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Michael Venus became the first Grand Slam winner in LSU tennis history as the former Tiger and his partner Ryan Harrison defeated Santiago Gonzalez and Donald Young in three sets, 7-6(5), 6-7(4), 6-3, to win the French Open Doubles title Saturday evening on the Philippe-Chatrier Court at the Stade Roland Garros.

The win marked the duo’s first Major title together and Venus’ seventh career doubles title, his second of the year.

With the win, Venus became the fifth New Zealander to win a Grand Slam doubles title and first person to claim a Grand Slam tennis title for New Zealand since 1979 when Onny Parun won the doubles title. He is

The duo entered the French Open unseeded and used six straight three set wins to take the title.

His partner Ryan Harrison is also from Shreveport.

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Posted by Tiger1988

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Posted on 6/11/17 at 10:25 am to The TurdBurglar

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Posted by PRK

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Posted on 6/11/17 at 10:28 am to The TurdBurglar

Between Smyley and this baw, I think we're taking over the country club.

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Posted by tigerpimpbot

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Posted on 6/11/17 at 10:31 am to The TurdBurglar

It was a great win. Somebody posted it yesterday but it's worth a remention since the other thread was buried in the multiple pre-9th inning meltdown threads on tRant.

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Posted by The TurdBurglar

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Posted on 6/11/17 at 10:35 am to tigerpimpbot

Yeh I looked a few pages deep and didn't see anything. Figured this should get its due

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Posted by LilEd76

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Posted on 6/11/17 at 11:19 am to The TurdBurglar

MSB maintained Official Thread. LSU Sports information department missed an opportunity to promote this. Mike is a good ambassador for the university. Would have liked to see them give him some support. Although, I am sure they will play catch up now that he is a French Open Champion.

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