By Richard Pagliaro | Tuesday, September 2, 2025Photo credit score: Al Bello/Getty
NEW YORK—Iga Swiatek dealt devastation to Amanda Anisimova within the Wimbledon remaining.
Anisimova goals to attract inspiration from historic thrashing when she takes one other shot at Swiatek within the US Open quarterfinals.
The eighth-seeded Anisimova streaked by means of seven straight video games in a 6-0, 6-3 beatdown of Beatriz Haddad Maia on Monday evening.
That match adopted world No. 1 Jannik Sinner’s 6-1, 6-1, 6-1 obliteration of Alexander Bublik. Sometimes, Anisimova takes a nap earlier than evening matches however Sinner was so ruthlessly environment friendly, she skipped the nap and put Haddad Maia in a sleeper maintain as an alternative.
“I usually take a nap at the moment, and I didn’t even get to, like, actually lay down and put my head down,” Anisimova stated. “It was sort of like I simply ate after which went. I truthfully favor that, as a result of, like, warming up a number of occasions and never realizing while you’re going to go on is fairly arduous.
“I really feel like I’ve gotten used to it. However undoubtedly tonight was simpler on me I feel. Simply to, like, probably not let the nerves get to me and exit and play was loads higher.”
Now, Anisimova should confront a nightmare opponent with a semifinal spot on the road.
The 24-year-old Swiatek annihilated Anisimova, 6-0, 6-0 in probably the most lopsided girls Wimbledon remaining in Open Period historical past to seize her sixth Grand Slam championship—and turn out to be the primary Polish singles participant in historical past to win Wimbledon in July.
It was the primary time in 37 years—Since Corridor of Famer Steffi Graf destroyed Natasha Zverev within the 1988 Roland Garros remaining—a champion baked a double bagel in a Slam remaining.
Swiatek’s double bagel beat-down was probably the most lopsided Wimbledon girls’s remaining within the Open Period, surpassing Billie Jean King’s 6-0, 6-1 win over Evonne Goolagong in 1975. Swiatek gained 24 of 26 video games within the semifinals and finals allotting the primary Wimbledon remaining double bagel in 114 years—since Dorothea Lambert Chambers shut out fellow Briton Dora Boothby within the 1911 remaining.
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Nonetheless, Anisimova stated she’s pumped for the rematch with Swiatek.
“For positive, I’m actually excited and searching ahead to it,” Anisimova stated. “At this stage of the sport you’re going to play a extremely robust opponent regardless. So to have the ability to have, you recognize, a rematch or to have the ability to face her once more and provides myself one other likelihood, I’m actually, actually completely satisfied about that.”
A yr in the past, Anisimova entered the US Open ranked No. 50.
Now, the 2017 US Open women’ champion is No. 9 and dealing with her greatest problem of the occasion towards the 2022 US Open champion.
“Yeah, I really feel prefer it’s going to be a extremely robust problem, however I really feel like I’ve been taking part in nicely,” Anisimova stated. “Yeah, I imply, I’m simply trying ahead to it. I’m positive it’s going to be a terrific match, and yeah, I hope I can placed on a superb efficiency.”
Anisimova has gained 12 of her final 15 matches, together with three straight-sets wins in 4 US Open matches.
Swiatek is a greater mover that can put a premium on Anisimova’s first-serve proportion—and her vaunted backhand down the road, which is likely one of the finest within the sport. Anisimova is aware of she should keep in step early—or run the chance of one other blow-out loss.
Champions should exhibit short-term reminiscence loss on court docket and put defeats prior to now. The query is: Can Anisimova stand up and rid herself from the scar-tissue she carries from that painful Wimbledon shutout?
“It wasn’t a superb efficiency by any means. I really feel like possibly I realized some issues from it and a few issues I can do otherwise, however above all, I feel it was only a studying expertise,” Anisimova stated. “Yeah, bouncing again from that really was, you recognize, slightly bit troublesome, as a result of that by no means occurred to me earlier than. However I’ve labored by means of it, and the arduous court docket season began off robust for me. So yeah, I really feel like I’ve moved on from that at this level.”
