Amanda Anisimova kept her Anisimova tennis run alive at Wimbledon on Day 4, beating Sofia Kenin after being pushed the distance in an all-American match. The sixth seed advanced, but not cleanly: she was clearly unhappy with parts of her own play.
Amanda Anisimova at Wimbledon
The match went to a decider, and Anisimova came through it. That is the immediate change for her draw: instead of going home with a three-set loss hanging over a seeded player, she stayed in the 2026 Wimbledon Championships and moved into the third round.
She was the sixth seed against Kenin, which made the result more than a routine escape. A higher seed is expected to handle pressure points late in a match, and this one asked her to do that after Kenin had taken her the distance.
Sofia Kenin Pushes the Match
Kenin made Anisimova work for every margin. The key detail is not just that the match reached a decider, but that Anisimova did not leave the court satisfied with what she produced, even in victory.
That split matters because the scoreboard and the performance did not tell the same story. The result was right for Anisimova; the execution, by her own standard inside the match, was not.
Madison Keys Awaits
Next comes Madison Keys in the third round. Keys is the 26th seed, so Anisimova’s path does not get easier simply because she got through Kenin.
For a player who was already stretched in the first match mentioned here, the practical takeaway is simple: she still has to clean up the parts of her game that left her unhappy, and she has to do it before facing another seeded American.
