What started as a marketing campaign has taken over the Memphis Open: The tournament has gone to the dogs. Sam Querrey and his girlfriend brought their 8-month-old French Bulldog, Lou. Kevin Anderson and his wife carried Lady Kady, their 7-month-old Chiweenie, a Chihuahua Dachshund mix. “Memphis Mo”, the tournament mascot that has had his own Facebook and Twitter accounts to promote the tournament, visited the Memphis Open as well. “The dogs are great. They're fun, and it's such an engaging way that the players can bring a little bit of home on the tour with them,” Tournament Director Erin Mazurek said. “If we can be accommodating and make our tournament feel that much more friendly and that much more engaging...
Kevin Anderson was more than ready to start fresh when the calendar turned to 2017. Last season, the South African endured one of his more challenging years. He played fewer tournaments than usual, missing weeks of the season because of knee, ankle and shoulder injuries. He finished with a losing record, 17-21, for the first time since 2010. To make the season especially forgettable, Anderson ended the season nursing another injury, this one to his right hip. The new derailment delayed the start to his 2017 season, forcing him to miss the ASB Classic in Auckland and the Australian Open last month. “It was a little tough for quite some time. I was a little bit unsure of the course...
Kevin Anderson fought back from a set and a break down to beat eighth seed Marcos Baghdatis 2-6, 6-4, 6-2 and advance to the second round of the If Stockholm Open on Monday. The South African broke Baghdatis at 3-4 in the second set and again at 5-4 to even the match. Anderson fell behind a break in the third set as well but reeled off five straight games to upset the 2009 champion. “Things weren't looking great... I fought through,” Anderson said. “I felt that if I could keep my mind a little bit and just take it one point at a time, I definitely was going to give myself a shot.” [ALSO LIKE] He will next face American...
Kevin Anderson fended off two match points to spring the upset on #NextGen star Nick Kyrgios at the Chengdu Open on Thursday. In a battle of big servers, the South African surged back to book a quarter-final showdown with Viktor Troicki, 3-6, 7-6(6), 6-2. Anderson finished with 24 aces to the second-seeded Australian’s 21 and dropped just eight points on his first serve in the one-hour, 34-minute second-round affair. Anderson trailed a set and was staring down defeat when he dropped consecutive points to fall behind 4/6 in the second-set tie-break. But he then reeled off four straight points to level the match. Anderson served out the contest to book his fifth ATP World Tour quarter-final of the season. He...
ATP World Tour stars, including Grigor Dimitrov and Kevin Anderson, visit the pandas at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in between tennis at the Chengdu Open. Video/Photo courtesy Chengdu Open.
