Anisimova battles past Kenin in all-American clash to reach Wimbledon third round

[p]A ‌year after becoming the first player in ‌more than a century to lose a Wimbledon final 6-0 6-0, the sixth ‌seed looked like she was heading ⁠for another ‌heartbreaking defeat at the hands of an ​opponent she had been expected to beat.[/p][p]With [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/kenin-sofia/IJAxNUl3/"]Kenin[/a] now ranked 105th ​in the world and a shadow of the player who triumphed at the ⁠Australian Open ​in 2020, [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/anisimova-amanda/nwkutKbi/"]Anisimova[/a] resembled a tortured soul as she surrendered her serve en route to falling 3-1 behind in the ‌deciding set.[/p][embed guid="fe4c892b-7c32-45fb-8167-dfb0723e231b" url="https://x.com/WTA/status/2072716869572694210" social-type="twitter" /][p]When she surrendered her ​serve en route to falling 3-1 behind in the deciding set, Anisimova resorted to the only thing that ​could get her out of the rut - yelling out her frustrations.[/p][p]That release allowed her to get her A-game back on track and ⁠after levelling for 3-3, ​she was once again laser focused and stormed through the tiebreak to seal victory when Kenin netted a service return.[/p][p][b]"Some moments were really awful. I'm just happy to be through to the next ‌round," [/b]said Anisimova, whose title dreams were almost dashed by the 46 unforced errors she produced during the two-hour duel.[/p][p]The 20 aces she fired down did, however, go a considerable way towards limiting the damage done by her wayward shots.[/p][p][b]"I never thought I'd say this but thank you to my serve. I'm not a good server at all but after today, I can say that I am,"[/b] she added smiling.[/p][image alt="Match stats" id="d58c83b0-290b-4783-9a1c-026283d81cc3" credit-line="Flashscore" guid="17710760-c620-41d9-b389-f0a2cd4c2d7c" original-width="2160" original-height="2700" /][p]"I'm really happy with my ‌performance, especially with the end. Shout out to Sofia, she's such ​a good opponent, a real fighter.[/p][p]"I was down and told ‌myself to keep fighting. I really tried to bring myself back to the present moment. I try to remind myself - have fun, you're playing at Wimbledon. These are the matches I train for, the tough ones, the fun ones."[/p][p]She will ⁠next run into another American, ⁠26th seed [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/keys-madison/QwU996PK/"]Madison Keys[/a], ‌for a place in the fourth round.[/p][p][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/game/tennis/anisimova-a-nwkutKbi/kenin-s-IJAxNUl3/?mid=GzQBMY6L"][b]Check out the match summary here[/b][/a].[/p][infobox id="e4d8200d-597f-48d7-83c2-d394f1217426" /]