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LSU Tennis Tigers on Tour

Neal Skupski

Neal Skupski is a 3 time grand slam champion, having won the 2023 Wimbledon Championships in men’s doubles with Wesley Koolhof, and the 2021 and 2022 Wimbledon Championships in mixed doubles alongside Desirae Krawczyk. Koolhof and Skupski were also runners-up at the 2022 US Open, and Krawczyk and Skupski reached the final at the 2024 Australian Open and 2024 French Open. Skupski has won 17 doubles titles on the ATP Tour, including the Madrid Open, Canadian Open, Paris Masters and most recently the Cinch Championships in London and Eastbourne with fellow Tiger, Mike Venus. The alums paired together for the 2024 US Open reaching the quarterfinals. He became world No. 1 for the first time in November 2022.

Skupksi also qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics where he competed with partner Joe Salisbury to represent Great Britain.

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Michael Venus

Venus won the 2017 French Open doubles title partnering Ryan Harrison and was a finalist at the 2017 US Open mixed doubles partnering Chan Hao-Ching. In 2018, Venus made the Wimbledon men’s doubles final with Raven Klaasen and the mixed doubles semi finals at Wimbledon and the finals of the US Open. Most recently, Venus paired up with Alum Neal Skupski to win the 2024 Cinch and Eastbourne Championships in England. The Tiger Duo reached the quarter finals at this year’s US Open. Venus has a career high doubles ranking of world No. 6.

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Boris Arias

Arias is currently ranked No. 101 in the world in doubles. He and his partner, Federico Zeballos, have won two challenger events in 2023 – Perugia and Mexico City. Arias has achieved a career high rank of 80 in doubles by the ATP.

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Boris Kozlov

In 2024, Kozlov competed in several tournaments including the semifinals of M15 Lakewood with partner Jamie Vance and the semifinals of M25 Wichita with partner Adhithya Ganesan. He also competed in the finals of M15 Orange Park with partner Sekou Bangoura and ATP Merida with partner Stefan Kozlov. Kozlov has achieved a career high doubles rank of 552 by the ATP.

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Stefan Latinovic

In 2024, Latinovic began his professional career after graduating from LSU. Since May, he has competed in several ITF tournaments winning 2 M15 doubles titles in Kursumlijska Banja, Serbia and reaching 5 finals. He also reached the singles final in Pirot, Serbia. In his first summer competing on the ATP tour, Stefan is currently ranked #590 in doubles.

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Chen Dong

Following his 2024 graduation, Dong began his professional tennis career. In singles, he competed in the M15 Monastir in Tunisia where he reached the semifinals. On route to the semifinals, he defeated Garcian (ATP753) and Bradshaw (ATP 561). Dong is currently ranked at No. 1350 in singles by the ATP.

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