{"id":17310,"date":"2013-01-12T11:56:13","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T09:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sas-anderson-secures-final-spot-in-sydney\/"},"modified":"2013-01-12T11:56:13","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T09:56:13","slug":"sas-anderson-secures-final-spot-in-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sas-anderson-secures-final-spot-in-sydney\/","title":{"rendered":"SA\u2019s Anderson secures final spot in Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Anderson survived two match points to clinch a place in the final of the Sydney International with a 3-6 6-4 7-6 (10-8) victory over Julien Benneteau, reports <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.skysports.com\/tennis\/news\/12110\/8389535\/Kevin-Anderson-secures-final-spot-at-the-Sydney-International\" target=\"_blank\">Sky Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson needed a second service ace to see off the first match point in the 12th game of the deciding set, while Benneteau wasted another chance when leading 7-6 in the tiebreaker.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson had wasted a chance of his own when 6-5 up in the tiebreak before a crosscourt winner settled the tie.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson will now take on Bernard Tomic in the final \u2013 with the South African chasing his third ATP Tour title, following his successes at Delray Beach last year and Johannesburg in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Home favourite Tomic caused a mini-upset as he overcame third seed Andreas Seppi in straight sets.<\/p>\n<p>Tomic clinched the first set after a nail-biting tiebreak before going on to claim his place in the final with a 7-6 (12-10) 6-4 win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Anderson survived two match points to clinch a place in the final of the Sydney International with a 3-6 6-4 7-6 (10-8) victory over Julien Benneteau, reports Sky Sports. Anderson needed a second service ace to see off the first match point in the 12th game of the deciding set, while Benneteau wasted another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-17310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}