Amanda Anisimova is the latest American women’s tennis player to break out onto the scene. She joins what is arguably the best time for the United States women’s singles competitors, joining the likes of Coco Gauff, Jessica Pegula, and Madison Keys.
Anisimova isn’t a household name yet, especially because she took a break from her tennis career in 2023 to focus on her mental health. She returned to competition in 2024, still just 22. Anisimova has three singles titles to her name already, though none of them have come at one of the four tennis majors.
She will have one of the toughest tests of her career in the Wimbledon semifinals, facing off against World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka, but even if she were to lose, it would already match Anisimova’s best jajor result of her career.
Anisimova is ranked as the No. 12 women’s tennis player in the world by the WTA as of July 9, 2025 — a far cry from when she competed in first major in 2016 when she was just 15.
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Anisimova’s parents and sister are from Russia, but she was born in New Jersey. Here’s more on Anisimova’s family tree, including her older sister and parents.
Amanda Anisimova family tree
Sister — Maria Anisimova
Amanda was born on Aug. 31, 2001. Her older sister Maria is about 14 years older than her. Maria also played tennis, but her career stopped in college. She attended the University of Pennsylvania, majoring in business. In the 2006-2007 season, Maria was part of the first women’s doubles team in school history to qualify for the NCAA Championships, per the school’s website.
Maria and her partner were ranked as high as No. 19 in the country for doubles in her freshman season. She never quite got back to that success, and she didn’t play her final season in 2009-2010 due to an injury.
Maria didn’t pursue a professional tennis career. Not much is known about her personal life these days, but from Amanda’s posts on Instagram, it looks like Maria has two children.
Mother — Olga Anisimova
Olga emigrated from Russia to the United States alongside Amanda’s father, Konstantin, in 1998. Maria was 10 at the time of the move. Konstantin told the New York Times in a 2017 interview that back in Russia, Olga was an accountant in the banking system. In the interview, Konstantin said, “My wife had relatives who had lived a long time in the United States. They sent us an invitation to come visit this country. We visited it, and we liked it more and more, and we start thinking and taking it [the move] seriously.”
Maria had an interview with the New York Times in 2020. In it, she said that their mother Olga opened up a tennis camp. Amanda was playing tennis at the age of 2, and took to it so well, she didn’t attend traditional high school. Instead, she was home schooled and socialized at her mother’s tennis camp. “It’s why my mom created a tennis camp, so Amanda could hang out with kids her own age, so she didn’t miss out on anything. Many of her friends today are friends from that camp.”
Father — Konstantin Anisimova
Similar to his wife Olga, Konstantin also had a background in finance when they lived in Moscow. With how much Amanda was taking to tennis, Konstantin took over as her head coach. When she progressed in her career, she moved to coaches outside of the family, but Konstantin continued coaching tennis.
He was always a huge supporter of her career. Konstantin followed her journey all the way to making her first major, and he talked about the pressure she was starting to be under as a young phenom in the sport. “Definitely pressure is big and especially pressure is growing when she is doing unexpectedly good. Because then it’s very difficult to stay on course and be realistic and don’t be delusional. I saw a lot of parents who got immediately delusional, and those stories end up in a very bad way. You can’t overtrain. You can’t over-push.”
Konstantin died of a sudden heart attack in August 2019. It was a week before Amanda’s 18th birthday, and she withdrew from that year’s U.S. Open as a result.
