Morgan Piek

Bloemfontein - Kevin Anderson has been knocked out of the BNP Paribas Open played at Indian Wells in California.

The South African number only qualified for the quarter-finals for the first time when he beat Gilles Simon of France 6-3, 1-6, 6-4.

Anderson faced the number 6 seed Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic in the quarter-final earlier.

The big serving Czech was just too much for the South African. It was a hard fought battle, in the end Berdych triumphed in straights sets 6-4, 6-4.

In the ladies tennis, defending women's champion Victoria Azarenka withdrew from the tournament before her quarterfinal against Caroline Wozniacki because of a right ankle injury.

More results:

ATP Singles – Quarter-finals
[5] R Nadal (ESP) d. [2] R Federer (SUI) 6-4 6-2
[6] T Berdych (CZE) d. K Anderson (RSA) 6-4 6-4

ATP Doubles - Semifinals
[1] B Bryan (USA) / M Bryan (USA) d. S Gonzalez (MEX) / S Lipsky (USA) 6-4 4-6 11-9 - Saved 1 M.P.

WTA Singles - Quarterfinals
[8] C Wozniacki (DEN) d. [1] V Azarenka (BLR) w/o (right ankle)
[4] A Kerber (GER) d. [7] S Stosur (AUS) w/o (right calf)

WTA Doubles - Semifinals
[3] N Petrova (RUS) / K Srebotnik (SLO) d. S Hsieh (TPE) / S Peng (CHN) 6-2 6-2
[4] E Makarova (RUS) / E Vesnina (RUS) d. K Date-Krumm (JPN) / C Dellacqua (AUS) 4-6 7-6(4) 10-8