Michael Venus

Michael Venus (born 16 October 1987) is a New Zealand professional tennis player. He has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 6, achieved on 29 August 2022. Venus won the 2017 French Open men's doubles partnering Ryan Harrison, and followed with a runner-up finish in the 2017 US Open mixed doubles partnering Chan Hao-ching. Venus and Harrison qualified for the year-end championships ATP Finals, where they reached the semifinals.

In 2018, Venus made the men's doubles final at Wimbledon with Raven Klaasen, losing to Mike Bryan and Jack Sock, and was a semifinalist in the mixed doubles there as well with Katarina Srebotnik. He and Klaasen qualified for the ATP Finals, but won only one round-robin match. They also qualified in 2019, finishing runners-up. In the meantime, Venus and Chan Hao-ching again finished runners-up in the US Open mixed doubles. Venus and John Peers qualified for the 2020 ATP Finals, but lost close contests in all three of their round-robin matches.

Venus won a bronze medal in the men's doubles at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics alongside Marcus Daniell.

Early years Venus's 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 attending college and turning professional, and considering the senior tour, but ultimately decided to pursue the College Conference. Having represented the U.S. through college, he switched nationalities in June 2010 to the country of his birth, and began playing for the New Zealand Davis Cup team.

Career 2006–2009: College years and first ITF tournaments Venus 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. Year

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

Venus finished the 2007 season winning the USA F26 Futures in doubles, partnering with Danny Bryan, losing only in the final of Thailand F3 Futures thus peaking at 866 in singles on the ATP world tour.

In 2008, despite playing the final of Baton Rouge Challenger with partner Ryan Harrison,

2020: New partnership with Peers and three titles Top seeds in their first appearance together, Venus and Peers were surprisingly beaten in two tie-break sets by Artem Sitak and Divij Sharan in the first round of the ASB Classic. They were seventh seeds in the Australian Open, losing in the third round to Marcelo Arévalo and Jonny O'Mara. Seeded fourth in the mixed doubles, Venus and Chan Hao-ching went out in the second round to Łukasz Kubot and Iga Świątek.

Venus and Peers then lost in the first round in Rotterdam before taking their first title as a pair, winning in Dubai over Klaasen and Oliver Marach. They did not drop a set in the entire tournament. This was Venus's last match before international tennis was suspended due to the COVID-19 coronavirus.

Venus and Peers started in the first ATP tournament after the tours resumed, the Western & Southern Open, this year held at Flushing Meadows as a lead-up to the US Open. They lost in the first round to Dan Evans and David Goffin. Unseeded in the US Open because of the draw size being cut to half the normal numbers, they lost in the second round to Sander Gillé and Joran Vliegen. They reached the semi-finals of the Italian Open, losing to Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos, before winning the Hamburg European Open, defeating Ivan Dodig and Mate Pavić in the final.

Seeded 11th in the French Open, Venus and Peers were upset in the second round by Freddie Nielsen and Tim Pütz. They then went to the new ATP250 tournament in Santa Margherita di Pula, Sardinia, where they lost to eventual champions Marcus Daniell and Philipp Oswald in the semi-final. They collected their third title of the year just a week later, beating Rohan Bopanna and Matwé Middelkoop in the final of the European Open in Antwerp.

They lost in the first round in Vienna to French Open champions Kevin Krawietz and Andreas Mies, and in the quarter-finals of the Paris Masters to Félix Auger-Aliassime and Hubert Hurkacz, who would go on to win the title. Their final event for the season was the Nitto ATP Finals in London, where they lost all three of their round-robin matches in close contests.

2021: New partnership with Putz, 15th & Masters titles, Olympics bronze As was the case with so many other players, COVID-19 disrupted travel arrangements for Venus at the start of 2021. With his wife due to give birth to their second child in April, Venus elected to return home after the Australian Open, his only lead-up tournament being the Great Ocean Road Open due to the cancellation of the 2021 Auckland Open. With Peers unavailable before the Grand Slam event, Venus teamed up with Marcus Daniell, the pair losing in the quarterfinals. Seeded tenth, Venus and Peers lost in the third round of the Australian Open to the fifth-seeded defending champions, and eventual runners-up, Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury.

In July, with new partner Tim Pütz, he won his 15th title at the ATP 500 Hamburg European Open.

At the 2020 Summer Olympics he won the bronze medal in doubles with fellow New Zealander Marcus Daniell defeating Austin Krajicek and Tennys Sandgren.

He and Pütz got to the semifinals of the Indian Wells Masters, defeating second seeds Joe Salisbury/Rajeev Ram and fifth seeds Kevin Krawietz/Horia Tecău before losing to Russian Duo Andrey Rublev/Aslan Karatsev. He won his first ATP Masters 1000 title at the Paris Masters, again with Pütz. As a result, he reached No. 15 in doubles on 8 November 2021.

2022: Second Australian Open quarterfinal & Masters final, world No. 6 Seeded sixth, he reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Open partnering with Pütz where they were defeated by eventual champions Kokkinakis/Kyrgios. Seeded fourth at the 2022 Dubai Tennis Championships they won the ATP 500 title defeating top-ranked Nikola Mektić /Mate Pavić.

At the 2022 Halle Open he reached his third final of the season and fifth overall as a team with Putz.

After a final showing at the 2022 Western & Southern Open partnering again with Putz, he reached world No. 6 in the doubles rankings on 29 August 2022.

2023–2024: New partnership with Murray and three ATP titles Seeded as top pair with new partner Jamie Murray they won their first title at the Dallas Open. The team reached a Masters quarterfinal at the 2023 BNP Paribas Open.

