Romanian tennis player

Horia Tecău (Romanian pronunciation::; born January 19, 1985) is a Romanian former professional tennis player who specialised in doubles.

He is a three-time Grand Slam champion, having won the 2015 Wimbledon Championships and 2017 US Open alongside Jean-Julien Rojer in men's doubles, as well as the 2012 Australian Open with Bethanie Mattek-Sands in mixed doubles. Tecău also reached five further Grand Slam finals: at the 2010, 2011 and 2012 Wimbledon Championships with Robert Lindstedt in men's doubles, and at the 2014 and 2016 Australian Opens in mixed doubles.

He reached his career-high doubles ranking of world No. 2 in November 2015, shortly before winning the 2015 ATP Finals with Rojer. Tecău won 38 doubles and one mixed doubles *les on the ATP Tour, including three at Masters 1000 level. He also won the silver medal at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, alongside compatriot Florin Mergea.

Contents

• 1 Career
  • 1.1 2010
  • 1.2 2011
  • 1.3 2012: First Masters 1000 *le, nine more *les, end of three years relationship with Lindstedt
  • 1.4 2013: Three more *les with Mirnyi
  • 1.5 2014-2019: World No. 2, Olympics Silver, Two Grand Slams & ATP Finals & two Masters *les & 15 more *les with Rojer
  • 1.6 2020-2022: Grand Slam semifinal, two quarterfinals, ATP *le, ATP Tour Finals and retirement
• 2 Personal life
• 3 Significant finals
  • 3.1 Grand Slam finals
    • 3.1.1 Doubles: 5 (2 *les, 3 runner-ups)
    • 3.1.2 Mixed doubles: 3 (1 *le, 2 runner-ups)
  • 3.2 Year-end championships
    • 3.2.1 Doubles: 1 (1 *le)
  • 3.3 Masters 1000 finals
    • 3.3.1 Doubles: 6 (3 *les, 3 runner-ups)
  • 3.4 Olympic medal matches
    • 3.4.1 Doubles: 1 (silver medal)
• 4 ATP career finals
  • 4.1 Doubles: 62 (38 *les, 24 runner-ups)
• 5 Performance timelines
  • 5.1 Doubles
  • 5.2 Mixed doubles
• 6 ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
  • 6.1 Singles: 6 (5 *les, 1 runner-up)
  • 6.2 Doubles: 38 (20 *les, 18 runner-ups)
• 7 Junior Grand Slam finals
  • 7.1 Boys' doubles: 4 (2 *les, 2 runner–ups)
• 8 ATP Tour career earnings
• 9 References
• 10 Further reading
• 11 External links

Career

2010

On January 16, 2010, Tecău won his first ATP doubles *le at the Auckland Open, partnering Marcus Daniell.

He showed strong form in early 2010 and won two doubles *les, (one Challenger and one ATP World Tour 250 Series), at Marrakech and Casablanca, which confirmed his good form.

He won his third doubles *le at 's-Hertogenbosch and his second with partner Robert Lindstedt (his first with him came in Casablanca).

At Wimbledon, Tecău reached, for the first time in his career, a Grand Slam doubles final. He and his partner, Robert Lindstedt, defeated the pair of Tommy Robredo and Marcel Granollers in four sets in the quarterfinals and in the semifinals the duo of Juan Ignacio Chela and Eduardo Schwank. In the final, Tecău and Lindstedt were defeated by the pair of Jürgen Melzer and Philipp Petzschner.

At Wimbledon in the mixed doubles, he and his partner, fellow Romanian Monica Niculescu, lost in the second round to Marcelo Melo and Rennae Stubbs.

Horia Tecău at the 2010 US Open

At the Swedish Open, Lindstedt and Tecău won their third *le together winning the final against Andreas Seppi and Simone Vagnozzi.

At the Los Angeles Open, Tecău and Lindstedt were defeated by Eric Butorac and Jean-Julien Rojer in the quarterfinals. At the Washington Open, they were defeated by the pair of Marcos Baghdatis and Stanislas Wawrinka in the first round.

The fifth *le of Tecău's career and fourth partnering Lindstedt came at the Connecticut Open. The final saw them beating Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi, this being their second *le win against the Indian-Pakistani pair.

2011

Horia started season alongside his partner Lindstedt at the Brisbane International. They had a good start and reached the final of the tournament but a calf injury of Lindstedt forced them to retire after just one set and thus losing the match to the Lukáš Dlouhý/Paul Hanley pair. At the Auckland Open, Horia was the defending champion and seeded No. 1 with Robert but they were forced to withdrew due to the Swede's left calf injury sustained just days earlier.

