Marcelo Arévalo González parents, Rafael Arévalo Perez and Sofia Gonzalez Arévalo will be supporting him in his Grand Slam Final. With their semifinal victory on Thursday morning, Arevalo and Jean-Julien Rojer progressed to the French Open Doubles Championship.
Marcelo Arévalo González is a Salvadoran professional tennis player who mostly participates in doubles.
He has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 23, which he obtained on May 9, 2022, and has won four ATP Tour doubles championships.
Arévalo achieved his first Grand Slam final in mixed doubles with Giuliana Olmos at the 2021 US Open. And he also reached the men’s doubles quarterfinals at the Australian Open in both 2020 and 2021.
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Who Are Rafael Arévalo Perez and Ana Sofia Gonzalez Arévalo?
Rafael Arévalo Perez and Sofia Gonzalez Arévalo are the parents of Marcelo Arévalo, a professional tennis player. His father Rafael is a doctor by profession who influenced Marcelo in playing Tennis.
He began playing tennis at the age of eight, motivated by his father, who used to play on weekends.
Marcelo played collegiate tennis for two seasons at the University of Tulsa (2010-11). In addition to Tennis, he likes to race automobiles and ride his motorcycle.
And stated that he would have preferred to be a racing car driver if he hadn’t been a tennis player. Prior to Tulsa, he competed on the ITF junior and men’s circuits, earning a career-high No. 8 global juniors ranking from the ITF.
On the junior circuit, he has a 65-39 singles record and a 60-35 doubles record, and he has won the El Salvador F2 Futures and Mexico F15 Futures singles titles.
He reached as high as No. 452 in the ATP singles rankings and No. 612 in the ATP doubles rankings.
He finished his freshman season at Tulsa (2009-10) with a 9-7 singles record and a 10-4 doubles record. He has a 4-6 record versus nationally rated opponents and only played at No. 1 singles.
He was named C-USA Freshman of the Year and made the all-C-USA Singles First Team. He was named ITA Central Region Rookie of the Year and Conference USA Player of the Week three times (March 2, March 23, and April 6).
He concluded his sophomore season with a career-high ITA singles ranking of No. 24 and won his first 14 matches alongside De Klerk before finishing with a 17-4 doubles record.
On March 1, 2011, he also achieved a career-high doubles ranking of No. 39. He participated for El Salvador in the 2011 Davis Cup, finishing with a 2-3 record and reaching the quarterfinals of the USTA Central Region Championship.
Marcelo currently plays for Salvadoran and achieved history by reaching the Roland Garros doubles final.
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Marcelo Arévalo Has A Sibling Who Is A Former ATP Player
Marcelo Arévalo was born to his parents in a family of five. He has two siblings, a sister who is a businesswoman and a brother, Rafael Arévalo who is an El Salvadoran retired professional tennis player.
The majority of Arévalo’s professional career has been spent on the Futures (ITF) circuit, with an additional 22 matches for the El Salvador Davis Cup squad.
He also had minor success in the juniors, reaching a high of No. 10 in 2004. However, with the help of the Salvadoran Tennis Federation (Federación Salvadorea de Tenis), he was invited to the 2008 Beijing Olympics tennis competition 2008.
Arévalo was the first El Salvadoran player to compete in a tennis sport at the Olympics. In the first round, Arévalo overcame Lee Hyung-taik in three sets before falling to Swiss World No. 1 Roger Federer in the second.
In his hometown of Sonsonate, he is known as ‘Cabeza de Cono,’ which translates to Conehead.
Arévalo last competed in the 2019 Davis Cup, partnering with his brother, Marcelo, in a doubles match against Peru. Soon after, he was appointed president of El Salvador’s Davis Cup squad.
He is extremely supported by his family and often shares some pictures with them on his Instagram. Moreover, he is married to his wife, Lucia Arévalo Kovarčíková, and has an adorable son together.
Meet Marcelo Arévalo Coach Yari Bernardo
Marcelo Arévalo’s coach, Yari Bernardo is the Davis Cup Captain of El Salvador. Moreover, he is an advisor of the El Salvador Tennis Federation
According to his website, he is the Owner and Founder of Yari Bernardo Tennis School in Milan, Italy. The school aims in implementing and designing tennis programs for all levels of players, from beginners to experts, with high-quality private and group instruction.
The school also creates and arranges celebrity tennis workshops on and off the court.
From 2000 to the present, he has served as the ATP Tour and Junior Circuit Coach.
From 2008 until 2013, he was a traveling coach for Nicolas Massu (Chile), a former ATP #9 and 2004 Olympic Gold medallist in singles and doubles.
Prior to beginning his coaching career, he was an ATP and Davis Cup player. During his career, he holds an ATP singles career-high of #809 and a doubles career-high of #968.