Florin Mergea

Florin Mergea

Mergea at the 2016 French Open
Country (sports)	Romania
Residence	Bucharest, 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	$1,437,968
Singles
Career record	3–3
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 243 (9 May 2005)
Current ranking	N/A
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	Q2 (2006)
Wimbledon	Q2 (2004)
US Open	Q1 (2005)
Doubles
Career record	131–94
Career titles	6
Highest ranking	No. 7 (13 July 2015)
Current ranking	No. 26 (7 November 2016)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	QF (2015)
French Open	SF (2014)
Wimbledon	SF (2015)
US Open	QF (2015)
Other doubles tournaments
Tour Finals	F (2015)
Mixed doubles
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
Australian Open	2R (2015)
French Open	2R (2015)
Wimbledon	3R (2014)
US Open	1R (2014, 2015)
Medal record Representing  Romania Men's Tennis 2016 Rio de Janeiro Doubles
Last updated on: 7 November 2016.

Florin Mergea (Romanian pronunciation: [floˈrin ˈmerd͡ʒe̯a]; born 26 January 1985) is a Romanian tennis player and a doubles specialist. He has reached the final of the ATP World Tour Finals in 2015 and won an ATP Masters title at the Mutua Madrid Open earlier that year. He achieved a career-high ATP ranking of World No. 7 in doubles (July, 2015) and World No. 243 in singles (May 2005).

His current doubles partner is Rohan Bopanna. Florin Mergea is presently coached by Alex Pop-Moldovan and managed by the McCartney Group, Vienna.

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). Along the way, he beat future top ten singles players like Andy Murray, Tomas Berdych, Gaël Monfils and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.^[1] As well as winning the Boys' Singles at Wimbledon in 2003 and being runner-up in the Boys' Singles tournament at the 2003 Australian Open, he won the Boys' Doubles in 2002 alongside compatriot Horia Tecău.

Seniors

The transition to the seniors tour proved difficult for Mergea. After turning pro in 2003, he struggled to make a breakthrough. Injuries hampered his career and in spite of reaching no. 103 in the doubles rankings, his lack of singles success and limited support drained his motivation. In 2010, Mergea decided to retire from tennis, a decision he turned around months later, with the help of his wife, Daiana. With renewed focus on the doubles game, his rankings rose steadily, playing alongside the likes of Andrei Daescu and Philipp Marx. After reaching thirteen challenger finals within little over a year, Mergea won his first ATP title in October 2013, when he teamed up with Lukas Rosol for the Erste Bank Open, Vienna.^[2]

Tour success continued in 2014, as he won the Royal Guard Open in Vina del Mar, with veteran Oliver Marach, and his first ATP 500 title at the International German Open in Hamburg, with Marin Draganja. Furthermore, siding with the Croatian, Mergea reached the French Open semifinal.

After starting 2015 with Dominic Inglot and reaching two finals, his injury plagued British partner needed time to recover. This gave way to the formation of his partnership with Rohan Bopanna, whom he had played with successfully at the Shanghai Masters the previous season. Together, they found consistency in their results, while winning the Madrid Masters and the Mercedes Cup in Stuttgart. In November, the team were the last to qualify for the ATP World Tour Finals.^[3] There, in spite of their seeding, they reached the final against the year-end number one team of Mergea's Davis Cup and former juniors' partner, Horia Tecău, who played alongside Jean Julien Rojer.

Significant finals

Year-End Championships

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	2015	London	Hard (i)	Rohan Bopanna	Jean-Julien Rojer Horia Tecău	4–6, 3–6

Masters 1000 finals

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

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	2015	Madrid	Clay	Rohan Bopanna	Marcin Matkowski Nenad Zimonjić	6–2, 6–7(5–7), [11–9]
Runner-up	2016	Madrid	Clay	Rohan Bopanna	Jean-Julien Rojer Horia Tecău	4-6, 6-7(5-7)

ATP career finals

Doubles: 14 (6 titles, 7 runners-up)

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
Winner	2.	9 February 2014	Royal Guard Open, Viña del Mar, Chile	Clay	Olivier Marach	Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah	6–3, 6–4
Winner	3.	20 July 2014	International German Open, Hamburg, Germany	Clay	Marin Draganja	Alexander Peya Bruno Soares	6–4, 7–5
Runner-up	1.	17 January 2015	Heineken Open, Auckland, New Zealand	Hard	Dominic Inglot	Raven Klaasen Leander Paes	6–7(1–7), 4–6
Runner-up	2.	8 February 2015	Open Sud de France, Montpellier, France	Hard (i)	Dominic Inglot	Marcus Daniell Artem Sitak	6–3, 4–6, [14–16]
Runner-up	3.	11 April 2015	Grand Prix Hassan II, Casablanca, Morocco	Clay	Rohan Bopanna	Rameez Junaid Adil Shamasdin	6–3, 2–6, [7–10]
Winner	4.	10 May 2015	Madrid Open, Madrid, Spain	Clay	Rohan Bopanna	Marcin Matkowski Nenad Zimonjić	6–2, 6–7(5–7), [11–9]
Winner	5.	14 June 2015	MercedesCup, Stuttgart, Germany	Grass	Rohan Bopanna	Alexander Peya Bruno Soares	5–7, 6–2, [10–7]
Runner-up	4.	21 June 2015	Gerry Weber Open, Halle, Germany	Grass	Rohan Bopanna	Raven Klaasen Rajeev Ram	6–7(5–7), 2–6
Runner-up	5.	22 November 2015	ATP World Tour Finals, London, United Kingdom	Hard (i)	Rohan Bopanna	Jean-Julien Rojer Horia Tecău	4–6, 3–6
Runner-up	6.	16 January 2016	Apia International Sydney, Sydney, Australia	Hard	Rohan Bopanna	Jamie Murray Bruno Soares	3–6, 6–7(6–8)
Winner	6.	25 April 2016	BRD Năstase Țiriac Trophy, Bucharest, Romania	Clay	Horia Tecău	Chris Guccione André Sá	7–5, 6–4
Runner-up	7.	8 May 2016	Mutua Madrid Open, Madrid, Spain	Clay	Rohan Bopanna	Jean-Julien Rojer Horia Tecău	4-6, 6-7(5-7)
Runner-Up	8.	12 August 2016	Summer Olympics, Rio	Hard	Horia Tecău	Marc López Rafael Nadal	2-6, 6-3, 4-6

Doubles performance timeline

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

References

External links

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

Association of Tennis Professionals: Top ten Romanian male doubles tennis players as of 14 November 2016
1. Horia Tecău (19 ) 2. Florin Mergea (26 ) 3. Cătălin-Ionuț Gârd (345 6) 4. Victor Vlad Cornea (357 2) 5. Victor-Mugurel Anagnastopol (394 2)
6. Petru-Alexandru Luncanu (400 4) 7. Mircea-Alexandru Jecan (402 4) 8. Marius Copil (406 2) 9. Vasile Antonescu (441 3) 10. Nicolae Frunza (509 2)