{"id":3203,"date":"2026-05-24T21:04:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T21:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/3203\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T21:04:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T21:04:31","slug":"us-open-tennis-2025-results-highlights-amanda-anisimova-defeats-iga-swiatek-press-conference-avenges-wimbledon-defeat-naomi-osaka-jannik-sinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/3203\/","title":{"rendered":"US Open tennis 2025 results, highlights: Amanda Anisimova defeats Iga Swiatek, press conference, avenges Wimbledon defeat, Naomi Osaka, Jannik Sinner"},"content":{"rendered":"

American eighth seed Amanda Anisimova has produced a stunning upset of Iga Swiatek to reach the semi-finals of the US Open and avenge her Wimbledon final drubbing.<\/p>\n

Anisimova \u2014 who suffered a crushing 6-0, 6-0 defeat as Swiatek clinched her first Wimbledon title in July \u2014 bounced back from that double-bagel disaster to win 6-4, 6-3 on the Arthur Ashe Stadium court.<\/p>\n

Polish second seed Swiatek entered the US Open as the bookmakers\u2019 favourite after following up her triumph at Wimbledon with victory in the WTA Cincinnati Open event last month.<\/p>\n

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USA’s Amanda Anisimova reacts after defeating Poland’s Iga Swiatek in their women’s singles quarterfinal.Source: AFPIga Swiatek and Amanda Anisimova after the matchSource: AP<\/p>\n

But the six-time Grand Slam champion\u2019s hopes of adding a second US Open title to her collection were dashed as Anisimova roared to a redemptive victory in an absorbing one hour 36-minute battle.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo come back from Wimbledon like that is really special to me,\u201d said Anisimova, who clinched victory in the second set after a net cord bounced in her favour on match point.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like I worked so hard to turn it around after that… I knew I was going to have to dig really deep. It was such a tough match, truly a battle for me,\u201d added the American, whose lopsided loss at Wimbledon was only the third Grand Slam final in history where a player had lost without winning a game.<\/p>\n

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Later, Swiatek became embroiled in an awkward exchange with a journalist, who asked during the post-match press conference whether the Polish star was \u201ctired\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy would you say that?\u201d she replied.<\/p>\n

The reporter continued: \u201cDo you feel like a mental break? I\u2019m not talking about the loss as such. Do you look forward to a break?\u201d<\/p>\n

Swiatek quipped: \u201cDo you need mental break? You look like you need mental break. What are you doing here?\u201d<\/p>\n

Wednesday\u2019s quarter-final had started ominously for Anisimova, with the American being broken in the first game of the opening set to give Swiatek the early initiative.<\/p>\n

But Anisimova responded immediately to break and get it back on serve. Anisimova was under pressure though in the fifth game, finding herself two break points down at 15-40. She dug herself out of that hole to hold for a 3-2 lead.<\/p>\n

The breakthrough game in the 10th game when Swiatek\u2019s shaky serve once again left her in trouble at 15-40 down to leave Anisimova with two set points.<\/p>\n

Swiatek saved the first but then slashed a wild forehand long to the back of the court to give Anisimova a one-set lead.<\/p>\n

Swiatek attempted to regroup in the second set and got an early break before opening up a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n

But Anisimova once again exploited Swiatek\u2019s weakness on serve to break back. Another net cord in Anisimova\u2019s favour gave her a 4-3 lead, and then Swiatek double-faulted on break point to leave her opponent serving for the match.<\/p>\n

Anisimova raced to 40-0 to take three match points, and although Swiatek saved the first two, the tennis gods were clearly on her rival\u2019s side as another net cord bounced just out of Swiatek\u2019s reach to seal victory.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old Anisimova will play two-time former US Open champion Naomi Osaka or Czech 11th seed Karolina Muchova on Thursday for a place in the final<\/p>\n

Anisimova\u2019s victory came after Australian world No.8 Alex de Minaur missed a chance to reach a maiden grand slam semi final for the first time, going down to Canadian 25th seed Felix Auger-Aliassime in four sets.<\/a><\/p>\n

Later on Wednesday, world No. 1 Jannik Sinner cruised towards a 6-1 6-4 6-2 victory over fellow Italian Lorenzo Musetti to book his spot in the US Open semi-finals, where he will face Canada\u2019s Felix Auger-Aliassime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American eighth seed Amanda Anisimova has produced a stunning upset of Iga Swiatek to reach the semi-finals of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[447,1936,1934,1941,1937,1929,270,1938,411,427,1935,1940,1932,1933,1930,1939,1931,1942,547,463],"class_list":["post-3203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us-open","tag-america","tag-break-points","tag-breakthrough-game","tag-final-drubbing","tag-maiden-grand-slam","tag-match-points","tag-naomi-osaka","tag-net-cord","tag-north-america","tag-northern-america","tag-opponent-serving","tag-quarter-final-loss","tag-remarkable-turnarounds","tag-singles-quarterfinal","tag-slam-semi-final","tag-staff-writers","tag-stunning-upset","tag-tennis-gods","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-us-open"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}