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Brett Steven

Brett Andrew Steven (born 27 April 1969) is a former New Zealand tennis player.

Brett Steven
Country (sports) New Zealand
ResidenceAuckland, New Zealand
Born (1969-04-27) 27 April 1969 (age 55)
Auckland, New Zealand
Height1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Turned pro1988
Retired1999
PlaysRight-handed (one-handed backhand)
Prize money$2,439,714
Singles
Career record175–166
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 32 (12 February 1996)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian OpenQF (1993)
French Open3R (1995)
Wimbledon4R (1997)
US Open2R (1995, 1997)
Other tournaments
Grand Slam CupQF (1993)
Olympic Games1R (1996)
Doubles
Career record179–116
Career titles9
Highest rankingNo. 16 (12 June 1995)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian OpenQF (1998)
French OpenSF (1995)
WimbledonQF (1994, 1998)
US Open3R (1994)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Wimbledon3R (1995)

Biography

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Steven began his tennis career at the age of 10 as a ball boy and by the age of 16 he participated at his first tournament.[1] He attended Mount Roskill Grammar School.[2]

Steven turned professional in 1988 and won his first tour doubles title in 1991 at Newport, Rhode Island.

Steven's best singles performance at a Grand Slam event came at the 1993 Australian Open, where he reached the quarterfinals, defeating Dave Randall, Thomas Muster, Andrei Olhovskiy and Richard Fromberg before being knocked out by Pete Sampras. At Masters level, he reached the quarterfinals of the 1993 Canada Masters and the 1998 Rome Masters.

Steven represented New Zealand at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, where he lost in the first round to Arnaud Boetsch of France.[3]

Steven won nine top-level doubles titles during his career, the most significant of which was the Indian Wells Masters, which he won in 1995 (partnering Tommy Ho). Though he did not win any top-level singles titles during his career, Steven was a singles runner-up at three tour events (Schenectady in 1993, Auckland in 1996 and Newport in 1997). His career-high rankings were World No. 32 in singles and No. 16 in doubles. His career prize-money totalled US$2,439,714. Steven retired from the professional tour in 1999.

Junior Grand Slam finals

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Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

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Result Year Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss 1987 US Open Hard   Zeeshan Ali   Goran Ivanišević
  Diego Nargiso		 6–3, 4–6, 3–6

ATP career finals

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Singles: 3 (3 runner-ups)

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Legend
Grand Slam Tournaments (0–0)
ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)
ATP World Tour Masters Series (0–0)
ATP Championship Series (0–0)
ATP World Series (0–3)
Finals by surface
Hard (0–2)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (0–1)
Carpet (0–0)
Finals by setting
Outdoors (0–3)
Indoors (0–0)
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Loss 0–1 Aug 1993 Schenectady, United States World Series Hard   Thomas Enqvist 6–4, 3–6, 6–7(0–7)
Loss 0–2 Jan 1996 Auckland, New Zealand World Series Hard   Jiří Novák 4–6, 4–6
Loss 0–3 Jul 1997 Newport, United States World Series Grass   Sargis Sargsian 6–7(0–7), 6–4, 5–7

Doubles: 17 (9 title, 8 runner-ups)

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Legend
Grand Slam Tournaments (0–0)
ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)
ATP Masters Series (1–1)
ATP Championship Series (0–1)
ATP World Series (8–6)
Finals by surface
Hard (3–4)
Clay (1–2)
Grass (2–0)
Carpet (3–2)
Finals by setting
Outdoors (7–5)
Indoors (2–3)
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 1–0 Jul 1991 Newport, United States World Series Grass   Gianluca Pozzi   Javier Frana
  Bruce Steel 		6–4, 6–4
Loss 1–1 Aug 1993 Schenectady, United States World Series Hard   Byron Black   Bernd Karbacher
  Andrei Olhovskiy 		6–2, 6–7, 1–6
Win 2–1 Mar 1994 Copenhagen, Denmark World Series Carpet   Martin Damm   David Prinosil
  Udo Riglewski 		6–3, 6–4
Win 3–1 Apr 1994 Hong Kong, Hong Kong World Series Hard   Jim Grabb   Jonas Björkman
  Patrick Rafter 		walkover
Win 4–1 May 1994 Coral Springs, United States World Series Clay   Lan Bale   Ken Flach
  Stéphane Simian 		6–3, 7–5
Loss 4–2 Feb 1995 Memphis, United States Championship Series Hard   Tommy Ho   Jared Palmer
  Richey Reneberg 		6–4, 6–7, 1–6
Win 5–2 Mar 1995 Indian Wells, United States Masters Series Hard   Tommy Ho   Pieter Norval
  Gary Muller 		6–4, 7–6
Loss 5–3 Apr 1995 Paget, Bermuda World Series Clay   Jason Stoltenberg   Grant Connell
  Todd Martin 		6–7, 6–2, 5–7
Loss 5–4 Nov 1995 Moscow, Russia World Series Carpet   Tommy Ho   Jared Palmer
  Byron Black 		4–6, 6–3, 3–6
Loss 5–5 Jan 1996 Auckland, New Zealand World Series Hard   Jonas Björkman   Marcos Ondruska
  Jack Waite 		walkover
Loss 5–6 Mar 1996 Scottsdale, United States World Series Hard   Richey Reneberg   Patrick Galbraith
  Rick Leach 		7–5, 5–7, 5–7
Win 6–6 Mar 1997 Copenhagen, Denmark World Series Carpet   Andrei Olhovskiy   Kenneth Carlsen
  Frederik Fetterlein 		6–4, 6–2
Win 7–6 Mar 1997 St. Petersburg, Russia World Series Carpet   Andrei Olhovskiy   David Prinosil
  Daniel Vacek 		6–4, 6–3
Win 8–6 Jul 1997 Newport, United States World Series Grass   Justin Gimelstob   Kent Kinnear
  Aleksandar Kitinov 		6–3, 6–4
Win 9–6 Jan 1998 Auckland, New Zealand World Series Hard   Patrick Galbraith   Tom Nijssen
  Jeff Tarango 		6–4, 6–2
Loss 9–7 Mar 1998 Copenhagen, Denmark World Series Carpet   Jan Siemerink   Tom Kempers
  Menno Oosting 		4–6, 6–7
Loss 9–8 May 1998 Hamburg, Germany Masters Series Clay   David Adams   Donald Johnson
  Francisco Montana 		2–6, 5–7

