rather than everybody just asking me to win, win, and nothing is good besides winning." She won 55 of Saturday's 79 points despite needing to produce merely 10 winners. Anisimova was shaky from the start, put only 33% of her first serves in during the first set and finished with 28 unforced errors. Certainly the pressure she was under from Swiatek's near-perfect play was a factor. Swiatek delivered serves at up to 121 mph, got 78% of her first serves in, and used deep groundstrokes to grab 16 of the 20 points that lasted five shots or more. "She definitely made it difficult for me," Anisimova said. Swiatek already owned four titles from the French Open's red clay and one from the U.S. Open's hard courts, but this is first one of her professional career at any grass-court tournament. And it ended a long-for-her drought: Swiatek last won a trophy at Roland-Garros in June 2024. She is the eighth consecutive first-time women's champion at Wimbledon, but this stands out because of just how stunningly dominant it was. Anisimova won her first-round match less than two weeks ago by a 6-0, 6-0 score and eliminated No. 1-ranked Aryna Sabalenka in the semifinals, but she never looked like the same player this time. Not at all. When it was over, Anisimova sat on the sideline crying, while Swiatek climbed into the stands to celebrate with her team -- and actress Courteney Cox, of "Friends" fame. Swiatek was the Wimbledon junior champion as a teen in 2018 but never had been past the quarterfinals on the All England Club's grass as a pro. Her only other final on the slick surface came when she was the runner-up at a tuneup event in Germany right before Wimbledon began. Swiatek spent most of 2022, 2023 and 2024 at No. 1 in the WTA rankings but was seeded No. 8 at Wimbledon. 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 was a semifinalist at age 17 at the 2019 French Open; her father died shortly after. On Saturday, Anisimova's mother arrived in England for a rare chance to be at one of her daughter's matches. "My mom is the most selfless person I know, and she's done everything to get me to this point in my life," Anisimova said through tears, then spoke to her mother directly, saying: "Thank you for being here and breaking the superstition of flying in." And then, with a chuckle, Anisimova added: "It's definitely not why I lost today." She took time away from the tour a little more than two years ago because of burnout. A year ago, she tried to qualify for Wimbledon, because her ranking of 189th was too low to get into the field automatically, but lost in the preliminary event. On Monday, she'll be ranked in the top 10. "I wish," Anisimova told the crowd, "that I could put on a better performance for all of you."
Japan Times
6 hours ago
- Japan Times
Unforgiving Swiatek crushes Anisimova 6-0 6-0 to win maiden Wimbledon crown
Iga Swiatek took another stride towards tennis greatness by ruthlessly tearing apart American 13th seed Amanda Anisimova 6-0 6-0 and lifting her first Wimbledon trophy on Saturday. The big occasion turned into a nightmare for Anisimova who became the first woman to lose a Wimbledon final by that painful scoreline since 1911 and the first to do so at any major since Steffi Graf routed Natasha Zvereva at the 1988 French Open. Already a U.S. Open champion and a four-times French Open winner, 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. Her superb display on the sun-drenched lawns of London also ensured that she emerged as the first player since Monica Seles in 1992 to win her first six major finals. "It's something that is just surreal. I feel like tennis keeps surprising me, and I keep surprising myself," Swiatek told reporters after hoisting the gilded Venus Rosewater Dish. Poland's Iga Swiatek celebrates with the winner's trophy, the Venus Rosewater Dish, balcony after winning her women's singles final tennis match against U.S. player Amanda Anisimova on the thirteenth day of the 2025 Wimbledon Championships in London on Saturday. | AFP-JIJI "I'm really happy with the whole process, how it looked like from the first day we stepped on a grass court. Yeah, I feel like we did everything for it to go in that direction without expecting it, just working really hard. "It means a lot, and it gives me a lot of experience. Yeah, I don't even know. I'm just happy." 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. "I want to thank my coach (Wim Fissette). With the ups and downs now, we showed everybody it's working," Swiatek added. On another warm afternoon on Centre Court, Swiatek got off to a scorching start by breaking a nervous Anisimova three times en route to dishing out the first bagel, prompting some spectators to get behind the shell-shocked American. A frustrated Anisimova shrieked and desperately looked to her team in the stands for any kind of guidance after conceding yet another break point early in the second set and it was not long before her machine-like opponent pulled away further. Britain's Catherine, Princess of Wales gives the runner-up trophy to U.S. player Amanda Anisimova after her defeat against Poland's Iga Swiatek on the thirteenth day of the 2025 Wimbledon Championships in London on Saturday. | AFP-JIJI Anisimova continued to disappointingly crack under pressure, before Swiatek completed the brutal mauling in 57 minutes with a backhand winner on her second match point to become the first Wimbledon champion from Poland. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk celebrated with a picture of himself watching a post-match interview while holding a bowl of pasta and strawberries, Swiatek's cheat meal at Wimbledon, while President Andrzej Duda was effusive in his praise. "Iga! Today, on the grass courts of Wimbledon, you wrote history — not only for Polish sport, but also for Polish pride. On behalf of the Republic of Poland — thank you," Duda wrote. Victory took Swiatek to 100 wins from 120 matches at the majors, making her the quickest to get to there since Williams in 2004, and denied Anisimova the chance to become the first American to win the title since her compatriot in 2016. Swiatek jumped for joy on court before running towards her team in the stands to celebrate her triumph. The Friends fan was equally delighted to receive a congratulatory hug from American actress Courteney Cox, who was among the spectators. All this while, Anisimova was left to wonder what could have been as she sat in her seat, before the tears began to flow during her on-court interview. Few would have envisioned the American to hit the heights she did in the last fortnight after she fell outside the top 400 following her mental health break two years ago. "I didn't have enough today," said Anisimova, who began the tournament with a 6-0 6-0 win over Yulia Putintseva but admitted to running out of gas in the final. "I'm going to keep putting in the work, and I always believe in myself. I hope to be back again one day." It was bitter disappointment for U.S. fans hoping for an "American Slam" this year after Madison Keys won the Australian Open at the start of the year and Coco Gauff triumphed at the French Open last month. Poland's Iga Swiatek smiles as she looks at the winner's trophy, the Venus Rosewater Dish in Wimbledon, southwest London, on Saturday. | AFP-JIJI
