The woman who beat Sabalenka is a girl who called Baby Sharapova, then life overwhelmed her and stopped. A year and a half ago returned from number 442 and resumed climbing the ranks, with a smile
No longer the new Sharapova, but the new Anisimova. When the star of the American pierces Sabalenka for the umpteenth time leaving the service, the Belarusian tiger also raises his eyes to the resigned sky. Because there is nothing more to do: the match point smiles in Amanda Anisimova, eyes raised to heaven and tears impossible to contain. A final in Wimbledon is worth these and many other emotions. Who knows if in that smile there will have been the moving images of the last few weeks: a ranking that now sees it in seventh place, the awareness of boasting the best reverse of the circuit, the joy for having reached the last act of a Slam as had never happened to her.