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

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Singles: 6 (3–3)

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Legend
ATP Challenger (3–3)
ITF Futures (0–0)
Finals by surface
Hard (1–2)
Clay (1–0)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (1–1)
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Win 1–0 Sep 1990 Canberra, Australia Challenger Carpet   Andrew Kratzmann 6–3, 6 4
Loss 1–1 Aug 1992 New Haven, United States Challenger Hard   Jimmy Arias 6–7, 2–6
Loss 1–2 Nov 1992 Aachen, Germany Challenger Carpet   Martin Damm 4–6, 6–7
Win 2–2 Jan 1995 Wellington, New Zealand Challenger Hard   Martin Damm 6–3, 6 3
Win 3–2 May 1997 Ljubljana, Slovenia Challenger Clay   Andrei Pavel 7–6, 6 2
Loss 3–3 Aug 1999 Binghamton, United States Challenger Hard   Antony Dupuis 7–6, 1–6, 4–6

Doubles: 2 (0–2)

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Legend
ATP Challenger (0–2)
ITF Futures (0–0)
Finals by surface
Hard (0–0)
Clay (0–1)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–1)
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss 0–1 Nov 1990 Hobart, Australia Challenger Carpet   Sandon Stolle   Brett Custer
  David Macpherson 		2–6, 7–6, 4–6
Loss 0–2 Jun 1992 Halle, Germany Challenger Clay   Kelly Evernden   Karsten Braasch
  Lars Koslowski 		6–4, 6–7, 0–6

Performance timelines

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Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# DNQ A NH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.

Singles

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Tournament 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 SR W–L Win %
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open A A A A Q1 A QF 2R 2R 4R 1R 1R 1R 0 / 7 9–7 56%
French Open A A A A A A 2R 1R 3R 2R Q1 1R A 0 / 5 4–5 44%
Wimbledon Q1 A A A Q2 A 2R 2R 3R 3R 4R 1R A 0 / 6 9–6 60%
US Open A A A A A Q3 1R 1R 2R A 2R 1R Q2 0 / 5 2–5 29%
Win–loss 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 6–4 2–4 6–4 6–3 4–3 0–4 0–1 0 / 23 24–23 51%
Olympic Games
Summer Olympics NH A Not Held A Not Held 1R Not Held 0 / 1 0–1 0%
ATP Masters Series
Indian Wells A A A A A A A A A 1R A A A 0 / 1 0–1 0%
Miami A A A A A A 2R 1R 1R A A A A 0 / 3 1–3 25%
Monte Carlo A A A A A A A A A A A 1R A 0 / 1 0–1 0%
Hamburg A A A A A A A A A A A 1R A 0 / 1 0–1 0%
Rome A A A A A A A A A A A QF A 0 / 1 3–1 75%
Canada A A A A A A QF 2R 3R A 2R A A 0 / 4 7–4 64%
Cincinnati A A A A A A 1R 1R 3R A 1R A A 0 / 4 2–4 33%
Paris A A A A A A 1R A 1R A A A A 0 / 2 0–2 0%
Win–loss 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 4–4 1–3 4–4 0–1 1–2 3–3 0–0 0 / 17 13–17 43%

Doubles

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Tournament 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 SR W–L Win %
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open A A 1R 1R 2R 3R 2R QF 0 / 6 7–6 54%
French Open A A 2R 3R SF 1R A QF 0 / 5 10–5 67%
Wimbledon Q1 A 1R QF 2R 1R 2R QF 0 / 6 8–6 57%
US Open A 2R 2R 3R A A 1R 1R 0 / 5 4–5 44%
Win–loss 0–0 1–1 2–4 7–4 6–3 2–3 2–3 9–4 0 / 22 29–22 57%
Year-end Championships
ATP Finals Did not qualify RR DNQ 0 / 1 1–2 33%
ATP Masters Series
Indian Wells A A A A W 1R A A 1 / 2 5–1 83%
Miami A A Q2 3R 3R A A A 0 / 2 3–2 60%
Hamburg A A A A A A A F 0 / 1 4–1 80%
Rome A A A A A A A QF 0 / 1 2–1 67%
Canada A A 1R QF 1R A A A 0 / 3 2–3 40%
Cincinnati A A A 2R 2R A 1R A 0 / 3 2–3 40%
Paris A A A A 2R A A A 0 / 1 1–1 50%
Win–loss 0–0 0–0 0–1 5–3 8–4 0–1 0–1 6–2 1 / 13 19–12 61%

References

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  1. ^ Marc Hinton (13 December 2015). "Kiwi tennis ace Brett Steven hails Auckland tournaments as 'jewel in crown' of NZ sport". Stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
  2. ^ Reidy, Jade (2013). Not Just Passing Through: the Making of Mt Roskill (2nd ed.). Auckland: Puketāpapa Local Board. p. 98. ISBN 978-1-927216-97-2. OCLC 889931177. Wikidata Q116775081.
  3. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Brett Steven". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
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