Florin Mergea
Florin Mergea 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 and World No. 243 in singles.
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. Along the way, he beat future top ten singles players like Andy Murray, Tomas Berdych, Gaël Monfils and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.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.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. 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)
Masters 1000 finals
Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)
Olympic Final
Doubles: 1 final (1 silver medal)
ATP career finals
Doubles: 15 (7 titles, 8 runners-up)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
| Win | 1–0 | 2013 Erste Bank Open – Doubles| | Vienna Open, Austria | 250 Series | Hard |  Lukáš Rosol |  Daniel Nestor Julian Knowle | 7–5, 6–4 |
| Win | 2–0 | 2014 Royal Guard Open – Doubles| | Chile Open, Chile | 250 Series | Clay | Oliver Marach |  Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah | 6–3, 6–4 |
| Win | 3–0 | 2014 International German Open – Doubles| | German Open, Germany | 500 Series | Clay |  Marin Draganja | Alexander Peya Bruno Soares | 6–4, 7–5 |
| Loss | 3–1 | 2015 Heineken Open – Doubles| | Auckland Open, New Zealand | 250 Series | Hard |  Dominic Inglot |  Raven Klaasen Leander Paes | 6–7, 4–6 |
| Loss | 3–2 | 2015 Open Sud de France – Doubles| | Open Sud de France, France | 250 Series | Hard | Dominic Inglot |  Marcus Daniell Artem Sitak | 6–3, 4–6, |
| Loss | 3–3 | 2015 Grand Prix Hassan II – Doubles| | Grand Prix Hassan II, Morocco | 250 Series | Clay | Rohan Bopanna |  Rameez Junaid Adil Shamasdin | 6–3, 2–6, |
| Win | 4–3 | 2015 Mutua Madrid Open – Men's Doubles| | Madrid Open, Spain | Masters 1000 | Clay | Rohan Bopanna |  Marcin Matkowski Nenad Zimonjić | 6–2, 6–7, |
| Win | 5–3 | 2015 MercedesCup – Doubles| | Stuttgart Open, Germany | 250 Series | Grass | Rohan Bopanna | Alexander Peya Bruno Soares | 5–7, 6–2, |
| Loss | 5–4 | 2015 Gerry Weber Open – Doubles| | Halle Open, Germany | 500 Series | Grass | Rohan Bopanna | Raven Klaasen Rajeev Ram | 6–7, 2–6 |
| Loss | 5–5 | 2015 ATP World Tour Finals – Doubles| | ATP World Tour Finals, United Kingdom | Tour Finals | Hard | Rohan Bopanna |  Jean-Julien Rojer Horia Tecău | 4–6, 3–6 |
| Loss | 5–6 | 2016 Apia International Sydney – Men's Doubles| | Sydney International, Australia | 250 Series | Hard | Rohan Bopanna | Jamie Murray Bruno Soares | 3–6, 6–7 |
| Win | 6–6 | 2016 BRD Năstase Țiriac Trophy – Doubles| | Romanian Open, Romania | 250 Series | Clay | Horia Tecău | Chris Guccione André Sá | 7–5, 6–4 |
| Loss | 6–7 | 2016 Mutua Madrid Open – Men's Doubles| | Madrid Open, Spain | Masters 1000 | Clay | Rohan Bopanna | Jean-Julien Rojer Horia Tecău | 4–6, 6–7 |
| Loss | 6–8 | Tennis at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's Doubles| | Olympic Games, Brazil | Olympics | Hard | Horia Tecău |  Marc López Rafael Nadal | 2–6, 6–3, 4–6 |
| Win | 7–8 | 2017 Barcelona Open Banco Sabadell – Doubles| | Barcelona Open, Spain | 500 Series | Clay |  Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi |  Philipp Petzschner Alexander Peya | 6–4, 6–3 |
Doubles performance timeline
Challenger career finals
Doubles finals: 35 (17–18)
| 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, 6–3, 6–0 |
| Runner-up | 4. | 2 July 2006 | Constanța, Romania | Clay | Horia Tecău |  Konstantinos Economidis  Jean-Julien Rojer | 6–7, 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, |
| 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 | 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, |
| Runner-up | 14. | 21 June 2009 | Constanța, Romania | Clay | Adrian Cruciat |  Adrián García David Marrero | 6–7, 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 |
| 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, 7–6 |
| Runner-up | 19. | 18 August 2012 | Cordenons, Italy | Clay | Philipp Marx | Lukáš Dlouhý  Michal Mertiňák | 7–5, 5–7, |
| 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, |
| 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, 7–6, |
| Runner-up | 24. | 11 November 2012 | Bratislava, Slovakia | Hard | Philipp Marx | Lukáš Dlouhý Michail Elgin | 7–6, 2–6, |
| 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, 6–7 |
| 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, 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 | Oliver Marach | Nicholas Monroe Simon Stadler | 6–4, 3–6, 10–7 |
| Winner | 31. | 28 October 2013 | Geneva, Switzerland | Hard | 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, |
| Winner | 33. | 18 August 2019 | Meerbusch, Germany | Clay | Andre Begemann | Sriram Balaji Vishnu Vardhan | 7–6, 6–7, |
| Winner | 34. | 1 September 2019 | Como, Italy | Clay | Andre Begemann | Fabricio Neis Pedro Sousa | 5–7, 7–5, |
| Runner-up | 30. | 02 March 2020 | Pau, France | Hard | Simone Bolelli | Benjamin Bonzi Antoine Hoang | 3–6, 2–6 |