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At 17, Amanda Anisimova Bucks the Odds and Knocks Off a Seed

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MELBOURNE, Australia — Amanda Anisimova, 17, is readily seen by many as the future of American tennis, but she sometimes yearns for a second opinion from a third eye.

“I drive by so many of them, and I always want to go in,” Anisimova said of the various psychic readers around her home in South Florida.

“I’m kind of scared, because I don’t want to know what my future is going to look like: I want it to be a surprise,” she added. “But, I want to hear what they have to say.