Amanda Anisimova strikes the ball as cleanly as anyone on grass and reached the Wimbledon final in 2025, but 2026 was a step back, cut short by injury concerns and an erratic serve. She finished 13th in the GTC Grass Rankings with a GTC Grass Rating of 112, down from 122 and 3rd before the season.
Grass at a glance
- GTC Grass Rating: 112, 13th in the women’s rankings (3rd before the season)
- Pillars: Lawn Form 54, Arsenal 85, Wimbledon 68, Nerve 54
- Nationality: United States
- Best Wimbledon result: Runner-up (2025)
- Grass titles: None yet (Queen’s runner-up 2025)
- Plays: Right-handed, two-handed backhand
How Amanda plays on grass
Anisimova takes the ball early and flat, and on grass that timing gives opponents very little time. Her two-handed backhand is the best shot in her game, hit hard down either line, and her forehand is almost as dangerous. She returns from close to the baseline and can win a point from the first ball of the rally. When her timing is on, few players can hold her off on a fast court.
That explains an Arsenal score of 85, among the highest in the women’s list. The weakness is the serve. At Wimbledon in 2026 she hit eight double faults in her first two rounds and seven more against Madison Keys, and a shaky second serve gives returners a way into matches she should control. Her movement is sound but she is less comfortable defending low, sliced balls, which can draw errors from her flat swing.
Her Nerve score of 54 reflects a season of close defeats. In 2026 she won the first set against Keys and lost the next two, and at Queen’s she lost a deciding set to Iva Jovic.
Grass record
Anisimova first made an impression at Wimbledon in 2022, when, seeded 20th, she came from a set down to beat Coco Gauff in the third round and then beat Harmony Tan before losing to Simona Halep in the quarter-finals. She missed the 2023 event and lost in qualifying in 2024.
Her 2025 grass season was her best. She reached the Queen’s final, beating top seed Zheng Qinwen in the semi-finals, and then reached the Wimbledon final, where Iga Świątek beat her 6-0, 6-0. She has not yet won a grass title.
The 2026 grass season
She began at Queen’s as the 2nd seed and reached the quarter-finals, where Iva Jovic beat her 2-6, 6-3, 3-6 for the first top-five win of her career. The run still nudged Anisimova’s rating from 122 to 124. She then withdrew from Berlin after playing Queen’s, choosing not to play back-to-back events given her earlier injury problems in the season.
At Wimbledon, seeded 6th, she beat Sofia Kenin in the second round but served erratically, and in the third round Madison Keys came from a set down to beat her 3-6, 6-2, 6-3. The early exit, with a final to defend, took her rating from 124 to 112. In late September she ended her season early because of a recurring injury to her left wrist.
Looking ahead to 2027
Anisimova’s 2027 grass season depends first on her wrist. If she is fit, the game that reached the 2025 Wimbledon final is still there, and the Arsenal score supports a return to the second week. The specific work is on the second serve, which cost her at Wimbledon in 2026, and on handling slice and low balls without forcing. A light, well-spaced warm-up schedule, with Queen’s as her main preparation, would suit her. A fourth round at Wimbledon is a realistic target; a quarter-final would suggest she is back to her 2025 level.
