Radu Albot


Radu Albot is a Moldovan professional tennis player. He is the first player from Moldova to win ATP singles and doubles titles.
Albot has won 1 ATP World Tour singles title, 1 ATP World Tour doubles title, 7 singles and 8 doubles Challenger titles in his career, as well as 14 singles and 7 doubles Futures titles. He has been a regular member of the Moldovan Davis Cup team since 2007 and holds his country's records for the most singles wins and total wins.
His ATP singles ranking of No. 99 on August 3, 2015 made him the first Moldovan to break into the top 100. Albot achieved a career high ranking of No. 39 on August 5, 2019. He finished in Top 100 in the year-end rankings for the past three years.

Tennis career

2013-2016: First ATP doubles title

Radu Albot has achieved many firsts for a Moldovan professional tennis player. In September 2013 he won the ATP Challenger event in Fergana, Uzbekistan, becoming the first player from his country to win an ATP Challenger tournament. At the 2014 US Open, he won three straight matches in the men's qualifying tournament to gain a berth in the main draw, becoming the first Moldovan to play in the main draw of a Grand Slam Tournament.
In May 2015, Albot teamed up with Dusan Lajovic to win the doubles title at the inaugural 2015 Istanbul Open, becoming the first Moldovan to win an ATP Tour level event. In October 2015, Albot together with his doubles partner František Čermák managed to reach the 2015 Kremlin Cup final, being defeated by Andrey Rublev and Dmitry Tursunov in the decisive set. In June 2016, he qualified for the 2016 Wimbledon Championships and won his first Grand Slam match in 4 attempts, defeating Gastao Elias in the first round.

2017-2019: First ATP singles title

In June 2017, Radu Albot reached the quarter-finals of the 2017 Antalya Open beating Joao Sousa and Paolo Lorenzi, before losing to Andreas Seppi in straight sets. In the same year, he played for the first time in the main draw of all four Grand Slam tournaments. He received direct entry into the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon tournaments. Albot qualified for the 2015 US Open tournament and won two main draw matches before being defeated by Sam Querrey in the third round, his best singles finish at a Grand Slam to date. He equalled this achievement at the 2018 Wimbledon Championships, defeating Pablo Carreno Busta in the first round before eventually losing in the third round to John Isner.
In February 2018, Radu Albot reached the quarter-finals of the 2018 New York Open, winning matches against Bjorn Fratangelo and John Isner, but being eliminated by Kei Nishikori in the decisive third set. In September 2018, he reached his first ATP Tour level singles semifinals at the 2018 Moselle Open where he lost against the eventual tournament champion, Gilles Simon. At the 2018 US Open, he and partner Malek Jaziri reached the doubles semifinals.
In early February 2019, Radu Albot reached the semifinals of the 2019 Open Sud de France tournament, beating Philipp Kohlschreiber, Ernests Gulbis and Marcos Baghdatis, before losing to the eventual tournament champion Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. In late February 2019, he won the 2019 Delray Beach Open, making history as the first Moldovan to win an ATP singles title, knocking out Ivo Karlovic, Nick Kyrgios, Steve Johnson and Mackenzie McDonald. In the final he defeated Dan Evans of Great Britain in a closely fought three-set match. In May 2019, Albot reached the 2019 Geneva Open semifinal losing in the penultimate round against Nicolás Jarry. In August, 2019 he reached his third semifinal of the year at the 2019 Los Cabos Open, losing to Taylor Fritz. His three victories in the tournament put him at a total of 25 for the year, his most ATP tour wins in a season.

ATP career finals

Singles: 1 (1 title)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Win1–02019 Delray Beach Open – Singles|Delray Beach Open, United States250 SeriesHard Dan Evans3–6, 6–3, 7–6

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

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Win1–02015 Istanbul Open – Doubles|Istanbul Open, Turkey250 SeriesClay Dušan Lajović Robert Lindstedt
Jürgen Melzer		6–4, 7–6
Loss1–12015 Kremlin Cup – Men's Doubles|Kremlin Cup, Russia250 SeriesHard František Čermák Andrey Rublev
Dmitry Tursunov		6–2, 1–6,

ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Tour Titles

Singles (21)

