It's helpful to have goals, the right goals, that is. The past two seasons, Borna Coric has followed the much-discussed goal-setting process. He's written them down, focused on them throughout the year and, at the end of the season, tracked how close he came to achieving them. But Coric, who beat Kevin Anderson on Thursday at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, wasn't hitting his marks. For instance, he wanted to climb inside the Top 20 of the ATP Rankings. But to this day, his career-high is No. 33, which he last reached two and a half years ago, on 14 September 2015. “Setting goals is always good. But I didn't have maybe the right goals. If I want...
Borna Coric was down and it looked as if he'd soon be out. The 21-year-old Croatian, who had never beaten Kevin Anderson before Thursday, double faulted to lose his serve and go down 2-4 in the third set of their BNP Paribas Open quarter-final. Until that point, Anderson had been broken only two times in the tournament, and two more holds would have him in his maiden ATP World Tour Masters 1000 semi-final. But Coric remained solid and immediately broke back, and in the third set tie-break, the rising star kept up a trend that has propelled him to his first Masters 1000 semi-final this week in Indian Wells. Coric won his second third-set tie-break of the tournament to advance...
Watch as Borna Coric unleashes a backhand down the line to force a third-set tie-break against Kevin Anderson in the quarter-finals at Indian Wells. Watch live tennis at tennistv.com. Harry How/Getty Images
Watch as Borna Boric deftly executes a lob over Kevin Anderson in the first game of the second set in their quarter-final match at Indian Wells. Watch live tennis at tennistv.com. Photo: Harry How/Getty Images
