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Amanda Anisimova faces Iga Swiatek in Wimbledon women's final, playing for first time on center court

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The winner will be the eighth consecutive first-time Wimbledon champion.
Amanda Anisimova and Iga Swiatek both will be aiming to win Wimbledon for the first time when they meet in the women’s final.
Saturday’s title match at Centre Court is the first for Anisimova, a 23-year-old American, at any Grand Slam tournament. She had taken a several-month career break in 2023, exhausted, she said, by the relentless demands of elite competition.
Swiatek, a 24-year-old from Poland, already owns five such trophies, going 5-0 in major finals, but never had been this far on the grass courts of the All England Club. She’s been the champion on the French Open’s red clay four times and on the U.S. Open’s hard courts once.
The final is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. local time, which is 11 a.

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