Background and career
Amanda Kay Victoria Anisimova (; born August 31, 2001) is an American professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 3, achieved in January 2026. Anisimova is a two-time major finalist, at the 2025 Wimbledon Championships and at the 2025 US Open. She has won four WTA Tour titles, including two WTA 1000 events. In juniors, Anisimova won the 2017 US Open girls' singles and reached No. 2 in junior world rankings. In 2018, she reached the fourth round at the Indian Wells, upsetting No. 9 Petra Kvitová, and reached her first WTA final at the Japan Women's Open. In 2019, she won her maiden title at the Copa Colsanitas and reached the semifinals at the French Open, upsetting No. 3 and defending champion Simona Halep. In 2022, she won her second career title at the Melbourne Summer Set 2 and reached the quarterfinals at the Wimbledon Championships. Anisimova took a break away from the sport in 2023. In 2024, she made her first career WTA 1000 final at the Canadian Open, defeating No. 3 Aryna Sabalenka en route. In 2025, she won her first two career WTA 1000 titles at the Qatar Open and the China Open and reached her first two major finals at the Wimbledon Championships and the US Open.
Amanda Anisimova was born in Freehold Township, New Jersey, on August 31, 2001, to Olga and Konstantin Anisimov. She has an older sister, Maria, who played college tennis for the University of Pennsylvania while attending Wharton's undergraduate business school. Her parents emigrated from Russia to the United States in 1998. They worked in the finance and banking industries. Anisimova started playing tennis at age five. She credits her sister as her inspiration for taking up the sport, saying: "When I was little, she was playing tennis. I always saw her playing, and I wanted to do it too. That's how I got into it and my parents got into it too." Her family moved to Florida in 2004 when Amanda was very young, so she and her sister would have more opportunities to train and find coaches. Her father long acted as her primary coach while she was a junior, and her mother has also helped coach her. She worked with Nick Saviano starting at age 11. Max Fomine, who has also been an assistant coach for the Bryan brothers, has served as her traveling coach.
Anisimova achieved a career-high ITF junior ranking of No. 2 in the world in 2016. Early in her junior career she entered the 2015 Abierto Juvenil Mexicano ranked outside the top 300, but unexpectedly won the high-level Grade A tournament at age 14. She continued to excel in 2016, winning the Grade 1 Copa del Café and reaching the final at the Grade A Copa Gerdau. On the strength of these results, Anisimova was the No. 2 seed at the French Open. In her second Grand Slam tournament, she became the first American finalist at the girls' event since Ashley Harkleroad in 2002. However, she lost the final to Rebeka Masarova. During the summer, she competed in the USTA Girls' 18s National Championship as the No. 5 seed and finished in 4th place. As a 15-year-old Anisimova won two more big titles, the first at the Grade-1 Yucatán Cup in late 2016, and the second at the Grade-A Copa Gerdau in early 2017 where she had been a finalist a year earlier. Following these titles, she played in only two more ITF junior tournaments that year, both of which were major events. She capped off her junior career by winning her first major title at the US Open where she defeated fellow American Coco Gauff in the final and did not drop a set during the tournament. Anisimova was also a member of the United States team that won the 2017 Junior Fed Cup, but did not play in the final tie due to illness.
In the middle of 2016, at the age of 14, Anisimova received a wildcard into US Open qualifying. In her first professional tournament, she won her debut match against world No. 124, Verónica Cepede Royg, then lost in the following round. Following her junior title at the 2017 Copa Gerdau in February, Anisimova stayed in Brazil and played in a 25k event in Curitiba. She reached her first final on the pro tour in her first professional main draw. A few weeks later, Anisimova was awarded a wildcard into the Miami Open. In her WTA Tour main-draw debut, she lost in the first round to Taylor Townsend, in three sets. During the clay-court season, Anisimova reached back-to-back finals at the 80k event in Indian Harbour Beach and the 60k event in Dothan, Alabama the following week. These results helped her win the USTA French Open Wildcard Challenge and crack the top 300 of the WTA rankings. At 15 years old, Anisimova became the youngest player to participate in the French Open main draw since Alizé Cornet in 2005. In her major main-draw debut, she lost her first-round match to Kurumi Nara. After forgoing the grass-court season, Anisimova continued to play on the ITF Pro Circuit. She broke into the top 200 by capturing her first professional title at the 60k event in Sacramento, California in late July.
