Emilio Gómez (tennis)

Emilio Gómez
	Gómez at the 2022 Wimbledon Championships
Country (sports)	Ecuador
Born	28 November 1991 (age 32); Guayaquil, Ecuador
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Turned pro	2013
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Coach	Andrés Schneiter
Prize money	$ 1,049,271
Singles
Career record	23–30
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 90 (27 February 2023)
Current ranking	No. 307 (29 January 2024)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	1R (2022)
French Open	1R (2020)
Wimbledon	Q2 (2023)
US Open	Q3 (2014)
Doubles
Career record	3–9
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 254 (14 September 2015)
Team competitions
Davis Cup	17–13
Medal record
Representing Ecuador
Men's tennis
Pan American Games
South American Games
Bolivarian Games
	Last updated on: 31 January 2024.

Emilio Gómez Estrada (Latin American Spanish: [eˈmiljo ˈɣomes];^[a] born 28 November 1991) is an Ecuadorian professional tennis player competing primarily on the ATP Challenger Tour. On 20 February 2023, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of world No. 90 and a doubles ranking of world No. 254, achieved on 14 September 2015. He is currently the No. 3 Ecuadorian tennis player.^[1]

Career

2016–2018

He defeated Adam Hornby of Barbados during Davis Cup play on March 4, 2016, by a score of 6–0, 6–0, 6–0, making him the first player to win by such a scoreline at any tournament since 2011, and one of two players to accomplish the feat on that day (Jarkko Nieminen of Finland earned a triple bagel victory over Courtney John Lock of Zimbabwe at Davis Cup competition elsewhere).^{[citation needed]}

2019–2021: First Challenger title, Top 200 & Grand Slam debuts

He reached the top 200 on 29 April 2019 following his first title at the 2019 Tallahassee Tennis Challenger in Florida.

Gómez made his Grand Slam main draw debut at the 2020 French Open as a qualifier where he was defeated by Lorenzo Sonego in the first round.

2022: Australian Open debut, Two Challenger titles & four more finals, Top 100

He made his 2022 Australian Open debut as a qualifier where he lost to 27th seed Marin Čilić.

He reached his sixth Challenger final of the year in Gwangju, South Korea. As a result, he reached the top 100 in the rankings at a new career-high of world No. 98 on 10 October 2022.^[2]

2023: First ATP quarterfinal, top 90

In Dallas he defeated Gabriel Diallo and fourth seed Miomir Kecmanović to reach the quarterfinals. Before the tournament he had won only three ATP matches.^[3] As a result, he moved to a new career high of No. 94 on 13 February 2023.

In his next tournament in Delray Beach, he continued his good form winning his opening match against qualifier Wu Tung-lin.^[4] He reached the top 90 on 27 February 2023.

Personal life

Emilio is the son of Grand Slam champion and former doubles world no. 1 Andrés Gómez.^[5] He is also the cousin of former singles world no. 6 Nicolás Lapentti and Roberto Quiroz.

Performance Timeline

Key
W	F	SF	QF	#R	RR	Q#	DNQ	A	NH

(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.

To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Current through the 2023 French Open qualifying.

Tournament	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	SR	W–L	Win %
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	Q1	Q1	1R	Q2	0 / 1	0–1	0%
French Open	Q2	1R	Q1	Q1	Q1	0 / 1	0–1	0%
Wimbledon	Q1	NH	Q1	Q1	Q2	0 / 0	0–0	–
US Open	Q2	A	Q2	Q2	Q1	0 / 0	0–0	–
Win–loss	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–1	0–0	0 / 2	0–2	0%
Year-end ranking	147	160	149	114

Challenger and Futures finals

Singles: 22 (14–8)

Legend (singles)
ATP Challenger Tour (4–6)
ITF Futures Tour (10–2)

