Raluca Olaru

Raluca Olaru
Olaru 2013 at Wimbledon
Nation:	Romania
Birthday:	March 3, 1989
Size:	173 cm
Weight:	60 kg
1st professional season:	2003
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Artemon Apostu-Efremov
Prize money:	$ 1,485,853
singles
Career record:	258: 186
Career title:	0 WTA , 11 ITF
Highest ranking:	53 (July 27, 2009)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	297: 237
Career title:	9 WTA, 15 ITF
Highest ranking:	32 (August 28, 2017)
Current placement:	55
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 )

Ioana Raluca Olaru (born March 3, 1989 in Bucharest ) is a Romanian tennis player .

Career

Olaru was introduced to tennis by her parents at the age of seven. She prefers the clay court for her game. In 2003 she took part in ITF tournaments for the first time , and in 2004 she won her first double title.

In 2005 she was in the junior women's final of the French Open , which she lost to Ágnes Szávay . On the side of Amina Rachim she also reached the double finals, in which they were defeated by Szávay and Wiktoryja Asaranka .

Her first title on the WTA Tour won Olaru, 2008 in Tashkent when she with Olga Savchuk in the final Nina Brattschikowa and Kathrin Woerle with 5 [: 7 10] defeated: 7 7 5. In 2009 she reached the singles final in Bad Gastein , which she lost to Andrea Petković 2: 6, 3: 6.

On February 26, 2011 she won her second WTA double title when she defeated the Spanish pairing Lourdes Domínguez Lino / Arantxa Parra Santonja with 3: 6, 6: 1, [10: 4] in the final of Acapulco together with Marija Korytzewa .

Since 2007, Olaru has also played 16 games for the Romanian Fed Cup team , of which they won six.

After her failure in qualifying for the WTA tournament in Acapulco in February 2015, she only competes in doubles on the tour.

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	May 1, 2005	Herceg Novi	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Miljana Adanko	7: 5, 7: 6 2
2.	July 23, 2005	Bucharest	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Anna Bastrikova	6: 3, 6: 2
3.	August 6, 2005	Bucharest	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Mădălina Gojnea	7: 6 3 , 7: 5
4th	May 6, 2006	Bucharest	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Sorana Cîrstea	1: 6, 6: 4, 6: 1
5.	May 13, 2006	Rabat	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Samia Medjahdi	6: 2, 2: 6, 7: 5
6th	November 11, 2006	Toronto	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court (hall)	Carly Gullickson	6: 3, 6: 1
7th	April 28, 2007	Torrent	ITF $ 50,000	sand	Andrea Petkovic	6: 4, 5: 7, 6: 4
8th.	July 20, 2008	Contrexéville	ITF $ 50,000	sand	Stéphanie Foretz Gacon	6: 4, 6: 2
9.	June 14, 2009	Marseille	ITF $ 100,000	sand	Maša Zec Peškirič	6: 7 4 , 7: 5, 6: 4
10.	July 31, 2011	Bad Saulgau	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Tatiana Maria	6: 3, 3: 6, 7: 5
11.	March 3, 2013	Antalya	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Jovana Jakšić	6: 3, 7: 5

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	October 2, 2004	Cluj Napoca	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Corina Corduneanu	Veronika Raimrová Anamaria Sere	4: 6, 6: 0, 6: 4
2.	April 30, 2005	Herceg Novi	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Antonia Xenia Tout	Aleksandra Lukič Patricia Vollmeier	6: 4, 4: 1 problem
3.	July 30, 2005	Arad	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Corina Corduneanu	Anna Bastrikova Vasilisa Davydova	6: 1, 6: 4
4th	August 6, 2005	Bucharest	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Corina Corduneanu	Bianca Ioana Bonifate Sorana Cîrstea	6: 1, 6: 1
5.	April 8, 2006	Makarska	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Antonia Xenia Tout	Johanna Larsson Nadja Roma	6: 4, 7: 5
6th	July 8, 2006	Mont-de-Marsan	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Margalita Tschachnaschwili-Ranzinger	Oqgul Omonmurodova Nina Bratchikova	7: 5, 1: 6, 6: 1
7th	October 5, 2008	Tashkent	WTA Tier IV	Hard court	Olha Savchuk	Nina Bratchikova Kathrin Wörle	5: 7, 7: 5, [10: 7]
8th.	September 11, 2010	Biella	ITF $ 100,000	sand	Mariya Koryttseva	Andreja Klepač Aurélie Védy	7: 5, 6: 4
9.	February 26, 2011	Acapulco	WTA International	sand	Maria Korytseva	Lourdes Domínguez Lino Arantxa Parra Santonja	3: 6, 6: 1, [10: 4]
10.	January 14, 2012	Innisbrook	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Darja Kustawa	Gioia Barbieri Nadezhda Guskowa	6: 3, 6: 1
11.	April 22, 2012	Civitavecchia	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Elena Bogdan	Claudia Giovine Marina Shamayko	6: 3, 7: 5
12.	April 29, 2012	Tunis	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Elena Bogdan	Inés Ferrer Suárez Richèl Hogenkamp	6: 4, 6: 3
13.	August 30, 2012	Mamaia	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Elena Bogdan	Danka Kovinić Tadeja Majerič	7: 6 4 , 6: 3
14th	October 27, 2012	Brasília	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Elena Bogdan	Timea Bacsinszky Julia Cohen	6: 3, 3: 6, [10: 8]
15th	November 3, 2012	Buenos Aires	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Elena Bogdan	María Fernanda Álvarez Terán Maria Fernanda Alves	1: 6, 6: 2, [10: 7]
16.	January 26, 2013	Eilat	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Alla Kudryavtseva	Ilona Kremen Pemra Özgen	6: 3, 6: 3
17th	June 15, 2013	Nuremberg	WTA International	sand	Valery Solovyova	Anna-Lena Grönefeld Květa Peschke	2: 6, 7: 6 3 , [11: 9]
18th	October 12, 2014	Linz	WTA International	Hard court (hall)	Anna Tatishvili	Annika Beck Caroline Garcia	6: 2, 6: 1
19th	20th June 2015	Ilkley	ITF $ 50,000	race	Xu Yifan	To-Sophie Mestach Demi Schuurs	6: 3, 6: 4
20th	October 1, 2015	Tashkent	WTA International	Hard court	İpek Soylu	Demi Schuurs Renata Voráčová	7: 5, 6: 3
21st	January 14, 2017	Hobart	WTA International	Hard court	Olha Savchuk	Gabriela Dabrowski Yang Zhaoxuan	0: 6, 6: 4, [10: 5]
22nd	23rd July 2017	Bucharest	WTA International	sand	Irina-Camelia Begu	Elise Mertens Demi Schuurs	6: 3, 6: 3
23.	4th May 2018	Rabat	WTA International	sand	Anna Blinkowa	Georgina García Pérez Fanny Stollár	6: 4, 6: 4
24.	May 26, 2018	Strasbourg	WTA International	sand	Mihaela Buzărnescu	Nadija Kitschenok Anastasija Rodionova	7: 5, 7: 5

Web links

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

• WTA profile Raluca Olaru (English)
• ITF profile of Raluca Olaru (English)
• Fed Cup stats by Raluca Olaru (English)