Amanda Anisimova’s coaching team informed what to do next after her latest Grand Slam final defeat

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Amanda Anisimova has been a revelation on the WTA Tour in 2025, but may still finish the year disappointed.

The American star began the year ranked 36th in the world, but soon climbed into the top 20 when Anisimova won the Qatar Open in February.

Taking her game to another level, Anisimova qualified for her maiden Grand Slam final at Wimbledon in June.

Unfortunately, the final didn’t go to plan, as Anisimova lost to Iga Swiatek 0-6, 0-6, in 57 minutes.

Returning to the championship match at her next Grand Slam tournament, Anisimova lost again, this time to Aryna Sabalenka in straight sets.

Now 0-2 in Slam finals, Anisimova will have to try and recover mentally before resuming her 2025 WTA Tour campaign.

Former Grand Slam finalist Zina Garrison has now advised her coaching team on what they should do next.

Zina Garrison tells Amanda Anisimova’s coaching team to help her ‘find joy’ in what she accomplished

Speaking on US Open radio after the final, 1990 Wimbledon finalist Zina Garrison shared her thoughts on Anisimova’s efforts at Flushing Meadows.

“The first thing I want to say is well done to Amanda [Anisimova],” she said.

“Of course, we’re all competitors and she’s not going to be happy with that, but for her to come back the way she did, and make it to the finals, and then it seemed like she was pretty much out of there, and she was able to get herself back together, she has to take this and keep learning from it.”

Garrison then directed Anisimova’s coaching team on what they should do next, following her second successive Slam final defeat.

“I think what I would say to Amanda’s team, help her find joy in the achievement that she did, because it’s actually amazing,” she said.

“The reason why I say that is that we don’t want her to go backwards, start feeling like she’s got to win, the pressure, people around her start putting their stuff onto her.

“She’s done an amazing job, she’s going to keep improving, her ground strokes are amazing.

“Just keep working, because she’s going to get a couple of these.”

The 61-year-old believes Anisimova has what it takes to win Grand Slam titles, but suggested her fellow American is still doubting herself.

“I keep going back to it, find the joy in what you’re doing,” said Garrison.

“Her resilience, I think, comes from her believing in herself; there’s some doubt there. 

“The belief needs to be the love and joy that she has for her playing this game, not anybody else.”

While Garrison took the time to comment on Anisimova’s next steps, she didn’t forget to praise the world number one for another brilliant performance.

Aryna Sabalenka did something ‘mindblowing’ at the US Open – Zina Garrison

The Belarusian star was clinical in Saturday’s final, producing a champion’s display on Arthur Ashe Stadium.

“Aryna Sabalenka, it’s just been amazing to me, how she keeps working on improving herself to get better, and better, and better,” said Garrison.

“I think, to me, the biggest thing for her in this, she was able to hold her personality, attitude, all of that, controlled aggression.”

Garrison was particularly impressed with how Sabalenka managed to bounce back from Grand Slam heartbreak earlier in the year.

“It’s absolutely mindblowing that she forgot about all of that stuff that happened at the Australian Open, then she forgot about what happened at the French [Open], then Wimbledon,” she said.

Sabalenka lost in the latter stages of the first three Grand Slams of the year, missing out on opportunities to add to her major tally.

Aryna Sabalenka’s Grand Slam defeats in 2025

• 2025 Australian Open – Lost in F to Madison Keys
• 2025 French Open – Lost in F to Coco Gauff
• 2025 Wimbledon – Lost in SF to Amanda Anisimova

Finally getting over the line at the US Open, Sabalenka won her fourth Grand Slam title, becoming the joint-third most successful ‘active’ player in the women’s game.

Looking to close the gap to Swiatek, Sabalenka will return to Grand Slam action in Melbourne next year.

The 2025 Australian Open is scheduled to begin on Sunday, January 12.