Raluca Șerban

Raluca Șerban
Șerban 2019 at Wimbledon
Nation:	Romania –2018 Cyprus 2018–
Birthday:	17th June 1997 (age 23)
1st professional season:	2014
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Yiannos Hadjigeorgiou
Prize money:	$ 122,995
singles
Career record:	216: 99
Career title:	0 WTA , 10 ITF
Highest ranking:	204 (April 22, 2019)
Current placement:	341
Double
Career record:	118: 56
Career title:	0 WTA, 13 ITF
Highest ranking:	179 (December 31, 2018)
Current placement:	292
Last update of the infobox: March 16, 2020
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Raluca Georgiana Șerban (born June 17, 1997 in Constanța ) is a Romanian tennis player who has been playing for Cyprus since 2018.

Career

Șerban began playing tennis at the age of five and prefers hard courts. She mostly plays ITF tournaments. She has won ten singles and 13 doubles titles on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour so far.

In order to be able to meet the high financial costs associated with building a tennis career, she emigrated with her parents to Cyprus at the age of 14 , where she is looked after by Yiannos Hadjigeorgiou , the former coach of Marcos Baghdatis . She has been a member of the Masters Tennis Academy since 2013.

Since Șerban had her permanent residence in Cyprus for more than three years in 2015, she was allowed to join the XVI. Playing the small states of Europe in Reykjavík , where she won the mixed competition with Petros Chrysochos . Two years later she won the XVII. Playing the small states of Europe in San Marino gold in singles and doubles with Maria Siopacha and silver in mixed with Eleftherios Neos . At this point, however, she had still not accepted Cypriot citizenship, so she was not allowed to represent the country in other international competitions.

From 2019 Şerban came to Cyprus in the Fed Cup , where she previously won seven of their eight games.

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	April 19, 2015	Heraklion	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Cristina Sánchez-Quintanar	6: 2, 6: 3
2.	April 26, 2015	Heraklion	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Anna Bondár	4: 6, 6: 4, 6: 1
3.	17th April 2016	Heraklion	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Cristiana Ferrando	6: 3, 7: 6 4
4th	November 13, 2016	Heraklion	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Gabriella Taylor	6: 4, 7: 5
5.	20th November 2016	Heraklion	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Nina Kruijer	3: 6, 4: 0 exercise
6th	29th January 2017	Antalya	ITF $ 15,000	sand	Alena Fomina	6: 2, 6: 3
7th	May 14, 2017	Antalya	ITF $ 15,000	sand	Dasha Ivanova	7: 5, 6: 2
8th.	4th March 2018	Heraklion	ITF $ 15,000	sand	Anastasia Detiuc	6: 3, 5: 7, 6: 2
9.	October 7, 2018	Santa Margherita di Pula	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Anastasia Grymalska	7: 6 2 , 6: 4
10.	October 27, 2018	Istanbul	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Nina Stojanović	6: 2, 7.5

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	3rd November 2014	Heraklion	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Oana Georgeta Simion	Natalija Kostić Nevena Selaković	6: 4, 6: 2
2.	17th October 2015	Heraklion	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Viktória Kužmová	Steffi Distelmans Kelly Versteeg	6: 2, 6: 0
3.	November 26, 2016	Heraklion	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Vlada Ekshibarova	Michaela Boev Cristiana Ferrando	6: 4, 7: 6 4
4th	19th March 2017	Heraklion	ITF $ 15,000	sand	Oana Georgeta Simion	Charlotte Robillard-Millette Carol Zhao	3: 6, 7: 6 2 , [10: 2]
5.	June 11, 2017	Figueira da Foz	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Ayla Aksu	María Fernanda Herazo Victoria Rodríguez	6: 4, 6: 1
6th	2nd July 2017	Stuttgart	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Ksenija Bekker	Laura Schaeder Anna Zaja	6: 3, 5: 7, [10: 5]
7th	January 27, 2018	Stuttgart-Stammheim	ITF $ 15,000	Hard court (hall)	Laura-Ioana Andrei	Petra Krejsová Jesika Malečková	6: 0, 6: 7 7 , [10: 5]
8th.	February 10, 2018	Antalya	ITF $ 15,000	Hard court	Oana Georgeta Simion	Mana Ayukawa Nina Stadler	6: 2, 7: 6 5
9.	March 3, 2018	Heraklion	ITF $ 15,000	sand	Michaela Boev	Gabriela Ana Maria Davidescu Alexandra Maria Staiculescu	6: 1, 2: 6, [10: 7]
10.	4th May 2018	Balatonboglár	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Anna Bondár	Ágnes Bukta Dalma Gálfi	6: 1, 7: 6 2
11.	August 10, 2018	Koksijde	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Anna Bondár	Dea Herdželaš Tereza Mihalíková	6: 3, 6: 0
12.	July 27, 2019	Prague	ITF $ 60,000	sand	Nicoleta-Cătălina Dascălu	Lucie Hradecká Johana Marková	6: 4, 6: 4
13.	October 27, 2019	Nanning	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Ksenia Laskutova	Cao Siqi Wang Danni	6: 2, 6: 4

Web links

Commons : Raluca Șerban  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• WTA profile Raluca Serban (English)
• ITF profile of Raluca Șerban (English)
• ITF junior profile Raluca Serban (English)
• Fed Cup stats by Raluca Serban (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Un mare talent al tenisului tricolor se stinge în Cipru , accessed on January 1, 2018 (Romanian)
2. ↑ Τένις: Το «χρυσό» κορίτσι μας , accessed on January 1, 2018 (Greek)