Florin Mergea

Florin Mergea

Mergea playing at the 2013 Wimbledon Championships
Country	Romania
Residence	Târgu Jiu, Romania
Born	(1985-01-26) 26 January 1985 Craiova, Romania
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Turned pro	2003
Plays	Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Prize money	$285,934
Singles
Career record	3–3
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 243 (9 May 2005)
Current ranking	No. 1160 (27 January 2014)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	Q2 (2006)
French Open	NA
Wimbledon	Q2 (2004)
US Open	Q1 (2005)
Doubles
Career record	20–29
Career titles	1
Highest ranking	No. 58 (27 January 2014)
Current ranking	No. 58 (27 January 2014)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	2R (2013)
French Open	2R (2008, 2013)
Wimbledon	1R (2013)
US Open	1R (2013)
Last updated on: 1 September 2012.

Florin Mergea (born 26 January 1985 in Craiova, Romania) is a Romanian tennis player. He won the Boys' Singles tournament at 2003 Wimbledon Championships and was the runner-up in the Boys' Singles tournament at the 2003 Australian Open.

He achieved career-high ATP rankings of World No. 243 in singles (May 2005) and World No. 58 in doubles (January 2014).

Tennis career

Juniors

As a junior Mergea compiled a singles win/loss record of 87–33, reaching as high as No. 2 in the world in July 2003 (and No. 1 in doubles). As well as winning the Boys' Singles at Wimbledon in 2003, he won the Boys' Doubles in 2002 and 2003.

Doubles Performance Timeline

ATP career finals

Doubles: 1 (1–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	1.	20 October 2013	Erste Bank Open, Vienna, Austria	Hard (i)	Lukáš Rosol	Daniel Nestor Julian Knowle	7-5, 6-4

