Andrés Gómez

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

Biography

The left-hander Gómez 1977 he won the Under-18 South American Championship and started in 1979 on the ATP Tour play along. In the first year he beat the then number 3 in the world, Vitas Gerulaitis, the tournament in Quito. In 1980 he won five titles in doubles.

At the U.S. Open 1981, he was defeated by eventual champion Jimmy Connors just under 7:6, 3:6, 1:6, 6:4, 6:7. Three months later, he won his first singles title in Bordeaux with a 7:6, 7:6, 6:1 against Thierry Tulasne; He also won the doubles tournament there also on the side of Belus Prajoux. With his standard at that time partner, the German -born Chileans Hans Gildemeister, he won in the same year four more tournaments.

In 1982 he won at the ATP tournaments in Rome and Quito in the individual, bringing with Gildemeister again the doubles title in Bordeaux (where Gildemeister this time also won the individual competition ). After he was able to win a title in 1983 only ( in Dallas ), he won in 1984 in Nice, Rome, Washington, Indianapolis and Hong Kong in single and double at Wembley with Ivan Lendl. He was thus finally an integral part of the world elite. In 1985, he won three doubles titles and single again in Hong Kong.

The year 1986 marked another high point in his career: Gómez won with guild master or Lendl six ATP tournaments and on the side of Slobodan Živojinović the final of the U.S. Open against the Swedes Joakim Nystrom and Mats Wilander. In 1986, he also was the No. 1 doubles world ranking. He also won four individual titles.

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

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

His last single title he won in 1991 in Brasília, his last doubles title in Barcelona in 1992, again on the side of Javier Sánchez Vicario. 1993 officially ended Gomez his career, but still went on to 2000 in the Davis Cup in double, usually with Nicolás Lapentti. His last Davis Cup singles he won in 1995 against a player from Guatemala.

Overall, Gómez won at tournaments 21 times in singles and 33 times in doubles. The ATP is to be won in prize money with a total of 4.38513 million U.S. dollars.

Today he runs together with his former fitness trainer, a tennis academy in his hometown of Guayaquil. He is uncle of the Ecuadorian professional tennis player Nicolás Lapentti and Giovanni.