Santiago González (tennis)

Santiago González (tennis)
Santiago González Torre (born 24 February 1983) is a Mexican professional tennis player. His career-high ATP ranking is World No. 155 in singles, achieved in May 2006, and World No. 11 in doubles, achieved in July 2023. He has won 21 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 three other Grand Slam tournaments in the Mixed category: the 2013 French Open and the 2014 and 2015 US Open. González represents Mexico at the Davis Cup competition; currently his record is 30–19 as of end of 2022 season.
Tennis 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, [12–10], 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 USA at the French Open.
2021: Fifteenth title
In 2021, González and his current 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 Andres Molteni. In November he won the 2021 Stockholm Open his sixteenth title also with Molteni.
2022-23: 350th ATP career win, First Masters & 22nd career title, top 15
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 2023, he won the 2023 Los Cabos Open, his twenty-first title also with Édouard Roger-Vasselin. In October 2023, he won the 2023 Basel Open, his twenty-second title.
Significant finals
Grand Slam finals
Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)
Mixed doubles: 3 (3 runner-ups)
Masters 1000 finals
Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)
ATP career finals
Doubles: 37 (22 titles, 15 runner-ups)
Challenger and Futures finals
Singles: 17 (9–8)
Doubles: 73 (44–29)
Doubles performance timeline
Current through the 2023 Swiss Indoor Basel.
Notes
References
External links
Wimbledon profile
US Open profile
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 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