Florin Mergea

Florin Mergea
Florin Mergea 2013 at Wimbledon
Nation:	Romania
Birthday:	January 26, 1985
Size:	178 cm
Weight:	80 kg
1st professional season:	2003
Playing hand:	Right, one-handed backhand
Trainer:	Alex Pop Moldovan
Prize money:	$ 1,674,744
singles
Career record:	3: 4
Highest ranking:	243 (May 9, 2005)
Double
Career record:	151: 119
Career title:	7th
Highest ranking:	7 (July 13, 2015)
Current placement:	162
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Olympic games
Last update of the infobox: September 9, 2019
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Florin Mergea (born January 26, 1985 in Craiova ) is a Romanian tennis player .

Career

Florin Mergea mainly plays doubles. So far, he has won 14 tournaments on the ATP Challenger Tour with changing partners , four of them with his compatriot Horia Tecău . Before that, Mergea was able to celebrate great successes in his junior career. He won the junior title at the Grand Slam tournament at Wimbledon in 2003 in the final against Chris Guccione and was in the final of the Australian Open in the same year , which he lost to Marcos Baghdatis . In 2002 and 2003 he also won the junior doubles competition at Wimbledon with Horia Tecau. In addition, they reached the final of the Australian Open in both years and stood together at the top of the double world rankings for a long time .

After his tournament victory in 2013 in doubles with Lukáš Rosol in Vienna , the 2014 season was even more successful. With Oliver Marach he won his second title in Viña del Mar , while he moved into the semi-finals of the French Open with Marin Draganja and won the tournament in Hamburg . His current double partner is the Indian Rohan Bopanna . Together with Horia Tecau he won the silver medal in the doubles competition at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro .

Florin Mergea has been playing for the Romanian Davis Cup team since 2003 . He has been nominated 15 times so far and has played a total of eleven doubles and two singles games in twelve matches.

successes

Legend (number of victories) Grand Slam Olympic games ATP World Tour Finals ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (1) ATP World Tour 500 (2) ATP World Tour 250 (4) ATP Challenger Tour (17)

ATP title by topping Hard Court (1) Sand (6) Lawn (0)

Double

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	20th October 2013	Vienna	Hard court (i)	Lukáš Rosol	Julian Knowle Daniel Nestor	7: 5, 6: 4
2.	February 8, 2014	Viña del Mar	sand	Oliver Marach	Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah	6: 3, 6: 4
3.	20th July 2014	Hamburg	sand	Marin Draganja	Alexander Peya Bruno Soares	6: 4, 7: 5
4th	May 10, 2015	Madrid	sand	Rohan Bopanna	Marcin Matkowski Nenad Zimonjić	6: 2, 6: 7 5 , [11: 9]
5.	June 14, 2015	Stuttgart	sand	Rohan Bopanna	Alexander Peya Bruno Soares	5: 7, 6: 2, [10: 7]
6th	April 25, 2016	Bucharest	sand	Horia Tecau	Chris Guccione André Sá	7: 5, 6: 4
7th	April 30, 2017	Barcelona	sand	Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	Philipp Petzschner Alexander Peya	6: 4, 6: 3

ATP Challenger Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	August 8, 2004	Timișoara	sand	Horia Tecau	Marius Călugăru Ciprian Porumb	6: 3, 6: 3
2.	October 9, 2004	Rome	sand	Werner Eschauer	Francesco Aldi Francesco Piccari	6 5 : 7, 6: 3, 6: 0
3.	June 30, 2007	Almaty	sand	Teodor-Dacian Crăciun	Alexei Kedrjuk Alexander Kudryavtsev	6: 2, 6: 1
4th	September 9, 2007	Brasov (1)	sand	Horia Tecau	Adrian Cruciat Marcel-Ioan Miron	5: 7, 6: 3, [10: 8]
5.	March 2, 2008	Cherbourg-Octeville	Hard court (i)	Horia Tecau	Jean-Claude Scherrer Márcio Torres	7: 5, 7: 5
6th	May 16, 2008	Marrakech	sand	Frederico Gil	James Auckland Jamie Delgado	6: 2, 6: 3
7th	June 28, 2008	Constanța	sand	Horia Tecau	Júlio Silva Simone Vagnozzi	6: 4, 6: 2
8th.	September 10, 2011	Brasov (2)	sand	Victor Anagnastopol	Dušan Lojda Benoît Paire	6: 2, 6: 3
9.	July 29, 2012	Oberstaufen	sand	Andrei Dăescu	Andrei Kuznetsov Jose Statham	7: 6 4 , 7: 6 1
10.	August 25, 2012	Segovia	Hard court	Stefano Ianni	Konstantin Kravchuk Frank Moser	6: 2, 6: 3
11.	September 1, 2012	Como	sand	Philipp Marx	Colin Ebelthite Jaroslav Pospíšil	6: 4, 4: 6, [10: 4]
12.	October 14, 2012	Rennes (1)	Hard court (i)	Philipp Marx	Tomasz Bednarek Mateusz Kowalczyk	6: 3, 6: 2
13.	October 13, 2013	Rennes (2)	Hard court (i)	Oliver Marach	Nicholas Monroe Simon Stadler	6: 4, 3: 6, [10: 7]
14th	3rd November 2013	Geneva	Hard court (i)	Oliver Marach	František Čermák Philipp Oswald	6: 4, 6: 3
15th	4th August 2019	Sopot	sand	Andre Begemann	Karol Drzewiecki Mateusz Kowalczyk	6: 1, 3: 6, [10: 8]
16.	18th August 2019	Meerbusch	sand	Andre Begemann	N. Sriram Balaji Vishnu Vardhan	7: 6 1 , 6: 7 4 , [10: 3]
17th	1st September 2019	Como	sand	Andre Begemann	Fabrício Neis Pedro Sousa	5: 7, 7: 5, [14:12]

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	17th January 2015	Auckland	Hard court	Dominic Inglot	Raven Klaasen Leander Paes	6: 7 1 , 4: 6
2.	February 8, 2015	Montpellier	Hard court (i)	Dominic Inglot	Marcus Daniell Artem Sitak	6: 3, 4: 6, [14:16]
3.	April 11, 2015	Casablanca	sand	Rohan Bopanna	Rameez Junaid Adil Shamasdin	6: 3, 2: 6, [7:10]
4th	June 21, 2015	Hall	race	Rohan Bopanna	Raven Klaasen Rajeev Ram	6: 7 5 , 2: 6
5.	November 22, 2015	London	Hard court (i)	Rohan Bopanna	Jean-Julien Rojer Horia Tecau	4: 6, 3: 6
6th	January 16, 2016	Sydney	Hard court	Rohan Bopanna	Jamie Murray Bruno Soares	3: 6, 6: 7 6
7th	May 8, 2016	Madrid	sand	Rohan Bopanna	Jean-Julien Rojer Horia Tecau	4: 6, 6: 7 5
8th.	August 12, 2016	Rio de Janeiro	Hard court	Horia Tecau	Rafael Nadal Marc López	2: 6, 6: 3, 4: 6

Honors

Mergea was made an honorary citizen of Târgu Jiu in 2003 .

Web links

Commons : Florin Mergea  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• ATP profile of Florin Mergea (English)
• ITF profile Florin Mergea (English)
• Davis Cup stats by Florin Mergea (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Florin Mergea, cetatean de onoare. In: libertatea.ro. July 14, 2003, accessed December 31, 2017 (Romanian).