Santiago González (tennis)

Santiago González Torre (; born 24 February 1983) is a Mexican professional tennis player. His career-high ATP ranking is World No. 7 in doubles, achieved on 13 November 2023. He has won 24 ATP doubles titles. In 2017, he reached the French Open final in doubles along with his partner Donald Young. Additionally, he has reached the finals of four other Grand Slam tournaments in the Mixed category: the 2013 French Open, the 2014 and 2015 US Open, and the 2024 Wimbledon. González represents Mexico at the Davis Cup competition; currently his record is 31-19 as of end of 2023 season. His career-high ranking in singles is No. 155, achieved in May 2006.

Career

2009–10: Major singles debut, Top 100 & First ATP title in doubles

González qualified at the 2009 Wimbledon Championships to make his Grand Slam debut. He lost his first round main draw match in Wimbledon against Israeli Dudi Sela.
He also made his Grand Slam debut in qualifications in singles at the 2009 Australian Open.
He made his top 100 doubles debut on 12 October 2009.

He won his first ATP title at the 2010 Serbia Open partnering American Travis Rettenmaier.

2011–14: Eight doubles titles, top 25 debut

In April 2011, partnering with American Scott Lipsky, he won the ATP World Tour 500 title of the Barcelona Open. They defeated the Bryan brothers 5–7, 6–2, 2–10 breaking their 10-match winning streak. They also defeated doubles teams Jürgen Melzer & Nenad Zimonjić 6–3, 6–2, and Max Mirnyi & Daniel Nestor 7–6, 6–4. He reached the top 25 on 30 January 2012. He won a total of seven titles with Lipsky between 2011 and 2014.

2017: French Open doubles final

In June 2017, he reached his first Grand Slam final partnering Donald Young of the US at the French Open.

2021: Fifteenth title

In 2021, González and his then partner Marcelo Demoliner took the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine at the 2021 Serbia Open.
During the grass season, he won his fourteenth ATP title at Stuttgart Open defeating Uruguayan Ariel Behar and Gonzalo Escobar from Ecuador with Demoliner.

In September, González won his fifteenth ATP doubles title at the 2021 Astana Open partnering Andrés Molteni. In November he won the 2021 Stockholm Open his sixteenth title also with Molteni.

2022–23: 350th ATP career win, First two Masters, World No. 7

In 2022, he won two more clay titles with Molteni at the 2022 Córdoba Open and 2022 Argentina Open.

He made his maiden Masters final at the 2022 BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells with Édouard Roger-Vasselin using a protected ranking after defeating reigning US Open Champions and 2nd seeded pair of Joe Salisbury and Rajeev Ram. They lost in the final to American duo Isner/Sock. As a result, he reached a new doubles career-high of No. 22 on 21 March 2022.

Unseeded he reached his second Masters final at the 2023 Miami Open with Édouard Roger-Vasselin after defeating Americans Jackson Withrow and Nathaniel Lammons, recording his 350th ATP career win. He won his first Masters title and 20th overall defeating Nicolas Mahut and Austin Krajicek. He made his debut in the top 20 on 24 April 2023. Following the 2023 French Open, he made his debut in the top 15 on 12 June 2023. In August, he won the 2023 Los Cabos Open, his twenty-first title also with Édouard Roger-Vasselin.

In October, he won the 2023 Basel Open, his twenty-second title.
With reaching the final at the 2023 Rolex Paris Masters, his second at this level for the season, he entered the top 10 in the rankings. He won the title with Roger-Vasselin defeating Bopanna/Ebden.

On 2 November, Gonzalez qualified with Roger-Vasselin for the 2023 ATP Finals for the first time in his career and became the first Mexican to qualify for the year-end event since Jorge Lozano in 1989. They reached the semifinals after winning their round robin matches against M. Gonzalez/A. Molteni and I. Dodig/A. Krajicek.

2024: Historic mixed doubles final at Wimbledon

At the 2024 Wimbledon Championships, he reached his fourth career final in mixed doubles with compatriot Giuliana Olmos. They became the first Mexican duo to reach the mixed doubles final. Gonzalez became the first Mexican man since Raúl Ramírez in 1973 to reach the final of the same event at the All England Club. They lost in the final in straight sets to Jan Zieliński and Hsieh Su-wei.

Significant finals

Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Mixed doubles: 4 (4 runner-ups)

Masters 1000 finals

Doubles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner-up)

ATP Tour finals

Doubles: 42 (24 titles, 18 runner-ups)

ATP Challenger and ITF Tour finals

Singles: 17 (9–8)

Doubles: 74 (45–29)

Doubles performance timeline

''Current through the 2024 Monte-Carlo Masters.''

Notes

References

External links

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Wimbledon profile

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Living people
1983 births
Mexican male tennis players
Tennis players at the 2003 Pan American Games
Tennis players at the 2007 Pan American Games
Tennis players at the 2011 Pan American Games
Sportspeople from Veracruz
Sportspeople from Córdoba, Veracruz
Pan American Games gold medalists for Mexico
Pan American Games bronze medalists for Mexico
Tennis players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic tennis players for Mexico
Pan American Games gold medalists in tennis
Pan American Games bronze medalists in tennis
Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Mexico
Central American and Caribbean Games silver medalists for Mexico
Competitors at the 2002 Central American and Caribbean Games
Competitors at the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games
Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in tennis
Medalists at the 2003 Pan American Games
Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games
21st-century Mexican sportsmen