Andrés Gómez

Andrés Gómez
Nation:	Ecuador
Birthday:	February 27, 1960
Size:	193 cm
1st professional season:	1979
Resignation:	1996
Playing hand:	Left
Trainer:	Colon Nuñez
Prize money:	$ 4,385,130
singles
Career record:	523: 267
Career title:	21st
Highest ranking:	4 (June 11 1990)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	369: 195
Career title:	33
Highest ranking:	1 (September 15 1986)
Weeks as No. 1:	13
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Juan Andrés Gómez Santos (born February 27, 1960 in Guayaquil ) is a former Ecuadorian tennis player . He won two Grand Slam titles in doubles and the 1990 French Open singles.

Career

Left-handed Gómez won the U18 South American Championship in 1977 and began playing on the ATP Tour in 1979 . In the first year he beat the then number 3 in the world, Vitas Gerulaitis , at the tournament in Quito . In 1980 he won five doubles titles.

At the US Open in 1981 he was only slightly defeated by the eventual winner Jimmy Connors (7: 6, 3: 6, 1: 6, 6: 4, 6: 7). Three months later he won his first individual title in Bordeaux with a 7: 6, 7: 6, 6: 1 against Thierry Tulasne ; he also won the doubles competition there on the side of Belus Prajoux . With his standard partner at the time, the German-born Chilean Hans Gildemeister , he won four more tournaments in the same year.

In 1982 he won the ATP tournaments in Rome and Quito in singles and with Gildemeister (who also won the singles title this time) he again secured the double title in Bordeaux. While he could only win one tournament (Dallas) in 1983, he won singles in Nice, Rome, Washington, Indianapolis and Hong Kong in 1984 and doubles at Wembley with Ivan Lendl . He had finally made it into the world's elite. In 1985 he won three double titles and again the single title in Hong Kong.

1986 marked another high point in his career. Gómez won six ATP tournaments with Gildemeister and Lendl and, alongside Slobodan Živojinović, the final of the US Open against Joakim Nyström and Mats Wilander . In 1986 he was also number 1 in the double world rankings . He also won four individual titles.

In 1987 he won the double tournaments in Monte Carlo and Boston with Gildemeister and the single tournament in Forest Hills . In 1988 he won his second Grand Slam title in doubles. With Emilio Sánchez Vicario , he beat Anders Järryd and John Fitzgerald in the final of the French Open 6: 3, 6: 7, 6: 4 and 6: 3. He also won the Tokyo indoor tournament with Živojinović. In 1989 he won two singles and two doubles.

In 1990 Gómez reached his first and only individual Grand Slam final . At the French Open he defeated the young Andre Agassi in his first Grand Slam final with 6: 3, 2: 6, 6: 4 and 6: 4. In the same year he reached his best place in the ATP world rankings with 4th place. He also won the tournaments in Madrid and Barcelona , in the latter also doubles with Javier Sánchez .

He won his last single title in 1991 in Brasília , his last double title in 1992 in Barcelona , again alongside Javier Sánchez. In 1993 Gómez officially ended his professional career, but still competed in doubles in the Davis Cup until 2000 , mostly with Nicolás Lapentti . He won his last Davis Cup individual in 1995 against a player from Guatemala.

Overall, Gómez was 21 times victorious in singles and 33 times in double tournaments. The ATP lists the total prize money of his career at 4,385,130 US dollars.

Gómez has been participating very successfully in the ATP Champions Tour since 2005 , which he has already won.

Today he runs a tennis academy in his hometown of Guayaquil together with his former fitness trainer. Andrés Gómez is the uncle of the Ecuadorian tennis professionals Nicolás and Giovanni Lapentti .

Web links

Commons : Andrés Gómez  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• ATP profile of Andrés Gómez (English)
• ITF profile of Andrés Gómez (English)
• Davis Cup stats by Andrés Gómez (English)