Brett Andrew Steven (born 27 April 1969) is a former

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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

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. Steven turned professional in 1988 and won his first tour doubles title in 1991 at

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. Steven's best singles performance at a Grand Slam event came at the 1993 Australian Open, where he reached the quarterfinals, defeating Dave Randall,

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, Andrei Olhovskiy and Richard Fromberg before being knocked out by

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. At Masters level, he reached the quarterfinals of the 1993 Canada Masters and the 1998 Rome Masters. Steven represented New Zealand at the

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, 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 (

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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)

ATP career finals

Singles: 3 (3 runner-ups)

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

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 6 (3–3)

Doubles: 2 (0–2)

Performance timelines

Singles

Doubles

References

External links

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