Titles by surface
Hard (8–8)
Clay (6–0)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Aug 2009	Ecuador F1, Guayaquil	Futures	Hard	Gonzalo Escobar	6–3, 6–2
Win	2–0	Aug 2012	Ecuador F1, Guayaquil	Futures	Hard	José Hernández-Fernández	6–3, 4–6, 6–2
Loss	2–1	Aug 2012	Ecuador F2, Guayaquil	Futures	Hard	José Hernández-Fernández	6–2, 3–6, 4–6
Win	3–1	Aug 2013	Ecuador F1, Guayaquil	Futures	Hard	Gonzalo Escobar	7–5, 7–6^(7–3)
Win	4–1	Aug 2013	Ecuador F2, Guayaquil	Futures	Hard	Benjamín Ugarte	6–2, 6–1
Win	5–1	May 2015	Colombia F1, Pereira	Futures	Clay	João Menezes	7–5, 6–2
Win	6–1	Jun 2015	USA F18, Rochester	Futures	Clay	Sekou Bangoura	7–6^(7–3), 6–4
Win	7–1	Jul 2015	USA F20, Pittsburgh	Futures	Clay	Mikael Torpegaard	6–4, 6–4
Win	8–1	Nov 2017	USA F37, Pensacola	Futures	Clay	Ulises Blanch	3–6, 7–5, 6–1
Loss	8–2	Jan 2018	USA F2, Long Beach	Futures	Hard	Collin Altamirano	1–6, 5–7
Win	9–2	Jul 2018	Ecuador F1, Manta	Futures	Hard	Jordi Arconada	6–2, 7–5
Win	10–2	Aug 2018	Ecuador F2, Portoviejo	Futures	Clay	Oscar José Gutierrez	4–6, 7–5, 6–4
Loss	10–3	Apr 2019	Monterrey, Mexico	Challenger	Hard	Alexander Bublik	3–6, 2–6
Win	11–3	Apr 2019	Tallahassee, USA	Challenger	Clay	Tommy Paul	6–2, 6–2
Win	12–3	Apr 2021	Salinas, Ecuador	Challenger	Hard	Nicolás Jarry	4–6, 7–6^(8–6), 6–4
Loss	12–4	Jun 2021	Little Rock, USA	Challenger	Hard	Jack Sock	5–7, 4–6
Win	13–4	Apr 2022	Salinas, Ecuador	Challenger	Hard	Nicolas Moreno de Alboran	6–7^(2–7), 7–6^(7–4), 7–5
Loss	13–5	Jul 2022	Málaga, Spain	Challenger	Hard	Constant Lestienne	3–6, 7–5, 2–6
Win	14–5	Jul 2022	Winnipeg, Canada	Challenger	Hard	Alexis Galarneau	6–3, 7–6^(7–4)
Loss	14–6	Aug 2022	Lexington, USA	Challenger	Hard	Shang Juncheng	4–6, 4–6
Loss	14–7	Sep 2022	Columbus, USA	Challenger	Hard (i)	Jordan Thompson	6–7^(6–8), 2–6
Loss	14–8	Oct 2022	Gwangju, South Korea	Challenger	Hard	Zsombor Piros	2–6, 4–6

Doubles: 22 (12–10)

Legend (doubles)
ATP Challenger Tour (2–3)
ITF Futures Tour (10–7)

