# Gareth Williams (tennis)

Gareth Williams (born 27 August 1975) is a former professional tennis player from South Africa.

## Biography

Born in Pretoria, Williams was a doubles specialist, who had success as a junior in 1993 when he made three junior grand slam finals. After finishing runner-up at both the French Open and Wimbledon, he and Neville Godwin made a third successive final at the 1993 US Open, defeating the Australian pairing of Ben Ellwood and James Sekulov. He and Godwin also competed in several ATP Tour events, including Durban in 1993, where they made the quarter-finals.
In the mid-1990s he left the professional circuit to play collegiate tennis in the United States at the University of Tulsa (UT).
Graduating from UT with a psychology degree, he returned to the tour and in 2000 reached his best ranking of 179 in the world for doubles. He won a Challenger title in San Antonio in 2000 with Wesley Whitehouse, beating the Bryan brothers in the final. At the 2001 French Open he and Marcos Ondruska featured in the men's doubles main draw and lost in the first round to seventh seeds Ellis Ferreira and Rick Leach.

## Junior Grand Slam finals
### Doubles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups)

| Result | Year | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
| Loss | 1993 | French Open | Clay | Neville Godwin | Steven Downs James Greenhalgh | 1–6, 1–6 |
| Loss | 1993 | Wimbledon | Grass | Neville Godwin | Steven Downs James Greenhalgh | 7–6, 6–7, 6–7 |
| Win | 1993 | US Open | Hard | Neville Godwin | Ben Ellwood James Sekulov | 6–3, 6–3 |

## ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
### Doubles: 14 (9–5)

* Legend
* ATP Challenger (1–1)
* ITF Futures (8–4)
* Finals by surface
* Hard (9–4)
* Clay (0–1)
* Grass (0–0)
* Carpet (0–0)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
| Win | 1–0 | Jun 1999 | USA F7, Berkeley | Futures | Hard | Haydn Wakefield | Dustin Mauck Keith Pollak | 5–7, 7–4, 6–4 |
| Loss | 1–1 | Jun 1999 | USA F8, Danville | Futures | Hard | Haydn Wakefield | Brandon Hawk Doug Root | 4–6, 7–6, 3–6 |
| Loss | 1–2 | Jul 1999 | USA F9, Redding | Futures | Hard | Haydn Wakefield | Brandon Hawk Doug Root | 2–6, 6–2, 2–6 |
| Loss | 1–3 | Aug 1999 | USA F12, St. Joseph | Futures | Hard | Jeff Williams | Cary Franklin Graydon Oliver | 4–6, 2–6 |
| Win | 2–3 | Aug 1999 | USA F13, Decatur | Futures | Hard | Jeff Williams | Matthew Breen John James | 6–4, 6–2 |
| Win | 3–3 | Aug 1999 | USA F14, Kansas City | Futures | Hard | Jeff Williams | Michael Passarella Jakub Teply | 6–0, 6–2 |
| Win | 4–3 | Nov 1999 | USA F17, Hattiesburg | Futures | Hard | Jeff Williams | Zack Fleishman Kelly Gullett | 6–3, 6–3 |
| Win | 5–3 | Dec 1999 | USA F21, Laguna Niguel | Futures | Hard | Jeff Williams | Oren Motevassel Alexander Waske | 2–6, 7–5, 6–2 |
| Win | 6–3 | Jan 2000 | USA F1, Pembroke Pines | Futures | Hard | Jeff Williams | Rafael De Mesa Irak liLabadze | 6–4, 6–1 |
| Win | 7–3 | Jan 2000 | USA F3, Boca Raton | Futures | Hard | Jeff Williams | Marcos Daniel Manuel Jorquera | 7–6$^{(7–5)}$, 6–2 |
| Loss | 7–4 | Aug 2000 | Sylt, Germany | Challenger | Clay | Ashley Fisher | Ionut Moldovan Yuri Schukin | 4–6, 2–6 |
| Win | 8–4 | Oct 2000 | San Antonio, United States | Challenger | Hard | Wesley Whitehouse | Mike Bryan Bob Bryan | 6–3, 6–4 |
| Loss | 8–5 | Apr 2001 | USA F8, Little Rock | Futures | Hard | Matthew Breen | Jeff Coetzee Shaun Rudman | 4–6, 6–7$^{(3–7)}$ |
| Win | 9–5 | Apr 2001 | USA F10, Elkin | Futures | Hard | Matthew Breen | Gavin Sontag Jerry Turek | 6–3, 6–4 |