Kiwi tennis player Michael Venus has narrowly missed out winning his fourth ATP doubles title of the season on the eve of the French Open Venus and Croatian partner Mate Pavic have been beaten in the final of the Nice Open by the top seeded Colombian duo of Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah 4-6, 6-4, 10-8.
Venus and Pavic were defending the title they won last year and got off to a flying start, taking the opening set 6-4.
But the duo who had already won three titles on the ATP World Tour this year, then dropped the second set 6-4 after being broken at 3-3.
The Colombians fought back from 5-3 down in the Super Tie Break to take the title, their 3rd of the season and seventh in total.
Venus said they put themselves into a position to win.