Michael Venus (tennis), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Michael Venus (tennis)

New Zealand tennis player

Date of Birth: 16-Oct-1987

Place of Birth: Auckland, New Zealand

Profession: tennis player

Nationality: United States, New Zealand

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Michael Venus (born 16 October 1987) is a New Zealand professional tennis player.
He reached a career-high singles ranking of No.
274 in July 2011, but now normally plays singles only in Davis Cup matches for New Zealand.
He is far better-known as a leading doubles player, whose highest ranking in this discipline is No.
8, gained in August 2019 after winning in Halle.
He won the final of the 2017 French Open, partnering with American Ryan Harrison, and followed that with a runner-up finish in the 2017 US Open mixed doubles, with Chan Hao-ching of Chinese Taipei as his partner.
He and Harrison qualified for the year-ending Nitto ATP Finals, where they won all three of their round-robin matches to qualify top of their group, but lost in the semi-finals to Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo. In 2018 he made the men's doubles final at Wimbledon with Raven Klaasen, losing to Mike Bryan and Jack Sock, and was a losing semi-finalist in the mixed doubles there as well, with Katarina Srebotnik.
He and Klaasen qualified for the Nitto ATP Finals, but won only one round-robin match.