Michael Venus (tennis)

Michael Venus

Country (sports)	United States (2002 – 2010)  New Zealand (2010 – )
Residence	Orlando, FL, United States
Born	16 October 1987 Auckland, New Zealand[1]
Height	6 feet 3 inches (1.91 m)
Turned pro	2006
Plays	Right-handed
Prize money	$388,573
Singles
Career record	10–12
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 274 (25 July 2011)
Current ranking	No. 841 (29 February 2016)
Grand Slam Singles results
US Open	Q2 (2009)
Doubles
Career record	41–42
Career titles	4
Highest ranking	No. 40 (8 February 2016)
Current ranking	No. 40 (8 February 2016)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	3R (2014, 2015)
French Open	1R (2014, 2015)
Wimbledon	3R (2015)
US Open	3R (2014)
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
Wimbledon	3R (2015)
Last updated on: 8 February 2016.

Michael Venus (born 16 October 1987) is a New Zealand tennis player. He reached a career high ranking of 274 in July 2011. He switched nationalities in June 2010 and began playing for the New Zealand Davis Cup team.

Early years

His family moved to the United States, where he won the Boys’ 18 National Clay Courts in 2006. His idols were Andre Agassi and Pete Sampras. He vacillated between going to college or turning professional and trying the senior tour, but decided to go for the College Conference.^[2]

College years to professional career

He transferred to Louisiana State University from the University of Texas after his freshman year and sat out the 2006-2007 season, following NCAA guidelines. In his first year at LSU, Venus became the first LSU player to win the ITA Men’s All-American Championship at the national tournament in Tulsa, Oklahoma in January 2008. He is one of only two Louisianan college players to finish in the top ten of the Campbell's ITA College Tennis Rankings in both singles and doubles in the same year (No. 7 in singles and No. 4 in doubles respectively), which he accomplished in his final season in 2008-2009. He was a representative of the United States team in the BNP Paribas International University Challenge of Tennis in Poitiers, France in December 2009.^[1]

College Accolades[1]
Year	Title
2009	ITA Singles All-American
2009	ITA Doubles All-American
2009	SEC Player of the Year
2009	First-Team All-SEC
2009	SEC Honor Roll
2009	Louisiana Player of the Year
2009	First-Team All-Louisiana
2008	D’Novo All-American Champion
2008	First-Team All-SEC
2008	Louisiana Player of the Year
2008	D’Novo All-American Champion
2008	First-Team All-Louisiana
2008	Louisiana Newcomer of the Year

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]

ATP career finals

Doubles: 6 (4 titles, 2 runners-up)

Legend Grand Slam tournaments (0–0) ATP World Tour Finals (0–0) ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0) ATP World Tour 500 Series (0–0) ATP World Tour 250 Series (4–2)

Titles by Surface Hard (3–2) Grass (0–0) Clay (1–0) Carpet (0–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	23 May 2015	Open de Nice Côte d'Azur, Nice, France	Clay	Mate Pavić	Jean-Julien Rojer Horia Tecău	7–6^(7–4), 2–6, [10–7]
Runner-up	1.	26 July 2015	Claro Open Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia	Hard	Mate Pavić	Édouard Roger-Vasselin Radek Štepánek	5–7, 3–6
Runner-up	2.	25 October 2015	Stockholm Open, Stockholm, Sweden	Hard (i)	Mate Pavić	Nicholas Monroe Jack Sock	5-7, 2-6
Winner	2.	16 January 2016	ASB Classic, Auckland, New Zealand	Hard	Mate Pavić	Eric Butorac Scott Lipsky	7-5, 6-4
Winner	3.	7 February 2016	Open Sud de France, Montpellier, France	Hard (i)	Mate Pavić	Alexander Zverev Mischa Zverev	7–5, 7–6^(7–4)
Winner	4.	21 February 2016	Open 13, Marseille, France	Hard (i)	Mate Pavić	Jonathan Erlich Colin Fleming	6–2, 6–3

Challenger/ITF Tour Finals

Singles (3–4)

Legend
ATP Challenger Tour (0–1)
ITF Futures (3–3)

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	2.	19 July 2009	Peoria, USA	Clay	Vasek Pospisil	6–7^(4–7), 6–4, 6–4
Winner	3.	13 June 2010	Loomis, USA	Hard	Dimitar Kutrovsky	7–6^(7–4), 1–6, 6–3
Runner–up	4.	21 August 2010	Qarshi, Uzbekistan	Hard	Blaž Kavčič	6–7^(6–8), 6–7^(5–7)
Runner–up	5.	23 May 2011	Andijan, Uzbekistan	Hard	Harri Heliövaara	4-6, 4-6
Runner–up	6.	14 November 2011	Traralgon, Australia	Hard	Benjamin Mitchell	6–7^(3-7), 7-6^(7-2), 0-6
Winner	7.	14 October 2012	Margaret River, Australia	Hard	Adam Feeney	6–3, 3–6, 6–3

Doubles (12–9)

Legend
ATP Challenger Tour (8–8)
ITF Futures (4–1)

