Danish Player Can't Live Up to Family Legacy MELBOURNE, Australia - Frederik Nielsen of Denmark was expanding his family's tennis legacy the hard way - earning a spot in the main draw of the 2012 Australian Open by winning three qualifying matches. Now, in the first round of play on Monday, the dream of equaling his grandfather's exploits was slipping away. Nielsen, 28, lost 9 of the first 12 points and fell behind, 5-0, in the first set against the 6-foot-8 Kevin Anderson of South Africa, who powered his way to a 6-1, 6-2, 6-4 victory. Nielsen's grandfather Kurt Nielsen, who died last June at 80, is the only Dane to have reached the men's final in any of the four major championships. In 1953 at Wimbledon, Kurt Nielsen defeated Ken Rosewall of Australia in the quarterfinals and fell in the final to Vic Seixas of the United States. In 1955, he lost in the Wimbledon final to the American Tony Trabert. This was young Nielsen's first match in any of the four Grand Slam championships. He remained polite throughout, shouting "sorry" when one of his shots clipped the net and bounded beyond for a winner. Nielsen refused to yield at the end, battling back to deuce from two match points down on Anderson's serve. A moment later, however, Anderson clinched the match and moved into the second round. Nielsen praised Anderson's aggressive play, crediting it with keeping him pinned against the baseline. "I'm a little disappointed," he said. I don't feel I got even close to the level that I expect of myself and that I played the last two weeks. Asked what his grandfather might have said about the match, Nielsen smiled and replied, "He would have said that I should have come more to the net." From the start, Nielsen struggled to gain footing, and his quiet demeanor seemed to trap him downhill from Anderson, seeded 30th here in his sixth year on the men's tour. Anderson has won nearly $1.5 million in his career, including $774,434 last year. By contrast, in 11 years on the tour Nielsen had earned a modest $294,944, playing in far smaller tournaments. His earnings in this loss, $20,000, pushed him over the $300,000 mark, an average earning of barely $27,000 a year.