Alexandra Cadanțu

Alexandra Cadanțu

Full name	Alexandra Cadanțu
Country (sports)	Romania
Residence	Bucharest, Romania
Born	(1990-05-03) 3 May 1990 Bucharest, Romania
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Retired	Active
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$732,372
Singles
Career record	254–175
Career titles	0 WTA, 8 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 59 (January 6, 2014)
Current ranking	No. 286 (August 17, 2015)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	1R (2012, 2013, 2014)
French Open	1R (2012, 2013)
Wimbledon	2R (2013)
US Open	1R (2012, 2013)
Doubles
Career record	100–101
Career titles	1 WTA, 6 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 101 (June 11, 2012)
Current ranking	No. 332 (August 17, 2014)
Grand Slam Doubles results
French Open	1R (2012)
Wimbledon	1R (2012)
US Open	1R (2012)
Last updated on: 15 July 2013.

Alexandra Cadanțu (born 3 May 1990) is a professional Romanian tennis player playing in the ITF Women's Circuit. In January 2014, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 59. Her highest doubles ranking was No. 101 on 11 June 2012. She started tennis at the age of 3 and she is coached by Bogdan Popovici.

At the Grand Slam tennis tournaments, Cadanțu has won only one match, at the 2013 Wimbledon Championships.

Personal life

Alexandra Cadantu was born in Bucharest, Romania. She began playing tennis at age 3 and she's coached by Artemon Apostu, Adrian Gavrila and Adrian Cruciat. Her favourite surface is clay. Speaks Romanian, English and Spanish. Alexandra's goal is to reach Top 50 soon.

Career

2013

Cadanțu at the 2013 Open GDF Suez de Cagnes-sur-Mer Alpes-Maritimes

Cadantu started the year in Shenzhen. But was defeated by Bojana Jovanovski in the first round, 6–3 6–1. Her next tournament was in Sydney where she was defeated in the first qualifying round by Olga Puchkova, 6–2 6–4. Alexandra then lost to Heather Watson in the Australian Open first round, 2–6 6–3 6–2.

In February, she won her first match for the season in Cali, Colombia – defeating Laura Pous Tió, 3–6 6–3 6–1. But then she lost in the second round to Sesil Karatantcheva, 6–4 5–7 6–2. Reached quarter-finals in Bogotá, Colombia, defeating Maria Joao Koehler in the first round, 6–0 6–3, and Tereza Mrdeža in the second round, 4–6 6–3 6–4. She then fell in the QFs to Jelena Janković, 6–2 6–1. Then, in Acapulco, Mexico, Cadantu was defeated by Sara Errani in the first round, 6–3 6–2. In March, she fell in Miami first qualifying round to Stefanie Vögele, 6–3 6–3. She then lost to Madison Keys in the first round of Charleston, USA, 7–6 6–4.

She reached the SFs in Katowice, Poland in April, where she lost to Petra Kvitová, 6–0 6–4. On her road to the SFs, she defeated Yuliya Beygelzimer (7–5 6–2), Katarzyna Kawa (6–2 6–3), Raluca Olaru (6–0 6–0), Sabine Lisicki (7–5 6–2), Irina-Camelia Begu (4–6 6–3 6–4), and Shahar Pe'er (5–7 6–3 6–3). She has also reached the semifinals at the 2013 Budapest Grand Prix, where she lost in straight sets (2–6 6–7) to compatriot Simona Halep and eventual winner of the tournament.

2014

Cadantu started the year in Auckland when she had to retire in her first round 6–1 4–0 down against Kurumi Nara. She also fell at the first round in Hobart – losing to Olivia Rogowska 7–6 6–1, Australian Open – losing to Flavia Pennetta 6-0 6-2 and in Rio de Janeiro – losing to Teliana Pereira 6-3 6-4.

