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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	22 May 1997 (age 27); 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.

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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	Lucas Miedler	Benjamin Bonzi Quentin Halys	3–6, 3–6
Runner-up	2015	Wimbledon	Grass	Reilly Opelka	Lý Hoàng Nam 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	Kento Takeuchi	6–3, 6–2
Runner-up	2.	2 May 2015	Bangkok, Thailand	Hard	Andre Dome	4–6, 7–6^(9–7), 1–6
Winner	3.	3 April 2016	Madrid, Spain	Hard	Steven Diez	6–4, 7–6^(8–6)
Runner-up	4.	30 April 2016	Mostoles, Spain	Hard	Antoine Escoffier	4–6, 7–6^(7–5), 3–6
Winner	5.	22 May 2016	Wuhan, China	Hard	Yunseong Chung	6–1, 6–4
Winner	6.	29 May 2016	Luan, China	Hard	Finn Tearney	6–3, 1–6, 6–4
Winner	7.	26 June 2016	Palma del Rio, Spain	Hard	Remi Boutillier	7–5, 6–3
Winner	8.	4 December 2016	Almeria, Spain	Hard	Roberto Ortega-Olmedo	6–1, 6–1
Winner	9.	15 July 2017	Winnetka, Illinois, United States	Hard	Ramkumar Ramanathan	7–6^(7–1), 6–2

References

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

External links

Akira Santillan at the Association of Tennis Professionals
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[1] "Queenslander Akira Santillan opts to take up Japanese nationality". The Australian. Retrieved 18 July 2016.

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 ==Early life==
-[[Santillán|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, Queensland|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]].
+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, Queensland|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==