Santiago González (tennis)
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Santiago González Torre (; born 24 February 1983) is a Mexican professional
tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball cov ...
player. His career-high ATP
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is World No. 155 in singles, achieved in May 2006, and World No. 22 in doubles, achieved in March 2022. He has won 18 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
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at the
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competition; currently his record is 22–16.


Tennis career


2009-2010: 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
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. He also made his Grand Slam debut in qualifications in singles at the
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. He made his top 100 doubles debut on 12 October 2009. He won his first ATP title at the 2010 Serbia Open partnering American
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.


2011-2014: Eight doubles titles, top 25 debut

In April 2011, partnering with American
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, he won the
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title of the
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