At the Australian Open Horia and Robert were eleventh seed but despite leading 1–0 in the first round match against wildcards Colin Ebelthite and Adam Feeney they were forced to retire yet again due to Robert's injury.

After the year's first Grand Slam, Horia decided to give his partner, Robert, time to recover and paired with experienced doubles player, Belgian Dick Norman, for the Zagreb Indoors. This was a successful choice and they reached the tournament final and won it.

Following the Zagreb *le, Horia paired for the next two tournaments with Austrian Julian Knowle and Pakistani Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi but with little success, exiting both compe*ions after the first round. He then paired with fellow countryman Victor Hănescu for their biggest doubles *le to date, the 500 point Mexican Open. In the final, they beat Brazilians Marcelo Melo and Bruno Soares in straight sets.

In April, Horia and Lindstedt defended their *le in Casablanca, after an impressive display and losing just one set in the first round of the tournament.

He had a good gr*-court season with two finals together with Lindstedt, losing in the final of Wimbledon to the Bryan twins.

At the return to clay, he defended his win at Swedish Open, again with Lindstedt.

2012: First Masters 1000 *le, nine more *les, end of three years relationship with Lindstedt

Tecău playing at the 2012 Romanian Open

Tecău and Bethanie Mattek-Sands won the Australian Open mixed-doubles final on 29 January. He reached the semifinals in men's doubles with Lindstedt and lost to Bob and Mike Bryan in a close three-setter. Together they also reached the final of a Masters 1000 for the first time at the 2012 Mutua Madrid Open.

At the Summer Olympics, Tecău and teammate Adrian Ungur lost in the first round.

In August 2012, Tecău and Lindstedt won the biggest *le together, the Masters 1000 *le at the 2012 Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati.

Tecău and Lindstedt separated in September 2012 after a fruitful three-year relationship where they won a total of 10 *les.

2013: Three more *les with Mirnyi

Tecău paired up with Max Mirnyi for 2013. They reached five finals and won three of them.

2014-2019: World No. 2, Olympics Silver, Two Grand Slams & ATP Finals & two Masters *les & 15 more *les with Rojer

Tecău and his partner Jean-Julien Rojer won 2015 Wimbledon defeating Jamie Murray and John Peers in the final and the 2017 US Open defeating Feliciano Lopez and Marc Lopez in the final.

2020-2022: Grand Slam semifinal, two quarterfinals, ATP *le, ATP Tour Finals and retirement

He qualified with his new partner German Kevin Krawietz on 4 November 2021 for the 2021 ATP Finals with whom he won his 38th *le in Halle. Tecău played his last match at the 2021 ATP Finals before his retirement.However he postponed his retirement when he was called back to play doubles in the 2022 Davis Cup with Marius Copil where they won their match against Spain duo Alejandro Davidovich Fokina and Pedro Martinez (tennis).He was announced as the Billie Jean King Cup captain for Romania in March 2022.

Personal life

Tecău was chosen by Sony Pictures to dub Charles Darwin voice in Romanian in the animated movie “The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!”.

Significant finals

Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 5 (2 *les, 3 runner-ups)

Mixed doubles: 3 (1 *le, 2 runner-ups)

Year-end championships

Doubles: 1 (1 *le)

Masters 1000 finals

Doubles: 6 (3 *les, 3 runner-ups)

Olympic medal matches

Doubles: 1 (silver medal)

ATP career finals

Doubles: 62 (38 *les, 24 runner-ups)

Performance timelines

(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) preliminary round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze Olympic/Paralympic medal; (NMS) not a Masters tournament; (P) postponed; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record. To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Doubles

1 Held as Hamburg Masters (outdoor clay) until 2008, Madrid Masters (outdoor clay) 2009 – present.
2 Held as Stuttgart Masters (indoor hard) until 2001, Madrid Masters (indoor hard) from 2002 to 2008, and Shanghai Masters (outdoor hard) 2009 – present.

Mixed doubles

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 6 (5 *les, 1 runner-up)

Doubles: 38 (20 *les, 18 runner-ups)

Junior Grand Slam finals

Boys' doubles: 4 (2 *les, 2 runner–ups)

ATP Tour career earnings

References

Further reading

• Tecău, Horia (2016). Viața în ritm de tenis (in Romanian). Curtea Veche Publishing. ISBN:978-606-588-920-0.

External links

• Horia Tecău at the *ociation of Tennis Professionals
• Horia Tecău at the International Tennis Federation
• Horia Tecău at the Davis Cup