Michael Venus (tennis)

2007

Venus finished the season winning the USA F26 Futures in doubles, partnering with Danny Bryan, losing only in the final of Thailand F3 Futures^[3] thus peaking at 866 in singles on the ATP world tour.^[4]

2008

Despite playing the final of Baton Rouge Challenger with partner Ryan Harrison,^[3] due to his singles performance Venus closed the year at the 1752nd position on the South African Airways ATP rankings.^[4]

2009

In July Venus clinched the title of USA F17 Futures beating Vasek Pospisil in the final. He reached the doubles final of the USA F19 Futures in August teaming with Colt Gaston losing in two straight sets. At the end of the month Venus earned a wild card to the qualifying draw of the 2009 US Open in which he advanced to the second round overcoming Uruguay's Marcel Felder in two sets but failing to qualify by losing to Giovanni Lapentti of Ecuador. In October The Venus-Harrison pair won the USA F24 Futures against fellow Kudla-Sarmiento and in November playing with Gaston they lost in the championship match in the USA F27 Futures against the Armenian-Russian duo Martirosyan-Sitak.^[3] He reached his career year-end high of 587.^[4]

2010

Venus won another futures the USA F13 Futures tournament but lost in his first ever challenger series final in Qarshi against Blaž Kavčič in two tie-breaker sets. In the same year he won his first Davis Cup match representing New Zealand.^[3] He advanced to 328 at year-end.^[4]

2017

The standout year in Venus's career began when he teamed up with Ryan Harrison to play doubles together for the first time in several years. Not only did they win titles in Estoril and Paris (the French Open), but they also qualified for the end of season Nitto ATP World Tour finals, where they lost in the semi-finals. At the end of the year Venus was ranked number 15 in the world, with Harrison one place below.

Venus's mixed doubles campaigns at Grand Slam events also improved through the year, losing in the first round in Melbourne, in the second in Paris, and in the third at Wimbledon, before going all the way to the final in New York.

2018

Venus began the new year in Brisbane, where he teamed up with Marcelo Demoliner to win the first round but lose the second. Back to his home event in Auckland, Venus was given a wild card into the singles, but was unfortunate enough to draw World number 20 (and eventual winner) Roberto Bautista-Agut in the first round, being beaten 6-2, 6-1. In the doubles, he and new partner Raven Klaasen won their first two matches before being beaten 7-6 (7), 7-6 (6) in their semi-final by Max Mirnyi and Philipp Oswald.

Seeded 8th in the Australian Open, Venus and Klaasen lost a titanic first set tie-break 14-16, and a more straightforward one in the second set, to go down 7-6 (14), 7-6 (4) to Scott Lipsky and David Marrero. Venus and Chan won their first mixed doubles match comfortably, but were well-beaten in the second round by eventual semi-finalists Marcelo Demoliner and María José Martínez Sánchez.

The first round of the Asia/Pacific Group I Davis Cup took place in Tianjin, China, at the start of February. Venus played the second singles rubber for New Zealand after Rubin Statham had won the first, but he lost to Zhang Ze after winning the first set. New Zealand lost the doubles, and then the first reverse singles, so the dead fifth rubber was not played. His next ATP tournament was in Rotterdam, where he and Klaasen lost in the first round.

They then went to Marseille, where they won the Open 13 Provence. It was special for Venus on two counts - he was winning the tournament for the second time, having been successful with Mate Pavić in 2016, and it was also the first time that two New Zealanders had contested an ATP World Tour doubles final on opposite sides of the net, the runners-up being Marcus Daniell (New Zealand) and Dominic Inglot. This had previously happened only in one Challenger (Daniell and Rubin Statham in Adelaide in 2014) and several ITF Futures events. A week later they were in Dubai, where they lost in the second round.

Next stop on tour was the first Masters 1000 tournament for the year, in Indian Wells. Venus and Klaasen beat Colombians Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah in the first round, but were then well-beaten by eighth seeds Ivan Dodig and Rajeev Ram. Ram and Klaasen had combined to win the tournament the previous year, but Dodig and Ram went out in the next round to the eventual champions, John Isner and Jack Sock. Venus and Klaasen had immediate revenge over Dodig and Ram, beating them in the first round at Miami, before beating Isner and Donald Young in the second round. They lost a titanic quarter-final battle to the Bryan brothers, going down 8-10 in the match tie-break.

