However Anisimova hit again with a break of her personal and led 0-40 with Halep serving for the match, just for the Romanian to win the subsequent 5 factors in a row, claiming the victory when Anisimova drifted a backhand lengthy.
It means Halep remains to be but to drop a set at this yr’s match and is well-placed to win her third grand slam title and second at Wimbledon.
“Positively, I’ve performed the perfect tennis (since 2019),” she stated in her on-court interview. “I struggled lots final yr and now I am simply attempting to construct my confidence again.
“(My) tennis is right here, so I simply should consider. I’ve began to try this and it feels good.”
Halep will subsequent face Kazakhstan’s Elena Rybakina after the seventeenth seed’s 4-6 6-2 6-3 comeback win towards Australia’s Ajla Tomljanović within the different ladies’s semifinal on Wednesday.
“It is nice to be again within the semifinals,” Halep added. “I am very emotional proper now as a result of it means lots to be again within the semis. I performed a tricky opponent immediately, she may crush the ball ultimately.
“I did not know really what to do, however I simply believed in myself, I stated I’ve to remain there robust on my legs — they helped me immediately — and I believed until the top that I can win.”
Halep raced right into a 5-1 lead towards Anisimova as she broke her opponent at 1-1 and 3-1 earlier than taking then first set in half-hour.
Anisimova misplaced her radar within the second set and ended the match with 28 unforced errors to Halep’s six.
The competition out of attain for the 20-year-old American at 5-1 within the second set, however Anisimova began producing the large photographs she had been trying to find earlier within the match and got here near leveling the set at 5-4.
The late surge was too late, nevertheless, and Halep rallied to achieve her third Wimbledon semifinal.
