Mihaela Buzărnescu

Mihaela Buzărnescu
Mihaela Buzărnescu 2017 at the US Open
Nation:	Romania
Birthday:	May 4, 1988
Size:	175 cm
Weight:	59 kg
Playing hand:	Left, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Mihai Buzărnescu (father)
Prize money:	$ 2,076,777
singles
Career record:	418: 241
Career title:	1 WTA , 22 ITF
Highest ranking:	20 (August 6, 2018)
Current placement:	120
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	314: 176
Career title:	1 WTA, 34 ITF
Highest ranking:	24 (October 22, 2018)
Current placement:	178
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: March 16, 2020
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Mihaela Buzărnescu (born May 4, 1988 in Bucharest ) is a Romanian tennis player .

Career

Buzărnescu, who started playing tennis at the age of five , prefers the hard court. She mainly plays at tournaments of the ITF Women's Circuit , where she has already won 21 titles in singles and 32 in doubles. On the WTA Tour she achieved her greatest successes in doubles for a long time, for example in the 2007 İstanbul Cup with Kazjaryna Dsehalewitsch the quarter-finals. In 2008 she was eliminated from the Internationaux de Strasbourg with doubles partner Yevhenija Sawranska in the first round of the main draw . Also in the first round she failed in 2015 at the side of Irina Maria Bara at the BRD Bucharest Open . In 2012 she competed in all four Grand Slam tournaments in the qualification, but could not prevail. At the US Open , she was eliminated in the first qualifying round in 2015. In 2017 Buzărnescu reached the semi-finals in Linz , where she lost to the eventual tournament winner Barbora Strýcová . In 2018 she reached the final in Hobart .

Since 2006, Buzărnescu has been used in four games for Romania in the Fed Cup . She won three of her five games, including both singles. From 2012 to 2015 she played in the 2nd Bundesliga for the Rochusclub Düsseldorf .

Buzărnescu has a Ph.D. in sports science .

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	June 13, 2004	Pitesti	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Liana-Gabriela Balaci	6: 3, 7: 6 4
2.	June 20, 2004	Brașov	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Andrea Benítez	6: 3, 7: 5
3.	May 28, 2006	La Palma	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Nadja Pavic	6: 3, 6: 7 4 , 6: 3
4th	June 8, 2008	Pitesti	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Palma Kiraly	6: 0, 6: 3
5.	June 22, 2008	Bucharest	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Federica Di Sarra	6: 2, 6: 2
6th	August 15, 2010	Oneşti	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Ionela-Andreea Iova	6-0, 6-1
7th	September 5, 2010	Balș	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Alexandra Cadanțu	6: 3, 6: 2
8th.	May 22, 2011	Izmir	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Naomi Broady	7: 5, 6: 4
9.	July 10, 2011	Craiova	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Annalisa Bona	6: 2, 3: 6, 6: 4
10.	July 16, 2011	Zwevegem	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Bibiane Schoofs	3: 6, 6: 2, 6: 4
11.	September 14, 2014	Bucharest	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Simona Ionescu	6: 3, 2: 6, 6: 1
12.	April 5, 2015	El-Kantaoui	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Lou Brouleau	6-0, 6-1
13.	April 12, 2015	El-Kantaoui	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Natalija Sipek	6: 1, 6: 0
14th	August 16, 2015	West end	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Océane Dodin	6: 1, 6: 1
15th	December 13, 2015	Cairo	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Valentina Iwachnenko	6: 0, 6: 3
16.	18th June 2017	Hódmezővásárhely	ITF $ 60,000	sand	Danka Kovinić	6: 2, 6: 1
17th	June 24, 2017	Izmir	ITF $ 60,000	Hard court	Eri Hozumi	6: 1, 6: 0
18th	July 9, 2017	Getxo	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Renata Zarazúa	6: 2, 6: 2
19th	July 16, 2017	Versmold	ITF $ 60,000	sand	Barbara Haas	6-0, 6-2
20th	17th September 2017	Biarritz	ITF $ 80,000	sand	Patty Schnyder	6: 4, 6: 3
21st	October 29, 2017	Poitiers	ITF $ 100,000	Hard court (hall)	Alison Van Uytvanck	6: 4, 6: 2
22nd	19th November 2017	Toyota (Aichi)	ITF $ 60,000	Carpet (hall)	Tamara Zidanšek	6-0, 6-1
23.	5th August 2018	San Jose	WTA Premier	Hard court	Maria Sakkari	6: 1, 6: 0