Then things started to improve with a quarter-final at Florinopolis beatin wildcard Gabriela Cé 6-1 6-3 in the first round and Dinah Pfizenmaier 6-2 6-3 in the second before losing to Yaroslava Shvedova 6-3 6-3. She fell in the first round at Indian Wells and Miami, losing to rising stars Coco Vandeweghe and Zarina Diyas respectively. In Katowice she beat Yanina Wickmayer 3-6 6-1 6-1 before losing a tight three-set match to the third seed Carla Suárez Navarro 2-6 6-4 6-4. She then had a nine-match losing streak which included the French Open and Wimbledon which she snapped at the ITF 100k Contrexéville. She won the doubles title at Bucharest alongside countrywoman Ana Bogdan in her home city; they beat Çağla Büyükakçay and Karin Knapp in the final. Later in the year she reached the quarter-finals at ITF Saint-Malo, Monterrey and Victoria.

WTA career finals

Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Outcome	No.	Date	Championship	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	26 February 2012	Monterrey Open, Monterrey, Mexico	Hard	Tímea Babos	4–6, 4–6

Doubles: 2 (1 title, 2 runner-up)

Outcome	No.	Date	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	28 April 2012	Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem, Fes, Morocco	Clay	Irina-Camelia Begu	Petra Cetkovská Alexandra Panova	6–3, 6–7(5–7), [9–11]
Winner	1.	13 July 2014	BRD Bucharest Open, Bucharest, Romania	Clay	Elena Bogdan	Çağla Büyükakçay Karin Knapp	6–4, 3–6, [10–5]
Runner-up	2.	17 July 2016	BRD Bucharest Open, Bucharest, Romania	Clay	Katarzyna Piter	Jessica Moore Varatchaya Wongteanchai	3–6, 6–7(5–7)

ITF Circuit finals

Singles finals: 24 (9–15)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	10 September 2006	Bucharest 6, Romania	Clay	Irina-Camelia Begu	6–3, 1–6, 6–3
Winner	2.	15 July 2007	Bucharest 5, Romania	Clay	Ioana Gaspar	6–2, 6–3
Runner-up	1.	19 August 2007	Constanţa, Romania	Clay	Corina Corduneanu	6–7(5–7), 6–3, 1–6
Runner-up	2.	2 September 2007	Hunedoara, Romania	Clay	Elora Dabija	6–7(4–7), 6–4, 2–6
Runner-up	3.	16 March 2008	Cairo 1, Egypt	Clay	Elena Chalova	2–6, 3–6
Runner-up	4.	3 August 2008	Arad, Romania	Clay	Pálma Király	3–6, 2–6
Runner-up	5.	7 March 2010	Madrid 2, Spain	Clay	Elisa Balsamo	1–6, 4–6
Winner	3.	23 May 2010	Bucharest 1, Romania	Clay	Diana Enache	6–2, 6–4
Winner	4.	30 May 2010	Craiova, Romania	Clay	Mădălina Gojnea	5–7, 6–3, 6–0
Runner-up	6.	5 September 2010	Balş, Romania	Clay	Mihaela Buzărnescu	3–6, 2–6
Winner	5.	24 October 2010	Ain Sukhna, Egypt	Clay	Zuzana Zlochová	6–2, 6–3
Winner	6.	21 November 2010	Niterói, Brazil	Clay	Julia Cohen	6–1, 1–6, 6–1
Runner-up	7.	27 November 2010	Barueri, Brazil	Hard	Conny Perrin	0–5, ret.
Winner	7.	5 December 2010	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Clay	Julia Cohen	6–1, 6–3
Runner-up	8.	16 January 2011	Plantation, Florida, United States	Clay	Sharon Fichman	3–6, 6–7(2–7)
Runner-up	8.	29 May 2011	Grado, Italy	Clay	Ajla Tomljanović	2–6, 4–6
Runner-up	10.	25 June 2011	Kristinehamn, Sweden	Clay	Jana Čepelová	4–6, 6–3, 4–6
Winner	8.	11 September 2011	Biella, Italy	Clay	Mariana Duque	6–4, 6–3
Runner-up	11.	2 October 2011	Telavi, Georgia	Clay	Alexandra Panova	6–4, 1–6, 1–6
Runner-up	12.	29 July 2012	Olomouc, Czech Republic	Clay	María-Teresa Torró-Flor	2–6, 3–6
Runner-up	13.	19 May 2013	Prague, Czech Republic	Clay	Lucie Šafářová	6–3 1–6 1–6
Runner-up	14.	6 April 2015	Chiasso, Switzerland	Clay	Réka-Luca Jani	6–3, 3–6, 6–7(6–8)
Winner	9.	14 June 2015	Galați, Romania	Clay	Cristina Dinu	6–4, 6–7(2–7), 6–3
Runner-up	15.	26 September 2015	Bucha, Ukraine	Clay	Kristína Kučová	6–4, 6–7(5–7), 0–6

