Tennis: Mixed news for the Kiwi doubles players at the ATP tour's Miami Masters

Michael Venus plays a forehand at the ASB Men's Classic this year. Photo / Getty Images

Michael Venus and his South African partner Raven Klaasen have won through to the second round but Marcus Daniell and his British partner Dominic Inglot have been knocked out.

Venus and Klaasen have exacted revenge on Ivan Dodig and Rajeev Ram a week after losing 6-2, 6-2 to the 7th seeds at the Indian Wells Masters.

They've bounced back to beat the Croatian American combination 7-6 6-4 in 1 hr32 to reach the second round in Miami.

" It's always nice to get a win against a team who beat us pretty handsomely the week before. So I felt like we made some good adjustments and took care of our serve today and gave ourselves some good opportunities on return games. It will be good to have a day off tomorrow to get ready for our next match. Venus said.

It was a tight first set featuring no breaks of serve although Venus and Klaasen created three break point chances and only faced one break point against their serve.

The Kiwi South African combination broke serve to lead 2-0 in the second set but then dropped serve twice as Ram and Dodig won the next four games. However Venus and Klaasen broke back to level at 4-4 and then broke again to win the match.

Venus and Klaasen will face giant serving American John Isner and his left handed compatriot Donald Young in the second round. Young was on the other side of the net when Venus and Ryan Harrison won the French Open final last year.

Daniell and his British partner Dominic Inglot have been beaten 6-7 (3) 6-4 10-3 in 1 hr 33 by the fourth seeded Bryan twins, Bob and Mike who have won 16 Grand Slam titles together.

Daniell and Inglot made a great start adn won the opening set in the tiebreak but were broken in the 6th game of the second set and never recovered and the Bryan's completed the win in the match tiebreak, the second time in a week Daniell has tasted defeat against the world's most legendary doubles team.

Daniell will now have a couple of weeks off beginning his clay court season at the ATP250 tournament in Marrakech, Morocco