Kevin Anderson

Anderson just posted on twitter saying he has pulled out of Brisbane due to his knee 'acting up a bit'.

He will be spending next two weeks in Auckland having treatment and training.

South African’s Kevin Anderson married his college girlfriend Kelsey O’Neal in Willamette, Illinois during a private ceremony on Saturday 10 November.

On behalf all here at TI, congratulations, Kevin!

Seventh seed Kevin Anderson was made to work against Thiemo de Bakker on his Estoril Open debut on Monday.

Anderson beat the No. 81-ranked Dutchman 5-7, 6-3, 6-2 in two hours and 27 minutes on Centralito.

The 24-year-old South African won his first ATP World Tour title at the SA Tennis Open in Johannesburg (d. Devvarman) in February. He has a 16-9 match record on the season.

Anderson will meet Victor Hanescu in the second round. The pair have already met twice this year (Anderson leads 2-0), including last week in Barcelona.

Anderson will not play Houston next week.

Anderson defeated Isner 7-6 6-4. Kevin fired 6 aces, lost only 5 points on 1st serve, and he had good 1st serve percentage, 68%.

Auckland winner for me was superb at Brisbane and getting better all the time

From a recent short interview:


Which top 20 player are you similar to?

The closest player to me would be Robin Soderling. A lot of what I am working on is similar to the way he plays. He is tall, uses his serve a lot. He has big ground strokes and looks to dominate opponents. One thing's a little different, I feel I'm better at the net, and probably look to come forward a little more.


Being tall and big-serving, what's your favourite surface?

A medium-pace, high-bouncing, hard court. I really enjoy playing on clay as well.

http://www.sport24.co.za/Content/Tennis/270/9cd37420886f47e6915892f4a5fb01d9/06-04-2010-08-53/Anderson_moves_up_rankings

Johannesburg - It was a case of rubbing salt into South Africa's Davis Cup wounds as Kevin Anderson moved up six places in the world rankings this week after the country's top tennis player had declared himself unavailable for the critical Euro-Africa Group One tie against Finland next month.
Anderson has improved his ranking from 114th to 108th and is now closing in on his best-ever international standing, but this will be scant comfort for South Africa's Davis Cup prospects at the Groenkloof Stadium in Pretoria from May 7 to 9 - particularly with Finland's number one, Jarkko Nieminen, continuing to regain his best form after a lengthy spell in which he was hampered by injuries.

More comforting from the latest rankings is the striking improvement of Rik De Voest, who in the absence of Anderson will continue in his role as South Africa's number one in the Davis Cup. De Voest, who at one stage had been ranked in the low 100s, had plummeted to a disquieting 301st place. But a timely success in an ATP Challenger tournament in Canada last week has resulted in De Voest boomeranging back to 206th position.

Meantime, widespread criticsm has greeted Anderson's decision to renage on playing in the Finland tie - with none more vocal than former Davis Cup star Abe Segal, who in 1961 participated in one of the two matches in which South Africa have beaten Finland.

"This is something I simply can't understand," said Segal. "In my time we would have given an arm and a leg to represent South Africa. Now we get a guy who says it is more important to go off and participate in some nondescript tournamewnt in the bundu.

"The kids are crying out for a South African tennis hero," added Segal, who recently demonstrated his penchant for not pulling punches in an entertaining book titled "Hey Big Boy"

"What kind of hero is this who refuses to represent his country? "And", concluded Segal, "Anderson is only damaging his own prospects of making the big-time. Surely helping South Africa regain a place in the elite Davis Cup World Group would be a lot more beneficial to him than picking up a couple of points in Timbuktu."

Looks like Kevin Anderson won't be playing the SA Open in Johannesburg.
Instead he's reported to be playing Challengers in Hawaii and Dallas.
Organisers aren't overly happy:

"Imagine Andy Murray not playing at Wimbledon, Lleyton Hewitt opting out of the Australian Open or Andy Roddick electing to miss the United States Open," said one tennis official. "It's simply unthinkable. Anderson owed it to South African tennis to play at Montecasino, but he also owed it to himself to play in an event on the ATP's World Tour instead of secondary Challenger events."

South African Kevin Anderson has not been sighted on the tour for the last three weeks, the big man pulled up sore after his challenger loss to little-known Goffin in Todi mid-September and is now nursing a right ankle niggle.