Raven Klaasen

Raven Klaasen
Raven Klaasen 2013 in the Queen's Club
Nation:	South Africa
Birthday:	October 16, 1982
Size:	178 cm
Weight:	71 kg
1st professional season:	2002
Playing hand:	Right
Trainer:	Stephan De Kock
Prize money:	$ 2,982,357
singles
Career record:	7: 5
Highest ranking:	208 (October 24, 2011)
Double
Career record:	242: 158
Career title:	15th
Highest ranking:	9 (July 11, 2016)
Current placement:	9
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: June 24, 2019
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Raven Klaasen (born October 16, 1982 in King William's Town ) is a South African tennis player who is considered a doubles specialist.

Career

So far Klaasen has won nine double titles on the Challenger Tour . In 2011 and 2012 he won three of them with his partner John Paul Fruttero , with whom he also stood in five other finals during this period. In 2013 he won his first two double titles on the ATP World Tour with partner Johan Brunström , which he followed with three more titles with his new partner Eric Butorac . With this he surprised at the Australian Open 2014 , when the two defeated, among other things, the favorites Bob and Mike Bryan on the way to the final . In the final they were defeated by Robert Lindstedt and Łukasz Kubot 3-6 and 3-6 .

Klaasen has been a member of the South African Davis Cup team since 2009 .

successes

Legend (number of victories) Grand Slam ATP World Tour Finals ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (2) ATP World Tour 500 (5) ATP World Tour 250 (9) ATP Challenger Tour (10)

ATP title by topping Hard Court (12) Sand (1) Grass (3)

Double

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	May 25, 2013	Nice	sand	Johan Brunström	Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah	6: 3, 6: 2
2.	22nd September 2013	Metz	Hard court (i)	Johan Brunström	Nicolas Mahut Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	6: 4, 7: 6 5
3.	29th September 2013	Kuala Lumpur	Hard court	Eric Butorac	Pablo Cuevas Horacio Zeballos	6: 2, 6: 4
4th	February 16, 2014	Memphis	Hard court (i)	Eric Butorac	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6: 4, 6: 4
5.	19th October 2014	Stockholm	Hard court (i)	Eric Butorac	Treat Huey Jack Sock	6: 4, 6: 3
6th	17th January 2015	Auckland	Hard court	Leander Paes	Dominic Inglot Florin Mergea	7: 6 1 , 6: 4
7th	June 21, 2015	Hall (1)	race	Rajeev Ram	Rohan Bopanna Florin Mergea	7: 6 5 , 6: 2
8th.	October 11, 2015	Tokyo	Hard court	Marcelo Melo	Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah	7: 6 5 , 3: 6, [10: 7]
9.	October 18, 2015	Shanghai	Hard court	Marcelo Melo	Simone Bolelli Fabio Fognini	6: 3, 6: 3
10.	19th June 2016	Hall (2)	race	Rajeev Ram	Łukasz Kubot Alexander Peya	7: 6 5 , 6: 2
11.	October 2nd, 2016	Cheng you	Hard court	Rajeev Ram	Pablo Carreño Busta Mariusz Fyrstenberg	7: 6 2 , 7: 5
12.	February 26, 2017	Delray Beach	Hard court	Rajeev Ram	Treat Huey Max Mirny	7: 5, 7: 5
13.	19th March 2017	Indian Wells	Hard court	Rajeev Ram	Łukasz Kubot Marcelo Melo	6: 7 1 , 6: 4, [10: 8]
14th	February 25, 2018	Marseille	Hard court (i)	Michael Venus	Marcus Daniell Dominic Inglot	6: 7 2 , 6: 3, [10: 4]
15th	June 23, 2019	Hall (3)	race	Michael Venus	Łukasz Kubot Marcelo Melo	4: 6, 6: 3, [10: 4]
16.	4th August 2019	Washington, DC	Hard court	Michael Venus	Jean-Julien Rojer Horia Tecau	3: 6, 6: 3, [10: 2]

