{"id":65817,"date":"2026-09-04T22:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T22:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/65817\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T22:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T22:20:08","slug":"us-open-2026-amanda-anisimova-beats-lilli-tagger-in-3-set-2nd-round-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/65817\/","title":{"rendered":"US Open 2026: Amanda Anisimova Beats Lilli Tagger in 3-Set 2nd-Round Clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amanda Anisimova weathered a second-set collapse before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtatennis.com\/news\/4571817\/anisimova-regains-control-to-beat-tagger-in-three-sets-at-us-open\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.wtatennis.com\/news\/4571817\/anisimova-regains-control-to-beat-tagger-in-three-sets-at-us-open\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">pulling away<\/a> from 18-year-old Lilli Tagger, 6-3, 3-6, 6-1, in the second round of the 2026 US Open on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Amanda Anisimova Weathers 2nd Set Stumble Against Lilli Tagger<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/us-open-main-draw-2026-preview-aryna-sabalenka\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/us-open-main-draw-2026-preview-aryna-sabalenka\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">No. 10 seed<\/a> controlled the opener on Grandstand, converting early breaks and building a comfortable cushion. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Tagger, the No. 49-ranked Austrian playing in her first US Open main draw, leveled the match by reeling off four of five games to snatch the second set. The US <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/amanda-anisimova-2026-us-open-birthday-meme-queen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Meme Queen&#8221;<\/a> steadied herself from there, breaking serve twice in the decider and conceding just one game to close it out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I was a bit of a crazy woman in the second set, but I&#8217;m glad that I got myself together and was able to show a better level,&#8221; Anisimova said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usopen.org\/en_US\/news\/articles\/2026-09-03\/keys_anisimova_jovic_advance_american_results_on_day_5_of_the_2026_us_open.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.usopen.org\/en_US\/news\/articles\/2026-09-03\/keys_anisimova_jovic_advance_american_results_on_day_5_of_the_2026_us_open.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">postmatch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She finished with 30 winners to Tagger&#8217;s 15 while converting five of her break-point chances. Still, the result marked a promising Grand Slam debut for Tagger. The<a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/amanda-anisimova-french-open-tennis-naomi-osaka\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/amanda-anisimova-french-open-tennis-naomi-osaka\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"> 2025 French Open<\/a> junior champion became the <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/lilli-tagger-wins-prague-open-wta-rankings-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">youngest Austrian title winner<\/a> earlier this year in Prague.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anisimova, who reached back-to-back <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/us-star-amanda-anisimova-steals-the-wimbledon-spotlight-results\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/us-star-amanda-anisimova-steals-the-wimbledon-spotlight-results\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Grand Slam<\/a> finals last season, next meets No. 24 seed Anastasia Potapova in the third round of play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amanda Anisimova weathered a second-set collapse before pulling away from 18-year-old Lilli Tagger, 6-3, 3-6, 6-1, in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[15876,2264,1696,15635,361],"class_list":["post-65817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-amanda-anisimova","tag-2026-us-open","tag-2026-wta-season","tag-amanda-anisimova","tag-lilli-tagger","tag-wta-grand-slams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65817","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=65817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}