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Forbes
13 hours ago
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- Forbes
Wimbledon 2025: The Royal Box Celebrity Crush For The Finals
That Big Silver Plate, From The Next Queen: Catherine, Princess of Wales, Patron of The AELTC presents Iga Swiatek of Poland with the Ladies' Singles Trophy following the Ladies' Singles Final against against Amanda Anisimova of United States on day thirteen of The Championships Wimbledon 2025 at All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on July 12, 2025 in London, England. (Photo by) Getty Images The heavy royal hitters arrive in the Royal Box towards the end of the 14-day All England Lawn Tennis And Croquet Association run, as yesterday, when Catherine, the Princess of Wales, took prime place at the wood rail on the court, flanked as ever by the Chair of the All England Club, Deborah Jevens, pictured below in her radically cool purple-black-and-white print summer dress accompanying the Princess of Wales to their seats. For her part, the Duchess of Cambridge is in an belted Nehru-collared military-style top, paired with the only slightly lighter-toned chiffon for the skirt. Key here to the military tone is the broad 'Sam Browne' belt and the mid-biceps length of sleeve. Perfect patron summer jacket. LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 12: Catherine, Princess of Wales, Patron of The AELTC arrives in the Royal Box prior to the the Ladies' Singles Final between Iga Swiatek of Poland and Amanda Anisimova of United States on day thirteen of The Championships Wimbledon 2025 at All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on July 12, 2025 in London, England. (Photo by) Getty Images A courtly note: All are standing, as they should while the Wimbledon patron takes her seat, but key to this scene is the fine slight bow of the gentleman in the cream double-breasted, far right. The eye contact is between the princess and him. Although it's not known (except to the principals) whether he is actually a courtier — he can well be an equerry, a prior acquaintance or royal security — but whomever he is, courtly posture is being adhered to, which is to say, when there is eye contact, a slight bow in acknowledgement of the Crown is due. Noting the placement of his arms, which would have put his hands more or less in on the 'braiding,' or stripes, of his trousers, he can well have had military training. This leans toward him being of the court. LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - JULY 11: Rami Malek (L), Sophie Hunter (C) and Benedict Cumberbatch (R) watch tennis from the Royal Box during day twelve of the 2025 Wimbledon Championships at The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon on July 11, 2025, in London, England (Photo by Ray Tang/Anadolu via Getty Images) Anadolu via Getty Images Two weeks in, champions anointed, have we finally had enough cream-colored Wimbledon attire? Frankly, if you ask us, it's wearing a little thin — what about a few refreshing yards of well-cut summer-crispy good ol' seersucker suitings, as in July in Mobile or New Orleans? That allowed in the Royal Box? Apparently not! While we do freely admit that the whole Wimbledon metaphor of strawberries-and-cream is, the social buttress for all these dairy colorways, but, man! Any way you cut it, it ain't spring right now. Put another way, yes, the North Sea does make strawberry season more than a bit late in the Hebrides, but that's the Hebrides! The Vikings settled up there. They may never get any strawberries. Either way, this year's prodigious June heat waves in England's south, very much including the swelter around London, have just about played out whatever strawberries they may have had this year. Below, the seminal polymath musician and amazingly-still-married Nirvana and Foo Fighters Hall-of-Fame rocker Dave Grohl and his wife Jordan, in fine cream, make their way to their seats on July 2. LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - July 02: David Grohl and wife Jordan watch tennis from the Royal Box during the second day of the 2025 Wimbledon Championships at The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon on July 02, 2025, in London, England (Photo by Ray Tang/Anadolu via Getty Images) Anadolu via Getty Images White lace, on the other hand, works well, as pictured below on Patricia (Mrs. Bjorn) Borg on July 10. Though extremely clean shaven and slightly shorn of his impressive 'Jesus Christ Superstar' locks as he won Wimbledon's coveted men's singles title five consecutive times from 1976-80, Bjorn Borg brings every ounce of his patented ferocious gravitas to the Royal Box in his fine blue suit. Behind the couple, upper left, singer/songwriter Ellie Goulding brings a bit of fresh air to the Royal Box in a refreshing — non-cream-colored — grey and white striped summer sleveless. Kudos, Ms. Goulding. LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - JULY 10: Bjorn Borg and wife wife Patricia Borg watches tennis from the Royal Box during day eleven of the 2025 Wimbledon Championships at The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon on July 10, 2025, in London, England (Photo by Ray Tang/Anadolu via Getty Images) Anadolu via Getty Images We're now officially celebrating Royal Box departures from cream, not arrivals. That notwithstanding, British/American actress Sienna Miller is trying her level best but can't quite cut clear. Still, it's a pattern on a cream background, so we can give the early-Aughts