Live Aryna Sabalenka and Amanda Anisimova fights for the Trophy at the US Open 2025

Aryna Sabalenka – Amanda Anisimova, live from 23:00

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Aryna Sabalenka and Amanda Anisimova are fighting on Saturday night in New York, on the Arthur Ashe arena, for the last Grand Slam trophy. Both have felt this season's thrill in such tournaments this season.

The Belarus player was present in the final at the Australian Open and Roland Garros, being defeated by Madison Keys and Coco Gauff, while the American ticked the Wimbledon, where he lost in front of Igăi Swiak.

Aryna and Amanda know each other very well, facing nine times, with Anisimova winning six of these meetings. Five of these duels took place in the Grand Slam tournaments, the American won three of them: at the Australian Open 2019, their first confrontation, at Roland Garros 2019 and Wimbledon 2025, while Belarusa was imposed on the Australian Open 2024 and Roland Garros 2025.

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Previous meetings between Aryna Sabalenka and Amanda Anisimova

• 2025 Wimbledon (grass): Anisimova 6-4, 4-6, 6-4

• 2025 Roland Garros (slag): Sabalenka 7-5, 6-3

• 2024 Toronto (Hard): Anisimova 6-4, 6-2

• 2024 Australian Open (Hard): Sabalenka 6-3, 6-2

• 2022 Rome (slag): Sabalenka 4-6, 6-3, 6-2

• 2022 Madrid (slag): Anisimova 6-2, 3-6, 6-4

• 2022 Charleston (green slag): Anisimova 3-6, 6-4, 6-3

• 2019 Roland Garros (slag): Anisimova 6-4, 6-2

• 2019 Australian Open (Hard): Anisimova 6-3, 6-2

Located at the seventh final of Grand Slam, Aryna arrived in the last act giving up a single set, in the match with Jessica Pegula in the penultimate tour. Anisimova is in the second final, and on its way to this moment it was tested by Jaqueline Cristian in the third round and Naomi Osaka in the semifinals.

The road to the final for Aryna Sabalenka

• Tour 1: Rebeka Masarova (108 WTA) 7-5, 6-1 (1 hour and 21 minutes)

• Tour 2: Polina Kudemetova (67 WTA) 7-6 (4), 6-2 (1 hour and 36 minutes)

• Tour 3: Leylah Fernandez (30 WTA) 6-3, 7-6 (2) (1 hour and 39 minutes)

• Optimal finals: Cristina Bucsa (95 WTA) 6-1, 6-4 (1 hour and 13m)

• Quarters of final: Marketa Vondrousova (60 WTA) -Rerace (0 min)

• Semifinals: Jessica Pegula (4 WTA) 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 (2 hours and 5 minutes)

• Time spent on the ground: 7 hours and 54 minutes

The road to the final for Amanda Anisimova

• Tour 1: Katie Birrell (83 WTA) 6-3, 6-2 (1 hour and 9 minutes)

• Tour 2: Maya Joint (43 WTA) 7-6 (2), 6-2 (1 hour and 16 minutes)

• Tour 3: Jaqueline Cristian (50 WTA) 6-4, 4-6, 6-2 (2 hours and 10 minutes)

• Optimal finals: Beatriz Haddad Maia (22 WTA) 6-0, 6-3 (1 hour and 15 minutes)

• Quarters of final: IGA Swiak 6-4, 6-3 (1 hour and 36 minutes)

• Semifinals: Naomi Osaka (24 WTA) 6-7 (4), 7-6 (3), 6-3 (2 hours and 56 minutes)

• Time spent on the ground: 10 hours and 22 minutes

Beyond the figures and styles of play, the two finalists link a suffering they went through in the same year: both lost their fathers, an event that marked their career, especially since they had been the ones who had guided them to tennis.

Aryna Sabalenka has fulfilled her father's promise

Sergey, Aryna's father, a former hockey player, died unexpectedly at 43 because of a meningitis. He had been the one who had taken little Aryna to tennis, after seeing a tennis court on his way.

The loss of the parent had a disastrous impact on Aryna's career, confessing a few years later that, in that year, she could not serve, but with the help of a biomechanical trainer and a psychologist managed to overcome that moment of blocking and to remember the promise to her father.

She won the Australian Open 2023 and 2024 and the US Open 2024, and now has the chance to pass one in the track. “After I lost my father, my goal was always to name our family in the history of tennis. Every time I see my name on the trophy, I am very proud of myself, I am proud of my family that he has never given up my dream and that he did everything he could to help me go further. “ Sabalenka said after last year's victory at the US Open. Aryna has a smaller sister her name Tonechka is called and was born in 2009.

Amanda Anisimova talks a little about her father's loss

Amanda Anisimova lost her father when she was only 17 years old. Konstantin died on August 19, 2019, following a heart attack at 52, just before the US Open. Amanda then gave up disputes the New York tournament. Konstantin Anisimov was even more involved in his daughter's career, being a trainer for many years. Amanda spoke very little about this difficult moment in his life.

She revealed at the end of that year, for the New York Times, that it was hard to leave the house after what happened. “It is obvious that it is the hardest thing I went through and the hardest thing that has ever happened to me, and I don't talk to anyone about it. I simply do not feel comfortable talking about it. I think going on the field and hitting tennis balls is the way I express my feelings and it is the place where I spent most of my time with my father.” she confessed then.

Konstantin and his wife, Olga, emigrated from Russia in 1998, looking for a better life for their family, who then had three members. Maria, the older sister of Amanda, had turned 10 when the family decided to move, and Amanda was born three years later in the US.

Regardless of who will impose itself in New York this evening, a thought and a look will go to heaven.