No. 13 Seed Amanda Anisimova fought World No. 1 Aryana Sabalenka and scorching temperature to reach their first final in a major event in Wimbledon on Thursday.
Anisimova won the third of his three match points in two hours, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 in 37 minutes.
In just one year, the American Wimbledon has failed to qualify for the finalist. At the age of 23, she became the first player to reach the final in the Grass Court in London in the 2000s.
In the final, he will play between the winner of the semi -final match between another 2000 child – Poland’s No. 8 Ced IGA Swiyatech – and Belinda Bennic of Switzerland.
Anisimova said in his on-court interview, “It is not real right now, honestly,” Anisimova said in his on-court interview. “Aryana has such a difficult contestant, and I was dying from there. I don’t know how I removed it. She is an incredible contestant.”
For Anisimova, if his sixth career was on top 5 wins and for the first time on World No. 1. She left 6-3 against Sabalenka from Belarus, who won three Grand Slam events, but never reached the finals in Wimbledon.
Anisimova was able to talk to some garbage to Sabalenka, as well as a disappointing drop of another set that kept Sabalenka in the match. Below 5-3, Anisimova fought four set points to conduct service but was steamer in the following game to lose the set.
In the third set, Anisimova had the match point 5–3 and had a break, but Sabalenka fought a match point with a chance to return to service.
But to potentially tie the match with Sabalenka, Anisimova won three quick points for the triple match point.
Anisimova took an eight -month break for mental health from April 2023 till the beginning of 2024.
“To be honest, if you told me that I will be in the final in Wimbledon, I will not believe you – at least it’s not,” he said. “It’s been a year away. … To be on this occasion, I mean it is not easy and many people dream of competing in this incredible court. It is so privileged to compete and finally to compete and finally.”
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