Venus and Klaasen started the European clay court season at the Monte-Carlo Masters. After an easy win in the first round, and a walkover in the second, they lost 7-6 (8), 6-3 to Simone Bolelli and Fabio Fognini in the quarter-finals. Looking to defend the title he had won at Estoril the previous year, Venus and Klaasen were beaten in the first round. In Madrid they made it through to the quarter-finals, losing to Nikola Mektic and Alexander Peya, while in Rome they lost in the second round to Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares.

Moving on to Roland-Garros to defend his title in the French Open, Venus and Klaasen were seeded 10th, and disposed of French teams in the first two rounds, before meeting eighth seeds Mektic and Peya in the third round. The higher-ranked pair were again their nemesis, but the win was not without a struggle, as the final score of 7-6 (2), 7-6 (4) would indicate. Venus and Chan Hao-ching teamed up again for the mixed doubles, but were well-beaten in the first round by Matwe Middelkoop and Demi Schuurs.

Venus and Klaasen started their grass court season at 's-Hertogenbosch, where Venus had won the title two years earlier with Mate Pavić. Ironically it had been Klaasen who was on the losing end that day, and his then partner, Dominic Inglot, faced the pair in the final, this time alongside Croatian Franko Škugor. In a very tight match, it was the European pair who prevailed 7-6 (3), 7-5. They then moved on to Halle where, as seeds, it was a surprise that they were beaten in the first round by Tim Puetz and Jan-Lennard Struff. Their last tournament before Wimbledon was at Eastbourne where, again slightly surprisingly, they lost in the second round to Ken and Neal Skupski.

Wimbledon would be another milestone in Venus's career, as he came so close to winning his second major title, and was only one step further back in pursuit of a mixed doubles crown as well. In the men's doubles, Venus and Klaasen had straightforward wins in the first two rounds, followed by marathon five set encounters in the next two over Leonardo Mayer and Joao Sousa and then Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares, the latter a nice revenge for the loss in Rome. The semi-final win over Frederik Nielsen and Joe Salisbury took four sets, but the final against Mike Bryan and Jack Sock was a classic encounter: another five set match in which all four players demonstrated moments of absolute magic, but it was the American pair who eventually prevailed, the final score being 6-3, 6-7 (7), 6-3, 5-7, 7-5.

Venus had a new partner in Katarina Srebotnik for the mixed doubles. Seeded ninth, they had a bye in the first round, then took three sets to beat Andrei Vasilevski and Anastasia Rodionova, and three more to beat the fifth seeds Nikola Mektic and Venus's former doubles partner Chan Hao-ching in a gripping encounter. In the quarter-finals they had an easy finish over Ivan Dodig and Chan's sister Latisha after splitting the first two sets, but Srebotnik losing her serve in both sets spelt the end of their run when they reached the semi-final, going down 6-4, 6-4, to Nicole Melichar and Alexander Peya.

After a short break, Venus and Klaasen headed to Washington DC, where they went down in the semi-finals of the Citi Open to Murray and Soares in straight sets, 7-5, 7-6 (2). From there they went to the Rogers Cup in Toronto, where they beat Artem Sitak and Stefanos Tsitsipas in the first round, before defeating the seeded pairs of Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo, their Wimbledon conquerors Mike Bryan and Jack Sock, and finally the top seeds Oliver Marach and Mate Pavic to reach the final against second seeds Henri Kontinen and John Peers. They lost the first set when Klaasen lost both his service games, but saved three match points in the second set tie-break before eventually succumbing 10-6 in the match tie-break. They followed that up with the next Masters 1000 event, in Cinncinati, where they lost in the second round to Kubot and Melo.

In the US Open Venus played both men's and mixed doubles, losing in the second round in both. In the men's event he and Klaasen were seeded eighth, but lost to Maximo Gonzalez and Nicolás Jarry in straight sets after beating singles specialists Lukas Lacko and John Millman. In the mixed doubles he again played with Srebotnik, and they were the seventh seeds. They defeated former Grand Slam champions Laura Siegemund and Rohan Bopanna in the first round before falling to Raluca Olaru and Franko Skugor in the second, beaten 16-14 in a monumental match tie-break which lasted 22 minutes.

From there Venus travelled to Korea, where he joined the New Zealand team in their Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Group I relegation playoff tie against the hosts. Playing only singles, Venus lost to Lee Duck-hee and Hong Seong-chan. Losing the tie 2-3, New Zealand returned to the Asia/Oceania Group II for the first time in five years.

Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	2017	French Open	Clay	Ryan Harrison	Santiago González Donald Young	7–6(7–5), 6–7(4–7), 6–3
Loss	2018	Wimbledon	Grass	Raven Klaasen	Mike Bryan Jack Sock	3–6, 7–6(9–7), 3–6, 7–5, 5–7

Mixed doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	2017	US Open	Hard	Chan Hao-ching	Martina Hingis Jamie Murray	1–6, 6–4, [8–10]

Masters 1000 finals

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	2018	Toronto	Hard	Raven Klaasen	Henri Kontinen John Peers	2–6, 7–6(9–7), [6–10]

Doubles: 19 (8 titles, 11 runners-up)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	May 2015	Open de Nice Côte d'Azur, France	250 Series	Clay	Mate Pavić	Jean-Julien Rojer Horia Tecău	7–6(7–4), 2–6, [10–7]
Loss	1–1	Jul 2015	Colombia Open, Colombia	250 Series	Hard	Mate Pavić	Édouard Roger-Vasselin Radek Štěpánek	5–7, 3–6
Loss	1–2	Oct 2015	Stockholm Open, Sweden	250 Series	Hard (i)	Mate Pavić	Nicholas Monroe Jack Sock	5–7, 2–6
Win	2–2	Jan 2016	Auckland Open, New Zealand	250 Series	Hard	Mate Pavić	Eric Butorac Scott Lipsky	7–5, 6–4
Win	3–2	Feb 2016	Open Sud de France, France	250 Series	Hard (i)	Mate Pavić	Alexander Zverev Mischa Zverev	7–5, 7–6(7–4)
Win	4–2	Feb 2016	Open 13, France	250 Series	Hard (i)	Mate Pavić	Jonathan Erlich Colin Fleming	6–2, 6–3
Loss	4–3	May 2016	Open de Nice Côte d'Azur, France (2)	250 Series	Clay	Mate Pavić	Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah	6–4, 4–6, [8–10]
Win	5–3	Jun 2016	Rosmalen Grass Court Championships, Netherlands	250 Series	Grass	Mate Pavić	Dominic Inglot Raven Klaasen	3–6, 6–3, [11–9]
Loss	5–4	Jul 2016	Swiss Open, Switzerland	250 Series	Clay	Mate Pavić	Julio Peralta Horacio Zeballos	6–7(2–7), 2–6
Loss	5–5	Sep 2016	Moselle Open, France	250 Series	Hard	Mate Pavić	Julio Peralta Horacio Zeballos	3–6, 6–7(4–7)
Loss	5–6	Oct 2016	Stockholm Open, Sweden (2)	250 Series	Hard (i)	Mate Pavić	Elias Ymer Mikael Ymer	1–6, 1–6
Loss	5–7	Oct 2016	Swiss Indoors, Switzerland	500 Series	Hard (i)	Robert Lindstedt	Marcel Granollers Jack Sock	3–6, 4–6
Win	6–7	May 2017	Estoril Open, Portugal	250 Series	Clay	Ryan Harrison	David Marrero Tommy Robredo	7–5, 6–2
Win	7–7	Jun 2017	French Open, France	Grand Slam	Clay	Ryan Harrison	Santiago González Donald Young	7–6(7–5), 6–7(4–7), 6–3
Win	8–7	Feb 2018	Open 13, France (2)	250 Series	Hard (i)	Raven Klaasen	Marcus Daniell Dominic Inglot	6–7(2–7), 6–3, [10–4]
Loss	8–8	Jun 2018	Rosmalen Grass Court Championships, Netherlands (2)	250 Series	Grass	Raven Klaasen	Dominic Inglot Franko Škugor	6–7(3–7), 5–7
Loss	8–9	Jul 2018	Wimbledon Championships, United Kingdom	Grand Slam	Grass	Raven Klaasen	Mike Bryan Jack Sock	3–6, 7–6(9–7), 3–6, 7–5, 5–7
Loss	8–10	Aug 2018	Canadian Open, Canada	Masters 1000	Hard	Raven Klaasen	Henri Kontinen John Peers	2–6, 7–6(9–7), [6–10]
Loss	8–11	Oct 2018	Japan Open, Japan	500 Series	Hard (i)	Raven Klaasen	Ben McLachlan Jan-Lennard Struff	4–6, 5–7

