{"id":274310,"date":"2025-11-06T03:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T03:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/274310\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T03:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T03:05:08","slug":"amanda-anisimova-beats-iga-swiatek-to-reach-semis-of-wta-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/274310\/","title":{"rendered":"Amanda Anisimova beats Iga Swiatek to reach semis of WTA Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RIYADH, Saudi Arabia &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3221\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amanda Anisimova<\/a> reached the last four of the WTA Finals by beating second-ranked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3730\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iga Swiatek<\/a> 6-7 (3), 6-4, 6-2 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The American, 24, earned her second consecutive victory over Swiatek since losing to the Polish player 6-0, 6-0 in the Wimbledon final.<\/p>\n<p>Anisimova, ranked No. 4, had also eliminated Swiatek in the US Open quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>Anisimova got the first break of serve in the contest to take the second set to force a decider. She faced only four break points and saved each.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3126\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elena Rybakina<\/a>, who had already advanced to the semifinals, completed her round-robin phase with a 6-4, 6-4 victory over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3182\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ekaterina Alexandrova<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rybakina and Anisimova will learn their semifinal opponents after Thursday&#8217;s final round-robin matches: top-ranked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3038\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aryna Sabalenka<\/a> plays defending champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3626\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Coco Gauff<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2113\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jessica Pegula<\/a> faces <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2615\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jasmine Paolini<\/a>, who has already been eliminated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RIYADH, Saudi Arabia &#8212; Amanda Anisimova reached the last four of the WTA Finals by beating second-ranked Iga&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-274310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}