Perhaps more than ever, the women’s final will be full of firsts at The Championships 2025 – starting with the time it’s scheduled to begin. This year it will start at 4pm, following the men’s doubles final.
At least one outcome is guaranteed on Centre Court on Saturday: for the ninth successive ladies’ singles final, a different woman will lift the Venus Rosewater Dish, and for the eighth consecutive time the champion will never have held the trophy before.
This time that player will be either the No.8 seed Iga Swiatek from Poland, or the No.13 seed Amanda Anisimova of the USA.
Extraordinarily, whichever wins, this will be their first WTA-level title on grass.
As ever, the words “since Serena Williams” figure large in the landmark statistics for this final. If Anisimova wins, she will not only be the first American champion since Williams in 2016, but at the age of 23 also the youngest American victor since Williams in 2003.
Happily for the Williams family, Venus is also a factor here. Should Anisimova take the title, she will be the first American to capture their maiden Grand Slam at Wimbledon since Venus Williams in 2000.
On the other hand, if Swiatek emerges the winner, she will be the first Pole – man or woman – to win a Wimbledon singles title in the Open era. Impressively, she has never lost any Grand Slam final before this, having won all five she has contested.
Should she make it six Grand Slam titles from six finals played, she will be the first woman to accomplish that feat since Monica Seles in 1992.
Swiatek's last Grand Slam title, her fifth overall, was a third consecutive Roland-Garros trophy in 2024.
If she conquers the grass that once so confounded her, Swiatek will become the only active player to win a Grand Slam on all three surfaces – and in her 100th Grand Slam match win, to boot.