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The expectation was high in America before the match between Anderson and Querrey that the American, Sam Querrey would hit the semis at US Open. It was not to be as Kevin Anderson defeated Sam Querrey to become the first South African to reach the semi-finals of a Grand Slam for 14 years. The 31-year-old came out on top of a predictably tight encounter that finished just before 2am at Flushing Meadows, with Anderson winning 7-6 (7), 6-7 (11), 6-3, 7-6 (9). Anderson won, and the United States still hasn’t had had a male Grand Slam semifinalist since 2009, and the U.S. Open has one motley semifinal. Roddick is the last American male to reach the Open semis, which he did in 2006, and the last to win a grand-slam tournament, the 2003 U.S. Open. Querrey said the history and potential for him to be the American to break back through didn’t weigh on him. “No, I never thought about,” he said. “I was just going out there doing the best I could.”   http://trendingissuestoday...

Following the Trump administration announcement on Tuesday that it plans to scrap the program giving temporary legal immigration status to people who arrived in the US illegally as children, known as DACA, fear has gripped the affected persons also known as the Dreamers. Attorney General, Jeff Sessions said the US would end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy in March 2018, throwing almost 800,000 people who currently benefit from the program into a state of turmoil and fear. Five years after Barack Obama’s implementation of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) which allowed recipients to get driver’s licenses, attend college, begin careers, purchase homes, and do all the other things that US citizens take for granted, Dreamers now face the reality that it could all be taken away. Barack Obama created DACA with his executive powers after Congress failed to pass the so-called Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (Dream) Act, which ...