For weeks while back home in Warsaw last year, Iga Swiatek hung out with friends and made new ones, but didn't dare tell them about a doping case that was hanging over her.
"Obviously, in the back of my mind," she said Saturday evening at the All England Club , "I had this thing."
There was more going on, too, and she only opened up to her family and her team. A coaching change. A long-for-her title drought. A ranking drop. Her grandfather's passing.
"It all happened together," Swiatek said. "It wasn't easy."
And so, in some ways, the Wimbledon championship Swiatek claimed Saturday with a 6-0, 6-0 victory - yes, read that score again - in 57 minutes over Amanda Anisimova could be viewed as more than merely a significant on-court result.