Titles by surface
Hard (6–4)
Clay (6–6)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Oct 2009	Brazil F22, Bauru	Futures	Clay	Roberto Quiroz	Juan-Pablo Amado André Miele	6–4, 0–6, [10–8]
Win	2–0	Nov 2009	Guayaquil, Ecuador	Challenger	Clay	Julio César Campozano	Andreas Haider-Maurer Lars Pörschke	6–7^(2–7), 6–3, [10–8]
Win	3–0	Jan 2010	El Salvador F1, Santa Tecla	Futures	Clay	Julio César Campozano	Conor Pollock Maciek Sykut	6–4, 7–6^(7–4)
Loss	3–1	Nov 2010	Peru F3, Lima	Futures	Clay	Julio César Campozano	Diego Matos Renzo Olivo	3–6, 6–3, [3–10]
Loss	3–2	Aug 2011	Ecuador F4, Guayaquil	Futures	Hard	Julio César Campozano	Iván Endara Roberto Quiroz	6–7^(4–7), 6–2, [7–10]
Win	4–2	Aug 2012	Ecuador F1, Guayaquil	Futures	Hard	Roberto Quiroz	Miguel Gallardo Valles Luis David Martínez	6–4, 7–6^(7–4)
Win	5–2	Aug 2012	Ecuador F2, Guayaquil	Futures	Hard	Roberto Quiroz	Sergio Galdós José Hernández-Fernández	7–5, 6–2
Win	6–2	Jul 2013	Medellín, Colombia	Challenger	Clay	Roman Borvanov	Nicolás Barrientos Eduardo Struvay	6–3, 7–6^(7–4)
Win	7–2	Aug 2013	Ecuador F2, Guayaquil	Futures	Hard	Roberto Quiroz	Nicolás Álvarez Duilio Beretta	6–1, 6–4
Loss	7–3	Feb 2014	Guatemala F1, Guatemala City	Futures	Hard	Luis David Martínez	Marcelo Arévalo Christopher Díaz Figueroa	3–6, 6–7^(5–7)
Win	8–3	Oct 2014	Peru F8, Lima	Futures	Clay	Gonzalo Escobar	Eduardo Dischinger Tiago Lopes	6–3, 6–2
Loss	8–4	Dec 2014	Dominican Republic F3, Santo Domingo	Futures	Clay	Manuel Sánchez	Duilio Beretta Hugo Dellien	7–6^(11–9), 4–6, [4–10]
Loss	8–5	Jan 2015	USA F3, Sunrise	Futures	Clay	Connor Smith	Romain Arneodo Benjamin Balleret	2–6, 5–7
Loss	8–6	Feb 2015	Morelos, Mexico	Challenger	Hard	Roberto Maytín	Ruben Gonzales Darren Walsh	6–4, 3–6, [10–12]
Loss	8–7	May 2015	Cali, Colombia	Challenger	Clay	Roberto Maytín	Marcelo Demoliner Miguel Ángel Reyes-Varela	1–6, 2–6
Win	9–7	Aug 2015	Brazil F4, Belém	Futures	Hard	Igor Marcondes	André Miele Alexandre Tsuchiya	6–7^(5–7), 7–6^(7–3), [16–14]
Win	10–7	Nov 2015	El Salvador F2, La Libertad	Futures	Hard	Darian King	Marcelo Arévalo Christopher Díaz Figueroa	6–3, 7–6^(12–10)
Loss	10–8	May 2016	Romania F4, Bacău	Futures	Clay	Nicolás Barrientos	Andreas Mies Oscar Otte	3–6, 3–6
Loss	10–9	Jul 2018	USA F18, Pittsburgh	Futures	Clay	Alejandro Gómez	Mateo Nicolás Martínez Junior Alexander Ore	5–7, 2–6
Win	11–9	Jul 2018	Ecuador F1, Manta	Futures	Hard	Jordi Arconada	Oscar José Gutierrez Bernardo Saraiva	7–5, 6–3
Win	12–9	Aug 2018	Ecuador F2, Portoviejo	Futures	Clay	Jordi Arconada	Juan Sebastián Gómez Diego Matos	6–4, 6–3
Loss	12–10	Jan 2019	United States M25, Los Angeles	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Luis Patiño	Alexander Cozbinov Maxime Cressy	4–6, 2–6
Loss	12–11	Jul 2022	Málaga, Spain	Challenger	Hard	Daniel Cukierman	Altuğ Çelikbilek Dmitry Popko	7–6^(7–4), 4–6, [6–10]

Record against other players

Gómez's match record against players who have been ranked in the top 50, with those who are active in boldface.
ATP Tour, Challenger and Future tournaments' main draw and qualifying matches are considered.