After this run they then won their second title of the season at the Banja Luka Open. Their next two tournaments saw them reach back to back quarterfinals at the Masters events at the Madrid Open and Italian Open. In preparation for the French Open the team headed to the Geneva Open. They went on to win the tournament and their third title of the season with a straight sets victory over the third seeds and clay court specialist pairing of Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos.

At the 2024 Queen's Club Championships, he combined with Neal Skupski to win the doubles title, defeating Taylor Fritz and Karen Khachanov in the final.

2025: 25th doubles title in Auckland Partnering with Nikola Mektić, Venus won his 25th doubles title at the Auckland Classic, receiving a walkover in the final when scheduled opponents Christian Harrison and Rajeev Ram withdrew due to Ram suffering an arm injury.

At the 2025 Miami Open the pair reached the semifinals but lost to top seeds and world No. 1 players Marcelo Arevalo and Mate Pavic.

Significant finals Grand Slam tournaments Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

Mixed doubles: 3 (3 runners-up)

Olympic medal finals Doubles: 1 (bronze medal)

Year-end championships Doubles: 1 (runner-up)

Masters 1000 finals Doubles: 5 (1 title, 4 runners-up)

ATP Tour career finals Doubles: 50 (25 titles, 25 runner-ups) LegendGrand Slam tournaments (1–1)ATP Finals (0–1)ATP Masters 1000 (1–4)ATP 500 (7–7)ATP 250 (16–12)Finals by surfaceHard (13–15)Clay (8–5)Grass (4–5)Finals by settingOutdoor (17–18)Indoor (8–6)

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 7 (3 titles, 4 runner-ups) LegendATP Challenger Tour (0–1)ITF Futures (3–3)

Doubles: 21 (12 titles, 9 runner-ups) LegendATP Challenger Tour (8–8)ITF Futures (4–1)

ResultNo.DateTournamentSurfacePartneringOpponentsScoreLoss 1. 27 April 2008 Baton Rouge Hard Ryan Harrison Phillip Simmonds Tim Smyczek 6–2, 1–6, [4–10]Loss 2. 9 September 2012 Alice Springs F6 Hard Samuel Groth Adam Feeney Nick Lindahl 6–4, 2–6, [8–10]Win 1. 28 October 2012 Traralgon F11 Clay Rubin Statham Matthew Barton Michael Look 3–6, 6–3, [11–9]Win 2. 2 December 2012 Jakarta F3 Hard Tim Pütz Brydan Klein Dane Propoggia 7–5, 6–3Win 3. 24 March 2013 Costa Mesa F8 Hard Michael McClune Cho Min Hyeok Nam Ji Sung 6–1, 6–3Win 4. 2 June 2013 Bacău F3 Clay Bradley Klahn Piotr Gadomski Tristan Lamasine 7–6(7–4), 6–7(4–7), [14–12]Loss 3. 9 June 2013 Fürth Clay Christian Harrison Colin Ebelthite Rameez Junaid 4–6, 5–7Win 5. 7 July 2013 Winnetka Hard Yuki Bhambri Somdev Devvarman Jack Sock 2–6, 6–2, [10–8]Win 6. 21 July 2013 Binghamton Hard Bradley Klahn Adam Feeney John-Patrick Smith 6–3, 6–4Loss 4. 28 July 2013 Lexington Hard Bradley Klahn Frank Dancevic Peter Polansky 3–6, 5–7Win 7. 17 November 2013 Yokohama Hard Bradley Klahn Sanchai Ratiwatana Sonchat Ratiwatana 7–5, 6–1Win 8. 8 February 2014 Chennai Hard Yuki Bhambri N. Sriram Balaji Blaž Rola 7–6(7–5), 6–4Loss 5. 9 March 2014 Kyoto Hard (i) Sanchai Ratiwatana Purav Raja Divij Sharan 7–5, 6–7(3–7), [4–10]Loss 6. 16 March 2014 Irving Hard John-Patrick Smith Santiago González Scott Lipsky 6–4, 6–7(7–9), [7–10]Loss 7. 6 April 2014 Guadeloupe Hard Gero Kretschmer Tomasz Bednarek Adil Shamasdin 5–7, 7–6(7–5), [8–10]Win 9. 27 April 2014 Savannah Clay (green) Ilija Bozoljac Facundo Bagnis Alex Bogomolov Jr. 7–5, 6–2Win 10. 15 June 2014 Nottingham Grass Rameez Junaid Ruben Bemelmans Go Soeda 4–6, 7–6(7–1), [10–6]Win 11. 4 April 2015 Ra'anana Hard Mate Pavić Rameez Junaid Adil Shamasdin 6–1, 6–4Loss 8. 12 April 2015 Batman Hard Mate Pavić Aslan Karatsev Yaraslav Shyla 6–7(4–7), 6–4, [5–10]Win 12. 19 April 2015 Mersin Clay Mate Pavić Riccardo Ghedin Ramkumar Ramanathan 5–7, 6–3, [10–4]Loss 9. 23 August 2015 Vancouver Hard Yuki Bhambri Treat Huey Frederik Nielsen 6–7(4–7), 7–6(7–3), [5–10]

Davis Cup (32) Group membership World Group (0) Group I (12–12) Group II (4–4) Group III (0) Group IV (0)Results by surfaceHard (12–15)Grass (1–0)Clay (3–1)Carpet (0–0)Results by settingOutdoors (10–6)Indoors (6–10)

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.

Performance timelines

Doubles Current through the 2025 US Open.

Mixed doubles Although the US and French Opens took place in 2020, mixed doubles were not included in either event due to the COVID-19 coronavirus.