Is Amanda Anisimova getting to be a sizzling threat to WTA players?

Amanda Anisimova, is a 17-year-old from New Jersey that started learning how to play tennis at two. She followed her sister who was always involved and she became passionate for the game. It was her dad who became her regular coach but she also worked with Nick Saviano since she was 11 years old.

Anisimova would participate in junior tennis, achieving the no. 2 ranking in a bit over two years ago. It was in 2016 at Indian Wells where she amazed herself and the tennis community be defeating Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Petra Kvitova in the same tournament.

Shed won the USTA French Open Wild Card Challenge and won her first career pro title of $60,000 event in Sacramento. She was the no. 2 junior in the world and in 2017 it became a big year for Anisimova as she won the junior US Open Girls title defeating CoCo Gauff.

Shes accomplished many accolades but here and now the New Jersey young woman with the long ponytail and a determined look has zoomed her skills to defeat the WTA players given to her. When Amanda Anisimova prepared and packed for going to the Australian Open, she had no idea that shed be able to dismantle the games of players she just did.

The first round was with Romanias Monica Niculescu, a diverse and tricky player whose repertoire of unconventional spins and slices could outbeat any player. But Anisimova played the first set tiebreak to the max using her variation of skills to be victorious.

The second set she stayed focused and did what she had to do in opening up the court, coming in and just dictating points that some older players have trouble in doing. She won her opening round at 7-6, 6-4 but her steam and pressure didnt fizzle as she entered thesecondd round on Ukrainian veteran Lesia Tsurenko whose the holder of 4 WTA singles titles and 12 years on tour.

Anisimovas ground game is nearly unstoppable and Tsurenko had tried many remedies shes learned in her decade of play but couldnt shake the New Jersey teen especially in the opening set and bowed her victory of 6-0.

The second set was impressive enough as the Ukrainian dealt with more varieties and was more aggressive than the first set but still couldnt defuse Anisimovas dictation and bowed 6-0, 6-2. The partnering of Danielle Collins with doubles hadnt gone very well for Anisimova as they went down 6-1, 6-3 to the more experienced pair of Atawo/Srebotnik.

The teen will now keep her focus on clearing the singles play coming up with precise techniques and strategies to go as far as she can in this down under tournament. Amanda Anisimova is steaming and pressing right through but can she beat the Belarusian dynamite Aryna Sabalenka coming up next in her draw? She has already etched out history as being the youngest woman to get to the 3rd round at a Grand Slam since the 1999 Serena Williams appearance.

Time has to decide if this Jersey yong lady can dismantle Sabalenkas format of play etched in nearly concrete or will she tire more physically than mentally? Whatever the result, the match is libel to be suspenseful and well viewed by the fans and crowd all around the world.