How Amanda Anisimova's Parents Shaped Her Tennis Journey

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Amanda Anisimova is the last American woman standing at Wimbledon in 2025 as she faces off against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the quarterfinals. Before this year, Anisimova’s best showing ever at Wimbledon was making the quarterfinals in 2022.

Tennis has played a huge role in her family’s life. While they didn’t play tennis themselves growing up, Amanda’s parents Olga and Konstantin did get involved in the sport later in life through their two daughters. Amanda’s older sister Maria also played college tennis while attending the University of Pennsylvania.

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Here, get to know Amanda’s parents, Olga and Konstantin.

Meet Amanda Anisimova’s mom, Olga:

The couple emigrated from Russia to the United States in 1998; their older daughter, Maria, was 10 years old at the time. Back in Moscow, Olga was an “accountant in the banking system,” Konstantin told the New York Times in 2017.

“My wife had relatives who had lived a long time in the United States,” he told the NYT. “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 seriously.”

In the same interview, her mother says that Amanda was already playing tennis by age two: “Until she was 7, no one touched her,” Olga said of Amanda’s technique. “That was the development.”

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Based on a later interview with Maria in the NYT in 2020, Olga also opened up a tennis camp, partially because Amanda never went to traditional high school like Maria did, instead only focusing on her tennis career. “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,” Maria said. “Many of her friends today are friends from that camp.”

Meet Amanda Anisimova, dad, Konstantin:

Amanda Anisimova celebrates with her father, Konstantin, after winning the 2017 U.S. Open junior girls’ final against Cori Gauff. Tim Clayton - Getty Images

Amanda was born in New Jersey in 2001, but the family moved to Florida by the time she was three. Also with a financial background in Moscow before emigrating to the U.S., Konstantin served as her first tennis coach. But by the time she made it to more competitive levels, Amanda moved on to coaches outside the family, and he continued to coach in Aventura, Florida for a living.

“Definitely pressure is big and especially pressure is growing when she is doing unexpectedly good,” he told the NYT in 2017. “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.”

Tragically, Konstantin suffered from a sudden heart attack in August 2019, a week before her 18th birthday. She immediately withdrew from the 2019 U.S. Open.

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“It was the worst thing that ever happened to me,” Anisimova told the New York Post in 2020. “It was very tough.”

Amanda told the New York Times in 2020 that it was difficult for her to leave the house. “It never goes away,” she told the NYT. “But you can’t change it, and you have to get back to life.”