{"id":7950,"date":"2012-02-14T14:05:13","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T12:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/tennis-anderson-rallies-to-edge-out-dimitrov-in-san-jose\/"},"modified":"2012-02-14T14:05:13","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T12:05:13","slug":"tennis-anderson-rallies-to-edge-out-dimitrov-in-san-jose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/tennis-anderson-rallies-to-edge-out-dimitrov-in-san-jose\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis-Anderson rallies to edge out Dimitrov in San Jose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocatio\/spann\">Feb 13 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s Kevin Anderson rallied<br \/>\nfrom a set down to edge out Bulgarian prospect Grigor Dimitrov<br \/>\n2-6 7-6 7-6 in a compelling first round encounter at the San<br \/>\nJose Open in California on Monday.<span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The sixth-seeded Anderson was no match for his 20-year-old<br \/>\nopponent in a one-sided first set in which he was broken twice,<br \/>\nbut the South African used his big serve to good effect to grind<br \/>\nout victory in a little under two-and-a-half hours.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Both players held serve for the reminder of the match but<br \/>\nDimitrov blinked first in the second set tiebreaker when he<br \/>\ncommitted a costly double fault to fall 4-2 behind before<br \/>\nAnderson tied the contest with one of his 15 aces.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Anderson, who staved off three break points at the start of<br \/>\nthe third set, finally took control of the contest in the<br \/>\ndeciding tiebreaker and closed out the contest on his second<br \/>\nmatch point.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the day&#8217;s only other singles match, Germany&#8217;s Tobias<br \/>\nKamke defeated South African Izak Van der Merwe 6-3 6-3. French<br \/>\nworld number 13 Gael Monfils is the top seed.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Writing by Jahmal Corner in Los Angeles; Editing by John<br \/>\nO&#8217;Brien; To comment on this story email<br \/>\nsportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>For more tennis click on<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb 13 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s Kevin Anderson rallied from a set down to edge out Bulgarian prospect Grigor Dimitrov 2-6 7-6 7-6 in a compelling first round encounter at the San Jose Open in California on Monday. The sixth-seeded Anderson was no match for his 20-year-old opponent in a one-sided first set in which [&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":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-7950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","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\/7950","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=7950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}