Amanda Anisimova's Family: All About the U.S. Tennis Star's Mom Olga, Late Dad Konstantin and Sister Maria

NEED TO KNOW

• Amanda Anisimova’s parents moved to the U.S. from Russia in the late 1990s
• Her sister, who went on to play collegiate tennis, convinced the family to relocate to Florida for her training
• Amanda's father died of a heart attack in 2019 — days before Amanda was set to play in the U.S. Open

Amanda Anisimova has been a star at the 2025 Wimbledon Championships, and her parents made significant sacrifices to get her there.

In 1998, Konstantin Anisimov and Olga Anisimova moved to the U.S. from Russia with their then-10-year-old daughter, Amanda's older sister Maria Egee, to give her more opportunities. After Amanda was born in 2001, the family of four moved again from New Jersey to Florida to support Maria’s growing tennis ambitions.

They quickly realized Amanda had serious talent of her own.

“Definitely pressure is big and especially pressure is growing when she is doing unexpectedly good,” Konstantin told The New York Times in May 2017. “Because then it’s very difficult to stay on course and be realistic and don’t be delusional. I saw a lot of parents who got immediately delusional, and those stories end up in a very bad way. You can’t overtrain. You can’t over-push.”

Though Maria left tennis behind after college and went into finance, Amanda turned pro at 15. She’s won three women’s singles titles and reached the quarter-finals at the 2022 Wimbledon Championships. Three years later, she is now competing in the Wimbledon finals after defeating Aryna Sabalenka.

Sadly, Konstantin was not able to see his daughter’s hard work pay off. He died unexpectedly of a heart attack days before the U.S. Open in August 2019. Amanda, only 17 at the time, pulled out of the tournament and took some time off before returning in January the following year.

“As soon as I got back to tennis, it is what made me happy,” she told the New York Postin January 2020. “And I know that’s what my dad would want me to be doing. That’s what would make him proud.”

Here’s everything to know about Amanda Anisimova’s parents and sister.

Olga and Konstantin emigrated from Russia in 1998 

Konstantin told The New York Times in 2017 that he and Olga moved from their home in Moscow to the United States in 1998, in hopes of securing more opportunities for Maria, who was 10 years old at the time. When they lived in Moscow, Konstantin worked in finance and banking, and Olga was an accountant.

“My wife had relatives who had lived a long time in the United States,” he said. “They sent us an invitation to come visit this country. We visited it, and we liked it more and more, and we start thinking and taking it seriously.”

Three years later, Amanda was born in Freehold Township, N.J.

Maria inspired Amanda to play tennis 

Amanda wasn’t the only tennis player in the family. Maria started playing the sport when the family lived in Moscow and eventually made it on the roster for the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania.

Inspired by her older sister’s talent, Amanda began playing tennis with her mother when she was just 2 years old. Olga told The New York Times in 2017 that “no one touched” her daughter’s technique until she was 7, which allowed her to develop her skills.

“If I was playing a tournament, Amanda would stand outside the fence of the court and mimic what I was doing,” Maria later told The New York Times in December 2019. “She had a little baby racket, and my parents said, ‘Right, we’ll take a shot at it.’ ”

The family moved to Florida to help their daughters train 

A year after Amanda was born, Maria convinced her parents to visit the IMG Academy (a sports training and boarding school) in Bradenton, Fla. According to The New York Times, the family relocated to Miami two years later, in 2004, to help Maria train more seriously and secure a spot on a college team.

Konstantin began coaching tennis for a living, despite never playing the game.

Konstantin was Amanda’s primary coach until he separated from Olga

Although she has worked with other coaches and practiced with tennis greats like Lindsay Davenport, Konstantin served as Amanda’s primary coach for most of her career. Olga taught her the fundamentals.

Just before he died in 2019, he had separated from Olga, and a new coaching team was established, per The New York Times.

“Both parents put so much into Amanda’s tennis,” Nick Saviano, Amanda’s coach and long-time advisor, told The New York Times. “It's really exciting to see it all start to emerge and so very sad to know that Konstantin will not be there to enjoy seeing all his dreams come to fruition.”

Maria made the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2018

All that hard work paid off when Maria landed a spot on the University of Pennsylvania’s women’s tennis team. In 2010, she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in economics and went on to follow in her parents’ footsteps with a career in finance, per her LinkedIn profile.

Maria hit another major milestone in 2018 when she was named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list for influential figures in finance. At the time, she was working as a director at Bank of America and had previously held a position of vice president at Goldman Sachs.

She started working as a portfolio manager for Loop Capital in 2025.

Her father died of a heart attack in 2019 

On Aug. 19, 2019, Konstantin died of a heart attack at his home in Florida. He was 52, and Amanda was only 17. She told The New York Times in December 2019 that it was “really hard” to leave her house after her father’s death.

“This is obviously the hardest thing I’ve had to go through and the hardest thing that’s ever happened to me, and I don’t really talk about it with anyone,” Amanda said. “I just don’t really feel comfortable talking about it. 

She continued, “I guess going onto the court and hitting tennis balls is how I get my feelings out, and it’s where I spent most of my time with my dad.”

She has one nephew 

Maria’s son, Jaxon, has made some appearances on Amanda’s Instagram and in the stands. After reaching the semifinals at the 2025 Wimbledon Championships, he joined her for her post-game interview, per CNN.

“He flew in this morning, and it’s his birthday on Thursday,” Amanda told reporters, noting that he was turning 4 and that her match was the first one he had ever seen. “I’m just super grateful that they flew in and got to experience this with me. It doesn’t happen often. It’s super special.”

Amanda said she continued to play tennis because it would make her father happy 

Though she told The New York Times that the grief “never goes away,” Amanda found some solace getting back to doing what she — and her father — loved most. 

“The only thing that has helped me is just playing tennis and being on the court,” she said. “That’s what makes me happy, and I know it would make him happy, so that’s the way it is.”

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