{"id":102122,"date":"2021-07-19T07:25:22","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T07:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=102122"},"modified":"2021-07-19T07:56:35","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T07:56:35","slug":"anderson-wins-hall-of-fame-open-for-seventh-atp-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=102122","title":{"rendered":"Anderson wins Hall of Fame Open for seventh ATP title"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Anderson-1.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>New York: Kevin Anderson captured his seventh career ATP title on Sunday, defeating 20-year-old American Jenson Brooksby 7-6 (10\/8), 6-4 to win the Hall of Fame Open.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old South African won his first crown on grass at the Newport, Rhode Island, event and his first on any surface since 2019 at Pune, India.<\/p>\n<p>World number 113 Anderson, a wildcard entrant after losing to eventual winner Novak Djokovic in the second round at Wimbledon, is expected to jump to 74th in the rankings with the title.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thank you to the tournament for giving me a wildcard. It really worked out for me,&#8221; Anderson said. &#8220;It has definitely motivated me to keep going.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anderson underwent right knee surgery in February 2020 and has battled back for nearly 18 months to collect more hardware.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This has been a fantastic week. This is as good as it gets,&#8221; Anderson said.<\/p>\n<p>Brooksby, ranked 152nd but set to reach a career-high 126th, reached his first ATP final in only his third tour-level main draw.<\/p>\n<p>He was the second-youngest finalist in the event&#8217;s 45-year history, the youngest being Britain&#8217;s Greg Rusedski at age 19 in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hope to be back here again and pushing for more,&#8221; Brooksby said.<\/p>\n<p>Brooksby saved break points in the fourth game, when Anderson netted a forehand and with an ace, and held to 2-2. Anderson denied Brooksby on three break chances to reach a tie-breaker, the last of them in the 11th game.<\/p>\n<p>In the tie-break, Brooksby made a drop volley winner and service winner for a 5-2 lead, but Anderson answered with two service winners and a overhead smash to pull level.<\/p>\n<p>Brooksby hit a forehand crosscourt winner to grab an 8-7 edge but Anderson responded with a forehand winner, then fired his ninth ace and captured the first set after 79 minutes with a backhand down the line service return winner.<\/p>\n<p>In the second set, Anderson broke in the opening game and held from there to claim the crown after two hours and 11 minutes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>New York: Kevin Anderson captured his seventh career ATP title on Sunday, defeating 20-year-old American Jenson Brooksby 7-6 (10\/8), 6-4 to win the Hall of <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=102122\" title=\"Anderson wins Hall of Fame Open for seventh ATP title\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102124,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102122\/revisions\/102124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}