Amanda Anisimova

Amanda Kay Victoria Anisimova (Аманда Анисимова, ; born August 31, 2001) is an American professional tennis player.

She has a career-high WTA ranking of No. 21 in the world, and has been ranked in the top 100 since shortly after turning 17 years old.

Anisimova has won two WTA Tour titles and reached three WTA finals in total.

With her father Konstantin as her longtime coach and her older sister also a tennis player, Anisimova began playing tennis at a very young age.

Her parents decided to move to Florida when Anisimova was very young to give their children better training opportunities.

As a junior, Anisimova was ranked as high as No. 2 in the world.

In her second career junior 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.

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.

Anisimova achieved a career high ITF junior ranking of No. 2 in the world in 2016.

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.

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 Grand Slam events.

She capped off her junior career by winning her first Grand Slam title at the US Open, where she defeated fellow American Coco Gauff in the final and did not drop a set during the tournament.

In the middle of 2016, Anisimova received a wildcard into US Open qualifying, her first professional tournament.

She won her debut match against world No. 124, Verónica Cepede Royg, at the age of 14, then lost in the following round.

She won the 2017 US Open girls' singles title, as well as two other Grade-A titles.

She also became the first American finalist at the French Open girls' singles event in 14 years.

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.

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 at the tournament, despite this being her first professional main draw.

On the WTA Tour, Anisimova rose to prominence at the 2018 Indian Wells Open, where she scored her first top-10 victory at age 16 against Petra Kvitová.

During the summer, she competed in the USTA Girls' 18s National Championship as the No. 5 seed and finished in 4th place.

She won her first WTA title at the Copa Colsanitas in April 2019 at age 17, and her second title at the Melbourne Summer Set in January 2022 at age 20.

Her first two breakthroughs at Grand Slam events came in 2019.

At the Australian Open, she defeated No. 11 Aryna Sabalenka, one of the leading contenders for the title, to reach the fourth round.

At the French Open, she upset Simona Halep, the defending champion and world No. 3, to become the youngest semifinalist at the tournament in over a decade.

The next time she reached the fourth round of a major was at the 2022 Australian Open where she won a match against defending champion Naomi Osaka.

In 2022, she also reached her first Wimbledon Championships quarterfinal.

Amanda Anisimova was born in Freehold Township, New Jersey to Olga Anisimova 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 a few years before she was born to give their older daughter better opportunities.

They worked in the finance and banking industries, and neither played competitive tennis while growing up.

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 when she was very young, so Amanda and her sister would have more opportunities to train and find other coaches.

Her father long acted as her primary coach while she was a junior, and her mother has also helped coach her.

Additionally, she had worked with Nick Saviano starting from when she was 11 years old.

Max Fomine, who has also been an assistant coach for the Bryan brothers, has served as her travelling coach.