Santiago Gonzalez

Began playing tennis aged five because his mother, Mary, used to play…Father, Roman…Has one sister, Montserrat and two brothers, Luis Roman and Diego…Considers hard his favourite surface and backhand his favourite shot…Favourite tournament is Acapuclo…Idol growing up was Andre Agassi…Hobbies include watching movies and playing football….His favourite teams are Real Madrid and the Patriots (American football)…His goals in tennis are to become Top 10 and win a Grand Slam title…His best memories in tennis are playing Davis Cup for Mexico, playing in the 2008 Roland Garros mixed doubles final and winning the 2011 doubles title in Barcelona…Married, Lisette, (15 December 2012) and has a son, Matias (1 April 2013)…

2011 -- In doubles, opened the season by reaching the final of the Sao Paulo Challenger (w/ Zeballos)...In February reached back-to-back ATP World Tour semi-finals at Santiago (w/Chela) and San Jose (w/ Marx) and a week later partnered Maximo Gonzalez to the Acapulco semi-finals...In March reached another Challenger final in San Jose, Costa Rica (w/Luis Diaz-Barriga)...The following month he partnered American Scott Lipsky for the first time and the duo won the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell title...They defeated Melzer-Zimonjic in the second round, Mirnyi-Nestor in the semi-finals and saved four match points to beat the Bryans in the final 57 62 12-10...It was his second ATP World Tour title (2-1 finals record) and took him to a career-high World No. 36...

2010 -- In doubles enjoyed success with American Travis Rettenmaier…Won their first ATP World Tour title together in Belgrade (d. Bednarek-Kowalczyk) and finished runners-up in Newport (l. to Ball-Guccione)… “It’s very good for us. We’re playing good together. We hope to have good results together in Atlanta, Los Angeles, our next tournaments. We hope to do well there."

2013 

With Lipsky, reached ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Indian Wells SFs (l. to Bryans)…On 5 May, the duo won their fourth ATP World Tour team title with Lipsky with 10-7 Match TB win over Qureshi-Rojer in Oeiras final; Improved to 6-2 in title matches…Beat defending champions Granollers-M. Lopez in ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Rome QFs, fell in SFs (l. to Bhupathi-Bopanna)…