Raven Klaasen ( ; born 16 October 1982) is a South African professional
tennis
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player who specialises in doubles.
He achieved his career-high doubles ranking of world No. 7 in August 2019, and has won 19 doubles titles on the
ATP Tour
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, including two at
Masters 1000 level. Klaasen is a two-time Grand Slam finalist, having finished runner-up at the
2014 Australian Open alongside
Eric Butorac, and the
2018 Wimbledon Championships
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with
Michael Venus. He was also runner up at the ATP Finals in both
2016
2016 was designated as:
* International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
* International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
and
2019
This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year.
Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...
, partnering
Rajeev Ram and Venus respectively.
In singles, Klaasen has a career-high ranking of world No. 208, achieved in October 2011.
He has represented South Africa in the
Davis Cup since 2009, and has a win–loss record of 13–4.
He reached his 300th match win at the
2022 Estoril Open with
Ben McLachlan
Ben McLachlan ( ; マクラクラン 勉, ''Makurakuran Ben''; born 10 May 1992) is a Japanese former professional tennis player who previously represented New Zealand.
He is a doubles specialist with a career-high ATP ranking of world No. 18, ...
defeating
Hugo Nys/
Jan Zieliński
Jan Zieliński (Polish: ; born 16 November 1996) is a Polish professional tennis player who specializes in doubles. He has an ATP career-high doubles ranking of world No. 7, which he attained on 19 June 2023. His highest ranking in singles has b ...
in the round of 16.
Significant finals
Grand Slam finals
Doubles: 2 (2 runners-up)
Year-end championships
Doubles: 2 (2 runners-up)
Masters 1000 finals
Doubles: 5 (2 titles, 3 runners-up)
ATP career finals
Doubles: 42 (19 titles, 23 runner-ups)
Doubles performance timeline
''Current through the
2022 Davis Cup.''
References
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1982 births
Living people
Coloureds
South African people of Dutch descent
South African male tennis players
Sportspeople from Qonce
African Games silver medalists in tennis
African Games gold medalists in tennis
African Games gold medalists for South Africa
African Games silver medalists for South Africa
Tennis players at the 2003 All-Africa Games
21st-century South African sportsmen
Tennis players from the Eastern Cape