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	3.	28 October 2012	Traralgon F11	Clay	Jose Statham	Matthew Barton Michael Look	3–6, 6–3, [11–9]
Winner	4.	2 December 2012	Jakarta F3	Hard	Tim Puetz	Brydan Klein Dane Propoggia	7–5, 6–3
Winner	5.	24 March 2013	Costa Mesa F8	Hard	Michael McClune	Cho Min Hyeok Nam Ji Sung	6–1, 6–3
Winner	6.	2 June 2013	Bacău F3	Clay	Bradley Klahn	Piotr Gadomski Tristan Lamasine	7–6^(7–4), 6–7^(4–7), [14–12]
Runner–up	7.	9 June 2013	Fürth	Clay	Christian Harrison	Colin Ebelthite Rameez Junaid	4–6, 5–7
Winner	8.	7 July 2013	Winnetka	Hard	Yuki Bhambri	Somdev Devvarman Jack Sock	2–6, 6–2, [10–8]
Winner	9.	21 July 2013	Binghamton	Hard	Bradley Klahn	Adam Feeney John-Patrick Smith	6–3, 6–4
Runner–up	10.	28 July 2013	Lexington	Hard	Bradley Klahn	Frank Dancevic Peter Polansky	3–6, 5–7
Winner	11.	17 November 2013	Yokohama	Hard	Bradley Klahn	Sanchai Ratiwatana Sonchat Ratiwatana	7–5, 6–1
Winner	12.	8 February 2014	Chennai	Hard	Yuki Bhambri	N. Sriram Balaji Blaž Rola	7–6^(7–5), 6–4
Runner–up	13.	9 March 2014	Kyoto	Hard (i)	Sanchai Ratiwatana	Purav Raja Divij Sharan	7–5, 6–7^(3–7), [4–10]
Runner–up	14.	16 March 2014	Irving	Hard	John-Patrick Smith	Santiago González Scott Lipsky	6–4, 6–7^(7–9), [7–10]
Runner–up	15.	6 April 2014	Guadeloupe	Hard	Gero Kretschmer	Tomasz Bednarek Adil Shamasdin	5–7, 7–6^(7–5), [8–10]
Winner	16.	27 April 2014	Savannah	Clay (Green)	Ilija Bozoljac	Facundo Bagnis Alex Bogomolov, Jr.	7–5, 6–2
Winner	17.	15 June 2014	Nottingham	Grass	Rameez Junaid	Ruben Bemelmans Go Soeda	4–6, 7–6^(7–1), [10–6]
Winner	18.	4 April 2015	Ra'anana	Hard	Mate Pavić	Rameez Junaid Adil Shamasdin	6–1, 6–4
Runner–up	19.	12 April 2015	Batman	Hard	Mate Pavić	Aslan Karatsev Yaraslav Shyla	6–7^(4–7), 6–4, [5–10]
Winner	20.	19 April 2015	Mersin	Clay	Mate Pavić	Riccardo Ghedin Ramkumar Ramanathan	5–7, 6–3, [10–4]
Runner–up	21.	23 August 2015	Vancouver	Hard	Yuki Bhambri	Treat Conrad Huey Frederik Nielsen	6–7^(4–7), 7–6^(7–3), [5–10]

Davis Cup (8)

Group membership

World Group (0)

Group I (3)

Group II (5)

Group III (0)

Group IV (0)

• indicates the outcome of the Davis Cup match followed by the score, date, place of event, the zonal classification and its phase, and the court surface.

Rubber outcome	No.	Rubber	Match type (partner if any)	Opponent nation	Opponent player(s)	Score
3-2; 9–11 July 2010; TSB Hub, Hawera, Taranaki, New Zealand; Asia/Oceania Semifinal; Hard surface
Defeat	1.	II	Singles	Pakistan	Aisam Qureshi	6-7^2,6-4, 2-6, 6-2, 13-15
Defeat	2.	III	Doubles (with Marcus Daniell)	Pakistan	Aqeel Khan / Aisam Qureshi	6-7^6, 3-6, 2-6
3-2; 17–19 September 2010; National Tennis Development Centre (LTAT), Nonthaburi, Thailand; Final; Hard surface
Victory	3.	I	Singles	Thailand	Weerapat Doakmaiklee	6-3, 6-2, 7-6^1
Defeat	4.	III	Doubles (with Daniel King-Turner)	Thailand	Sonchat Ratiwatana / Sanchai Ratiwatana	6-0, 7-6^6, 0-6, 3-6, 4-6
Defeat	5.	IV	Singles	Thailand	Kittiphong Wachiramanowong	5-7, 6-7^6, 2-6
2-3; 4–6 March 2011; Sport Complex Pahlavon, Namangan, Uzbekistan; First round; Clay surface
Victory	6.	III	Doubles (with Marcus Daniell)	Uzbekistan	Farrukh Dustov / Denis Istomin	6-7^5, 3-6, 4-6
Defeat	7.	IV	Singles	Uzbekistan	Vaja Uzakov	3-6, 0-6
5-0; 8–10 July 2011; TSB Hub, Hawera, New Zealand; First Playoff round; Hard surface
Defeat	8.	II	Singles	Philippines	Cecil Mamiit	6-7^8, 7-6^4, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3

References

1. "Michael Venus Bio". lsusports.net. Louisiana State University. 18 June 2008. Retrieved 8 February 2011.
2. "College Spotlight: Michael Venus, LSU". usta.com. United States Tennis Association. Retrieved 8 February 2011.
3. "Michael Venus - Activity". itftennis.com. International Tennis Federation. Retrieved 9 February 2011.
4. "Michael Venus - Rankings history". atpworldtour.com. Association of Tennis Professionals. Retrieved 9 February 2011.

External links

• Michael Venus at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Michael Venus at the International Tennis Federation
• Michael Venus at the Davis Cup