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	June 5, 2004	Constanța	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Gabriela Niculescu	Bianca Bonifate Diana Gae	6: 4, 6: 3
2.	June 12, 2004	Pitesti	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Gabriela Niculescu	Andrea Benítez Estefania Craciún	6: 4, 6: 4
3.	April 21, 2007	Hvar	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Magdalena Kiszczyńska	Émilie Bacquet Karolina Jovanović	6: 4, 6: 2
4th	May 13, 2007	Rabat	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Melanie Klaffner	Silvia Disderi Samia Medjahdi	6: 1, 6: 4
5.	September 15, 2007	Sofia	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Magdalena Kiszczyńska	Joana Cortez Teliana Pereira	6: 4, 6: 7 2 , [10: 4]
6th	September 29, 2007	Batumi	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Vojislava Lukic	Vasilisa Davydova Marina Shamayko	6: 4, 6: 2
7th	June 8, 2008	Pitesti	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Laura-Ioana Andrei	Simona Matei Valentina Sulpizio	7: 5, 3: 6, [10: 2]
8th.	June 22, 2008	Bucharest	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Laura-Ioana Andrei	Benedetta Davato Valentina Sulpizio	6: 4, 4: 6, [10: 6]
9.	July 25, 2008	Kharkiv	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Oksana Kalashnikova	Kristina Antoniychuk Lesia Tsurenko	6: 1, 6: 4
10.	June 13, 2009	Bucharest	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Elora Dabija	Laura-Ioana Andrei Ioana Gaspar	1: 6, 7: 5, [10: 5]
11.	October 10, 2009	Antalya	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Kateřina Vaňková	Magali De Lattre Fatima El Allami	6: 1, 6: 1
12.	November 14, 2009	Le Havre	ITF $ 10,000	Sand (hall)	Marina Melnikova	Amandine Hesse Alizé Lim	6: 2, 7: 6 4
13.	November 22, 2009	Cairo	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Laura Thorpe	Fatma Al-Nabhani Galina Fokina	6: 4, 6: 0
14th	April 3, 2010	Antalya	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Dalia Zafirova	Veronika Chvojková Martina Kubičíková	7: 6 1 , 7: 5
15th	May 1, 2010	Vic	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Cristina Stancu	Olga Brózda Barbara Sobaszkiewicz	7: 5, 3: 6, [10: 7]
16.	August 13, 2010	Oneşti	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Laura-Ioana Andrei	Camelia Hristea Biljana Pavlova-Dimitrova	7: 6 7 , 6: 2
17th	August 20, 2010	Bucharest	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Laura-Ioana Andrei	Diana Enache Camelia Hristea	6: 1, 6: 3
18th	September 18, 2010	Podgorica	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Irina-Camelia Begu	Valery Solovyova Maryna Sanewska	5: 7, 7: 5, [12:10]
19th	May 7, 2011	Wiesbaden	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Karolina Wlodarczak	Dejana Raickovic Ghislaine van Baal	6: 7 4 , 6: 3, [10: 6]
20th	June 3, 2011	Florence	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Zuzana Zlochová	Nicole Clerico Valentina Sulpizio	6: 3, 6: 4
21st	July 23, 2011	Samsun	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Tadeja Majerič	Çağla Büyükakçay Pemra Özgen	6: 1, 6: 4
22nd	September 10, 2011	Saransk	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Teodora Mirčić	Eva Hrdinová Weronika Kapschaj	6: 3, 6: 1
23.	October 2, 2011	Telavi	ITF $ 50,000	sand	Elena Bogdan	Ekaterine Gorgodse Anastasia Grymalska	1: 6, 6: 1, [10: 3]
24.	July 14, 2012	Zwevegem	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Nicola Geuer	Kim Kilsdonk Nicolette Van Uitert	7: 6 5 , 1: 6, [10: 4]
25th	15th September 2012	Mont-de-Marsan	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Timea Bacsinszky	Teliana Pereira Aleksandrina Naydenova	6: 4, 6: 1
26th	April 11, 2015	Port El Kantaoui	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Olena Kyrpot	Jennifer Claffey Kathinka from Deichmann	6: 4, 6: 2
27.	April 24, 2015	Pula	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Irina Maria Bara	Corinna Dentoni Claudia Giovine	6: 3, 2: 6, [10: 4]
28.	October 24, 2015	Saguenay	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court (hall)	Justyna Jegiołka	Sharon Fichman Maria Sanchez	7: 6 6 , 4: 6, [10: 7]
29	November 21, 2015	Sowade	ITF $ 25,000	Carpet (hall)	Justyna Jegiołka	Kim Grajdek Jekaterina Jaschina	6: 2, 6: 3
30th	October 22, 2016	Saguenay	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court	Elena Bogdan	Bianca Andreescu Charlotte Robillard-Millette	6: 4, 6: 7 4 , [10: 6]
31.	October 29, 2016	Tampico	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court	Elise Mertens	Usue Maitane Arconada Katie Swan	6-0, 6-2
32.	May 13, 2017	Dunakeszi	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Irina Maria Bara	Daiana Negreanu Oana Georgeta Simion	1: 6, 6: 1, [10: 3]
33.	16th September 2017	Biarritz	ITF $ 80,000	sand	Irina Maria Bara	Cristina Bucșa Isabelle Wallace	6: 3, 6: 1
34.	December 16, 2017	Dubai	ITF $ 100,000 + H	Hard court	Alena Fomina	Lesley Kerkhove Lidsija Marosawa	6: 4, 6: 3
35.	May 26, 2018	Strasbourg	WTA International	sand	Raluca Olaru	Nadija Kitschenok Anastasija Rodionova	7: 5, 7: 5

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments

singles

competition	2017	2018	2019	2020	Career
Australian Open	-	1	1	-	1
French Open	-	AF	1		AF
Wimbledon	-	3	2		3
US Open	1	-	1		1

Double

competition	2018	2019	2020	Career
Australian Open	1	2	-	2
French Open	VF	1		VF
Wimbledon	VF	1		VF
US Open	-	-		-

Web links

Commons : Mihaela Buzărnescu  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• WTA profile Mihaela Buzarnescu (English)
• ITF profile Mihaela Buzarnescu (English)
• ITF junior profile Mihaela Buzarnescu (English)
• Fed Cup stats by Mihaela Buzarnescu (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Paul Newman: French Open 2018: Mihaela Buzarnescu stuns world No 4 Elina Svitolina to continue remarkable trajectory. In: independent.co.uk. The Independent , June 1, 2018, accessed July 9, 2018 .