It-Girl and Vogue cover model points for getting at least a pattern on that milky summer dress. The shoulders are working for the actress, and we do respect the whole gritty turn her acting career has taken. Current boyfriend Oli Green is up to snuff in a regulation dark City-of-London/Wall-Street let's-argue-about-the-tariffs suit, but the suit has got a hellish job of work boosting Green even so much as a few months older than his 28 years. In fact, the suit is losing the desperate battle — Green looks every minute of 25. That noted, at 43, Miller's not exactly robbing the cradle — they're only sort of a May-September thing, or okay, May-August if that makes everybody feel better. What's a decade and a few years in the Royal Box? Nothing, I tell you. Nothing. LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - JULY 08: Sienna Miller and Oli Green watch tennis from the Royal Box during the ninth day of the 2025 Wimbledon Championships at The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon on July 8, 2025, in London, England. (Photo by Ray Tang/Anadolu via Getty Images) Anadolu via Getty Images Below, what would Wimbledon be without the magazine world's most passionate tennis fan, Conde Nast ueber-editrix Anna Wintour with no less a seminal fashionista as Tom Ford as her day-date. Power couple would be an understatement to describe this unit. As ever, Ford is impeccable, and the 1920s under-the-tie collar-stay does its somewhat insouciant work unevenly. The flower print on Wintour is, again refreshingly, on a white ground. Untouchable would be the message being broadcast here. Mess with either of these tennis fans at your peril. LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 11: Fashion designer, Tom Ford and Fomer Editor in Chief of Vogue, Anna Wintour look on in the Royal Box prior to the Gentlemen's Singles semi-final match between Taylor Fritz of United States and Carlos Alcaraz of Spain on day twelve of The Championships Wimbledon 2025 at All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on July 11, 2025 in London, England. (Photo by) Getty Images Below, HRH Prince Michael of Kent may have won the Royal Box competition for the absolutely perfect old-man-bespoke suit offsetting a really rich blue shirt. Question of the hour is: Is it a classic chalk stripe? Technically, yes, but it's a right skinny one, and the key to the mystery is that the stripes are set wide in the weave, as if they were much chalkier and thicker. But, they're not! This lends the suit a kind of lightness that only a royal clothes horse such as Prince Michael could pull off. LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - JULY 03: HRH Prince Michael Of Kent arrives to watch tennis from the Royal Box during the forth day of the 2024 Wimbledon Championships at The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon on July 1, 2024, in London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Ray Tang/Anadolu via Getty Images) Anadolu via Getty Images He comes by the ability honestly. First cousin to Queen Elisabeth II through his father, King George's brother, Prince Michael is, through his Greek ancestry a cousin of Tsar Nicholas II and is fluent in Russian. While it's not a language in wide circulation in the Royal Box, on the palate of HRH Prince Michael, it harks back to a pre-revolutionary Russia.
Forbes
a day ago
- Sport
- Forbes
Ice Cool Swiatek Wins First Wimbledon As Anisimova Freezes
LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 12: Iga Swiatek of Poland celebrates winning Championship point against ... More Amanda Anisimova of United States in the Ladies' Singles Final on day thirteen of The Championships Wimbledon 2025 at All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on July 12, 2025 in London, England. (Photo by) A women's singles final at Wimbledon between Amanda Anisimova and Iga Swiatek wasn't considered a potential drama in the pre-Championship script, and the writers didn't have much to work with in the end. The sixth seed beat Anisimova 6-0 6-0 in just 57 minutes to claim her maiden SW19 crown as the American was stricken with performance anxiety throughout. It was the second whitewash in a ladies' singles final in the Open Era, following on from Steffi Graf's 1988 dismantling of Natasha Zvereva at Roland Garros. That demolition lasted 34 minutes when the former Soviet player was so devastated she couldn't talk immediately afterwards. Anisimova managed that at least with grace and some strands of humor amid the tears that eventually flowed. Dorothea Lambert Chambers also won the 1911 Wimbledon final 6-0 6-0. Swiatek's greater Grand Slam experience, movement, shot-making and mastery over nerves was the key in making it over the line for the very first time on what was her least favorite surface not so long ago. The improvement has been coming after an impressive run to the Bad Homburg final last month. The grass is definitely greener for the Queen of clay. The only time the new champion showed doubt was when she was trying to grasp the enormity of the win. 