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

Biography

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. He attended Mount Roskill Grammar School.

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.

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

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up) ResultYearTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss1987US OpenHard Zeeshan Ali Goran Ivanišević Diego Nargiso6–3, 4–6, 3–6

ATP career finals

Singles: 3 (3 runner-ups) LegendGrand 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 surfaceHard (0–2)Clay (0–0)Grass (0–1)Carpet (0–0)Finals by settingOutdoors (0–3)Indoors (0–0)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreLoss0–1Schenectady, United StatesWorld SeriesHard Thomas Enqvist6–4, 3–6, 6–7(0–7)Loss0–2Auckland, New ZealandWorld SeriesHard Jiří Novák4–6, 4–6Loss0–3Newport, United StatesWorld SeriesGrass Sargis Sargsian6–7(0–7), 6–4, 5–7

Doubles: 17 (9 title, 8 runner-ups) LegendGrand 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 surfaceHard (3–4)Clay (1–2)Grass (2–0)Carpet (3–2)Finals by settingOutdoors (7–5)Indoors (2–3)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin1–0Newport, United StatesWorld SeriesGrass Gianluca Pozzi Javier Frana Bruce Steel6–4, 6–4Loss1–1Schenectady, United StatesWorld SeriesHard Byron Black Bernd Karbacher Andrei Olhovskiy6–2, 6–7, 1–6Win2–1Copenhagen, DenmarkWorld SeriesCarpet Martin Damm David Prinosil Udo Riglewski6–3, 6–4Win3–1Hong Kong, Hong KongWorld SeriesHard Jim Grabb Jonas Björkman Patrick RafterwalkoverWin4–1Coral Springs, United StatesWorld SeriesClay Lan Bale Ken Flach Stéphane Simian6–3, 7–5Loss4–2Memphis, United StatesChampionship SeriesHard Tommy Ho Jared Palmer Richey Reneberg6–4, 6–7, 1–6Win5–2Indian Wells, United StatesMasters SeriesHard Tommy Ho Pieter Norval Gary Muller6–4, 7–6Loss5–3Paget, BermudaWorld SeriesClay Jason Stoltenberg Grant Connell Todd Martin6–7, 6–2, 5–7Loss5–4Moscow, RussiaWorld SeriesCarpet Tommy Ho Jared Palmer Byron Black4–6, 6–3, 3–6Loss5–5Auckland, New ZealandWorld SeriesHard Jonas Björkman Marcos Ondruska Jack WaitewalkoverLoss5–6Scottsdale, United StatesWorld SeriesHard Richey Reneberg Patrick Galbraith Rick Leach7–5, 5–7, 5–7Win6–6Copenhagen, DenmarkWorld SeriesCarpet Andrei Olhovskiy Kenneth Carlsen Frederik Fetterlein6–4, 6–2Win7–6St. Petersburg, RussiaWorld SeriesCarpet Andrei Olhovskiy David Prinosil Daniel Vacek6–4, 6–3Win8–6Newport, United StatesWorld SeriesGrass Justin Gimelstob Kent Kinnear Aleksandar Kitinov6–3, 6–4Win9–6Auckland, New ZealandWorld SeriesHard Patrick Galbraith Tom Nijssen Jeff Tarango6–4, 6–2Loss9–7Copenhagen, DenmarkWorld SeriesCarpet Jan Siemerink Tom Kempers Menno Oosting4–6, 6–7Loss9–8Hamburg, GermanyMasters SeriesClay David Adams Donald Johnson Francisco Montana2–6, 5–7

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 6 (3–3) LegendATP Challenger (3–3)ITF Futures (0–0)Finals by surfaceHard (1–2)Clay (1–0)Grass (0–0)Carpet (1–1)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreWin1–0Canberra, AustraliaChallengerCarpet Andrew Kratzmann6–3, 6 4Loss1–1New Haven, United StatesChallengerHard Jimmy Arias6–7, 2–6Loss1–2Aachen, GermanyChallengerCarpet Martin Damm4–6, 6–7Win2–2Wellington, New ZealandChallengerHard Martin Damm6–3, 6 3Win3–2Ljubljana, SloveniaChallengerClay Andrei Pavel7–6, 6 2Loss3–3Binghamton, United StatesChallengerHard Antony Dupuis7–6, 1–6, 4–6

Doubles: 2 (0–2) LegendATP Challenger (0–2)ITF Futures (0–0)Finals by surfaceHard (0–0)Clay (0–1)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–1)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss0–1Hobart, AustraliaChallengerCarpet Sandon Stolle Brett Custer David Macpherson2–6, 7–6, 4–6Loss0–2Halle, GermanyChallengerClay Kelly Evernden Karsten Braasch Lars Koslowski6–4, 6–7, 0–6

Performance timelines

Singles Tournament1987198819891990199119921993199419951996199719981999SRW–LWin %Grand Slam tournamentsAustralian OpenAAAAQ1AQF2R2R4R1R1R1R0 / 79–7French OpenAAAAAA2R1R3R2RQ11RA0 / 54–5WimbledonQ1AAAQ2A2R2R3R3R4R1RA0 / 69–6US OpenAAAAAQ31R1R2RA2R1RQ20 / 52–5Win–loss0–00–00–00–00–00–06–42–46–46–34–30–40–10 / 2324–23Olympic GamesSummer OlympicsNHANot HeldANot Held1RNot Held0 / 10–1ATP Masters SeriesIndian WellsAAAAAAAAA1RAAA0 / 10–1MiamiAAAAAA2R1R1RAAAA0 / 31–3Monte CarloAAAAAAAAAAA1RA0 / 10–1HamburgAAAAAAAAAAA1RA0 / 10–1RomeAAAAAAAAAAAQFA0 / 13–1CanadaAAAAAAQF2R3RA2RAA0 / 47–4CincinnatiAAAAAA1R1R3RA1RAA0 / 42–4ParisAAAAAA1RA1RAAAA0 / 20–2Win–loss0–00–00–00–00–00–04–41–34–40–11–23–30–00 / 1713–17

Doubles Tournament19911992199319941995199619971998SRW–LWin %Grand Slam tournamentsAustralian OpenAA1R1R2R3R2RQF0 / 67–6French OpenAA2R3RSF1RAQF0 / 510–5WimbledonQ1A1RQF2R1R2RQF0 / 68–6US OpenA2R2R3RAA1R1R0 / 54–5Win–loss0–01–12–47–46–32–32–39–40 / 2229–22Year-end ChampionshipsATP FinalsDid not qualifyRRDNQ0 / 11–2ATP Masters SeriesIndian WellsAAAAW1RAA1 / 25–1MiamiAAQ23R3RAAA0 / 23–2HamburgAAAAAAAF0 / 14–1RomeAAAAAAAQF0 / 12–1CanadaAA1RQF1RAAA0 / 32–3CincinnatiAAA2R2RA1RA0 / 32–3ParisAAAA2RAAA0 / 11–1Win–loss0–00–00–15–38–40–10–16–21 / 1319–12

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