Anisimova entered the inaugural Challenger Series events at Newport Beach and Indian Wells at the start of the year. She qualified for both main draws, and her semifinal at Indian Wells helped her earn a main-draw wildcard into the WTA Tour event there the following week. At the Indian Wells Open, Anisimova won her first WTA main-draw match against Pauline Parmentier. In the second round, she defeated No. 23 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. In the third round, she defeated No. 9 Petra Kvitová for her first top-10 win. At 16 year old, she became the youngest player to reach the fourth round at the Indian Wells since Viktoriya Kutuzova in 2005. She lost in the fourth round to No. 5 Karolína Plíšková in straight sets. Anisimova was also awarded a wildcard into the Miami Open. She won her opening match against Wang Qiang despite injuring her right foot in the third set. This injury forced her to withdraw from the tournament and kept her out for four months. Anisimova returned to tennis in July at the Silicon Valley Classic after qualifying. She defeated Wang Qiang again, but lost in the second round to No. 24 Mihaela Buzărnescu. At the Cincinnati Open, she defeated Tímea Babos and qualifier Petra Martić, before losing to No. 7, Elina Svitolina. Anisimova received a wildcard into the US Open, but lost in the first round to Taylor Townsend. Anisimova entered the Japan Women's Open after qualifying. She defeated Jana Fett and Zheng Saisai to reach her first tour quarterfinal. She defeated Anna Karolína Schmiedlová to reach her first WTA semifinal. She defeated Zhang Shuai to reach her first WTA Tour final. At 17 years old, she became the youngest player to make a tour final since Donna Vekić in 2013. She lost the final to Hsieh Su-wei in straight sets. Despite the loss, Anisimova cracked the top 100 for the first time.
Anisimova started the season in Auckland. She defeated qualifier Jana Čepelová and Barbora Strýcová to reach the quarterfinals, where she lost to Viktória Hrunčáková in three sets. At the Australian Open, she won her first major main-draw match against Monica Niculescu. In the second round, she upset No. 24 Lesia Tsurenko in straight sets. In the third round, she upset No. 11 Aryna Sabalenka in straight sets. She lost in the fourth round to No. 6 Petra Kvitová in straight sets. Anisimova came into the Copa Colsanitas without a clay-court win at WTA-level. However, she overcame wildcard entrant Sabine Lisicki, Varvara Lepchenko, wildcard entrant Camila Osorio, and qualifier Beatriz Haddad Maia to reach her second WTA final. She defeated Astra Sharma in three sets to win her first WTA title. As a result, she reached a new career-high ranking of No. 54. At the French Open, Anisimova defeated wildcard entrant Harmony Tan in the first round. In the second round, she upset No. 11 Aryna Sabalenka again in straight sets. She defeated Irina-Camelia Begu and qualifier Aliona Bolsova to reach her first major quarterfinal. In the quarterfinals, she upset No. 3 and defending champion Simona Halep in straight sets. At 17 year old, she became the youngest player to reach French Open semifinals since Nicole Vaidišová in 2006. She lost in the semifinals to No. 8 and eventual champion Ashleigh Barty in three sets. Consequently, Anisimova reached a career-high ranking of No. 26. At the Mallorca Open, Anisimova defeated qualifier Tereza Martincová and Alizé Cornet to reach the quarterfinals, where she lost to No. 13 Belinda Bencic in straight sets. At Wimbledon, she defeated Sorana Cirstea before losing to Magda Linette. At the Silicon Valley Classic, Anisimova defeated Madison Brengle to reach the quarterfinals, where she lost to eventual champion Zheng Saisai, in three sets. She dealt with a back injury during the event, which led her to withdraw from both Premier 5 events within the next month. Anisimova withdrew from the US Open following the death of her father.
