The South African player Kevin Anderson reached the finals in the tennis Channel Open last Saturday after beating the American Robby Ginepri in two sets 7-6 (4), 6-4.
The 6-foot, 7-inch Anderson will face unseeded American Sam Querrey, the winner over Chilean fourth-seeded Guillermo Canas in a windy night match.
Anderson said this provides him with extra confidence, from the moment he began playing at this level. The South African never led in the first set until the tiebreaker, after he took the lead for the second time with a 5-4 advantage, Anderson finished off the tiebreak with an ace and a serve that Ginepri returned long.
"I was behind and I really didn't have any luck with his serve at all," Anderson said. "I just knew that I had to keep playing and, fortunately, I was able to get that lead in the tiebreak. "I felt pretty confident with my serve during the tiebreak. I thought I served really well. I hit an ace and then an impossible to return (serve) at 5-4 to seal the set."
Ginepri said he never expected to see Anderson playing the way he did on Saturday since it was very windy, but he has a great serve even though he is very tall. Also; mentioned that he moves pretty good for his size.
Anderson hasn’t dropped a set during the four matches in Las Vegas, but he also said he is trying to make his best to move forward a little bit more and try to be more aggressive. He states that he knows he is strong is on the baseline from where he serves great. And he probed it during the match he was playing in.
On the other hand; the 20-year-old Querrey overcame a 5-3 deficit in the first set by winning in four straight games. "I just pretended the wind wasn't there and played my regular game," Querrey said after reaching his first ATP final. "I thought the wind actually died down from the beginning of the match until the end."
Sam Querrey is one of America’s newest tennis stars and there are many expectations on the boy whose young age does not prevent him from a possible tournament title in the months to come.
Canas was the latest remaining seeded player, he mentioned it was a close match and he didn’t expected Querrey to have a great serve that didn’t gave him time to break it. "I came to this week wanting to treat it as a practice week," said Querrey, coming off a wrist injury that set him off track early this year. "I wanted to swing freely, have fun and do my thing. Maybe that's how I should approach all tournaments."
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