US Open 2025 girls’s singles winner Aryna Sabalenka paid tribute to her opponent, Amanda Anisimova, after defeating her within the closing.
The World No. 1 tennis star, 27, efficiently defended the US Open championship that she initially gained final yr on the Billie Jean King Nationwide Tennis Middle in Queens, New York, on Saturday, September 6, with a closing rating of 6-3 and 7-6 in straight units. This historic victory made Sabalenka the primary girl to defend her US Open championship since Serena Williams in 2014.
Sabalenka dropped to her knees and let loose a cheer after clinching victory, earlier than graciously hugging Anisimova on the court docket. Sabalenka acknowledged Anisimova’s effort throughout an on-court interview moments later.
Together with her opponent standing toes away, the US Open 2025 girls’s champion informed Anisimova: “Congrats Amanda on reaching again to again Slam closing [Wimbledon and US Open]. I understand how a lot it hurts, shedding within the closing. However belief me, the second you’re going to win the primary one — and you’ll win it. You play unbelievable tennis!”
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“Congrats to you and your staff on the stuff you’ve achieved after your comeback,” she added. “Lady, you’re gonna get pleasure from it much more after the powerful losses within the closing.”
In her personal on-court interview, Anisimova informed the gang: “Shedding in two closing in a row is nice however it’s additionally tremendous laborious. I believe I didn’t battle laborious sufficient for my goals in the present day however I simply need to say congrats to Aryna.”
Anisimova, 24, has mounted a exceptional comeback after stepping away from the game to give attention to her psychological well being. Amanda initially stored taking part in following the loss of life of her father and coach, Konstantin Anisimov, in 2019 however introduced she was taking time without work from tennis in 2023.
“I’ve actually been scuffling with my psychological well being and burnout for the reason that summer time of 2022,” Anisimova defined through Instagram in Might 2023. “It’s grow to be insufferable being at tennis tournaments.”
Aryna Sabalenka and Amanda Anisimova after profitable Girls’s Singles Closing match at US Open. Susan Mullane/ISI Photographs/ISI Photographs through Getty Pictures
She went on, “At this level, my precedence is my psychological well-being and taking a break for a while. I’ve labored as laborious as I may to push via it. I’ll miss being on the market, and I recognize all the continual help.”
Ranked No. 50 worldwide in August 2024, she surged to No. 9 after first making it to the Wimbledon closing in July — the place she misplaced to Iga Świątek — and adopted up with a formidable run within the US Open, the place she avenged her Wimbledon loss to Świątek within the quarterfinal this week.
Whereas Anisimova and Sabalenka confirmed their respect for each other on the US Open closing on Saturday, they did have a testy change earlier within the yr. The New Jersey native upset Sabalenka within the Wimbledon 2025 semifinal in July, although there was controversy throughout a recreation within the third set the place Anisimova’s forehand volley touched the highest of the online twine earlier than falling over.
Sabalenka recommended in a post-match press convention that Anisimova owed her an apology for the error.
“I simply checked out her and I simply, for positive, she didn’t hear me, however I used to be identical to, ‘You don’t need to apologize?’ However she simply needed, I suppose, badly to win this match. It’s on her,” Sabalenka admitted to reporters.
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Following her 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 semifinal loss at Wimbledon, Sabalenka additionally complained that Anisimova prematurely celebrated a degree and will have been docked by the referee.
“I used to be simply attempting to chase the ball. She was already celebrating it. I imply, that’s a bit too early,” Sabalenka insisted. “Then she form of pissed me off, saying, ‘Oh, that’s what she does on a regular basis.’ … I got here again as a result of I received actually offended in that second, in all probability within the third set [which she lost] I ought to have remembered that.”
At her personal press convention, Anisimova tried to downplay the dispute by clarifying that she was “not celebrating” the purpose prematurely.
“It was identical to a protracted grunt, I suppose,” she stated in July. “I don’t actually know what was the deal there to be sincere as a result of I didn’t really feel prefer it was that interfering. I attempted to not do it once more.”
In the meantime, Sabalenka secured her fourth Grand Slam championship together with her victory over Anisimova throughout Saturday’s US Open closing.
“It’s simply loopy,” she stated in her post-match interview. “All these powerful classes [were] value this one. I’m speechless proper now. I like it right here. I like the help. I like all through the years [the fans and I] constructed a form of relationship, and also you guys give me a lot help … Thanks guys for bringing the very best ambiance.”