Opponent	Highest ranking	Matches	Won	Lost	Win %	Last match
Stan Wawrinka	3	1	0	1	0%	Lost (4–6, 3–6, 3–6) at 2013 Davis Cup WG PO
Kevin Anderson	5	1	0	1	0%	Lost (3–6, 6–7^(2–7)) at 2013 Bogotá 2R
Jack Sock	8	1	0	1	0%	Lost (5–7, 4–6) at 2021 Little Rock F
Lucas Pouille	10	1	0	1	0%	Lost (7–6^(10–8), 4–6, 5–7) at 2016 Toronto 1R
Casper Ruud	10	1	1	0	100%	Won (6–2, 6–4) at 2019 Monterrey 2R
Ivo Karlović	14	1	0	1	0%	Lost (6–7^(1–7), 3–6) at 2018 Houston 2R
Nikoloz Basilashvili	16	1	0	1	0%	Lost (4–6, 5–7) at 2016 Tallahassee 1R
Marco Cecchinato	16	1	0	1	0%	Lost (2–6, 3–6) at 2016 Milan 2R
Albert Ramos Viñolas	17	1	0	1	0%	Lost (3–6, 6–7^(5–7)) at 2014 Panama City 1R
Cristian Garín	17	2	2	0	100%	Won (7–5, 6–4) at 2018 United States F1 1R
Florian Mayer	18	1	0	1	0%	Lost (3–6, 4–6) at 2016 Geneva Q1
Thomaz Bellucci	17	3	0	3	0%	Lost (2–6, 6–3, 4–6) at 2018 Guayaquil 1R
Leonardo Mayer	21	2	0	2	0%	Lost (2–6, 4–6) at 2013 Guayaquil QF
Damir Džumhur	23	1	0	1	0%	Lost (7–5, 3–6, 2–6) at 2021 Australian Open Q1
Reilly Opelka	19	1	0	1	0%	Lost (2–6, 3–6) at 2018 Knoxville 1R
Daniel Evans	22	1	0	1	0%	Lost (4–6, 7–6^(7–5), 1–6) at 2016 Aptos 2R
Vasek Pospisil	25	1	0	1	0%	Lost (6–4, 3–6, 3–6) at 2021 Washington 1R
Lorenzo Sonego	17	1	0	1	0%	Lost (7–6^(8–6), 3–6, 1–6, 7–6^(7–4), 3–6) at 2020 French Open 1R
Santiago Giraldo	28	1	0	1	0%	Lost (2–6, 2–6) at 2009 Guayaquil 1R
Frances Tiafoe	29	3	0	3	0%	Lost (6–7^(3–7), 2–6) at 2020 Delray Beach 1R
Sergiy Stakhovsky	31	1	0	1	0%	Lost (4–6, 6–7^(6–8)) at 2018 Manacor 1R
Federico Delbonis	33	3	0	3	0%	Lost (3–6, 3–6) at 2019 Perugia 3R
Paolo Lorenzi	33	1	0	1	0%	Lost (4–6, 6–7^(5–7)) at 2019 Sarasota 2R
Benjamin Becker	35	1	0	1	0%	Lost (3–6, 6–7^(0–7)) at 2016 Monterrey 2R
Alexander Bublik	34	2	1	1	50%	Lost (3–6, 2–6) at 2019 Monterrey F
Steve Darcis	38	1	0	1	0%	Lost (1–6 0–2 ret.) at 2014 US Open Q3
Nicolás Jarry	38	2	2	0	100%	Won (4–6, 7–6^(8–6), 6–4) at 2021 Salinas F
Miomir Kecmanović	38	1	0	1	0%	Lost (1–6, 6–4, 3–6) at 2017 San Luis Potosí 2R
Donald Young	38	1	1	0	100%	Won (2–6, 6–3, 6–4) at 2019 Monterrey SF
Mikhail Kukushkin	39	1	0	1	0%	Lost (2–6, 0–3 ret.) at 2016 Moscow SF
Horacio Zeballos	39	1	0	1	0%	Lost (4–6, 4–6) at 2016 Montevideo 1R
Thiemo de Bakker	40	2	1	1	50%	Lost (5–7, 3–6) at 2015 Indian Wells Q1
Malek Jaziri	42	1	0	1	0%	Lost (2–6, 4–6) at 2014 Cuernavaca 1R
Víctor Estrella Burgos	43	4	1	3	25%	Lost (6–3, 1–6, 4–6) at 2017 Guayaquil 1R
Teymuraz Gabashvili	43	1	1	0	100%	Won (7–6^(9–7), 1–6, 6–4) at 2020 St. Petersburg Q1
Lukáš Lacko	44	1	0	1	0%	Lost (6–7^(6–8), 6–4, 3–6) at 2019 Recanati 3R
Maximilian Marterer	45	1	0	1	0%	Lost (1–6, 1–6) at 2017 Monterrey 1R
Go Soeda	47	1	1	0	100%	Won (7–5, 7–6^(7–5)) at 2020 Davis Cup WQ
Daniel Gimeno Traver	48	1	1	0	100%	Won (6–4, 6–1) at 2019 French Open Q1
Juan Ignacio Londero	50	3	1	2	33%	Won (7–6^(7–5), 3–6, 7–6^(7–4)) at 2016 León Q3
Total		56	13	43	23%	* Statistics correct as of 3 August 2021