No.DateTournamentSurfaceOpponent in the finalScore
1.11 October 2010AntalyaHard Denys Molchanov6–3, 4–6, 7–5
2.21 February 2011AntalyaClay Ruan Roelofse7–5, 6–4
3.28 March 2011AntalyaHard Alejandro González7–5, 6–3
4.4 April 2011AntalyaHard Yannik Reuter6–3, 7–6
5.11 April 2011AntalyaHard Peter Gojowczyk6–3, 6–2
6.23 May 2011CesenaClay Walter Trusendi2–6, 6–2, 7–6
7.20 February 2012AntalyaHard Aleksandr Lobkov7–6, 6–3
8.27 February 2012AntalyaHard Ádám Kellner7–6, 6–2
9.26 March 2012AntalyaHard Sergio Gutierrez-Ferrol6–1, 6–3
10.16 April 2012AntalyaHard Tomislav Brkić6–1, 4–6, 6–1
11.23 April 2012AntalyaHard Tomislav Brkić3–6, 6–4, 7–6
12.28 May 2012BacăuClay Roman Borvanov7–5, 6–4
13.26 February 2013AntalyaHard Reid Carleton6–1, 6–4
14.5 March 2013AntalyaHard Marsel İlhan6–3, 3–6, 7–6
15.29 September 2013Fergana, UzbekistanHard Ilija Bozoljac7–6, 6–7, 6–1
16.28 February 2015Kolkata, IndiaHard James Duckworth7–6, 6–1
17.5 June 2016Furth, GermanyHard Jan-Lennard Struff6–3, 6–4
18.19 June 2016Fergana, UzbekistanHard Konstantin Kravchuk6–4, 6–2
19.17 July 2016Poznań, PolandClay Clement Geens6–2, 6–4
20.5 November 2017Shenzhen, ChinaHard Hubert Hurkacz7–6, 6–7, 6–4
21.28 October 2018Liuzhou International Challenger, ChinaHard Miomir Kecmanović6–2, 4–6, 6–3

Doubles (15)

No.DateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponents in the finalScore
1.28 July 2008OradeaClay Andrei Ciumac Steven Goh
Zakary van Min		7–6, 6–7,
2.11 May 2009BucharestClay Andrei Ciumac Florin Mergea
Costin Pavăl		6–1, 6–2
3.31 August 2009KemptenClay Jiří Školoudík James Lemke
Richard Waite		6–1, 6–2
4.24 May 2010PiteștiClay Andrei Ciumac Ivan Anikanov
Artem Smirnov		2–6, 6–3,
5.7 March 2011AntalyaClay Denys Molchanov Roman Jebavý
Adrian Sikora		6–7, 6–3,
6.16 May 2011AostaClay Yasutaka Uchiyama Hiroki Moriya
Shuichi Sekiguchi		4–6, 7–5,
7.14 April 2012Mersin, TurkeyClay Denys Molchanov Alessandro Motti
Simone Vagnozzi		6–0, 6–2
8.5 May 2012Ostrava, Czech RepublicClay Teymuraz Gabashvili Adam Pavlásek
Jiří Veselý		7–5, 5–7,
9.21 October 2013Kazan, RussiaHard Farrukh Dustov Egor Gerasimov
Dzmitry Zhyrmont		6–2, 6–7,
10.3 March 2014GuangzhouHard Christopher Rungkat Claudio Grassi
Ricadro Ghedin		1–6, 7–5,
11.7 April 2014Mersin, TurkeyClay Jaroslav Pospíšil Thomas Fabbiano
Matteo Viola		7–6, 6–1
12.10 May 2014Rome, ItalyClay Artem Sitak Andrea Arnaboldi
Flavio Cipolla		4–6, 6–2,
13.20 July 2014Poznań, PolandClay Adam Pavlásek Tomasz Bednarek
Henri Kontinen		7–5, 2–6,
14.10 August 2014San Marino, San MarinoClay Enrique López-Pérez Franko Škugor
Adrian Ungur		6–4, 6–1
15.15 February 2015Launceston, AustraliaHard Mitchell Krueger Adam Hubble
Jose Rubin Statham		3–6, 7–5,

Performance timelines

''Current through 2019 Rolex Shanghai Masters

Singles

Doubles

Singles performances (28–8)

Doubles performances (13-9)

Record against top-10 players

Top 10 wins

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