Kevin Anderson (tennis)

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Kevin Anderson

Country	South Africa
Residence	Johannesburg, South Africa
Born	18 May 1986 (1986-05-18) Johannesburg, South Africa
Height	2.03 m (6 ft 8 in)
Weight	89 kg (200 lb)
Turned pro	2007
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize money	$1,457,939
Singles
Career record	71–64
Career titles	1
Highest ranking	No. 30 (10 October 2011)
Current ranking	No. 36 (20 February 2012)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	3R (2012)
French Open	2R (2011)
Wimbledon	2R (2011)
US Open	3R (2010, 2011)
Doubles
Career record	16–21
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 109 (14 November 2011)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Wimbledon	QF (2008)
US Open	2R (2010)
Last updated on: 8 December 2011.

Kevin Anderson (born 18 May 1986 in Johannesburg) is a male South African tennis player.

He became the top-ranked South African player on 10 March 2008 after making the final at the 2008 Tennis Channel Open in Las Vegas. He achieved a career-high ranking of #30 in October 2011.

On 6 February 2011, he defeated Somdev Devvarman 4–6, 6–3, 6–2 in his hometown of Johannesburg to capture the South African Tennis Open title for his first ATP-level event title.

Anderson has represented South Africa in both Davis Cup play and in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

Collegiate career

Anderson played three seasons of college tennis in the United States at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was a three-time All-American in singles and two-time All-American in doubles. During his sophomore year (2005–06), he won the national doubles championship with his partner, Ryan Rowe.

The following season (2006–07), he led the Illini team to a national runner-up finish before again reaching the national championship match in doubles with Ryan Rowe and reaching the semi-finals in singles.

During the summer of 2007, Anderson decided to forgo his senior season at Illinois to pursue his professional tennis career full-time [1].

Professional Career Highlights

2003

At age 17, Anderson entered his first professional tournament, a Satellite in South Africa, winning 4 main draw matches in the 4 week tournament to earn a world ranking of #1178 from his only tournament of the year. He also finished the year with a doubles ranking of #902.

2004

In November, Anderson entered his 3rd pro tournament and won the Botswana F1 to push his ranking to #769. He followed that up the next two weeks in South Africa, reaching the final in F1 and the semi-final in F2 to finish the year ranked #665 in singles from just 3 tournaments.

2005

At age 19, Anderson continued to play at the Futures level, exclusively in the United States, reaching the semi-final of USA F21 in August. In November, he played his first Challenger in Champaign, qualifying and beating #192 Jan-Michael Gambill in the first round. He finished the year ranked #766.

2006

Anderson played his first pro tournaments of the year in June, again in the United States, reaching the finals of USA F13 and F21. He returned to Champaign again in November, beating #107 Kevin Kim to reach his first Challenger quarterfinal. He finished the year ranked #517.

In doubles, he won a pair of USA Futures back to back in June and finished the year ranked #530.

2007

Anderson again waited until June to play his first tournaments. He repeated as a finalist in USA F12 and then won USA F13 before qualifying 2 weeks later in the Winnetka Challenger and reaching the final to push his ranking to #310. He recorded his first win over a top-100 opponent in the qualifying for the ATP tournament in New Haven, beating #88 Chris Guccione, before losing in the main draw to #41 Arnaud Clément.

Anderson's most interesting result in 2007 was in September in the Challenger in New Orleans. He needed to qualify to make the main draw in both singles and doubles, and won all 13 matches that week to take the singles and doubles titles, beating 4 top-200 singles players and the top 3 seeded doubles teams.

His Challenger success in New Orleans helped him to career-high rankings at the end of 2007 of #221 in singles and #398 in doubles.

2008

Anderson began 2008 with a bit of success, reaching the quarters of the Challenger in New Caledonia before qualifying in his first Grand Slam attempt in Australia. He lost in the main draw first round to #84 Alejandro Falla in 5 sets, but his efforts got his ranking to a career high of #190.

At the Tennis Channel Open in Las Vegas, as a qualifier, he managed to defeat sixth seed Michaël Llodra in straight sets, 6–2, 7–6. In the second round he beat giant John Isner 7–6, 7–5. He beat Evgeny Korolev in his first ever ATP quarter-final 6–2, 6–0. In the semi-finals he won in straight sets against Robby Ginepri to reach his first ever ATP tour final. In the final, he fell to Sam Querrey in 3 sets.

In the second round of the Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Florida, he beat Novak Djokovic 7–6, 3–6, 6–4 for his first ever win against a top 10 player.

At Wimbledon, Anderson and partner Robert Lindstedt of Sweden reached the quarter-finals before losing to the eventual tournament champions, Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjić.

