Gonzalo Núñez (born July 21, 1954) is an Ecuadorian-American former professional
tennis
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player.
Núñez was born in the Ecuadorian city of
Guayaquil
Guayaquil (), officially Santiago de Guayaquil, is the largest city in Ecuador and also the nation's economic capital and main port. The city is the capital (political), capital of Guayas Province and the seat of Guayaquil Canton. The city is ...
and moved to the United States in the mid-1970s to live with relatives in New Jersey. He played collegiate tennis for the
University of Texas
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and was the 1975 national amateur grass court champion.
A
Davis Cup
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representative for Ecuador in 1975, Núñez competed on the
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mostly in doubles tournaments. He won an
ATP Challenger
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doubles title in Barcelona in 1981.
Challenger titles
Doubles: (1)
See also
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List of Ecuador Davis Cup team representatives
References
External links
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1954 births
Living people
Ecuadorian male tennis players
American male tennis players
Texas Longhorns men's tennis players
Ecuadorian emigrants to the United States
Tennis players from Guayaquil
20th-century American sportsmen