Welcome to Shades Of, where SI experts discuss young, emerging stars across all sports in the context of which current veterans or retired athletes they draw comparisons to, based on everything from stats to stature, style and more.
Who does Amanda Anisimova remind you of?
Just when we thought the teenage tennis phenom was becoming an endangered species, Amanda Anisimova arrived to remind us otherwise. A Jersey Girl by birth who came of age training in Florida, Anisimova was 17 when she reached the semifinals of the 2019 French Open, beating defending champion Simona Halep 6-2, 6-4 in the process to become the youngest player to reach the Roland Garros semifinals since 17-year-old Nicole Vaidisova in 2006.