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Anisimova has surprised even herself with how quickly she moved on from her loss at the All England Club.<\/p>\n
“Truly the most that I felt bad was for the people that had come to watch that day,” she said.<\/p>\n
“I know how much people pay for those tickets and are excited to see Wimbledon. I kind of had that guilt on my back, as opposed to winning my first Grand Slam final.<\/p>\n
“On the court I was crying and maybe [for] 30 minutes afterwards, but then I got on the phone with someone and I kind of laughed it off.<\/p>\n
“At the end of the day to me it was just tennis. I’m in a really good place in my life. I’m happy every single day, which I wasn’t a couple of years ago.”<\/p>\n
Having gone out in the early stages of the hard-court tournaments in Montreal and Cincinnati, Anisimova said her early-round matches in New York were played with “a little bit of fear”.<\/p>\n
However, her confidence has grown across the fortnight – as shown in her brilliantly fearless ball-striking against Swiatek. <\/p>\n
“I told myself: you can’t go into the match with any fear,” she said.<\/p>\n
“Today, I really came out there with not an ounce of fear.<\/p>\n
When Swiatek took her serve in the opening game, flashbacks of Wimbledon surfaced.<\/p>\n
“When I wasn’t able to hold in that first game, I was like OK, here we go,” she said.<\/p>\n
But this time around Anisimova did not waver – attacking the six-time major winner’s serve to immediately break back.<\/p>\n
Anisimova displayed superb skill on the backhand side and moved impressively throughout, hitting 23 winners as her big-hitting game flustered Swiatek.<\/p>\n
She enjoyed success on the Pole’s second serve – winning 12 of 17 points from it – and found the break at the crucial moment to take the opening set.<\/p>\n
Swiatek left the court between sets and returned full of intensity, again breaking immediately but this time consolidating with a hold.<\/p>\n
Anisimova could be forgiven for thinking back to Wimbledon but she did not waver, keeping her cool and rescuing the break two games later.<\/p>\n
Heavily backed by a home crowd, Anisimova broke in the eighth game to serve for victory – which she did in composed fashion to reach a third Grand Slam semi-final.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n