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New Zealand tennis player
Brett Andrew Steven (born 27 April 1969) is a former New Zealand tennis player.
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 [ edit ]
Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)[ edit ]
Singles: 3 (3 runner-ups)[ edit ]
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)
Doubles: 17 (9 title, 8 runner-ups)[ edit ]
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 [ edit ]
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
Legend
ATP Challenger (0–2)
ITF Futures (0–0)
Finals by surface
Hard (0–0)
Clay (0–1)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–1)
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.