'I feel like I am an experienced player but I never expected this win. My team believed in me more than I did.' This was the first time the All England Club had pushed the start time back to 4pm local time - 11am in New York. Centre Court ticket-holders had paid from between £240 to £315 for an hour of elite tennis that never threatened to be competitive. While Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz are constantly fighting over the major crown jewels across three different continents, the ladies' Wimbledon title has been an open lottery since 2017. Swiatek is now the eighth different winner in the last eight years, following on from the Serena Williams era. When Anisimova lost the Queen's final last month to 37-year-old Tatyana Maria, she was totally bemused by the German's cat and mouse tactics. The American still won eight games and could afford to feel good about herself about a week well spent. She has been superb in London twice until the last day. If Ons Jabeur's Wimbledon final woes were agonizing watches mixed with some coherent tennis, Anisimova needed the panic room from the very start. The first game nerves on serve were part of a bigger inferiority complex. Alarms bells were ringing before the match began as she couldn't land balls inside the court in the warm-up. 'I was a bit frozen there with my nerves,' said Anisimova after the match. 'Maybe the lastmtwo weeks I got a bit tired. I didn't practise yesterday. I think that I was just really fatigued. I could feel it also in my warm-up this morning," said the 23-year-old. This was rarefied air for the 13th seed whose only other business end appearance in a Slam was making the 2019 French Open semifinals. She lost to Ashleigh Barty as a 17-year-old who was supposed to take on the world, if not conquer it. Then real life happened as her father passed and the travails of the tour became too much. She returned at the beginning of 2024 after a seven-month break for mental health reasons, refreshed and ready to fight back. On Saturday afternoon in searing London heat, there was none of the surefire strut that overcame top seed and world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka in the semifinals. Sabalenka was a little ungracious in her press conference when she pronounced that the trophy was Swiatek's to take if her big rival beat Belinda Bencic. The battle between the ears was no contest. If Anisimova had converted a couple of game points at 0-2, the scoreboard would have at least looked respectable in early exchanges. She couldn't buy a first serve and won only a quarter of her first delivery points. In contrast, her opponent won 21 out of 29 and didn't suffer a single break point. Swiatek had become vulnerable after dropping from her no. 1 perch and failing to reach a WTA or major final since claiming the 2024 Roland Garros title. A one-month doping ban served where she bore 'no significant fault' for a contaminated sleeping tablet also didn't help her equilibrium. The devastating Olympic semifinal loss in Paris on her favorite piece of red dust was just the start of the knockbacks. LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 12: Amanda Anisimova of United States appears emotional during the Ladies' ... More Singles Final against Iga Swiatek of Poland on day thirteen of The Championships Wimbledon 2025 at All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on July 12, 2025 in London, England. (Photo by) At Wimbledon, equanimity has returned to the Polish pocket battleship. The freedom of playing as if it means nothing when it means everything is something that only the elite possesses. When Swiatek's cojones met Anisimova's clear sense of helplessness, things got ugly. Incredibly, the 2018 girls' singles winner won the last 20 games of her senior 2025 tournament. Swiatek is now 6-0 in major finals compared to Sabalenka's record of three wins from six and Coco Gauff's two from three. After a barren run, the 24-year-old now looks on a roll, echoing the kind of ruthlessness she displayed in that purple patch of 2022 when winning big in straight sets became a formality. Anisimova handled defeat well in front of the audience and the press, but must have been devastated that her nerves didn't let her body do the talking. Swiatek is out on the town and in the mood for a Champions' Ball. It could be 6-0 6-0 again if Alcaraz joins her by claiming his sixth win in majors on Sunday evening.
Vogue
2 days ago
- Sport
- Vogue
Iga Swiatek Wins Her First Wimbledon Championship—and Her Sixth Major Title Overall
On a warm afternoon at London's All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club (onlookers' fans could be seen swishing away over Centre Court), world number four Iga Swiatek, of Poland, met Amanda Anisimova of the United States for the Ladies' Singles Final at Wimbledon—a first appearance for both of them. After a thrilling fortnight for Anisimova, who on Thursday delivered a shocking upset over world number one Aryna Sabalenka to reach this final, hopes were high for the 23-year-old New Jersey native, a powerful hitter. Yet the occasion seemed to get the better of her on Saturday, as a businesslike Swiatek, 24—who has not appeared in a major final since winning her fourth French Open a year ago—sailed through the match in straight sets, trouncing Anisimova 6-0, 6-0. Swiatek may be known as a clay specialist, but she was playing some of the best grass-court tennis of her life on Saturday, not only moving with her trademark agility but hitting exceptionally well—and all while keeping a very cool head. Twenty minutes into the match, she was already up 5-0; the championship was hers not terribly long after that. At match point—with Catherine, Princess of Wales; Billie Jean King; nine-time Wimbledon champion Martina Navratilova; Martina Hingis; Simona Halep; Matthew McConaughey; and Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach among those cheering her on—Swiatek clasped her head in delight before dropping into the grass.
