Tennis - South African Kevin Anderson says reaching the finals of a Grand Slam tournament has been his goal and objective and he hopes he can go one step better and win a Grand Slam title in the future. In an interview to CGTN, Anderson says, "It was certainly my goal and my objective.

Obviously, you have to have a lot of belief, and that process took some time for me but I always had, I think, pretty high expectations and high aspirations for myself. You never know when it's going to happen. For me it happened in the last 15 months where I've made two Grand Slam finals.

Of course I want to put myself back and hope to go one step further." When Anderson was asked what he needs to do to win one of the Grand Slam titles, he says he feels his game is ready and that he only needs to maintain his trust and mentality to win one of the Slams. "I feel like I'm right there.

I've proved that especially over the last while, and the people who I've played and who I've beaten know that my game is good enough." The big-serving South African says that he likes to play on all surfaces, including grass courts, hard courts and clay courts as each surface is unique and having reached the semi-finals of a Masters Series event on clay this year, he feels confident that he can play well on this surface as well.

Anderson reached the quarter-finals this week in Shanghai where he was beaten by the second seeded Novak Djokovic. He also reached the quarter-finals of the Japan Open last week and was beaten in the fourth round of the US Open, where he lost to Dominic Thiem in straight sets, after having reached the finals last year.

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