Potapova vs Anisimova Prediction 5 September 2026
🔊 Amanda Anisimova has had a season in which she has firmly established herself in the top ten and is no longer a player who performs well only in patches. Anastasia Potapova arrives at this match from a very different position: her ranking still keeps her in the top 30, but it has been a difficult year, and the summer has been a struggle with her own serve. On paper this is a meeting of two players from the same ranking band; in practice, it is a match between players at different levels.
Head-to-Head
📊 The only previous meeting between them took place in Rome in May 2019. Anisimova won 6-2, 7-5.
Head-to-head statistics Potapova - Anisimova
Anastasia Potapova Player Overview
The Austrian came through two rounds without much trouble: 6-2, 6-2 against Daria Semenistaya and 6-4, 2-6, 6-3 against Leolia Jeanjean. Before the Slam, she lost to Sloane Stephens 2-6, 4-6 in Cincinnati, then in Toronto fell to Elina Svitolina 1-6, 1-6 before beating Elena-Gabriela Ruse. Her hard-court record for the season stands at 11 wins and 11 losses.
The main concern is her serve. On the season she is hitting 57% of first serves in, winning 42% of second-serve points and double-faulting on 7% of second serves, and since July those figures have slipped to 51%, 39% and 10%. She is facing almost a break point per service game. Against top-30 opponents on hard courts she wins fewer than half her service points - noticeably lower than her opponent's equivalent figure.
Match Results: Anastasia Potapova
Amanda Anisimova Player Overview
The American opened the tournament with wins of 6-1, 6-3 against Ashlyn Krueger and 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 against Lilly Tagger. In Cincinnati she beat Linda Noskova (6-1, 6-4) and Alexandra Eala, before losing to Jessica Pegula in the quarter-finals in three sets, with a tie-break in the deciding set. Her hard-court record this season stands at 17 wins and 7 losses.
Her strength is on return: 47% of return points won this season and 60% on second serve, compared to 53% for Potapova. Her serve is steady without standout numbers: 64% first-serve percentage, 65% first-serve points won and 48% second-serve points won. Against opponents ranked 13-70 on hard courts, she has won by a margin of five games or more in 8 of 11 matches.
Match Results: Amanda Anisimova
Key factors
- Since July, Anastasia Potapova has landed her first serve in 51% of attempts.
- On second serve, she wins 39% of points and double-faults on 10%.
- Amanda Anisimova wins 60% of points on the opponent's second serve.
- Potapova has lost to top-30 players by six or more games in 7 of her last 12 matches against them.
Expected scenario
The overlap between one player's weakness and the other's strength is about as precise as it gets. Potapova starts nearly half her rallies on second serve and wins fewer than four points in ten on it. Anisimova wins six points in ten on the opponent's second serve. This is not a subtle difference in metrics - it is a direct hit on a vulnerability.
Add to that the fact that Potapova generates little pressure herself: 3% aces and 43% of return points won. She needs to win extended rallies against a player who hits flat and takes the centre of the court early. Potapova's typical scorelines against top-30 opponents are 6-1 6-2 or 6-2 6-4, and over two seasons on hard courts she has lost heavily twice as often as she has stayed competitive.
⭐ Editor's Prediction
The only scenario in which this bet fails requires Potapova's serve to snap back sharply to its early-season level. There has been no sign of that over the past two months: the numbers have dropped from tournament to tournament, and the two wins here came against opponents ranked outside the top 200, who did not punish her serve.
Against Anisimova there will be no such margin. The American is in the best form of her season, winning more than half of all points in matches against top-30 players, and in the previous round she closed out her opponent comfortably, dropping just three games per set. Her return targets exactly the area where Potapova is currently vulnerable.
Pick: Amanda Anisimova - Games Handicap -5.5.
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