NEW YORK – Amanda Anisimova has been less than two months since losing to six Grand Slam champions with a 6-0, 6-0 score in the Wimbledon final, disrupting Iga Swiatek 6-4, 6-3 in the US Open Quarter Final on Wednesday.
No. 8 seed Anishimova reached her third major semi-final and was the first to arrive in the meadows.
“It’s really special to me to be back from Wimbledon like that,” said Anisimova, who was born in New Jersey and grew up in Florida. “I feel like I worked so hard to start over. …Today is really special.”
The strong strokes and calm she exhibited against second SwiaTek at Arthur Ashe Stadium (2022 US Open Champion) were a very prominent contrast to what happened on the All England Club’s Centre Court on July 12th.
That title match lasted just 57 minutes, with Anishimoba winning just 24 points.
“Everyone knows how Amanda can play. Yeah, she didn’t play well at Wimbledon,” said Swiatek, 24, from Poland.
Anishimova cried in her runner-up speech at the trophy ceremony at Wimbledon. On Wednesday, she spoke to thousands of supportive audiences who continued to pause on-court interviews with Cheers with all her smiles.
“Playing here is something very special,” Anishimova told them.
On Thursday, Anishimoba will try to reach the second consecutive major final. She will face four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka, who eliminated Coco Gouf on Monday, or Karolina Mciba in the semi-finals.
After one match against Swiecsk in the quarterfinals on Wednesday, Anishimova may have been allowed to think, “Oh, this isn’t once again.”
That’s because Anishimoba was the first to serve and quickly broke when he lost three points in a row for losing his forehand.
However, Anishimoba quickly broke, and soon became one point where her powerful, flat ground strokes contributed to 23 winners and more than 10 winners. Also, Anisimova played very nicely, with only 12 forced errors.
“She moved better, she played better,” Sweet compared the match to the Wimbledon match. “Everything was different.”
Swiatek serve was a problem. She only landed 50% of her first serve and broke four times.
“We couldn’t win today’s game and we served it that way,” Swiatek said.
In the second set, Anisimova was again late early. This time it was 2-0. However, she was reorganized again and quickly gained the upper hand. Swiatek became increasingly annoyed, shook his head, shoulders between points, spread his arms and looked for coaches for advice, and went back to the conversion chair, leaning against the conversion chair as if he could do exactly differently.
Anisimova was able to offer the victory when Swiatek doubled 5-3 in the second set.
“From the beginning, I was trying to launch myself,” Anishimoba said. “She’s one of the toughest players I’ve ever played. I knew I had to dig deeper.”
After beating world number one Arena Sabalenka in the Wimbledon semi-finals, Anishimova is the first American woman to beat WTA top two players in consecutive majors since Serena Williams at Wimbledon and the US Open in 2012.
Just turned 24 on Sunday, Anishimova is also the youngest woman to reach the major semi-finals on all three surfaces since 23-year-old Simona Hallep at the 2015 US Open.
ESPN research and Associated Press contributed to this report.
