Kevin Anderson (tennis)

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Kevin Anderson

Country (sports)	South Africa
Residence	Delray Beach, Florida, United States Johannesburg, South Africa
Born	(1986-05-18) 18 May 1986 Johannesburg, South Africa
Height	2.03 m (6 ft 8 in)
Turned pro	2007
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$6,776,741
Singles
Career record	223–161
Career titles	3
Highest ranking	No. 10 (12 October 2015)
Current ranking	No. 15 (29 February 2016)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	4R (2013, 2014, 2015)
French Open	4R (2013, 2014)
Wimbledon	4R (2014, 2015)
US Open	QF (2015)
Other tournaments
Olympic Games	2R (2008)
Doubles
Career record	53–60
Career titles	1
Highest ranking	No. 58 (17 November 2014)
Current ranking	No. 101 (1 February 2016)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	3R (2013)
Wimbledon	QF (2008)
US Open	2R (2010)
Last updated on: 1 February 2016.

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

He became the top-ranked male South African player on 10 March 2008 after making the final at the 2008 Tennis Channel Open in Las Vegas. He achieved his career-high ranking of World No. 10 on 12 October 2015. He is the first South African to be ranked in the top 10 since Wayne Ferreira was No. 10 on 5 May 1997.

On 6 February 2011, he defeated Somdev Devvarman in his hometown of Johannesburg to capture the South African 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 semifinals in singles.

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

Professional career highlights

2003-2007

At age 17, Anderson entered his first professional tournament, a Satellite in South Africa, winning four main-draw matches in the four-week tournament to earn a world ranking of No. 1178 from his only tournament of the year. He also finished the year with a doubles ranking of No. 902.

In November, Anderson entered his third pro tournament and won the Botswana F1 to push his ranking to No. 769. He followed that up the next two weeks in South Africa, reaching the final in F1 and the semifinals in F2 to finish the year ranked No. 665 in singles from just 3 tournaments.

At age 19, Anderson continued to play at the Futures level, exclusively in the United States, reaching the semifinals of USA F21 in August. In November, he played his first Challenger event in Champaign, qualifying and beating No. 192 Jan-Michael Gambill in the first round. He finished the year ranked No. 766.

In 2005, 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 No. 107 Kevin Kim to reach his first Challenger quarterfinal. He finished the year ranked No. 517.

In doubles, he won a pair of USA Futures back to back in June and finished the year ranked No. 530.

In 2006, 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 two weeks later in the Winnetka Challenger and reaching the final to push his ranking to No. 310. He recorded his first win over a top-100 opponent in the qualifying for the ATP tournament in New Haven, beating No. 88 Chris Guccione, before losing in the main draw to No. 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 four top-200 singles players and the top three seeded doubles teams.

His Challenger success in New Orleans helped him to career-high rankings at the end of 2007 of No. 221 in singles and No. 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 No. 84 Alejandro Falla in 5 sets, but his efforts got his ranking to a career high of No. 190.

At the 2008 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 for his first win against a top-10 player.

At Wimbledon, Anderson and partner Robert Lindstedt of Sweden reached the quarterfinals 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 his 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 in three sets.

At the Aegon Championships (Queen's Club, London), Anderson won three matches to qualify, and then defeated no. 57 Fabio Fognini in the first round of the main draw, before losing to no. 46 Sam Querrey in the second round.

2010

At Wimbledon, he was narrowly defeated by seventh seed Nikolay Davydenko after winning the first two sets.

Anderson advanced to the semifinals of the 2010 Atlanta Tennis Championships in July, upsetting fifth seed 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 no. 1 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 26th seed Thomaz Bellucci.

2011

He began the 2011 season by advancing to the semifinals of the Brisbane International Tournament, before losing to Andy Roddick in three sets. He then went on to lose in the first round of the Australian Open to Blaž Kavčič.

At the SA Open, (Anderson's home event), he claimed his maiden ATP Tour title, by beating Indian Somdev Devvarman, rising 19 positions in the ATP rankings to a career high of No. 40.

