Akira Santillan

Akira Santillan
アキラ サンティラン
Santillan at the 2017 US Open
Country (sports)  Australia (2010–2015, 2017–current)
 Japan (2015–2017)
Residence Brisbane, Australia
Born (1997-05-22) 22 May 1997
Tokyo, Japan
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Turned pro 2013
Plays Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Prize money $257,144
Singles
Career record 2–7 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles 0
0 Challenger, 6 Futures
Highest ranking No. 144 (13 November 2017)
Current ranking No. 283 (27 August 2018)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open Q2 (2017)
French Open Q2 (2018)
Wimbledon Q1 (2017, 2018)
US Open Q3 (2017)
Doubles
Career record 0–2 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles 0
0 Challenger, 1 Futures
Highest ranking No. 265 (17 July 2017)
Current ranking No. 348 (27 August 2018)
Last updated on: 27 August 2018.

Akira Santillan (アキラ サンティラン, Santiran Akira, born 22 May 1997) is a Japanese born, Australian tennis player.

Early life

Santillan was born in Tokyo to a Japanese mother and a South African father of Spanish descent. He lived the first 8 years of his life in Japan before his family relocated to the Gold Coast, Australia and became citizens. He played much of his junior tennis at the Gold Coast before moving to Brisbane to join the national academy program at the Queensland Tennis Centre.

Junior career

On the junior tour, Santillan has a career high ITF junior ranking of 7 achieved in September 2015. Santillan's major highlights on the junior tour included a semi-final at the 2015 Australian Open and doubles finals at the 2014 French Open and the 2015 Wimbledon Championships.

In March 2015, Santillan opted to play under the Japanese flag instead due to a fractious relationship with Tennis Australia.[1] He returned to playing under the Australian flag in 2017.

Junior Grand Slam finals

Doubles

Result Year Championship Surface Partner Opponent Score
Runner-up 2014 French Open Clay Austria Lucas Miedler France Benjamin Bonzi
France Quentin Halys		 3–6, 3–6
Runner-up 2015 Wimbledon Grass United States Reilly Opelka Vietnam Lý Hoàng Nam
India Sumit Nagal		 6–7(4–7), 4–6

Professional career

Santillan has a career high ATP singles ranking of 160 achieved on 24 July 2017. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 265 achieved also on 17 July 2017. Santillan has won 6 ITF Futures singles titles and 1 ITF Futures doubles title.

Santillan made his ATP main draw debut at the 2016 Generali Open Kitzbühel, receiving singles and doubles main draw wildcards.

ATP Challengers and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 9 (7 titles, 2 runners-up)

Legend
ATP Challengers (1–0)
ITF Futures (6–2)
Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Winner 1. 25 April 2015 Bangkok, Thailand Hard Japan Kento Takeuchi 6–3, 6–2
Runner-up 2. 2 May 2015 Bangkok, Thailand Hard United States Andre Dome 4–6, 7–6(9–7), 1–6
Winner 3. 3 April 2016 Madrid, Spain Hard Canada Steven Diez 6–4, 7–6(8–6)
Runner-up 4. 30 April 2016 Mostoles, Spain Hard France Antoine Escoffier 4–6, 7–6(7–5), 3–6
Winner 5. 22 May 2016 Wuhan, China Hard South Korea Yunseong Chung 6–1, 6–4
Winner 6. 29 May 2016 Luan, China Hard New Zealand Finn Tearney 6–3, 1–6, 6–4
Winner 7. 26 June 2016 Palma del Rio, Spain Hard France Remi Boutillier 7–5, 6–3
Winner 8. 4 December 2016 Almeria, Spain Hard Spain Roberto Ortega-Olmedo 6–1, 6–1
Winner 9. 15 July 2017 Winnetka, Illinois, United States Hard India Ramkumar Ramanathan 7–6(7–1), 6–2

References

  1. ↑ "Queenslander Akira Santillan opts to take up Japanese nationality". The Australian. Retrieved 18 July 2016.
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