Amanda Anisimova is an American tennis player, finalist of two Grand Slam singles tournaments, winner of four WTA singles tournaments.
Place of Birth, Education
She was born on August 31, 2001 in the American village of Freegold Township.
The tennis player’s parents, Konstantin and Olga Anisimov, were emigrants from Russia.
Later, the family moved from New Jersey to Florida so that Amanda and her sister could get better training conditions and find experienced trainers.
For the first time, Anisimova picked up a racket at the age of three, and began to perform in official tournaments when she was about five and a half years old.
Career
2017 – 2022
She made her first appearance at an adult Grand Slam tournament during Roland Garros in 2017. Then she received a “wild card” from the organizers and became the youngest tennis player to get into the main draw of the tournament in France since 2005. However, she finished her performance in the first round, losing to Japanese tennis player Kurumi Nare.
On September 10, 2017, at the age of 16, she won the junior Open of the United States of America (USA).
In March 2018, Anisimova, having received a wild card, performed at a tournament in Indian Wales and reached the fourth round. During the competition, she defeated the Frenchwoman Pauline Parmantier, the Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and the Czech Petra Kvitova.
At the 2019 Australian Open, she made it to the fourth round, where she lost to Czech tennis player Petra Kvitova. During the competition, she defeated Romanian Monica Niculescu, Ukrainian Lesia Tsurenko and Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka.
In April 2019, Anisimova performed at the WTA tournament in Bogotá, where she beat Australian tennis player Astra Sharma in the final match.
On June 6, she won, beating the main favorite of the tournament, Romanian Simona Halep, in the quarterfinals of Roland Garros and reached the semifinals of the Grand Slam tournament for the first time. However, in the final she lost to the world’s number one racket Ashleigh Barty.
Subsequently, she reached the quarterfinals of the tournament in Mallorca, where she lost to Belinda Bencic from Switzerland.
In the second half of 2019, Anisimova’s results became somewhat worse. The best achievement during this period was reaching the quarterfinals of the competition in San Jose, where she lost to the future winner of the tournament Zheng Saisai.
During the competition, the tennis player suffered a back injury, which caused her to miss two Premier 5 series competitions over the next month. Also at the end of August, she withdrew from the US Open due to the death of her father.
After that, she played in only two tournaments, winning one victory and ending the season ahead of schedule. Despite this, by the end of the year it rose to 21st position in the world ranking.
She started the 2020/2021 season with a performance in Auckland, where she defeated Ukrainian Kateryna Kozlova, Russian Daria Kasatkina and Canadian Eugenie Bouchard, but lost in the semifinals to American Serena Williams.
2022 – tep. Time
Anisimova started the 2022 season at the tournament in Melbourne, where she made it to the final for the first time since 2019. In the decisive match, she defeated the Belarusian Alexandra Sosnovich and won the title.
At the Open Championship, the tennis player, having recovered from a lost set and rebounding two match points in the decisive game, defeated Japanese Naomi Osaka in the third round. This was her second triumph over the winner of the Grand Slam tournament.
In the fourth round, the American lost to world number one Ashleigh Barty and climbed to 41st place in the ranking.
At the tournament in Doha, Anisimova finished her performance in the second round, losing to Latvian tennis player Elena Ostapenko.
At the premier tournament in Madrid in 2022, she reached the quarterfinals. During the competition, she defeated two Belarusian rivals from the top ranking: Sabalenka and Belarusian Victoria Azarenka. In the quarterfinals, she lost to Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova.
During the 2022 Wimbledon tournament, for the first time in her career, she reached the quarterfinals of the major, defeating France’s Harmony Tan. In the next round, she lost to Romanian Simona Halep.
In May 2023, she put professional tennis on pause due to depression and burnout.
In mid-January 2024, Anisimova performed at the Australian Open. At the same time, Russian Lyudmila Samsonova won in the first round, and Argentine Nadia Podoroshka in the second. In the third round, she beat the Spaniard Paula Badosa, and in the fourth round she lost to Sabalenka.
In February 2025, she won the first victory in her career at a WTA 1000 singles tournament, triumphing in Doha. In the final, she beat Ostapenko. Thanks to this, she rose in the ranking from 41st place to 18th.
In April, she reached the semifinals of the WTA 500 tournament in Charleston, but lost to the American Sofia Kenin in the first set.
At the French Open, she reached the fourth round, where she lost to Sabalenka.
In June 2025, she reached the final of the WTA 500 tournament on grass in London, where she lost to the 86th racket of the world, German Tatiana Maria.
At Wimbledon, she defeated world number one Sabalenka in the semifinals, but in the final she was defeated by the Polish Iga Świętek. After this tournament , she rose to 7th place in the world ranking.
At the US Open, Anisimova reached the final, but eventually lost to Sabalenka.
