Amanda Anisimova survived a scare to reach the Wimbledon third round on Thursday evening.
Anisimova, the sixth seed, is defending 1,300 WTA ranking points after reaching the final of last year’s south-west London event.
The American moved a step closer to defending those points after beating Sofia Kenin 6-2, 4-6, 7-6 on Court Two.
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Anisimova has set up a clash with compatriot Madison Keys after beating the 2020 Australian Open champion.
The 25-year-old also eclipsed one of her personal records on her way to defeating Kenin.
Amanda Anisimova serves career-high total of aces vs Sofia Kenin
Amanda Anisimova served 20 aces against Sofia Kenin.
By doing so, the American star surpassed her highest career tally in a single WTA level main draw match.
As reported by statisticians OptaAce, Anisimova’s previous career-high ace count was 17 against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova at the 2024 Washington Open.
Anisimova defeated Pavlyuchenkova 6-1, 6-7, 6-4 in that match.
“Some moments were really awful,” Anisimova said after defeating Kenin on Thursday evening.”I’m just so happy to be through to the next round.
“I never thought I’d be saying this, but thank you to my serve today,” she added.
“I’m not like an amazing server, but now I can finally say I can serve pretty good!”
| Statistical Area | Anisimova | Kenin |
| Aces | 20 | 0 |
| Double Faults | 6 | 6 |
| First-serve % | 74 | 66 |
| Second-serve % | 79 | 81 |
| First-serve points won [%] | 68 | 69 |
| Second-serve points won [%] | 50 | 39 |
The American will be hoping that her serve fires her all the way to the title in south-west London.
Last year, Anisimova performed superbly to reach the Wimbledon final, defeating Linda Noskova and Aryna Sabalenka en route.
She was then defeated 6-0, 6-0 by Iga Swiatek in one of the most remarkable Grand Slam finals in history.
Only three Grand Slam Women’s Singles finals have ever recorded that scoreline.
6-0, 6-0 scorelines in Grand Slam Women’s Singles finals
- 1911 – Dorothea Lambert-Chambers defeated Dora Boothby 6–0, 6–0 in the Wimbledon final
- 1988 Steffi Graf – Natasha Zvereva 6–0, 6–0 in the Roland Garros final
- 2025 Iga Świątek defeated Amanda Anisimova 6–0, 6–0 in the Wimbledon final
Amanda Anisimova’s record against Madison Keys
Anisimova and Keys have only played each other once before on the WTA Tour.
The American duo met in the round robin stage of the 2025 WTA Finals.
Anisimova, seeded fourth at that event, rallied from a set down to defeat Keys 4-6, 6-3, 6-2.
“It was quite a battle out there. Just really happy with the way I was able to turn around in the second set and turn that frown upside down,” Anisimova said afterwards, as per Flashscore.
Anisimova went on to reach the semi-finals in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, after beating Iga Swiatek and losing to Elena Rybakina in the round robin.
World number one Aryna Sabalenka defeated Anisimova in the last four, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3.