Doubles finals: 17 (9–8)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent	Score
Runners-up	1.	25 May 2008	Galaţi, Romania	Clay	Antonia Xenia Tout	Kristína Kučová Valentina Sulpizio	0–6, 2–6
Runners-up	2.	10 May 2009	Wiesbaden, Germany	Clay	Alexandra Stuparu	Leonie Mekel Pauline Wong	1–6, 3–6
Runners-up	3.	12 December 2009	Benicarló, Spain	Clay	Diana Enache	Romina Oprandi Laura Pous Tió	4–6, 3–6
Winners	1.	18 April 2010	Bol, Croatia	Clay	Alexandra Damaschin	Chantal Škamlová Romana Tabaková	6–2, 1–6, [10–5]
Winners	2.	25 April 2010	Šibenik, Croatia	Clay	Dalia Zafirova	Maria Abramović Mădălina Gojnea	6–2, 6–3
Winners	3.	28 May 2010	Craiova, Romania	Clay	Alexandra Damaschin	Tanya Germanlieva Dessislava Mladenova	6–3, 6–3
Winners	4.	3 September 2010	Balş, Romania	Clay	Alexandra Damaschin	Martina Gledacheva Valentina Sulpizio	6–3, 7–5
Winners	5.	30 June 2011	Ystad, Sweden	Clay	Diana Enache	Mervana Jugić-Salkić Emma Laine	6–4, 2–6, [10–5]
Winners	6.	2 September 2011	Mamaia, Romania	Clay	Elena Bogdan	Marina Shamayko Sofia Shapatava	6–2, 6–2
Runners-up	4.	16 September 2011	Sofia, Bulgaria	Clay	Raluca Olaru	Nina Bratchikova Darija Jurak	4–6, 5–7
Runners-up	5.	11 February 2012	Cali, Colombia	Clay	Raluca Olaru	Karin Knapp Mandy Minella	4–6, 3–6
Winners	7.	26 September 2014	Podgorica, Montenegro	Clay	Stephanie Vogt	Xenia Knoll Arantxa Rus	6–1, 3-6, [10-2]
Winners	8.	25 October 2015	Joué-lès-Tours, France	Hard (i)	Cristina Dinu	Viktorija Golubic Alice Matteucci	7–5, 6–3
Winners	9.	9 November 2015	Équeurdreville, France	Hard (i)	Lesley Kerkhove	Elizaveta Ianchuk Sherazad Reix	6–3, 6–4
Runners-up	6.	24 September 2016	Saint-Malo, France	Clay	Jaqueline Cristian	Lina Gjorcheska Diāna Marcinkēviča	6–3, 3–6, [8–10]
Runners-up	7.	23 October 2016	Joué-lès-Tours, France	Hard (i)	Ekaterina Yashina	Ivana Jorović Lesley Kerkhove	3–6, 5–7
Runners-up	8.	30 October 2016	Poitiers, France	Hard (i)	Nicola Geuer	Nao Hibino Alicja Rosolska	0–6, 0–6

Head-to-head vs. top 20

Players who have been ranked World No. 1 in boldface

Players who have been ranked in the World Top 20, but not in the World Top 10, in italic

Singles performance timeline

Doubles performance timeline

External links

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