{"id":26193,"date":"2025-11-05T18:54:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T23:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/05\/amanda-anisimova-defeats-iga-swiatek-to-advance-to-wta-finals-semi-finals\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T18:54:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T23:54:32","slug":"amanda-anisimova-defeats-iga-swiatek-to-advance-to-wta-finals-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/05\/amanda-anisimova-defeats-iga-swiatek-to-advance-to-wta-finals-semi-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Amanda Anisimova defeats Iga Swiatek to advance to WTA Finals semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>RIYADH, Saudi Arabia &#8212; Amanda Anisimova defeated No. 2 Iga Swiatek 6-7 (3), 6-4, 6-2 at the WTA Finals on Wednesday to advance to the last four.<\/p>\n<p>It was the 24-year-old American&#8217;s second consecutive win against Swiatek, after losing to the Polish player 6-0, 6-0 in the Wimbledon final.<\/p>\n<p>Anisimova, ranked No. 4, also defeated Swiatek in the quarterfinals of the US Open.<\/p>\n<p>Anisimova made her first service break of the contest, taking the second set and seizing the deciding opportunity. She faced just four break points and saved each one.<\/p>\n<p>Elena Rybakina, who had already reached the semi-finals, finished the round-robin phase with a 6-4, 6-4 victory over Ekaterina Alexandrova.<\/p>\n<p>Rybakina and Anisimova will find out their semifinal opponents after Thursday&#8217;s final round robin match. Top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka will face defending champion Coco Gauff, while Jessica Pegula will face previously eliminated Jasmine Paolini.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIYADH, Saudi Arabia &#8212; Amanda Anisimova defeated No. 2 Iga Swiatek 6-7 (3), 6-4, 6-2 at the WTA Finals on Wednesday to advance to the last four. It was the 24-year-old American&#8217;s second consecutive win against Swiatek, after losing to the Polish player 6-0, 6-0 in the Wimbledon final. Anisimova, ranked No. 4, also defeated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[292,3591,3714,27,111,773,1849,774,24,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-26193","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-advance","9":"tag-amanda","10":"tag-anisimova","11":"tag-defeats","12":"tag-finals","13":"tag-iga","14":"tag-semifinals","15":"tag-swiatek","16":"tag-tennis","17":"tag-wta"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}