Brett Steven
# Brett Steven

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)

| 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

### Singles: 3 (3 runner-ups)

* 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)

* 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

### Singles: 6 (3–3)

* 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)

* 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

Key :

| W | F | SF | QF | #R | RR | Q# | DNQ | A | NH |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |

### Singles

| 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 | Not Held | Not Held | A | Not Held | Not Held | Not Held | 1R | Not Held | Not Held | 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

| 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 | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | Did not qualify | RR | DNQ | DNQ | 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% |
