Elena Bogdan

Elena Bogdan
Elena Bogdan at the 2009 US Open
Nation:	Romania
Birthday:	March 28, 1992
Size:	183 cm
Weight:	71 kg
1st professional season:	2009
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Artemon Apostu-Efremov Adrian Gavrila
Prize money:	$ 250,450
singles
Career record:	222: 206
Career title:	0 WTA , 4 ITF
Highest ranking:	151 (July 18, 2011)
Double
Career record:	254: 184
Career title:	1 WTA, 22 ITF
Highest ranking:	79 (June 8, 2015)
Current placement:	215
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: March 16, 2020
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Elena Bogdan (born March 28, 1992 in Craiova ) is a Romanian tennis player .

Career

Bogdan, who prefers clay courts, has won four singles and 21 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit so far . In addition, her first success on the WTA Tour came in 2014 with the double title at the tournament in Bucharest .

In June 2006 Bogdan played her first ITF tournament in Galați , Romania , where she lost in the first round to Alexandra Cadanțu 6: 4, 2: 6, 1: 6. In 2007 and 2008 she played a total of 13 ITF tournaments. At the junior women's competition of the French Open in 2008 she reached the final, which she lost to Simona Halep 4: 6, 7: 6, ³ and 2: 6.

In 2009 Bogdan began her professional career. Together with Noppawan Lertcheewakarn she won the double competition of the juniors of the French Open against Tímea Babos and Heather Watson with 3: 6, 6: 3 and [10: 8]. In June and July she won her first two ITF tournaments in Bucharest, and in September she played her first qualification for a WTA tournament in Tashkent .

In February 2010 she was able to win her first two qualifying games at a WTA tournament in Bogota , she only just missed making it into the main draw. In May she won her third game on the WTA Tour in Warsaw qualifying before winning her first $ 50,000 ITF tournament in Madrid in October.

At the beginning of 2011 she failed in her first qualification for a Grand Slam tournament at the Australian Open in the first round against the American Lauren Albanese with 3: 6, 7: 5 and 4: 6. In May she came in qualifying for the French Open to the third round; she achieved her best result to date with just under $ 11,000 in prize money and 50 world ranking points; after the French Open she was listed in the top 200 of the world rankings for the first time . In Wimbledon she reached the second qualifying round, in which she lost against Irina Falconi with 2: 6, 2: 6. Now at position 151 in the individual world rankings, she also failed in qualifying for the US Open .

While she was eliminated in the first round of qualifications for the Australian Open , Wimbledon and US Open in 2012 , she came back to qualifying round two at the French Open , in which she was defeated by Jaroslawa Schwedowa 1: 6, 1: 6.

At the beginning of 2013, Bogdan also lost in the tournaments of Cali, Bogota and Acapulco in the first round of qualification, after which they initially only played ITF tournaments. In July, in Bad Gastein , she made it into the main draw of a WTA tournament for the first time; there she lost in the first round against the Austrian Lisa-Maria Moser 6: 7, ⁶ , 6: 2 and 4: 6.

Another single title followed on June 22, 2014 at the ITF tournament in Galați . On July 13, she won her first WTA title at the Bucharest Open alongside Alexandra Cadanțu .

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	June 14, 2009	Bucharest	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Simona-Iulia Matei	6: 4, 6: 3
2.	July 26, 2009	Bucharest	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Dia Evtimova	6: 3, 6: 1
3.	October 10, 2010	Madrid	ITF $ 50,000	sand	Leticia Costas	6: 4, 6: 2
4th	June 22, 2014	Galați	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Oana Georgeta Simion	6: 3, 6: 1

