{"id":4772,"date":"2025-07-12T17:43:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T17:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/4772\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T17:43:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T17:43:03","slug":"amanda-anisimova-breaks-down-in-tears-after-wimbledon-loss-tennis-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/4772\/","title":{"rendered":"Amanda Anisimova breaks down in tears after Wimbledon loss | Tennis | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amanda Anisimova apologised as she broke down in tears after her 6-0 6-0 defeat to Iga Swiatek<\/a> in the Wimbledon<\/a> final. The American star lost the most one-sided SW19 final in the Open Era<\/a> but still managed to produce a very classy speech, after being given time by interviewer Annabel Croft who halted their conversation with emotions running high on Centre Court.<\/p>\n

Anisimova was competing in her first Grand Slam final, making a stunning turnaround after failing to even qualify for the competition a year ago. She quit tennis in 2023<\/a>, returned to university and took up art, before returning to professional sport last year.<\/p>\n

After Princess Kate<\/a> handed Anisimova the runner-up trophy, the 23-year-old walked to the microphone as Croft began introducing the runner-up. However, when the BBC<\/a> pundit tried to introduce her, she stopped and said “we will give you a minute” as Anisimova composed herself before speaking.<\/p>\n

She then told Swiatek: \u201cYou\u2019re such an incredible player. It obviously showed today. You\u2019ve been such an inspiration to me. An unbelievable athlete. You\u2019ve had such an incredible two weeks here. Getting to the final of your first Wimbledon<\/a> and winning the championship, it\u2019s so special. Congratulations to you and your team.<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you to everyone who supported me since my first round match here. It\u2019s been such an incredible atmosphere. You guys have carried me through this entire championship. Even though I ran out of gas a bit today and I wish I could put on a better performance for all of you, you guys have still been there for me and lifted me up today. Thank you so much.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMy mom who flew in this morning, I definitely would not be standing here\u2026”<\/p>\n

Anisimova then struggled to get any words out and tears began to pour out, with the Wimbledon<\/a> crowd lifting her via applause before she added: \u201cMy mom has put in more work than I have honestly.<\/p>\n

“Guys I\u2019m so sorry. A few more words… My mom is the most selfless person I know. She\u2019s done everything to get me to this point in my life. Thank you for being here and breaking the superstition of flying in. It\u2019s definitely not why I lost today.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m so happy I get to share this moment and for you to witness this in person. I know you don\u2019t get to see me live playing that much anymore because you do so much for my sister and I. You always have. I love you so much.<\/p>\n

“Lastly, I know I didn’t have enough today but I’ll keep putting in the work. I keep believing in myself and I hope to be back here one day. Thank you everyone.”<\/p>\n

Swiatek then sent a heartwarming message to Anisimova<\/a> as she gave another emotional speech as a first-time Wimbledon<\/a> champion.<\/p>\n

“It seems super surreal,” she admitted. “First of all I want to congratulate Amanda for an amazing two weeks. No matter what happened today, you should be proud of the work you\u2019re doing and I hope we\u2019re going to play many more finals. You have the game for that, so congrats to your team as well.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amanda Anisimova apologised as she broke down in tears after her 6-0 6-0 defeat to Iga Swiatek in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[3842,5342,5343,5344,2660,99,428,96,5341,5345,4562],"class_list":{"0":"post-4772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-amanda-anisimova","9":"tag-anisimova-cry","10":"tag-anisimova-interview","11":"tag-annabel-croft","12":"tag-iga-swiatek","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-tennis","15":"tag-wimbledon","16":"tag-wimbledon-final","17":"tag-wimbledon-interview","18":"tag-wimbledon-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4772","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=4772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}