Charleston Open: Anisimova upsets fourth seed Navarro to reach semis
Anisimova will play fellow American Sofia Kenin for a place in the final
Amanda Anisimova, Charleston 2025
Eighth seed Amanda Anisimova won against No 4 seed Emma Navarro 7-5, 7-6 (1) to move into the semi-finals of the Charleston Open at the Family Circle Tennis Center on Friday.
Anisimova, ranked No 16, will face fellow American Sofia Kenin next. With top seed Jessica Pegula also making the semis, three Americans have reached the last four this week.
Anisimova beat Russian Veronika Kudermetova (6-2, 6-2) and Kazakh Yulia Putintseva, the No 10 seed (6-4, 6-4) in the previous rounds of the tournament.
Earlier in the week, Navarro, ranked No 11, defeated Hailey Baptiste (6-4, 6-3) and No 15 seed Ashlyn Krueger (4-6, 6-4, 6-2).
Charleston WTA 500, other quarter-final results (Family Circle Tennis Center, clay, USD 1.064.510, most recent results first):
- Sofia Kenin beat Anna Kalinskaya (14): 6-4, 6-3
- Ekaterina Alexandrova (9) beat Qinwen Zheng (3): 6-1, 6-4
- Jessica Pegula (1) beat Danielle Collins (7): 1-6, 6-3, 6-0
