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PARIS — While Amanda Anisimova’s opponents at the French Open have returned to their lodging to relax after matches, Anisimova has headed back to her Paris hotel to do schoolwork.
Anisimova, long home-schooled, is working toward the equivalent of a high school diploma.
But at age 17, Anisimova, an American with Russian roots, is already a successful professional and the latest in a long line of teenagers in women’s tennis whose precocious poise and power have gotten the better of their elders.
“I think Amanda, in the next two or three years, will be in the top of the game,” said Virginia Ruzici, the 1978 French Open women’s champion and the longtime manager of Simona Halep.