WTA star who lost to Amanda Anisimova at Wimbledon thinks she knows the real reason behind her 0-6, 0-6 final defeat

Advancing to her first major final, Anisimova took on five-time Grand Slam champion Iga Swiatek.

Struggling from the very first ball on Centre Court, Anisimova lost to Swiatek 0-6, 0-6, after just 57 minutes.

Reacting to the new world number seven’s crushing defeat, a WTA star who lost to Anisimova at Wimbledon has suggested the real reason for the result.

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova blames the ‘completely different’ conditions on Court One and Centre Court

En route to the final, Anisimova defeated Russian star Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-1, 7-6 in the quarterfinals.

Appearing as a guest on Bolshe!, Pavlyuchenkova shared her thoughts on Anisimova’s 0-6, 0-6 defeat in the Wimbledon final.

“I didn’t have time to watch, I wanted to watch, but I didn’t have time. Sometimes, of course, you don’t want to watch women’s matches either when you’ve already been eliminated,” she said.

“I was very surprised by the score, 100%. It just seemed to me that Amanda [Anisimova], after she beat [Aryna] Sabalenka, was in great shape, and that the grass was her surface.”

Pavlyuchenkova did, however, offer up an explanation as to why Anisimova failed to win a game in the Wimbledon final.

“The only thing is that Centre Court is much slower than Court One, and Anisimova, before me, played [Linda] Noskova on Court One, with me on Court One,” she said.

“It’s completely different.”

Reaching the fourth round, Anisimova was scheduled on Court One, which she remained on for her quarterfinal win over Pavlyuchenkova.

Then she was moved to the ‘slower’ Centre Court for her semifinal match and the final with Swiatek.

Anisimova’s hard-hitting style is less suited to the slower surfaces, whereas Swiatek, a clay-court specialist, may in fact have preferred the conditions on Centre Court.

The conditions likely wouldn’t have affected Anisimova as much in her semifinal win over Sabalenka, as her Belarusian opponent plays just as hard, if not harder, than the American.

We’ll never know how Anisimova would have performed in the final if the conditions had been to her liking, but it’s certainly an interesting theory from Pavlyuchenkova.

What happened to the other players Iga Swiatek beat in Grand Slam finals?

Anisimova became Swiatek’s sixth Grand Slam final victim on Saturday, as the Pole maintained her perfect record.

• 2020 French Open F – Iga Swiatek beat Sofia Kenin
• 2022 French Open F – Iga Swiatek beat Coco Gauff
• 2022 US Open F – Iga Swiatek beat Ons Jabeur
• 2023 French Open F – Iga Swiatek beat Karolina Muchova
• 2024 French Open F – Iga Swiatek beat Jasmine Paolini
• 2025 Wimbledon F – Iga Swiatek beat Amanda Anisimova

Only one player who suffered a defeat to Swiatek in a Grand Slam final managed to bounce back and win a major of their own.

Coco Gauff fell to a convincing 1-6, 3-6 defeat in the 2022 French Open final, but didn’t let that affect her, as she rose to the top of the women’s game one year later.

Beating Sabalenka in the final, Gauff won her first Grand Slam title at the 2023 US Open and added to her major tally by securing another win over the world number one at the 2025 French Open.

Anisimova will surely be looking to Gauff for inspiration, as she looks to avoid the fate of the other players who lost to Swiatek in Grand Slam finals.

It remains to be seen how Anisimova will perform at Grand Slams in the future, as she looks to get her hands on a major title.

Anisimova will return to Grand Slam action at the 2025 US Open, when the tournament begins on Sunday, August 24.