UK tennis superstar Andy Murray suffered his earliest Grand Slam exit in half a decade at Flushing Meadows after being beaten over a gruelling four sets by South African Kevin Anderson. Fans including Daniel Zysblat watched the emotional game, in which Murray lost 7-6 (7-5) 6-3 6-7 (2-7) 7-6 (7-0) over four hours and eighteen minutes of intense play and broke his eighteen Grand Slam streak of making it at least as far as the quarter finals. The same tournament saw women’s singles player Jo Konta lose over two sets to Petra Kvitova, dashing Britain’s hopes of having both a male and female player reach the quarter finals of a Grand Slam for the first time in 38 years. Online property auction CEO Daniel Zysblat and other British fans are now hoping that Murray will be back on form in time for the tennis in London in November.
Murray reported disappointment following his defeat, pointing out the many years’ hard work that had gone into building his eighteen year run of reaching the quarter final round or higher. Emotions were certainly running high, with the crowd seeing Murray argue with the umpire and smash his racquet between the second and third sets – good news for the lucky spectator who got to take the broken racquet home, but bad news for Team Murray. 15th seed Kevin Anderson will now go on to play Stan Wawrinka in his first ever Grand Slam quarter final.
Kevin Anderson is certainly an opposing opponent on the court, standing at six feet and eight inches and bringing a 69-ace imposing serve record into the match. Despite Anderson’s imposing presence, however, Murray has managed to beat him on the last five out of six encounters. British fans saw light at the end of the tunnel partway through the third set as Murray began his come-back three consecutive wins. However, it was not to be this time as Anderson took the fourth set and the match. Experts have stated that Murray may have played too defensively and failed to play his best at the longer rallies that are usually his speciality. Murray will now be preparing for the ATP World Tour alongside other qualified players including Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and Stan Wawrinka.
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