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Chennai: Current world no. 12 and big serving, Kevin Anderson, will be making his debut at Aircel Chennai Open 2016, scheduled to be held at the SDAT Stadium in Nungambakkam from 4 – 10 January 2016.<\/p>\nChennai: Current world no. 12 and big serving, Kevin Anderson, will be making his debut at Aircel Chennai Open 2016, scheduled to be held at the SDAT Stadium in Nungambakkam from 4 – 10 January 2016.<\/p>\n
The top-ranked South African player will start the new season in Chennai on the back of a career high top-10 ranking in 2015, and a maiden entry in the quarter-finals of the US Open after defeating current world no.2 Andy Murray.<\/p>\n
2015 has been a great season for Anderson, winning his third ATP title at the Winston-Salem hard court tournament in August, an ATP World Tour 250 event, defeating Pierre-Hugues Herbert in straight sets 6-4, 7-5. Earlier in the year, he took on world no. 1 Novak Djokovic in a grueling 5-setter at Wimbledon, winning the first two sets in what stunned the tennis world. The year then saw Anderson have a fine run at the US Open where he shocked Murray in a four-setter before losing to Stan Wawrinka in the quarter finals. Towering at a staggering 6’8”, Anderson will be looking to avenge his defeat with a possible clash with defending champion, Wawrinka at Chennai. It is interesting to note that Anderson-Wawrinka have a 4-4 head to head between the two, indicating stiff competition for the crowd-favourite Wawrinka, who is on course for a hat-trick of wins at Chennai this year.<\/p>\n
The much awaited Aircel Chennai Open 2016 will mark the 20th year of South Asia’s only and India’s premier ATP tournament in the tennis capital of India – Chennai. The event, one of three tournaments held in the opening week of the season, continues to give the sub-continent access to one week of scintillating tennis action, featuring some of the best names in the highly competitive world of international tennis.<\/p>\n
Confirming his participation, Kevin Anderson said, “I am very pleased to start the 2016 season by playing at the Aircel Chennai Open and look forward to coming back to India. I have heard about the great competitive nature of this tournament and support of tennis loving fans from players on the tour. It’s a great country and it will be special if I can make a strong start to the season here.”<\/p>\n
The Title Sponsor for the tournament is Aircel and the event is supported by a consortium of sponsors in the Platinum and Gold category, headed by the Government of Tamil Nadu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chennai: Current world no. 12 and big serving, Kevin Anderson, will be making his debut at Aircel Chennai Open 2016, scheduled to be held at the SDAT Stadium in Nungambakkam from 4 – 10 January 2016.<\/p>\n
The top-ranked South African player will start the new season in Chennai on the back of a career high top-10 ranking in 2015, and a maiden entry in the quarter-finals of the US Open after defeating current world no.2 Andy Murray.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7301,1438,12375],"class_list":["post-24148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis-tennis","tag-aircel-chennai-open","tag-kevin-anderson","tag-premier-atp-tournament"],"yoast_head":"\n