Tennis player Kevin Anderson: biography and sports career

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Kevin Anderson is a famous South African tennis player. During his sports career, he managed to win many professional competitions, and in 2017 became the finalist of the Grand Slam tournament.

Biography

Kevin Anderson was born in May 1986 in Johannesburg. He started playing tennis at the age of six with his younger brother Gregory.

A few years later, Kevin moved to the USA, where he not only played tennis with local juniors, but also received an education. After graduating from the University of Illinois, Anderson chose to pursue a career as a professional tennis player.

First steps in tennis

At the age of 18, Kevin Anderson made his first appearance at the Futures Series tournament in Gaborone (Botswana). And the debut was just phenomenal - the South African tennis player won this competition.

In total, tennis player Kevin Anderson won two tournaments in the futures series, and reached the final in five more. He also has four hard court titles in doubles.

In 2007, Kevin Anderson won the Challenger for the first time. In September hebecame the best on New Orleans hard surfaces.

At the beginning of next year, Anderson for the first time made his way to the Grand Slam tournament "Australian Open", where he could not go beyond the first round. A few months later, he made it to the final of the ATP tournament. These successes helped him enter the top 100 tennis players in the world.

In the pairs rankings, Kevin also progressed noticeably. This was facilitated by victories at several Challengers. Did not miss Anderson and the Olympic Games in Beijing. The 22-year-old South African tennis player reached the second round in the singles ranking, and dropped out in the first round in the doubles.

In 2009, luck very rarely smiled at the South African tennis player. In all prestigious tournaments, he was eliminated in the first round or in qualifying. The only consolation was the won "Challenger" in San Remo (Italy). It is not surprising that at the end of the year he dropped to 161 places in the ATP rankings.

In 2010, Kevin Anderson's performance improved markedly. He won on the hard courts of Button Rouge. At the US Open, Anderson managed to make it to the third round of competition. At the same stage, he stopped at the ATP tournament in Toronto.

First victories in professional career

2011 was a turning point in the career of a tennis player. In February, Kevin Anderson became the best on the courts of his native Johannesburg and won the ATP tournament for the first time. This contributed to his rapid promotion up the ATP rankings. In addition, he repeats his performance at the US Open last year, andalso reaches the quarterfinals in Miami. Anderson finished the season in 32nd place in the ranking of the best tennis players in the world.

The next year started well for Kevin. In Australia, he reached the third round, and then repeated this achievement on the courts of Roland Garros. He also won the ATP tournament in Delray Beach (USA). However, these results remained the best for Anderson that season.

Road to worldwide fame

2013 was probably the most successful year for Kevin in his sports career. At the very beginning of the season, he reached the final in Sydney, where he made it to the fourth stage of the Australian Open for the first time. In April, the tennis player becomes a finalist in Casablanca (Morocco), and in July he repeats this result in Atlanta (USA). Anderson performed well at Roland Garros, where he reached the fourth stage. On the courts of Wimbledon, he flew out in the third. Thanks to his performance, Kevin entered the top 20 players in the world at the end of the season.

After a rather uneven year for Anderson in 2014, he again made tennis experts talk about him. He becomes the winner of the ATP tournament in Winston-Salem (USA), and then managed to get into the quarterfinals of the US Open. Kevin Anderson's excellent technique in tennis has propelled him to number 12 in the world rankings.

In 2017, the South African tennis player, who took American citizenship, reached the final at the US Open, which is one of the Grand Slam tournaments. Unfortunately, here Anderson lost to RafaelNadal.