Shortest women's Wimbledon finals: Iga Swiatek beats Amanda Anisimova in 57 minutes
Swiatek, the No. 4 player in the world, shut out American Amanda Anisimova in straight sets 6-0, 6-0 in the women's singles finals at the 2025 Wimbledon Championship on July 12. It was her sixth straight-sets victory at the All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club in the last two weeks.
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Swiatek's big day on the grass court surface turned out to be a historic one for the Polish women's tennis player, who took social media by storm this past week with her favorite meal: strawberries and pasta. The 24-year-old, who has now won six Grand Slam majors, won her first Wimbledon title in timely record fashion: seventh-fastest of the Open era, at 57 minutes.
That wasn't the only history made by Swiatek. Her double bagel win over Anisimova also marked just the second ever such score for a women's singles final at Wimbledon — and the first since 1911. It was also the first double bagel in a Grand Slam women's singles final since the 1988 French Open.
As noted by ESPN, Swiatek became just the eighth woman tennis player, and the only active WTA player, to win major titles on all three surfaces. She won her first Grand Slam major title on the clay court surface at the French Open in 2020, while winning her first title on the hard court surface at the US Open in 2022.
Here's what you need to know on Swiatek's Wimbledon championship:
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REQUIRED READING: Wimbledon women's final highlights: Swiatek cruises to win over Anisimova
How fast was 2025 Wimbledon women's singles final?
Swiatek needed just 57 minutes to beat Anisimova in the women's singles finals at the 2025 Wimbledon Championships for her first Wimbledon title.
"Honestly, I didn't even dream (of this) because for me it was just way too far," Swiatek said post-match on the court of winning Wimbledon. "I feel like I'm already an experienced player, after winning Slams before, but I never really expected this one."
REQURIED READING: Strawberries and pasta? Iga Swiatek's favorite meal, Polish dish, explained
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What is the shortest women's singles final at Wimbledon?
According to the Wimbledon website, the shortest match time in the women's singles final at Wimbledon is 23 minutes long, which happened back in 1992 when Suzanne Lenglen of France defeated the American player Molla Bjurstedt Mallory in straight sets, 6-2, 6-0.
Shortest women's singles finals at Wimbledon
The 57 minutes it took Swiatek to defeat Anisimova is tied for the 19th-fastest time in Wimbledon finals history and seventh-fastest of the Open era. Here's a look at where Swiatek's time of 57 minutes in the 2025 Wimbledon women's singles final stacks up with other women's singles finals at Wimbledon, per the Wimbledon website:
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1. Suzanne Lenglen (FRA) defeats Molla Bjurstedt Mallory (USA) in 23 minutes (1992)
T-2. Dorothea Lambert Chambers (BRI) defeats Penelope Dora Harvey Boothby (BRI) in 25 minutes (1911)
T-2. Suzanne Lenglen (FRA) defeats Joan Craddock Fry (GBR) in 25 minutes (1925)
4. Alice Marble (USA) defeats Kay Stammers (GBR) in 30 minutes (1939)
5. Doris Hart (USA) defeats Shirley Fry (USA) 4 in 35 minutes (1951)
6. Billie Jean King (USA) defeats Evonne Goolagong Cawley (AUS) in 38 minutes (1975)
7. Maria Bueno (BRA) defeats Darlene R. Hard (USA) in 43 minutes (1959)
T-8. Helen Wills Moody (USA) defeats Helen Hull Jacobs (USA) in 50 minutes (1932)
T-8. Maureen Connolly (USA) defeats Louise Brough (USA) in 50 minutes (1954)
T-8. Shirley Fry (USA) defeats Angela Buxton (GBR) in 50 minutes (1956)
T-8. Althea Gibson (USA) defeats Darlene R. Hard (USA) in 50 minutes (1957)
T-8. Billie Jean King (USA) defeats Evonne Goolagong Cawley (AUS) in 50 minutes (1972)
13. Margaret Smith (AUS) defeats Billie Jean King (USA) in 51 minutes (1963)
14. Billie Jean King (USA) defeats C. Evert (USA) in 53 minutes (1973)
15. Martina Navratilova (USA) defeats Andrea Jaeger (USA) in 54 minutes (1983)
16. Petra Kvitova (CZE) defeats Eugenie Bouchard (CAN) in 55 minutes (2014)
T-17. Margaret Smith (AUS) defeats Maria Bueno (BRA) in 56 minutes (1965)
T-17. Simona Halep (ROU) defeats Serena Williams (USA) in 56 minutes (2019)
T-19. Dorothea Katherine Douglass defeats May Godfrey Sutton in 57 minutes (1906)
T-19. Karen Susman (USA) defeats Vera Sukova (TCH) in 57 minutes (1962)
T-19. Iga Swiatek (POL) defeats Amanda Anisimova in 57 minutes (2025)
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