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 quarterfinals as the second seed, defeating Michael Russell, before losing in straight sets to Gilles Müller. Next at the Legg Mason Tennis Classic, Anderson defeated Chris Guccione in the second round, before being defeated by Victor Troicki in the third round.

At the 2011 Rogers Cup, he defeated Pablo Andújar in straight sets before shocking an out-of-sorts Andy Murray in the second round with an easy victory. He was defeated in the third round by Stanislas Wawrinka in a tight three set contest.

2012

Anderson opened 2012 with a third-round loss at the 2012 Australian Open. He followed it up with a win in Delray Beach, defeating qualifier Marinko Matosevic in the final.

At the French Open, he reached a career-best third round, where he was defeated by seventh seed Tomáš Berdych in five sets.

2013

Anderson started the year at the Sydney International, where he reached the final, but lost to Australian Bernard Tomic in three sets.

At the 2013 Australian Open, he defeated Fernando Verdasco in the third round, but lost to Tomáš Berdych in the fourth round. This was his career best in any Grand Slam event.

He played at Indian Wells, where he knocked out fourth seed David Ferrer. He reached the quarterfinals there before losing to Tomáš Berdych. He reached the fourth round of the French Open, before falling to Ferrer in straight sets. At Wimbledon, he lost in the third round to Berdych.

He reached the final in Atlanta in July, but lost his third final of the year in three tiebreaks to John Isner.

2014

Anderson started the year by reaching the fourth round of the Australian Open, before being knocked out in straight sets by Tomáš Berdych. He then reached the final at Delray Beach, before losing to Marin Čilić in two tiebreaks. At the Mexican Open held in Acapulco, he again reached the final, losing to Grigor Dimitrov in three sets, with tiebreaks in the first and third sets.

In the Indian Wells Masters, Anderson reached the quarterfinals, after beating third seed Stan Wawrinka in a hard-fought upset in three sets. He lost to Roger Federer in straight sets. At the 2014 Madrid Open, he beat Radek Štěpánek, before losing to Tomáš Berdych. He repeated his success of 2013 by again reaching the fourth round in the French Open, before losing to fifth seed David Ferrer in four sets.

He then reached the quarterfinals of the AEGON Championships held at the Queen's Club, London, before losing to Radek Štěpánek. At the Wimbledon Championships he defeated Fabio Fognini to reach the fourth round, where he lost to Andy Murray.

Anderson made it to the quarterfinals of the Masters 1000 event in Toronto after defeating Fognini and Stanislas Wawrinka. At the Cincinnati Masters, he had a disappointing first-round, straight-set exit at the hands of John Isner.

He made it to the third round of the US Open, where he lost to eventual champion Marin Čilić. At the Paris Masters he again defeated Wawrinka to reach the quarterfinals, after which Tomas Berdych beat him. The South African ended the year no. 16 in the ATP year-end rankings.

2015

Anderson made the final in Memphis, losing to Kei Nishikori, but he made early exits in Estoril and Madrid. He then had a good run at Queen's Club making the final before being defeated by Andy Murray in straight sets. He again reached the fourth round in Wimbledon where he led eventual champion Novak Djokovic two sets to love, taking both sets through tiebreakers. However, he was unable to sustain his form for the next three sets and eventually lost the match in five sets. Anderson's big moment came in the US Open, where he defeated Andy Murray advancing to his first ever quarterfinals in a major after seven failed attempts. He won the first two sets, then lost the third set via tiebreaker, but after a hard fought fourth set, Anderson pulled away winning the tiebreaker 7–0 and captured the victory. He would next face Stan Wawrinka, whom he had beaten the last four times they played, including once this year. This would be their eighth match overall, but the first at Grand Slam level. Wawrinka levelled the head to head at 4–4, beating Anderson in straight sets, including a bagel in the third.

