Petra Kvitova celebrates her 6-3, 6-0 win against Eugenie Bouchard in the final of the Wimbledon women's singles. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters
Petra Kvitova produced a performance as good as any in recent Wimbledon history as she demolished Canada's Eugenie Bouchard 6-3, 6-0 to claim the title for a second time. The Czech, the champion in 2011, overpowered Bouchard with a barrage of thunderous hitting.
It was a relentless, brilliant, breathtaking display from Kvitova, who had the Centre Court crowd gasping at the ferocity of her serve and in particular her bullet-like returns, often down the middle which had Bouchard always on the back foot. The 20-year-old tried to stand her ground but was bullied backwards and simply had no answer to the brilliance from the other side of the net.
Bouchard, the first Canadian ever to make a grand slam singles final, didn't even play badly but the first set was over in 32 minutes. A huge forehand gave Kvitova the first break for 2-1 and in the next game she then produced the shot of the match as she sliced a backhand cross-court for an unlikely winner to hold for 3-1. She broke again on her way to a 5-2 lead and though Bouchard broke back in the eighth game, Kvitova broke to love to take the set.
The second set was an exhibition from the left-handed Kvitova, who yielded just 10 points in the entire set as Bouchard was left reeling from winner after winner. Having broken for 2-0, she managed it twice more before firing a backhand winner, her 28th in all, to clinch a deserved victory, standing arms aloft, almost in disbelief at her performance, before falling to the turf in celebration.
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