Anderson also represented South Africa in the Beijing Olympics, defeating Komlavi Loglo before losing to Nicolas Kiefer 4–6, 7–6, 4–6 in the singles tournament and losing (with partner Jeff Coetzee) to Nicolás Almagro and David Ferrer of Spain 6–3, 3–6, 4–6.

2009

After a slow start to the year, he won the San Remo, Italy Challenger in May, beating Blaž Kavčič in the final 2–6, 6–2, 7–5.

At the AEGON Championships (Queen's Club, London), Anderson won three matches to qualify and then defeated #57 Fabio Fognini 6–3, 7–6 in the first round of the main draw before losing to #46 Sam Querrey in the second round.

2010

At Wimbledon, he was narrowly defeated by No. 7 seed Nikolay Davydenko after winning the first two sets, 6–3, 7–6, 6–7, 5–7, 7–9.

Anderson advanced to the semifinals of the 2010 Atlanta Tennis Championships in July, upsetting 5th seeded Janko Tipsarević in the first round.

He qualified and reached the third round of the Rogers Cup in Toronto, beating Leonardo Mayer and Sam Querrey before losing to #1 ranked Rafael Nadal.

He then won his first Grand Slam match at the US Open over Somdev Devvarman in straight sets, and backed it up with a five set win over th 26th seed Thomaz Bellucci.

2011

Kevin Anderson began the 2011 season by advancing to the semifinals of the Brisbane International Tournament before losing to Andy Roddick in three sets, 2–6, 6–4, 2–6. He then went on to lose in the 1st round of the Australian Open to Blaž Kavčič.

On 6 February 2011, at the SA Open, (Anderson's home event), he went on to claim his maiden ATP Tour title, by beating Indian Somdev Devvarman 4–6, 6–3, 6–2 elevating him 19 positions in the ATP rankings to a career high of #40.

On 4 April 2011, he reached a career high of World No. 33 after making the quarterfinals of the 2011 Sony Ericsson Open. At the Atlanta Tennis Championships, Anderson reached the quarter finals as the 2nd seed, defeating Michael Russell before losing in straight sets to Gilles Muller. Next at the Legg Mason Tennis Classic, Anderson defeated Chris Guccione in the second round before being defeated by Victor Troicki 3–6, 3–6 in the third round.

At the 2011 Rogers Cup, he defeated Andujar in straight sets before shocking an out-of-sorts Andy Murray in the second round, easily winning 6–3, 6–1. He was defeated in the third round by Stanislas Wawrinka 4–6, 6–4, 4–6 in a tight contest.

Clothing

Kevin is sponsored by the new high performance tennis line Athletic DNA along with Robert Kendrick, Peter Luczak, Rajeev Ram, and Ryler DeHeart.

Career finals

Singles: 2 (1–1)

Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)
ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)
ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0)
ATP World Tour 500 Series (0–0)
ATP World Tour 250 Series (1–1)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	1.	9 March 2008	Las Vegas, United States	Hard	Sam Querrey	6–4, 3–6, 4–6
Winner	1.	6 February 2011	Johannesburg, South Africa	Hard	Somdev Devvarman	4–6, 6–3, 6–2

Doubles: 1 (0–1)

Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)
ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)
ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0)
ATP World Tour 500 Series (0–0)
ATP World Tour 250 Series (0–1)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	1.	19 February 2012	San Jose, United States	Hard (i)	Frank Moser	Mark Knowles Xavier Malisse	4–6, 6–1, [5–10]

Singles Performance Timeline

To prevent confusion and double counting, information in this table is updated only after a tournament or the player's participation in the tournament has concluded.

Tournament	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	W–L
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	1R	1R	1R	1R	3R	2–5
French Open	A	LQ	1R	2R		1–2
Wimbledon	1R	Q1	1R	2R		1–3
US Open	A	Q1	3R	3R		4–2
Win–Loss	0–2	0–1	2–4	4–4	2–1	8–12
ATP Masters Series
Indian Wells Masters	A	1R	2R	1R		1–3
Miami Masters	3R	A	2R	QF		7–3
Monte Carlo Masters	A	A	A	1R		0–1
Rome Masters	A	A	A	1R		0–1
Madrid Masters	A	A	1R	2R		1–2
Canada Masters	A	A	3R	3R		4–2
Cincinnati Masters	1R	A	A	2R		1–2
Shanghai Masters	NMS	A	1R	1R		0–2
Paris Masters	A	A	A	2R		1–1
Win–Loss	2–2	0–1	4–5	9–9	0–0	15–17
Career Statistics
Titles–Finals	0–1	0–0	0–0	1–1	0–0	1–2
Year-End Ranking	104	161	61	32

External links

• Kevin Anderson at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Anderson Recent Match Results
• Anderson World Ranking History
• Anderson College Profile