Florin Mergea

Florin Mergea (Romanian pronunciation: [floˈrin ˈmerdʒe̯a]; 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).

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	$1,679,552
Singles
Career record	3–4
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 243 (9 May 2005)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	Q2 (2006)
Wimbledon	Q2 (2004)
US Open	Q1 (2005)
Doubles
Career record	151–119
Career titles	7
Highest ranking	No. 7 (13 July 2015)
Current ranking	No. 136 (16 March 2020)
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: 22 March 2020.

His current doubles partner is fellow Romanian Adrian Barbu. 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)

Olympic Final

Doubles: 1 final (1 silver medal)

Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Silver	2016	Rio de Janeiro	Hard	Horia Tecau	Marc Lopez Rafael Nadal	2–6, 6–3, 4–6

ATP career finals

Doubles: 15 (7 titles, 8 runners-up)

Legend Grand Slam Tournaments (0–0) ATP World Tour Finals (0–1) ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (1–1) Olympic Games (0–1) ATP World Tour 500 Series (2–1) ATP World Tour 250 Series (4–4)

Finals by Surface Hard (1–4) Clay (5–2) Grass (1–1) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Oct 2013	Vienna Open, Austria	250 Series	Hard (i)	Lukáš Rosol	Daniel Nestor Julian Knowle	7–5, 6–4
Win	2–0	Feb 2014	Chile Open, Chile	250 Series	Clay	Oliver Marach	Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah	6–3, 6–4
Win	3–0	Jul 2014	German Open, Germany	500 Series	Clay	Marin Draganja	Alexander Peya Bruno Soares	6–4, 7–5
Loss	3–1	Jan 2015	Auckland Open, New Zealand	250 Series	Hard	Dominic Inglot	Raven Klaasen Leander Paes	6–7^(1–7), 4–6
Loss	3–2	Feb 2015	Open Sud de France, France	250 Series	Hard (i)	Dominic Inglot	Marcus Daniell Artem Sitak	6–3, 4–6, [14–16]
Loss	3–3	Apr 2015	Grand Prix Hassan II, Morocco	250 Series	Clay	Rohan Bopanna	Rameez Junaid Adil Shamasdin	6–3, 2–6, [7–10]
Win	4–3	May 2015	Madrid Open, Spain	Masters 1000	Clay	Rohan Bopanna	Marcin Matkowski Nenad Zimonjić	6–2, 6–7^(5–7), [11–9]
Win	5–3	Jun 2015	Stuttgart Open, Germany	250 Series	Grass	Rohan Bopanna	Alexander Peya Bruno Soares	5–7, 6–2, [10–7]
Loss	5–4	Jun 2015	Halle Open, Germany	500 Series	Grass	Rohan Bopanna	Raven Klaasen Rajeev Ram	6–7^(5–7), 2–6
Loss	5–5	Nov 2015	ATP World Tour Finals, United Kingdom	Tour Finals	Hard (i)	Rohan Bopanna	Jean-Julien Rojer Horia Tecău	4–6, 3–6
Loss	5–6	Jan 2016	Sydney International, Australia	250 Series	Hard	Rohan Bopanna	Jamie Murray Bruno Soares	3–6, 6–7^(6–8)
Win	6–6	Apr 2016	Romanian Open, Romania	250 Series	Clay	Horia Tecău	Chris Guccione André Sá	7–5, 6–4
Loss	6–7	May 2016	Madrid Open, Spain	Masters 1000	Clay	Rohan Bopanna	Jean-Julien Rojer Horia Tecău	4–6, 6–7^(5–7)
Loss	6–8	Aug 2016	Olympic Games, Brazil	Olympics	Hard	Horia Tecău	Marc López Rafael Nadal	2–6, 6–3, 4–6
Win	7–8	Apr 2017	Barcelona Open, Spain	500 Series	Clay	Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	Philipp Petzschner Alexander Peya	6–4, 6–3

Doubles performance timeline

Key

W

F

SF

QF

#R

RR

Q#

A

P

Z#

PO

G

F-S

SF-B

NMS

NH

(W) Won; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (A) absent; (P) postponed; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (F-S) silver or (SF-B) bronze Olympic medal; a (NMS) downgraded Masters Series/1000 tournament; (NH) not held. SR=strike rate (events won/competed)

To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Tournament	2008	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	W–L
Australian Open	A	A	2R	QF	3R	3R	1R	0 / 4
French Open	2R	2R	SF	3R	QF	1R		0 / 6
Wimbledon	A	1R	1R	SF	3R	3R		0 / 5
US Open	A	1R	2R	QF	A	A		0 / 2
Win–Loss	1–1	1–3	6–4	12–4	7–3	4–3		0 / 18
Year End Championships
Tour Finals	Did Not Qualify			F	DNQ			0 / 1
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
Indian Wells	A	A	A	QF	1R	2R	A	0 / 3
Miami	A	A	A	1R	1R	1R	A	0 / 3
Monte Carlo	A	A	A	1R	QF	2R		0 / 3
Madrid (Clay)	A	A	A	W	F	1R		1 / 3
Rome	A	A	A	2R	SF	2R		0 / 3
Canada	A	A	A	2R	SF	A		0 / 2
Cincinnati	A	A	A	QF	2R	A		0 / 2
Shanghai	A	A	SF	A	A	A		0 / 1
Paris	A	A	1R	QF	A	A		0 / 2
Win–Loss	0–0	0–0	3–2	8–7	8–7	3–5		1 / 18
Year End Ranking	115	64	24	11	26	53

Challenger career finals

Doubles finals: 35 (17–18)

Legend Grand Slam tournaments (0–0) ATP World Tour Finals (0–0) ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0) ATP World Tour 500 Series (0–0) ATP World Tour 250 Series (0–0) ATP Challenger Tour (17–18)

Titles by Surface Hard (3–7) Grass (0–0) Clay (12–11) Carpet (0–0)

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
Winner	32.	04 August 2019	Sopot, Poland	Clay	Andre Begemann	Karol Drzewiecki Mateusz Kowalczyk	6–1, 3–6, [10–8]
Winner	33.	18 August 2019	Meerbusch, Germany	Clay	Andre Begemann	Sriram Balaji Vishnu Vardhan	7–6^(7–1), 6–7^(4–7), [10–3]
Winner	34.	1 September 2019	Como, Italy	Clay	Andre Begemann	Fabricio Neis Pedro Sousa	5–7, 7–5, [14–12]
Runner-up	30.	02 March 2020	Pau, France	Hard (i)	Simone Bolelli	Benjamin Bonzi Antoine Hoang	3–6, 2–6

References

1. "Profil Florin Mergea" (in Romanian). tenisdecamp.ro. December 2014.
2. "Portret Florin Mergea" (in Romanian). Decat o Revista. 12 February 2013.
3. "Dodig/Melo Triumph In Paris". www.atpworldtour.com. 8 November 2015.

External links

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