Following a great US Open, Kevin traveled to Asia for the Japan Open where he lost in the round of 32 to Gilles Müller. Despite this loss, he reached a career high ranking of No. 10 on 12 October - the first South African tennis player in the top 10 in 18 years. He then traveled to Shanghai for the Shanghai Masters (tennis) where he was defeated in the quarterfinals by Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. This was followed by the Vienna Open where he lost to Steve Johnson in the quarterfinals. Traveling to Basel next, he was also defeated by yet another American in Donald Young in the Round of 16. He reached the third round in the 2015 BNP Paribas Masters, but failed to capitalise on match point against Rafael Nadal.

Equipment

Anderson currently wears Lotto and uses Srixon (a division of SRI Sports Limited) for his rackets. His racket of choice is the Srixon 2.0 tour.

Personal

Anderson started playing tennis at age 6 and was competitive in 800m races at school

Anderson married his college girlfriend, golfer Kelsey O'Neal, in 2011, and they have bought a home in Delray Beach, Florida. He is a permanent resident of the United States.

ATP career finals

Singles: 11 (3 titles, 8 runners-up)

Legend Grand Slam (0–0) ATP World Tour Finals (0–0) ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0) ATP World Tour 500 series (0–2) ATP World Tour 250 series (3–6)

Titles by Surface Hard (3–6) Clay (0–1) Grass (0–1)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	9 March 2008	Tennis Channel Open, Las Vegas, United States	Hard	Sam Querrey	6–4, 3–6, 4–6
Winner	1.	6 February 2011	SA Tennis Open, Johannesburg, South Africa	Hard	Somdev Devvarman	4–6, 6–3, 6–2
Winner	2.	4 March 2012	Delray Beach Open, Delray Beach, United States	Hard	Marinko Matosevic	6–4, 7–6(7–2)
Runner-up	2.	12 January 2013	Apia International Sydney, Sydney, Australia	Hard	Bernard Tomic	3–6, 7–6(7–2), 3–6
Runner-up	3.	14 April 2013	Grand Prix Hassan II, Casablanca, Morocco	Clay	Tommy Robredo	6–7(6–8), 6–4, 3–6
Runner-up	4.	29 July 2013	BB&T Atlanta Open, Atlanta, United States	Hard	John Isner	7–6(7–3), 6–7(2–7), 6–7(2–7)
Runner-up	5.	23 February 2014	Delray Beach Open, Delray Beach, United States (2)	Hard	Marin Čilić	6–7(6–8), 7–6(9–7), 4–6
Runner-up	6.	2 March 2014	Abierto Mexicano Telcel, Acapulco, Mexico	Hard	Grigor Dimitrov	6–7(1–7), 6–3, 6–7(5–7)
Runner-up	7.	15 February 2015	U.S. National Indoor Tennis Championships, Memphis, United States	Hard (i)	Kei Nishikori	4–6, 4–6
Runner-up	8.	21 June 2015	Aegon Championships, London, United Kingdom	Grass	Andy Murray	3–6, 4–6
Winner	3.	29 August 2015	Winston-Salem Open, Winston-Salem, United States	Hard	Pierre-Hugues Herbert	6–4, 7–5

Doubles: 4 (1 title, 3 runners-up)

Legend Grand Slam (0–0) ATP World Tour Finals (0–0) ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0) ATP World Tour 500 series (1–2) ATP World Tour 250 series (0–1)

Titles by Surface Hard (1–3) Clay (0–0) Grass (0–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	19 February 2012	SAP Open, San Jose, United States	Hard (i)	Frank Moser	Mark Knowles Xavier Malisse	4–6, 6–1, [5–10]
Runner-up	2.	5 August 2012	Citi Open, Washington, D.C., United States	Hard	Sam Querrey	Treat Conrad Huey Dominic Inglot	6–7(5–7), 7–6(9–7), [5–10]
Winner	1.	2 March 2014	Abierto Mexicano Telcel, Acapulco, Mexico	Hard	Matthew Ebden	Feliciano López Max Mirnyi	6–3, 6–3
Runner-up	3.	26 October 2014	Valencia Open 500, Valencia, Spain	Hard (i)	Jérémy Chardy	Jean-Julien Rojer Horia Tecău	4–6, 2–6

Singles performance timeline

Key

W

F

SF

QF

#R

RR

Q#

P#

DNQ

A

Z#

PO

G

S

B

NMS

NTI

P

NH

(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) preliminary round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze Olympic/Paralympic medal; (NMS) not a Masters tournament; (NTI) not a Tier I tournament; (P) postponed; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.

