At 16 years of age, Amanda Anisimova has been one of the surprises of the tournament in Indian Wells. The American reached the 4th round without conceding a single set and after dropping just 6 games to Petra Kvitova in the 3rd round.
Amanda didn’t go 1 step further as Karolina Pliskova proved to be too good for her, but Amanda didn’t go down without a fight especially in the 2nd set when she lost only at the breaker. The final result was 6-1 7-6 (2).
She has no weaknesses. PLISKOVA
After the match, Karolina commented
“Obviously she’s 16, so she’s not scared. You can see she’s hitting the ball without thinking, but everybody is playing like this when they are 16. I think this will change a little bit in the future, but for sure the game is good and not really any weakness.
I think everything pretty solid. She can for sure play well…I was ready. I didn’t want to think that it’s gonna be easy because she’s 16. She had that confidence after those matches what she was playing here. She was playing the tournament here, and she won juniors.”
Next vs. Osaka
Karolina will face Naomi Osaka for a place in the semifinal. The head to head is 1-0 for the Czech.
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