Joaquín Loyo-Mayo

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Joaquín Loyo-Mayo (August 16, 1945 – December 27, 2014) was a Mexican tennis player who competed from 1961 to 1982. Born in Veracruz, he played left-handed and won 21 singles titles. He reached a career-high singles ranking of No. 99 (April 1976) and No. 91 in doubles (March 1976). Loyo-Mayo won the San Luis Potosí International six times, starting with his first title in 1963, and he won the Tri-State Championships in Cincinnati in 1967. He was a doubles finalist in Cincinnati in 1968 and 1975. His best Grand Slam results were reaching the fourth round at Wimbledon in 1971, and the third rounds at the French Open (1970), Wimbledon (1970), and the US Open (1965, 1968, 1969). He represented Mexico in the Davis Cup in 45 matches from 1964 to 1976 and won a silver medal in doubles at the 1963 GANEFO Games in Jakarta with M. L. de Santiago. He earned a marketing degree at the University of Southern California in the late 1960s. After retiring, he became a professional coach and, in 1989, joined the Edgbaston Archery & Lawn Tennis Society in Birmingham, UK, the world’s oldest lawn tennis club. Loyo-Mayo died in Córdoba, Veracruz, at age 69.