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KEVIN MCCALLUM: Late-night tennis that may take you past your cornflakes
Kevin Anderson is the first South African to reach the last four of the US Open
There was one US Open record Kevin Anderson did not manage to break in his quarterfinal victory over Sam Querrey on Tuesday night/Wednesday morning. By finishing at 1.52am, he and Querrey missed out on setting the record for the latest a match has finished.That record — 2.26am — is shared by three matches, according to the Washington Post, who wrote that the last time it was threatened was in 2014 by Kei Nishikori and Milos Raonic. In their report on that match, USA Today recorded that the other two matches were between Philipp Kohlscreiber and John Isner in the third round in 2012, and Mats Wilander and Mikael Pernfors in their 1993 second-round fest.Late-night television does not get much more exciting and USA Today recorded: "ESPN2 even ran a countdown in the final games to show how much time Nishikori and Raonic needed to set the mark. Counting this one, there have been five matches in US Open history that ended after 2am. Somehow three of those matches ended at the exact same t...
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