The 21st century
United States · born Freehold Township, New Jersey, 2001 · right-handed · Wimbledon runner-up 2025
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Wimbledon 2025, her first major final
6-4, 4-6, 6-4
Semi-final win over No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka
QF
Wimbledon 2022, as 20th seed
No. 3
Career-high ranking, January 2026
Born in Freehold Township, New Jersey, on 31 August 2001, Anisimova moved to Florida as a child and won the 2017 US Open girls' title. At 17 she beat the defending champion Simona Halep on her way to the 2019 French Open semi-finals, and won her first WTA title in Bogotá the same year. She stepped away from the tour in May 2023 and returned in January 2024, reaching the Canadian Open final that summer on a protected ranking. In 2025 she won her first WTA 1000 title in Doha, reached the finals of Wimbledon and the US Open, won Beijing and rose to No. 4; she reached No. 3 in January 2026. Her 2026 grass season brought a quarter-final at Queen's and a third-round defeat by Madison Keys at Wimbledon.
| Wimbledon singles | Runner-up 2025. First round 2021; quarter-final 2022; absent 2023; lost in qualifying 2024; third round 2026 |
|---|---|
| Wimbledon 2025 | Seeded 13th, she beat Linda Nosková in the fourth round and Aryna Sabalenka 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 in the semi-final, then lost the final to Iga Świątek 6-0, 6-0 in 54 minutes |
| Wimbledon 2022 | Seeded 20th, she beat Coco Gauff in the third round and lost the quarter-final to Simona Halep |
| Queen's | Runner-up 2025, losing to the qualifier Tatjana Maria; quarter-final 2026 |
| Grass titles | None yet |
"I told myself, I'll definitely come out stronger after this."
The person behind the player.
New York 2017 · Wimbledon 2022
She won the 2017 US Open girls' title by beating her fellow American Coco Gauff in the final without dropping a set. Five years later, seeded 20th at Wimbledon, she beat Gauff again in the third round and went on to her first Wimbledon quarter-final, where Simona Halep stopped her.
Source: WikipediaWimbledon 2024 and 2025
Back on tour after her 2023 break, she had to enter Wimbledon qualifying in 2024 and lost in the final round. Twelve months later, seeded 13th, she was in the final. Her first main-draw appearance at the All England Club since 2022 ended in her first major final.
Source: WikipediaWimbledon 2025 · Semi-final
Play against Sabalenka was stopped twice for spectators taken ill in the heat. After winning 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 she told the crowd: "This doesn't feel real right now, honestly," and admitted, "I was absolutely dying out there."
Source: The Irish TimesWimbledon 2025 · Final
She lost her first major final 6-0, 6-0 to Iga ÅšwiÄ…tek in 54 minutes and said she had felt "a bit frozen with my nerves". The defeat was "a bit tough to digest", she said, but she would treat it as motivation.
Source: Tennis.comNew York 2025
Less than two months after the Wimbledon final she met ÅšwiÄ…tek again, in the US Open quarter-final, and beat her. She then beat Naomi Osaka to reach a second straight major final, losing to Sabalenka 6-3, 7-6 (7-3).
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