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Amanda Anisimova Parts Ways With Coach Carlos Rodriguez

Published 02/08/2020, 6:36 PM EST

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The 18-year-old American talent Amanda Anisimova excelled on the WTA Tour in the 2019 season. With her father in her coaching team, their cooperation worked amazingly well last year. They together created wonders on the professional tour.

But unfortunately, the tennis icon Anisimova lost her father right before the US Open 2019, and a few weeks later she appointed Carlos Rodriguez as her coach.

However now, the New Jersey-born promising talent Anisimova has parted ways with her coach Rodriguez. In October 2019, Rodriguez took some time off from his tennis academy in Beijing, China and decided to travel full-time with Anisimova.

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The duo together played just two tournaments, Auckland Open and Australian Open 2020. Amanda Anisimova reached the semifinals in Auckland but she was a first-round upset in Melbourne.

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According to the reports, Rodriguez will now return to Beijing and develop his academy. The Belgian tennis legend Justine Henin also works there.

Initially, when Anisimova and Rodriguez signed their league, the tennis experts called it to be one of the promising player-coach pairs in the women’s game. Previously, Rodriguez was a full-time coach of the Chinese ace Li Na, under his tutelage she claimed her second major title at Australian Open 2014 and attained the World Number two ranking.

As of now, the upcoming coaching plans of Anisimova are yet to be disclosed.

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Season 2019 for Amanda Anisimova

Last year, Anisimova did exceptionally well on the WTA Tour. She kickstarted her season by storming into the fourth round of Australian Open as a 17-year-old participant.

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And during the clay season, her performance graph had an upward slope. She pulled off her first-ever WTA title on the red sludge of Bogota, Colombia. And before that success, she did not have any match victories on WTA Tour’s clay surface.

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Following that success, her career skyrocketed on the Parisien terre-battue. The American dethroned the defending champion Simona Halep in the quarters and reached semi-finals of a Grand Slam for the first time at French Open 2019.

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