Showing posts with label Amanda Anisimova. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Amanda Anisimova. Show all posts
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WTA ANNOUNCES 2025 SEASON AWARD WINNERS
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This year's WTA awards ceremony for the 2025 season generated a lot of reactions. Fans were impatiently waiting to see who would receive the awards, and it seems that they were mostly deserved awards and that most are satisfied with this year's selection.
As expected, Aryna Sabalenka was named player of the year for the second year in a row. The Belarusian tennis player absolutely dominated this season with a large number of victories, finals and titles. In total, she brought record prize money earnings, but most emphasize that without her mentality and discipline, this kind of success would not have been possible.
In addition to the Belarusian tennis player, Katerina Siniakova and Taylor Townsend were named the best doubles team of the year, given their great season and incredible success at Grand Slam tournaments.
The most improved player
Amanda Anisimova made a big step forward this year and received the award for the most improved player. Anisimova really surprised everyone with her dominance this season and great results, and above all with her reaching Grand Slam finals.
Comeback Player of the Year
Belinda Bencic was named Comeback Player of the Year after a long break due to motherhood.
Newcomer of the Year
The last award, i.e. newcomer of the year, went to Victoria Mboko, who made significant progress in the WTA rankings.
Reactions
The reactions of the fans were mostly positive, due to the naming of Aryna Sabalenka as this year's best player. This will be an additional motivation for the Belarusian tennis player to be equally dominant in the next season. Whether she will succeed in this is difficult to give a precise answer, but most believe that Sabalenka will be dominant next season as well.
Next year will be an opportunity for players from this list, as well as for those who did not receive an award this year, to improve further and possibly win such a prestigious award next season.
- Sead Dedovic
Saturday, 8 November 2025
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Saturday, 12 July 2025
IGA SWIATEK BEATS AMANDA ANISIMOVA 6-0 6-0 TO WIN FIRST WIMBLEDON TITLE
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| Iga Swiatek celebrates victory over Amanda Anisimova following the Ladies' Singles Final. Credit: PA |
Iga Swiatek has won the Wimbledon women’s singles title for the first time, crushing opponent Amanda Anisimova in the most one-sided Wimbledon final for 114 years.
Anisimova, playing in her first grand slam showpiece, failed to win a single game, with Swiatek racing to a 6-0 6-0 victory in only 57 minutes.
A Wimbledon final has not been decided by such a scoreline since 1911. The only other instance at a grand slam came at the French Open in 1988.
Swiatek has become the first Polish winner of a Wimbledon singles title in the open era, 13 years after her compatriot Agnieszka Radwanska lost to Serena Williams in the final.
Anisimova's appearance marks a comeback to tennis, after the former teen prodigy stepped away from the sport for eight months in 2023 for mental health reasons.
From the offset, the American player struggled to get her legs moving and arms swinging freely, unable to find her first serve.
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| The Princess of Wales presents the Venus Rosewater Dish to Iga Swiatek. Credit: PA |
She twice screamed in frustration after mistakes in the opening game of the second set, and made 28 unforced errors in the 12 games.
Swiatek, who breezed to victory, has won all five of her previous slam finals. It took her just 25 minutes to wrap up the first set, with Anisimova winning only nine points.
Day 13 of Wimbeldon also saw British duo Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool make Wimbledon history by winning the men’s doubles title.
The pair are the first all-British pairing to win the title since Pat Hughes and Raymond Tuckey lifted the trophy in 1936.
On Sunday, Carlos Alcaraz will take on Jannik Sinner in the Wimbledon 2025 Men's Singles Final.
- itv NEWS
Friday, 11 July 2025
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Tuesday, 14 January 2025
AUSTRALIAN OPEN: EMMA RADUCANU TRIUMPH AT DESPITE SERVE WITH 'A MIND OF ITS OWN'
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| Emma Raducanu plays a backhand return to Ekaterina Alexandrova of Russia during their first round match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne |
Emma Raducanu joked her serve had "a mind of its own" after she battled her way to victory over 26th seed Ekaterina Alexandrova despite 15 double faults.
Nine of them came in the first five games and several at key moments, but the issue did not prevent Raducanu claiming her best win at the Australian Open, clinching a 7-6 (4) 7-6 (2) victory after two hours and 16 minutes.
The 22-year-old has been working to improve her serve with coach Nick Cavaday, but it is certainly not the finished article.
"I'm not sure what I changed in my serve today," she said. "I think it had a mind of its own. I will be sure to reflect, look at that and come back to you.
"I think in the first set I was hitting a lot of good first serves. I hit a few aces. At the same time, I was hitting a double fault. I was quite accepting of that: 'OK, I'm at least going for it'."
She continued: "I think, as the balls got heavier, it was a lot more difficult. More kept coming, it was not easy to refocus, but I knew that, even if I was down, I have great returns. It was good to be able to rely on other parts of my game today that I know are quite strong, as well.
"I'm just very proud that I didn't let it affect me too much and let the match run away from me."
Raducanu is hopeful it will be better in her second-round match against another former teenage prodigy, American Amanda Anisimova, on Thursday.
"I've had experience having teething problems with it and then being able to come back and fix it for the next match," she said. "I'm looking forward to getting back out on the court tomorrow and working on it."
Raducanu's enduring popularity was evidenced by big queues outside Court 3 as the match began under a cloudless Melbourne sky.
Alexandrova, a big ball striker with a relentlessly negative demeanour, experienced her own difficulties on serve and there were eight breaks in the opening set.
Raducanu again showed her X factor on returns, twice breaking Alexandrova when she served for it, while she won just her third of 17 second serve points at 4-4 in the tie-break before arrowing a forehand into the corner to clinch it.
The British number two was the better player for most of the second set but the service problems resurfaced after a steadier start and she had to save a set point at 5-6.
Having forced another tie-break, Raducanu was almost flawless, with one final double fault the only blemish.
Raducanu came into the season feeling the effects of a back spasm that prompted her to pull out of her planned opening tournament in Auckland, while she missed two months late last year with a foot injury, so this was a good physical test.
"I think it was quite a long match," she said. "First match of the season. I haven't necessarily played outdoors for a long time, since Seoul (in September).
"I think for me playing two sets was good but, equally, I felt pretty fit out there. Right now I feel good in my body. I think it's just a testament to the work I'm starting to do off the court. I didn't necessarily feel any restrictions."
Raducanu's victory made it five British players triumphing in the first round, equalling the record here with Katie Boulter still to play.
- Eleanor Crooks in Melbourne
Thursday, 7 July 2022
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