The Most Famous
TENNIS PLAYERS from Mexico
This page contains a list of the greatest Mexican Tennis Players. The pantheon dataset contains 1,148 Tennis Players, 5 of which were born in Mexico. This makes Mexico the birth place of the 40th most number of Tennis Players behind Colombia and Thailand.
Top 5
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Mexican Tennis Players of all time. This list of famous Mexican Tennis Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Rafael Osuna (1938 - 1969)
With an HPI of 47.16, Rafael Osuna is the most famous Mexican Tennis Player. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.
Rafael Osuna Herrera (15 September 1938 – 4 June 1969), nicknamed "El Pelón" (The Bald), was a former world No. 1 tennis player, the most successful player in the history of Mexico and an Olympian. He was born in Mexico City, and is best remembered for his singles victory at the U.S. Open Championships in 1963, winning the 1960 and 1963 Wimbledon Doubles championships, the 1962 U.S. Open Championships doubles, and for leading Mexico to its only Davis Cup Final round appearance in 1962. He is the only Mexican to date to be inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame, in 1979.
2. Raúl Ramírez (1953 - )
With an HPI of 43.49, Raúl Ramírez is the 2nd most famous Mexican Tennis Player. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages.
Raúl Ramírez (born 20 June 1953) is a Mexican former professional tennis player. He was active during the 1970s and 1980s. Ramírez was the first player to finish first in both singles and doubles Grand Prix point standings, accomplishing the feat in 1976. He attended and played tennis at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
3. John Doeg (1908 - 1978)
With an HPI of 43.24, John Doeg is the 3rd most famous Mexican Tennis Player. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
John Thomas Godfray Hope Doeg (December 7, 1908 – April 27, 1978) was a male tennis player from the United States. In August 1929 Doeg won the singles title at the Seabright Invitational defeating Richard Norris Williams in three straight sets. About a year later, he fulfilled his promise and won his first and only major singles tournament, the 1930 U.S. National Championships at Forest Hills, defeating Frank Hunter in the quarterfinals, Bill Tilden in the semifinals and Frank Shields in the final in four sets. He proceeded to reach a career-high singles world ranking of No. 4 in the same year. In 1962, he was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Doeg was the son of tennis player Violet Sutton and the nephew of Wimbledon and U.S. National singles tennis champion May Sutton. Born in Mexico, he became a U.S. citizen in 1933.
4. Yola Ramírez (1935 - )
With an HPI of 42.42, Yola Ramírez is the 4th most famous Mexican Tennis Player. Her biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Yolanda Ramírez Ochoa (born 1 March 1935) is a Mexican tennis player active in the 1950s and 1960s. She was twice a singles finalist and once a women's doubles champion and mixed doubles champion at the French Open.
5. Santiago González (1983 - )
With an HPI of 30.35, Santiago González is the 5th most famous Mexican Tennis Player. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages.
Santiago González Torre (Latin American Spanish: [sanˈtjaɣo ɣonˈsales ˈtore]; born 24 February 1983) is a Mexican professional tennis player. His career-high ATP ranking is World No. 155 in singles, achieved in May 2006, and World No. 7 in doubles, achieved on 13 November 2023. He has won 23 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 Mexico at the Davis Cup competition; currently his record is 31-19 as of end of 2023 season.
Pantheon has 5 people classified as tennis players born between 1908 and 1983. Of these 5, 3 (60.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living tennis players include Raúl Ramírez, Yola Ramírez, and Santiago González. The most famous deceased tennis players include Rafael Osuna and John Doeg. As of April 2022, 2 new tennis players have been added to Pantheon including John Doeg and Yola Ramírez.
Living Tennis Players
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Raúl Ramírez
1953 - Present
HPI: 43.49
Yola Ramírez
1935 - Present
HPI: 42.42
Santiago González
1983 - Present
HPI: 30.35