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	August 1, 2010	Bucharest	ITF $ 75,000	sand	Irina-Camelia Begu	María Irigoyen Florencia Molinero	6: 1, 6: 1
2.	September 26, 2010	Bucharest	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Irina-Camelia Begu	Leticia Costas Eva Fernandez-Brugues	6: 1, 6: 3
3.	February 13, 2011	Cali	ITF $ 100,000	sand	Irina-Camelia Begu	Ekaterina Iwanowa Kathrin Wörle	2: 6, 7: 6 6 , [11: 9]
4th	July 24, 2011	Bucharest	ITF $ 100,000 + H	sand	Irina-Camelia Begu	Maria Elena Camerin İpek Şenoğlu	6: 7 1 , 7: 6 4 , [16:14]
5.	4th September 2011	Mamaia	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Alexandra Cadanțu	Marina Shamayko Sopia Schapatawa	6: 2, 6: 2
6th	October 2, 2011	Telavi	ITF $ 50,000	sand	Mihaela Buzărnescu	Ekaterine Gorgodse Anastasia Grymalska	1: 6, 6: 1, [10: 3]
7th	April 22, 2012	Civitavecchia	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Raluca Olaru	Claudia Giovine Marina Shamayko	6: 3, 7: 5
8th.	April 29, 2012	Tunis	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Raluca Olaru	Inés Ferrer Suárez Richèl Hogenkamp	6: 4, 6: 3
9.	June 3, 2012	Maribor	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Kathrin Wörle	Karen Barbat Anna-Lena Friedsam	6: 2, 2: 6, [10: 5]
10.	5th August 2012	Trnava	ITF $ 50,000	sand	Renata Voráčová	Marta Domachowska Sandra Klemenschits	7: 6 2 , 6: 4
11.	August 30, 2012	Mamaia	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Raluca Olaru	Danka Kovinić Tadeja Majerič	7: 6 4 , 6: 3
12.	October 27, 2012	Brasília	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Raluca Olaru	Timea Bacsinszky Julia Cohen	6: 3, 3: 6, [10: 8]
13.	November 3, 2012	Buenos Aires	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Raluca Olaru	María Fernanda Álvarez Terán Maria Fernanda Alves	1: 6, 6: 2, [10: 7]
14th	4th August 2013	Bad Saulgau	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Laura-Ioana Andrei	Barbora Krejčíková Kateřina Siniaková	6: 7 11 , 6: 4, [10: 8]
15th	July 13, 2014	Bucharest	WTA International	sand	Alexandra Cadanțu	Çağla Büyükakçay Karin Knapp	6: 4, 3: 6, [10: 5]
16.	August 10, 2014	Hechingen	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Valery Solovyova	Carolin Daniels Antonia Lottner	6: 3, 6: 1
17th	October 22, 2016	Saguenay	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court (hall)	Mihaela Buzărnescu	Bianca Andreescu Charlotte Robillard-Millette	6: 4, 6: 7 4 , [10: 6]
18th	November 26, 2016	Solarino	ITF $ 10,000	carpet	Justyna Jegiołka	Veronica Napolitano Miriana Tona	4: 6, 6: 3, [10: 7]
19th	15th September 2017	Székesfehérvár	ITF $ 15,000	sand	Laura-Ioana Andrei	Réka Luca Jani Panna Udvardy	1: 6, 6: 2, [10: 7]
20th	October 14, 2017	Santa Margherita di Pula	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Valery Solovyova	Tereza Mrdeža Akiko Omae	7: 6 7 , 5: 7, [11: 9]
21st	3rd February 2018	Antalya	ITF $ 15,000	Hard court	Cristina Ene	Haruna Arakawa Kim Da-bin	6: 4, 6: 3
22nd	February 9, 2019	Trnava	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court (hall)	Eliza Kostova	Michaela Hončová Hanna Posnichirenko	7: 5, 7: 6 5
23.	6th July 2019	Biella	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Réka Luca Jani	Chihiro Muramatsu Yuki Naito	6; 1, 6: 3

Web links

Commons : Elena Bogdan  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• WTA profile of Elena Bogdan (English)
• ITF profile Elena Bogdan (English)
• ITF junior profile Elena Bogdan (English)