On Tuesday night, in the hours before her U.S. Open quarterfinal against Iga Swiatek, Amanda Anisimova did what she’d been avoiding for a month and a half: She rewatched the 2025 Wimbledon final .

“Nobody told me to,” she said in a press conference on Wednesday, laughing at the obviousness of her own statement. As she sat at the podium a few feet in front of me, I could picture her family, friends, and coaches struggling desperately to wrestle away her phone. But Anisimova had her reasons. The idea, the 24-year-old American explained, was to see “what I can avoid or what went wrong.”

What went wrong that day was absolutely everything. On Wimbledon’s Centre Court, competing against Poland’s Swiatek for her first grand slam title, Anisimova quickly dropped her first service game. She the

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