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 seven straight video games in a 6-0, 6-3 beatdown of Beatriz Haddad Maia on Monday night time.
That match adopted world No. 1 Jannik Sinner’s 6-1, 6-1, 6-1 obliteration of Alexander Bublik. Usually, Anisimova takes a nap earlier than night time matches however Sinner was so ruthlessly environment friendly, she skipped the nap and put Haddad Maia in a sleeper maintain as a substitute.
“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 form of like I simply ate after which went. I truthfully want that, as a result of, like, warming up a number of instances and never realizing if you’re going to go on is fairly laborious.
“I really feel like I’ve gotten used to it. However positively tonight was simpler on me I feel. Simply to, like, probably not let the nerves get to me and exit and play was quite a bit 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 essentially the most lopsided women Wimbledon remaining in Open Period historical past to seize her sixth Grand Slam championship—and change into 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 essentially 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 received 24 of 26 video games within the semifinals and finals shelling out 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 very robust opponent regardless. So to have the ability to have, you realize, a rematch or to have the ability to face her once more and provides myself one other likelihood, I’m actually, actually blissful about that.”
A 12 months 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 largest problem of the occasion towards the 2022 US Open champion.
“Yeah, I really feel prefer it’s going to be a very robust problem, however I really feel like I’ve been enjoying effectively,” Anisimova stated. “Yeah, I imply, I’m simply wanting ahead to it. I’m positive it’s going to be an amazing match, and yeah, I hope I can placed on a great efficiency.”
Anisimova has received 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 share—and her vaunted backhand down the road, which is likely one of the greatest within the sport. Anisimova is aware of she should keep in step early—or run the danger of one other blow-out loss.
Champions should exhibit short-term reminiscence loss on court docket and put defeats up 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 great 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 realize, somewhat bit troublesome, as a result of that by no means occurred to me earlier than. However I’ve labored by it, and the laborious court docket season began off sturdy for me. So yeah, I really feel like I’ve moved on from that at this level.”