Singles: 7 (3 titles, 4 runners-up)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
Runner–up	1.	18 June 2007	Bangkok, Thailand	Hard	Nathan Thompson	6–7(0–7), 3-6
Winner	1.	19 July 2009	Peoria, USA	Clay	Vasek Pospisil	6–7(4–7), 6–4, 6–4
Winner	2.	13 June 2010	Loomis, USA	Hard	Dimitar Kutrovsky	7–6(7–4), 1–6, 6–3
Runner–up	2.	21 August 2010	Qarshi, Uzbekistan	Hard	Blaž Kavčič	6–7(6–8), 6–7(5–7)
Runner–up	3.	23 May 2011	Andijan, Uzbekistan	Hard	Harri Heliövaara	4-6, 4-6
Runner–up	4.	14 November 2011	Traralgon, Australia	Hard	Benjamin Mitchell	6–7(3-7), 7-6(7-2), 0-6
Winner	3.	14 October 2012	Margaret River, Australia	Hard	Adam Feeney	6–3, 3–6, 6–3

Doubles: 21 (12 titles, 9 runners-up)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Runner–up	1.	27 April 2008	Baton Rouge	Hard	Ryan Harrison	Phillip Simmonds Tim Smyczek	6–2, 1–6, [4–10]
Runner–up	2.	9 September 2012	Alice Springs F6	Hard	Samuel Groth	Adam Feeney Nick Lindahl	6–4, 2–6, [8–10]
Winner	1.	28 October 2012	Traralgon F11	Clay	Rubin Statham	Matthew Barton Michael Look	3–6, 6–3, [11–9]
Winner	2.	2 December 2012	Jakarta F3	Hard	Tim Puetz	Brydan Klein Dane Propoggia	7–5, 6–3
Winner	3.	24 March 2013	Costa Mesa F8	Hard	Michael McClune	Cho Min Hyeok Nam Ji Sung	6–1, 6–3
Winner	4.	2 June 2013	Bacău F3	Clay	Bradley Klahn	Piotr Gadomski Tristan Lamasine	7–6(7–4), 6–7(4–7), [14–12]
Runner–up	3.	9 June 2013	Fürth	Clay	Christian Harrison	Colin Ebelthite Rameez Junaid	4–6, 5–7
Winner	5.	7 July 2013	Winnetka	Hard	Yuki Bhambri	Somdev Devvarman Jack Sock	2–6, 6–2, [10–8]
Winner	6.	21 July 2013	Binghamton	Hard	Bradley Klahn	Adam Feeney John-Patrick Smith	6–3, 6–4
Runner–up	4.	28 July 2013	Lexington	Hard	Bradley Klahn	Frank Dancevic Peter Polansky	3–6, 5–7
Winner	7.	17 November 2013	Yokohama	Hard	Bradley Klahn	Sanchai Ratiwatana Sonchat Ratiwatana	7–5, 6–1
Winner	8.	8 February 2014	Chennai	Hard	Yuki Bhambri	N. Sriram Balaji Blaž Rola	7–6(7–5), 6–4
Runner–up	5.	9 March 2014	Kyoto	Hard (i)	Sanchai Ratiwatana	Purav Raja Divij Sharan	7–5, 6–7(3–7), [4–10]
Runner–up	6.	16 March 2014	Irving	Hard	John-Patrick Smith	Santiago González Scott Lipsky	6–4, 6–7(7–9), [7–10]
Runner–up	7.	6 April 2014	Guadeloupe	Hard	Gero Kretschmer	Tomasz Bednarek Adil Shamasdin	5–7, 7–6(7–5), [8–10]
Winner	9.	27 April 2014	Savannah	Clay (Green)	Ilija Bozoljac	Facundo Bagnis Alex Bogomolov, Jr.	7–5, 6–2
Winner	10.	15 June 2014	Nottingham	Grass	Rameez Junaid	Ruben Bemelmans Go Soeda	4–6, 7–6(7–1), [10–6]
Winner	11.	4 April 2015	Ra'anana	Hard	Mate Pavić	Rameez Junaid Adil Shamasdin	6–1, 6–4
Runner–up	8.	12 April 2015	Batman	Hard	Mate Pavić	Aslan Karatsev Yaraslav Shyla	6–7(4–7), 6–4, [5–10]
Winner	12.	19 April 2015	Mersin	Clay	Mate Pavić	Riccardo Ghedin Ramkumar Ramanathan	5–7, 6–3, [10–4]
Runner–up	9.	23 August 2015	Vancouver	Hard	Yuki Bhambri	Treat Huey Frederik Nielsen	6–7(4–7), 7–6(7–3), [5–10]

Doubles

Current till 2018 Shanghai Masters.

Mixed doubles