Kevin Anderson (tennis)
Kevin Anderson ( born May 18, 1986 in Johannesburg) is a South African tennis player.
- 2.1 Single 2.1.1 Siege 2.1.1.1 ATP World Tour
- 2.1.1.2 ATP Challenger Tour
- 2.1.2.1 ATP World Tour
- 2.2.1 Siege 2.2.1.1 ATP World Tour
- 2.2.1.2 ATP Challenger Tour
- 2.2.2.1 ATP World Tour
Life and career
To 2006: Junior career and college years
Kevin Anderson began at the age of six years, to play tennis. In the years 2001 to 2004 he participated in international junior tournaments, and was able to reach rank 28 of the Junior World Ranking. After he was first successes as a professional in Futures tournaments in South Africa in 2004, he moved in 2005 to the United States to Champaign, where he played for the college team of University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. Together with his partner, Ryan Rowe in 2006 he won the national championships in doubles.
2005-2007: First success on the Challenger Tour
In parallel, he also played on futere tournaments and in November 2005 his first Challenger tournament in Champaign. The following year, he made the same tournament the quarter-finals.
After he had reached in July 2007 in Winnetka for the first time a Challenger final, Kevin Anderson qualified in August 2007 in New Haven for the first time for an ATP tournament. However, he was eliminated in the first round against Arnaud Clément. A month later, he won the Challenger tournament in New Orleans by a final victory against Sam Warburg his first title in this category, and won the doubles competition also also on the side of Ryler Deheart.
2008: Grand Slam debut, first ATP final and entry into the Top 100
2008 Anderson managed at the Australian Open right away to qualify for the main draw, but lost in the first round against Alejandro Falla. Nevertheless, it was first climbed by a in the top 200 in the world rankings. When ATP tournament from Las Vegas, he could also qualify for the main draw, and failed to Siegen among other things, the top 50 player Michaël Llodra only in the final to Sam Querrey. At the Masters tournament in Miami, he was able to qualify again, and won there sensational in the second round against the defending champion and former world ranking third Novak Djokovic. In April 2008, he played first time in Finland for South Africa in Davis Cup, and was able to contribute two individual victories in the 4-1 victory. By finals at the Challenger tournament in Surbiton, he managed to jump into the top 100, so that he was qualified for the first time at Wimbledon directly for the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament. In the individual he had already failed in the first round, but in double the catchment succeeded him on the side of his partner Robert Lindstedt quarter-finals. In August 2008, he passed for South Africa at the Olympic Games, where he lost in the second round against Nicolas Kiefer for a first round victory over Komlavi Loglo. In September 2008, he helped South Africa in Davis Cup by a single victory to 3-2 win over Monaco, and hence the rise in the Europe / Africa Group I. In November 2008 he appeared again at the tournament of Champaign, and secured there with a win over Kevin Kim his second Challenger title. One week later in Knoxville, the second Challenger title in doubles.
2009-2010: setbacks and comeback
The year 2009 was less successful for Kevin Anderson. He slipped out of the Top 100 out, and could only qualify at the Australian Open for the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament, where he lost in the first round against Marin Cilic. The largest individual successes this season were the final victory against Blaž Kavčič the Challenger tournament in Sanremo, two Challenger finals in Granby and Binghamton, as well as the qualifications and move into the second round of the ATP tournament from London's Queen's Club. In doubles, Anderson reached three Challenger Finals, of which he was able to win two in Lexington and Vancouver this season.
