Venus to start finals

New Zealand’s Michael Venus and his South African partner Raven Klaasen will kick off the ATP World Tour finals in London this weekend. The doubles groups have been announced for the season-ending tournament with Venus and Klaasen the sixth seeds and included in the Llodra/Santoro group which will play on the opening day at the 02 Arena. They have been pitted against second seeds Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah of Colombia, fourth seeds Jamie Murray of Britain and Brazilian Bruno Soares and seventh seeded Croatian Nikola Mektic and Austrian Alexander Peya.