Sabalenka beats Anisimova to win second straight U.S. Open title

Aryna Sabalenka retained her U.S. Open crown with a 6-3, 7-6(3) win over American eighth seed Amanda Anisimova within the U.S. Open girls’s remaining on Saturday (September 6, 2025), underlining her declare as the fashionable queen of the hardcourt.

The Belarusian has not missed a hardcourt main remaining since 2022 and her newest trophy brings her Grand Slam haul to 4, as she turned the primary girl to win back-to-back U.S. Opens since Serena Williams claimed three straight from 2012 to 2014.

The battle between two of tennis’ hardest-hitting, biggest-serving girls boiled right down to unforced errors as Sabalenka stored them down to fifteen in comparison with 29 from the racket of her opponent.

“I wish to thank everybody who got here right here, who flew in to be there in my field,” mentioned Sabalenka, who fell to her knees after clinching it with an unreturnable serve and jumped up and down along with her coaches within the stands in a scene of utter pleasure.

“I will attain much more finals and I do not care the place you’re on the planet I need you in my field.”

Taking part in in solely her second main remaining, New Jersey-born Anisimova had the partisan followers on the famed Arthur Ashe Stadium on her facet however might by no means hold onto the momentum.

“It has been an incredible summer time, shedding in two finals in a row is nice, nevertheless it’s additionally tremendous exhausting,” mentioned 24-year-old Anisimova, who was left in tears but once more after the heartbreak of her 6-0 6-0 drubbing within the Wimbledon remaining two months in the past.

“I did not struggle exhausting sufficient for my desires at this time.”

Sabalenka, 27, had ice in her veins as she saved three break factors in a nervy first sport and Anisimova handed over the early break when she despatched a shot previous the baseline within the second.

Anisimova hit her stride when she gained a 12-shot rally with a forehand winner out of Sabalenka’s attain to interrupt again within the third sport and she or he went up a break as Sabalenka hit one past the baseline within the fifth.

The tiger-tattooed Belarusian prowled alongside the baseline in frustration and pounced on her probability to get the momentum again, breaking Anisimova to like within the sixth and changing on one other break level from the baseline within the eighth.

Sabalenka closed out the primary set with an unreturnable serve and despatched a backhand whizzing previous the American to transform on a break level within the third sport of the second set.

Anisimova refused to surrender as she levelled it within the sixth with a backhand winner of her personal, whipping the followers right into a frenzy, however the American social gathering ended abruptly as their dwelling hope despatched the ball into the web on break level within the seventh.

Anisimova stayed in it as Sabalenka helped her break again with a flubbed smash within the tenth sport, however buckled to the Belarusian’s energy within the tiebreak, the place Sabalenka sprinted by way of to victory.