Challenger career finals

Doubles finals: 31 (14–17)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score
Winner	1.	8 August 2004	Timișoara, Romania	Clay	Horia Tecău	Marius Călugăru Ciprian Petre Porumb	6–3, 6–3
Runner-up	2.	21 August 2004	Samarkand, Uzbekistan	Clay	Sebastian Fitz	Jean-François Bachelot Melle Van Gemerden	2–6, 6–3, 1–6
Winner	3.	9 October 2004	Rome 2, Italy	Clay	Werner Eschauer	Francesco Aldi Francesco Piccari	6–7(5–7), 6–3, 6–0
Runner-up	4.	2 July 2006	Constanța, Romania	Clay	Horia Tecău	Konstantinos Economidis Jean-Julien Rojer	6–7(1–7), 1–6
Runner-up	5.	5 November 2006	Seoul, South Korea	Hard	Danai Udomchoke	Alexander Peya Björn Phau	4–6, 2–6
Winner	6.	30 June 2007	Almaty 2, Kazakhstan	Clay	Teodor-Dacian Crăciun	Alexey Kedryuk Alexandre Kudryavtsev	6–2, 6–1
Winner	7.	9 September 2007	Brașov, Romania	Clay	Horia Tecău	Adrian Cruciat Marcel-Ioan Miron	5–7, 6–3, [10–8]
Runner-up	8.	30 September 2007	Bucharest, Romania	Clay	Horia Tecău	Marcel Granollers Santiago Ventura	2–6, 1–6
Winner	9.	2 March 2008	Cherbourg, France	Hard (I)	Horia Tecău	Jean-Claude Scherrer Márcio Torres	7–5, 7–5
Runner-up	10.	27 April 2008	Cremona, Italy	Hard	Horia Tecău	Eduardo Schwank Dušan Vemić	3–6, 2–6
Winner	11.	17 May 2008	Marrakech, Morocco	Clay	Frederico Gil	James Auckland Jamie Delgado	6–2, 6–3
Winner	12.	29 June 2008	Constanța, Romania	Clay	Horia Tecău	Júlio Silva Simone Vagnozzi	6–4, 6–2
Runner-up	13.	3 August 2008	Timișoara, Romania	Clay	Adrian Cruciat	Daniel Muñoz-de la Nava Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo	6–3, 4–6, [9–11]
Runner-up	14.	21 June 2009	Constanța, Romania	Clay	Adrian Cruciat	Adrián García David Marrero	6–7(5–7), 2–6
Winner	15.	10 September 2011	Brașov, Romania	Clay	Victor Anagnastopol	Dušan Lojda Benoît Paire	6–2, 6–3
Runner-up	16.	21 April 2012	Rome, Italy	Clay	Andrei Dăescu	Dustin Brown Jonathan Marray	4–6, 6–7(0–7)
Runner-up	17.	14 July 2012	Timișoara, Romania	Clay	Andrei Dăescu	Goran Tošić Denis Zivkovic	2–6, 5–7
Winner	18.	29 July 2012	Oberstaufen, Germany	Clay	Andrei Dăescu	Andrey Kuznetsov Jose Rubin Statham	7–6(7–4), 7–6(7–1)
Runner-up	19.	18 August 2012	Cordenons, Italy	Clay	Philipp Marx	Lukáš Dlouhý Michal Mertiňák	7–5, 5–7, [7–10]
Winner	20.	25 August 2012	Segovia, Spain	Hard	Stefano Ianni	Konstantin Kravchuk Frank Moser	6–2, 6–3
Winner	21.	1 September 2012	Como, Italy	Clay	Philipp Marx	Colin Ebelthite Jaroslav Pospíšil	6–4, 4–6, [10–4]
Winner	22.	14 October 2012	Rennes, France	Hard	Philipp Marx	Tomasz Bednarek Mateusz Kowalczyk	6–3, 6–2
Runner-up	23.	4 November 2012	Geneva, Switzerland	Clay	Philipp Marx	Johan Brunström Raven Klaasen	6–7(2–7), 7–6(7–5), [5–10]
Runner-up	24.	11 November 2012	Bratislava, Slovakia	Hard	Philipp Marx	Lukáš Dlouhý Michail Elgin	7–6(7–5), 2–6, [6–10]
Runner-up	25.	3 March 2013	Cherbourg, France	Hard	Philipp Marx	Sanchai Ratiwatana Sonchat Ratiwatana	5–7, 4–6
Runner-up	26.	24 March 2013	Rimouski, Canada	Hard	Philipp Marx	Samuel Groth John-Patrick Smith	6–7(5–7), 6–7(7–9)
Runner-up	27.	31 March 2013	Le Gosier, Guadeloupe	Hard	Philipp Marx	Dudi Sela Jimmy Wang	1–6, 2–6
Runner-up	28.	11 May 2013	Rome, Italy	Clay	Philipp Marx	Andre Begemann Martin Emmrich	6–7(4–7), 3–6
Runner-up	29.	10 August 2013	City of San Marino, San Marino	Clay	Daniele Bracciali	Nicholas Monroe Simon Stadler	2–6, 4–6
Winner	30.	7 October 2013	Rennes, France	Hard(I)	Oliver Marach	Nicholas Monroe Simon Stadler	6-4, 3–6, 10-7
Winner	31.	28 October 2013	Geneva, Switzerland	Hard(I)	Oliver Marach	Frantisek Cermak Philipp Oswald	6-4, 6–3

External links

• Florin Mergea at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Florin Mergea at the International Tennis Federation
• Florin Mergea at the Davis Cup

v t e Association of Tennis Professionals: Top ten Romanian male doubles tennis players as of 27 January 2014 1. Horia Tecău (28 5) 2. Florin Mergea (58 4) 3. Alexandru-Daniel Carpen (360 2) 4. Victor Hănescu (438 158) 5. Petru-Alexandru Luncanu (665 1) 6. Teodor-Dacian Crăciun (671 ) 7. Andrei Dăescu (757 3) 8. Tudor Șulea (761 3) 9. Victor Crivoi (774 2) 10. Patrick Grigoriu (865 6)