In 2010, he failed to qualify for the main draw of the Australian Open, in turn, however, had no chance at the first round match against eventual finalists Andy Murray. Due to good results in the Masters Series Indian Wells and Miami, and a Challenger title in Baton Rouge, he succeeded in April 2010 to re-enter the top 100 He was thus directly qualified for the French Open, where he was on in the first round the started a wild card Edouard Roger -Vasselin met. Anderson won the first two sets of sovereign, however, this playful guide and still lost the match in five sets. The same happened to him a month later at Wimbledon, when he again after a two- set lead still lost to the set of number 7 Nikolay Davydenko. In July 2010, Anderson reached in Atlanta his best result of the season, as he pushed forward after beating Janko Tipsarevic, Donald Young and Lukáš Lacko to the semifinals. There, however, he lost then in extreme heat in three sets against John Isner. At the Masters tournament in Toronto Kevin Anderson reached after successful qualification and a victory over the set at position 16 Sam Querrey the first knockout round, where he lost to the world number one Rafael Nadal. At the U.S. Open in 2010 he won a Grand Slam match for the first time then when he defeated Somdev Devvarman in the first round. In the second round he met on the set at position 26 Thomaz Bellucci, whom he beat in five sets in a nearly four-hour match. In the third round but then was after three sets against Richard Gasquet terminus. End of the season in October 2010, Anderson reached in Seoul once a Challenger final, which, however, he lost to Lu Yen - hsun. At the end of his best ever season, he had improved by exactly one hundred places of rank 161 to rank 61.
2011: first ATP title and establishment in the top 50 in the world rankings
At the beginning of 2011 reached Kevin Anderson in Brisbane for the third time in his career, an ATP semifinal. There he lost in three sets against Andy Roddick set at position 2. At the Australian Open Anderson resigned from the qualifiers Blaž Kavčič as in the last three years in the first round. During the subsequent ATP tournament in his hometown of Johannesburg Kevin Anderson reached an ATP final, among others, by defeating Adrian Mannarino for the second time. There he sat down in three sets against Somdev Devvarman through and thus won his first title. In March 2011, Anderson reached the quarter-finals in Miami for the first time a Masters tournament. He defeated among others, the 2008 winners, Nikolay Davydenko, and the set Guillermo García- López and John Isner. In the quarterfinals, he then met the world number two Novak Djokovic, whom he had three years earlier defeated surprising at the same place. This time, however, he had no chance against the favorites, but improved still further in the world rankings to his best ever position 33 After a quarter finals at Estoril in April 2011 Kevin Anderson reached in May 2011 with a victory over Nicolas Mahut for the first time the second round of French Open. There, however, he was defeated in five sets then the later quarter-finalists Juan Ignacio Chela. In Wimbledon, he left in the second round, when he this year lost for the third time against Novak Djokovic in the meantime. In July 2011, Anderson appeared for the first time in three years for South Africa in Davis Cup, and led his team to a 3-1 victory over the Netherlands. In August 2011, Kevin Anderson was able to reach the knockout stages as in the previous year by a significant victory over the set at position 4 titleholder Andy Murray in the Canada Masters tournament in Montreal, but lost against Stanislas Wawrinka. The following U.S. Open Anderson defeated in the second round to set at position 29 Michaël Llodra smooth in three sets, then had to concede defeat to the set at position 8 Mardy Fish, however. At the next Davis Cup Relegation match against Croatia for a place in the World Group Anderson won his singles match against Ivan Dodig while, but could not prevent the 1:4 defeat of South Africa. A quarter- final appearance at the tournament in Beijing, where he set at position 6 Andy Roddick defeated, among others, before he retired to eventual finalist Marin Cilic, Kevin Anderson brought in October 2011 for the first time a ranking in the top 30 in the world. Three weeks later he was in Vienna, among others, by a victory over local favorite Jurgen Melzer for the third time this season in an ATP semi-final, had to be there but in three sets Juan Martín del Potro defeated.
2012-2014: Second ATP title and entered the Top 20
In the 2013 season, Kevin Anderson reached the Australian Open and the French Open for the first time the second round, at Wimbledon for the first time he was able to penetrate into the third round. He also reached three ATP Finals: In Brisbane he lost to Bernard Tomic, in Casablanca, he had to Tommy Robredo defeated and in Atlanta he lost to John Isner. These successes provided him with 19th place his best to date ranking in the world rankings.
2013 Kevin Anderson could move again in the second round of the Australian Open. He then reached both the finals in Delray Beach and in Acapulco, but lost both finals in three sets. In Acapulco, it was a double success, as Anderson defeated Matthew Ebden in the final with Feliciano López and Max Mirny 6:3 and 6:3. This was his first ATP title in doubles.