To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Current till 2015 BNP Paribas Masters.

Tournament	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	W–L
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	1R	1R	1R	1R	3R	4R	4R	4R	1R	11–9
French Open	A	Q3	1R	2R	3R	4R	4R	3R		11–6
Wimbledon	1R	Q1	1R	2R	1R	3R	4R	4R		9–7
US Open	A	Q1	3R	3R	1R	2R	3R	QF		11–6
Win–Loss	0–2	0–1	2–4	4–4	4–4	9–4	11–4	12–4	0–1	42–28
ATP Masters Series
Indian Wells Masters	A	1R	2R	1R	3R	QF	QF	3R		9–7
Miami Masters	3R	A	2R	QF	3R	3R	3R	4R		12–7
Monte Carlo Masters	A	A	A	1R	1R	2R	1R	A		1–4
Rome Masters	A	A	A	1R	1R	3R	2R	3R		5–5
Madrid Masters	A	A	1R	2R	2R	3R	2R	1R		5–6
Canada Masters	A	A	3R	3R	1R	1R	QF	1R		4–5
Cincinnati Masters	1R	A	A	2R	1R	1R	1R	3R		3–6
Shanghai Masters	NMS	A	1R	1R	2R	2R	2R	QF		6–6
Paris Masters	A	A	A	2R	3R	2R	QF	3R		7–5
Win–Loss	2–2	0–1	4–5	9–9	5–9	12–9	12–9	11–8	0–0	55–52
Career statistics
Titles–Finals	0–1	0–0	0–0	1–1	1–1	0–3	0–2	1–3	0–0	3–11
Year-End Ranking	104	161	61	32	37	20	16	12

Men's doubles performance timeline

Tournament	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	W–L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	A	1R	A	3R	A	2–2
French Open	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	0–0
Wimbledon	QF	1R	A	3R	A	A	A	5–3
US Open	A	A	2R	A	A	A	A	1–1
Win–Loss	3–1	0–1	1–1	2–2	0–0	2–1	0–0	8–6

Record against top 10 players

Anderson's match record against those who have been ranked in the top 10, with those who have been No. 1 in boldface

• Stanislas Wawrinka 4–4
• John Isner 3–8
• Gilles Simon 2–0
• Lleyton Hewitt 2–1
• Jürgen Melzer 2–1
• Andy Roddick 2–2
• David Ferrer 2–3
• Richard Gasquet 2–5
• Andy Murray 2–5
• Marcos Baghdatis 1–1
• Nikolay Davydenko 1–1
• Tommy Haas 1–1
• Juan Mónaco 1–1
• Milos Raonic 1–1
• Mardy Fish 1–2
• Kei Nishikori 1–2
• Radek Štěpánek 1–2
• Fernando Verdasco 1–2
• Mikhail Youzhny 1–2
• Marin Čilić 1–5
• Grigor Dimitrov 1–5
• Novak Djokovic 1–5
• Nicolás Almagro 0–1
• James Blake 0–1
• Arnaud Clément 0–1
• Juan Carlos Ferrero 0–1
• Fernando González 0–1
• Ernests Gulbis 0–1
• Tommy Robredo 0–1
• Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 0–1
• Rafael Nadal 0–2
• Roger Federer 0–4
• Juan Martín del Potro 0–5
• Tomáš Berdych 0–12

*As of October 15, 2015.

External links

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