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WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- The 18-year-old American tennis player Reilly Opelka saved two match points en route to upsetting third seed Kevin Anderson from South Africa 6-7 (5/7), 6-3, 7-5 and advancing to the quarter-finals of the ATP Tour's Atlanta Open.
The 2.11-meter-tall Opelka, 556th in the world rankings, made his first win over a top 30 ATP opponent.
Opelka twice faced match point with the hard-serving 28th-ranked Anderson serving at 5-4 in the third set.
Opelka received a wild-card entry into the Atlanta tournament. The 2015 Wimbledon junior champion next faces seventh-seeded Donald Young, who rallied to beat Tim Smyczek 4-6, 7-6 (7/1), 6-3.
