Gareth Williams (tennis)

Gareth Williams (born 27 August 1975) is a former professional tennis player from South Africa.

Gareth Williams

Full name	Gareth Williams
Country (sports)	South Africa
Born	(1975-08-27) 27 August 1975 (age 49) Pretoria, South Africa
Height	183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Plays	Right-handed
Prize money	$26,685
Singles
Career record	0–0
Career titles	0 0 Challenger, 0 Futures
Highest ranking	No. 667 (18 February 1985)
Doubles
Career record	1–5
Career titles	0 1 Challenger, 8 Futures
Highest ranking	No. 179 (2 October 2000)
Grand Slam doubles results
French Open	1R (2001)
Wimbledon	Q2 (1993)
Last updated on: 14 May 2022.

Biography

Born in Pretoria, Williams was a doubles specialist, who had success as a junior in 1993 when he made three junior grand slam finals. After finishing runner-up at both the French Open and Wimbledon, he and Neville Godwin made a third successive final at the 1993 US Open, defeating the Australian pairing of Ben Ellwood and James Sekulov. He and Godwin also competed in several ATP Tour events, including Durban in 1993, where they made the quarter-finals.^[1]

In the mid-1990s he left the professional circuit to play collegiate tennis in the United States at the University of Tulsa (UT).^[2]

Graduating from UT with a psychology degree, he returned to the tour and in 2000 reached his best ranking of 179 in the world for doubles. He won a Challenger title in San Antonio in 2000 with Wesley Whitehouse, beating the Bryan brothers in the final. At the 2001 French Open he and Marcos Ondruska featured in the men's doubles main draw and lost in the first round to seventh seeds Ellis Ferreira and Rick Leach.^[3]

Junior Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups)

Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	1993	French Open	Clay	Neville Godwin	Steven Downs James Greenhalgh	1–6, 1–6
Loss	1993	Wimbledon	Grass	Neville Godwin	Steven Downs James Greenhalgh	7–6, 6–7, 6–7
Win	1993	US Open	Hard	Neville Godwin	Ben Ellwood James Sekulov	6–3, 6–3

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Doubles: 14 (9–5)

Legend ATP Challenger (1–1) ITF Futures (8–4)

Finals by surface Hard (9–4) Clay (0–1) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Jun 1999	USA F7, Berkeley	Futures	Hard	Haydn Wakefield	Dustin Mauck Keith Pollak	5–7, 7–4, 6–4
Loss	1–1	Jun 1999	USA F8, Danville	Futures	Hard	Haydn Wakefield	Brandon Hawk Doug Root	4–6, 7–6, 3–6
Loss	1–2	Jul 1999	USA F9, Redding	Futures	Hard	Haydn Wakefield	Brandon Hawk Doug Root	2–6, 6–2, 2–6
Loss	1–3	Aug 1999	USA F12, St. Joseph	Futures	Hard	Jeff Williams	Cary Franklin Graydon Oliver	4–6, 2–6
Win	2–3	Aug 1999	USA F13, Decatur	Futures	Hard	Jeff Williams	Matthew Breen John James	6–4, 6–2
Win	3–3	Aug 1999	USA F14, Kansas City	Futures	Hard	Jeff Williams	Michael Passarella Jakub Teply	6–0, 6–2
Win	4–3	Nov 1999	USA F17, Hattiesburg	Futures	Hard	Jeff Williams	Zack Fleishman Kelly Gullett	6–3, 6–3
Win	5–3	Dec 1999	USA F21, Laguna Niguel	Futures	Hard	Jeff Williams	Oren Motevassel Alexander Waske	2–6, 7–5, 6–2
Win	6–3	Jan 2000	USA F1, Pembroke Pines	Futures	Hard	Jeff Williams	Rafael De Mesa Irak liLabadze	6–4, 6–1
Win	7–3	Jan 2000	USA F3, Boca Raton	Futures	Hard	Jeff Williams	Marcos Daniel Manuel Jorquera	7–6(7–5), 6–2
Loss	7–4	Aug 2000	Sylt, Germany	Challenger	Clay	Ashley Fisher	Ionut Moldovan Yuri Schukin	4–6, 2–6
Win	8–4	Oct 2000	San Antonio, United States	Challenger	Hard	Wesley Whitehouse	Mike Bryan Bob Bryan	6–3, 6–4
Loss	8–5	Apr 2001	USA F8, Little Rock	Futures	Hard	Matthew Breen	Jeff Coetzee Shaun Rudman	4–6, 6–7(3–7)
Win	9–5	Apr 2001	USA F10, Elkin	Futures	Hard	Matthew Breen	Gavin Sontag Jerry Turek	6–3, 6–4

References

1. "ITF Tennis - Pro Circuit - Durban - 29 March - 05 April 1993". ITF. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
2. "Early Exit No Fun For TU's Williams". Tulsa World. 12 July 1997. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
3. "Scoreboard". Star-Gazette. 31 May 2001. p. 7. Retrieved 18 June 2018.

External links

• Gareth Williams at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Gareth Williams at the International Tennis Federation