It was billed as the Wimbledon women’s final that no one expected, it finished as a match that American rising star Amanda Anisimova will want to forget.

The American No. 13 seed did not shrink from her duel with Sabalenka on Centre Court, going after her shots at all times.

Amanda Anisimova failed to qualify for Wimbledon's main draw. On Thursday, the American provided a gutsy effort to upset the world's top player at the grass-court major and reach her first Grand Slam final.

American Amanda Anisimova, who beat world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka to get to the Final, faces 5-time Grand Slam champion Iga Swiatek at Wimbledon on July 12. Ava Wallace, reporting from Wimbledon, describes how the two players’s differing strengths playing on grass could determine the outcome.

Amanda Anisimova was doing her best to avoid thinking about Wimbledon after failing to qualify for the main draw. Now she has a final to prepare for.