Amanda Anisimova

Amanda Anisimova
Amanda Anisimova (2018)
Nation:	United States
Birthday:	August 31, 2001
Size:	180 cm
1st professional season:	2016
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Prize money:	$ 1,689,615
singles
Career record:	80:41
Career title:	1 WTA , 1 ITF
Highest ranking:	21 (October 21, 2019)
Current placement:	28
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	3: 5
Career title:	0 WTA, 0 ITF
Highest ranking:	386 (June 24, 2019)
Current placement:	447
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: March 16, 2020
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Amanda Anisimova (born August 31, 2001 in Freehold Township , New Jersey ) is an American tennis player .

Career

Anisimova, whose parents emigrated from Russia to the United States in 1998 , began playing tennis at the age of three. She already attracted attention as a junior. In 2015, she won the renowned Abierto Juvenil Mexicano junior tournament and triumphed in 2017 at the Porto Alegre Junior Championships and the US Open youth competition , where she stayed without losing a set throughout the tournament and prevailed against Cori Gauff in the final . The year before she was in the final of the junior women’s tournament of the French Open and lost to Rebeka Masarova . Then she reached her highest position in the junior tennis world rankings with second place .

Due to her great talent, Anisimova was allowed to start with a wildcard in the qualification of the US Open in 2016 and was eliminated in the second round. In 2017 she made her debut on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour and immediately qualified as a qualifier in the final of the $ 25,000 tournament in Curitiba , where she had to admit defeat to Anastassija Potapova . In Miami she then, also equipped with a wildcard, made her debut on the WTA Tour, but lost to Taylor Townsend at the beginning . Back on the ITF tour, she was subsequently in a tournament of the $ 80,000 category in Indian Harbor and the week after in the $ 60,000 tournament in Dothan in the final, but remained without a title. At the French Open 2017 , Anisimova received a wildcard for the main round of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time, in which she failed at the start to Kurumi Nara . On hard court, she then won her first professional title in Sacramento at an ITF tournament in the $ 60,000 category, benefiting from the withdrawal of her final opponent Ajla Tomljanović .

In 2018 Anisimova first reached the semi-finals at the WTA Challenger in Indian Wells , in which she had to admit defeat to Sara Errani , before she won against Anastassija Pavlyuchenkova and the top 10 player Petra Kvitová in the Premier Mandatory tournament, which was also held in Indian Wells advanced to the fourth round, in which she was defeated by Karolína Plíšková . After moving into the round of 16 in Cincinnati , in which she was eliminated by Elina Switolina , Anisimova achieved her first final on the WTA Tour as a qualifier in Hiroshima , which she lost to Hsieh Su-wei . Nevertheless, at the end of the 2018 season she was listed in the top 100 of the tennis world rankings for the first time.

At the start of the 2019 season, Anisimova entered the fourth round of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time at the Australian Open after a success over Aryna Sabalenka , before being stopped by Petra Kvitová. In Bogotá she then won her first WTA title; in the final she beat Astra Sharma in three sets. Her greatest career success to date was at the French Open , where she was the first player born in the new millennium to reach the semifinals of a Grand Slam tournament, including defending champion Simona Halep in the quarterfinals . In the round of the last four she then had to admit defeat to the eventual winner Ashleigh Barty . After the sudden death of her father and coach Konstantin in August 2019, she canceled her participation in the 2019 US Open . At the end of the season she achieved her highest world ranking position to date with 21st place.

The year 2020 began Anisimova with a semi-finals entry in Auckland and reaching the round of 16 in Doha , where she landed her third win against a top 10 player against Elina Switolina before the season was canceled due to corona .

In 2017 she won the Junior Fed Cup with Whitney Osuigwe and Caty McNally for the United States Fed Cup team . In the final, they beat the team from Japan 2-0. Anisimova himself was not used in the final due to illness.

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 30, 2017	Sacramento	ITF $ 60,000	Hard court	Ajla Tomljanović	without a fight
2.	April 14, 2019	Bogotá	WTA International	sand	Astra Sharma	4: 6, 6: 4, 6: 1

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments

singles

competition	2017	2018	2019	2020	Career
Australian Open	-	-	AF	1	AF
French Open	1	-	HF		HF
Wimbledon	-	-	2		2
US Open	-	1	-		1

Web links

Commons : Amanda Anisimova  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• WTA profile Amanda Anisimova (English)
• ITF profile Amanda Anisimova (English)
• ITF junior profile Amanda Anisimova (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Amanda Anisimova, 15, Is Ready for Her Grand Slam Debut. In: nytimes.com. May 25, 2017, accessed on August 3, 2020 . 
2. ↑ From New Jersey to the Champs Elysees: American Amanda Anisimova, 17, becomes the first tennis player born in the 2000s to reach a grand slam semi-final as she stuns third seed Simona Halep at the French Open. In: dailymail.co.uk. June 6, 2019, accessed August 3, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Amanda Anisimova withdraws from the 2019 US Open. In: usopen.org. August 20, 2019, accessed on August 3, 2020 . 
4. ↑ US Girls Win Junior Fed Cup; Sanford and Holt Claim Oracle Masters Championships; Bektas, Shane Claim Pro Circuit Titles. In: http://tenniskalamazoo.blogspot.com/ . September 24, 2017, accessed August 3, 2020 .