ATP Challenger Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	May 23, 2004	Fargʻona (1)	Hard court	Jean-Julien Rojer	Harsh Mankad Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	6: 3, 6: 1
2.	July 25, 2010	Lexington	Hard court	Izak van der Merwe	Kaden Hensel Adam Hubble	5: 7, 6: 4, [10: 6]
3.	November 20, 2010	Champaign	Hard court (i)	Izak van der Merwe	Ryler DeHeart Pierre-Ludovic Duclos	4: 6, 7: 6 12 , [10: 4]
4th	May 22, 2011	Fargʻona (2)	Hard court	John Paul Fruttero	In the Kyu-tae Danai Udomchoke	6: 0, 6: 3
5.	March 18, 2012	Pingguo	Hard court	John Paul Fruttero	Colin Ebelthite Samuel Groth	6: 2, 6: 4
6th	April 29, 2012	Kaohsiung	Hard court	John Paul Fruttero	Daniel King-Turner Frederik Nielsen	6: 7 6 , 7: 5, [10: 8]
7th	May 20, 2012	Fargʻona (3)	Hard court	Izak van der Merwe	Sanchai Ratiwatana Sonchat Ratiwatana	6: 3, 6: 4
8th.	4th November 2012	Geneva	Hard court (i)	Johan Brunström	Philipp Marx Florin Mergea	7: 6 2 , 6: 7 5 , [10: 5]
9.	January 26, 2013	Heilbronn	Hard court (i)	Johan Brunström	Jordan Kerr Andreas Siljeström	6: 3, 0: 6, [12:10]
10.	February 16, 2013	Quimper	Hard court (i)	Johan Brunström	Jamie Delgado Ken Skupski	3: 6, 6: 2, [10: 3]

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	February 10, 2013	Montpellier	Hard court (i)	Johan Brunström	Marc Gicquel Michaël Llodra	3: 6, 6: 3, [9:11]
2.	January 25, 2014	Australian Open	Hard court	Eric Butorac	Robert Lindstedt Łukasz Kubot	3: 6, 3: 6
3.	January 11, 2015	Chennai	Hard court	Leander Paes	Lu Yen-hsun Jonathan Marray	3: 6, 6: 7 4
4th	February 22, 2015	Delray Beach	Hard court	Leander Paes	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	3: 6, 6: 3, [6:10]
5.	May 23, 2015	Geneva (1)	sand	Lu Yen-hsun	Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah	5: 7, 6: 4, [7:10]
6th	4th October 2015	Kuala Lumpur	Hard court (i)	Rajeev Ram	Treat Huey Henri Kontinen	6: 7 4 , 2: 6
7th	2nd April 2016	Miami	Hard court	Rajeev Ram	Pierre-Hugues Herbert Nicolas Mahut	7: 5, 1: 6, [7:10]
8th.	May 21, 2016	Geneva (2)	sand	Rajeev Ram	Steve Johnson Sam Querrey	4: 6, 1: 6
9.	June 11, 2016	's-Hertogenbosch (1)	race	Dominic Inglot	Mate Pavić Michael Venus	6: 3, 3: 6, [9:11]
10.	October 9, 2016	Tokyo (1)	Hard court	Rajeev Ram	Marcel Granollers Marcin Matkowski	2: 6, 6: 7 4
11.	20th November 2016	London (1)	Hard court (i)	Rajeev Ram	Henri Kontinen John Peers	6: 2, 1: 6, [8:10]
12.	17th June 2017	's-Hertogenbosch (2)	race	Rajeev Ram	Łukasz Kubot Marcelo Melo	3: 6, 4: 6
13.	June 16, 2018	's-Hertogenbosch (3)	race	Michael Venus	Franko Škugor Dominic Inglot	6: 7 3 , 5: 7
14th	July 14, 2018	Wimbledon	race	Michael Venus	Mike Bryan Jack Sock	3: 6, 7: 6 7 , 3: 6, 7: 5, 5: 7
15th	August 12, 2018	Toronto	Hard court	Michael Venus	Henri Kontinen John Peers	2: 6, 7: 6 7 , [6:10]
16.	October 7, 2018	Tokyo (2)	Hard court	Michael Venus	Ben McLachlan Jan-Lennard Struff	4: 6, 5: 7
17th	January 12, 2019	Auckland	Hard court	Michael Venus	Ben McLachlan Jan-Lennard Struff	6: 3, 6: 4
18th	19th May 2019	Rome	sand	Michael Venus	Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah	1: 6, 3: 6
19th	17th November 2019	London (2)	Hard court (i)	Michael Venus	Pierre-Hugues Herbert Nicolas Mahut	3: 6, 4: 6
20th	February 29, 2020	Dubai	Hard court	Oliver Marach	John Peers Michael Venus	3: 6, 2: 6

Web links

Commons : Raven Klaasen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• ATP profile of Raven Klaasen (English)
• ITF Profile of Raven Klaasen (English)
• Davis Cup stats by Raven Klaasen (English)