Anisimova beat Osaka at the U.S. Open to win the second consecutive Grand Slam final
NEW YORK (AP) – Amanda Anisimova eliminated four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka Osaka 6-7 (4), 7-6 (3), 6-3 in the U.S. Open semifinals, with two of the most powerful first hitters in the women’s tennis tournament at the closest 1 o’clock.
No. 8 seed Anisimova is a 24-year-old Anisimova who was born in New Jersey and raised in Florida, where he reached 2 hours and 56 minutes in a row for the second major final.
“I’m not sure I’m going to go above the finish line and I’m trying to dig deeper,” said Anisimova, who needs three match points to get the job done. “It was a huge battle there today.”
After that, Anisimova shouted, “Let’s go!” and enjoyed the moment by kneeling on the court and leaning forward.
She will face the defending champion and currently No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka title on Saturday. Sabalenka defeated Jessica Pegula in three sets on Thursday. Sabalenka has three main trophys, all on tough courts.
At the Wimbledon in July, Anisimova made a huge Grand Slam breakthrough that frustrated Sabalenka in the semifinals, a result that boosted the Americans’ U.S. advantage in the head-to-head series to 6-3 and kept winning the championship game before losing to Iga Swiatek 6-0, 6-0. But Anisimova recovered two sets quickly enough from the U.S. Open quarterfinals.
Now, Anisimova is the first opponent to beat Osaka, the former player who ranks 23rd in New York, late in the Grand Slam Championship. Before the loss, Osaka had a total of 14-0 in her career in the quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals, from two trophys from the U.S. Open and Australian Open.
Anisimova made his first final four at the 17-year-old French Open in the 2019 French Open. In 2023, she took a break for a while and said she had “struggled with my mental health and burnout for nearly a year.”
At this time last season, Anisomova was ranked 50th but is still returning. She is definitely back-better than ever.
When asked about winning her in Osaka, Anisomova replied, “Oh my God. I don’t know. I mean, Naomi is playing great tennis. She’s back where she belongs.”
Well, Anisimova did this by forgetting the opening ceremony and forgetting the second 6-5 deficit.
She hasn’t put anything in a stretch and sent it out- usually lands on the court and where she wants it. It’s also often in Osaka style, but she couldn’t move on later and took some pills after checking her third plate of left foot.
Both players often go to the corner of the court to watch coaches and trade speech.
Osaka showed frustration when she broke the second set by playing angrily on the blue court and then threw the racket to the sideline.
The race in Osaka can reach up to 119 mph and produces 15 A. Anisimova’s purest sport, almost good forehand helped her write 50 winners, 18 more than Osaka.
“Sometimes, I was like, ‘How do we take these pictures?’” Anisimova said. “But we are.”
Indeed: both. But Anisimova does more.
