Amanda Anisimova’s Wimbledon final struggles assessed
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The posts were shared days after Anisimova reached her first Grand Slam final following an upset win over top seed Aryna Sabalenka in the semis.
Aryna Sabalenka remained atop the women’s rankings, followed by French Open champion Coco Gauff, who lost in the first round at Wimbledon.
Iga Swiatek shut out Amanda Anisimova in the Wimbledon women's final Saturday in a match that lasted just under an hour. Swiatek won in consecutive sets, 6-0, 6-0. It was the first women's final at the tournament in 114 years in which one player failed to claim a single game.
The American's crushing defeat to Iga Świątek was rendered more painful by the way tennis works, but it also allows her to rebound.
It was billed as the Wimbledon women’s final that no one expected, it finished as a match that American rising star Amanda Anisimova will want to forget.
The American No. 13 seed did not shrink from her duel with Sabalenka on Centre Court, going after her shots at all times.