Anisimova\u2019s deadliest weapon, her double-handed backhand, teamed with her devastating groundstroke pace helped her wrap up the match in just one hour and 11 minutes.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s just always been my best shot,\u201d she said of her backhand.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love using it. I love going line, but I also actually like to go cross as well. So, I think it’s hard to predict where I’m gonna hit it and that’s why I think it makes it so special.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The Floridian was the third American of the day to move into the last 16, accompanying Jessica Pegula, who defeated Oksana Selekhmeteva, and AO defending champion Madison Keys, who took a 6-3 6-3 victory over Karolina Pliskova.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Saturday’s heightened temperature, reminiscent of the outdoor training courts during a steamy Miami summer, wasn\u2019t enough to faze Anisimova.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it’s just the fact that we had so many outdoor courts in the summer,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was always so hot. I hated training in the summer, but you know what, at least it paid off a little bit. But it’s just great to be playing out here and even when it’s so hot, it’s nice to have a challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anisimova\u2019s deadliest weapon, her double-handed backhand, teamed with her devastating groundstroke pace helped her wrap up the match…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-387774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}