Ruxandra Dragomir


Ruxandra Dragomir Ilie is a retired tennis player from Romania.
She won four singles and five doubles titles on the WTA Tour during her career. The right-hander reached her highest individual WTA ranking on 25 August 1997, when she became the number 15 of the world. Between 2009 and 2013 she was the president of Romanian Tennis Federation. Her best performance at a Grand Slam tournament came when she got to the quarterfinals of the 1997 French Open, defeating Sonya Jeyaseelan, Yayuk Basuki, Karina Habšudová and Nicole Arendt before losing to eventual champion Iva Majoli.
Dragomir retired from professional tennis in 2005.

WTA career finals

Singles: 8 (4 titles, 4 runner-ups)

OutcomeNo.DateTournamentCategorySurfaceOpponentScore
Runner-up1.24 July 1995Maria Lankowitz, AustriaTier IVClay Judith Wiesner6–7, 3–6
Winner1.6 May 1996Budapest, HungaryTier IVClay Melanie Schnell7–6, 6–1
Winner2.9 September 1996Karlovy Vary, Czech RepublicTier IVClay Patty Schnyder6–2, 3–6, 6–4
Winner3.18 November 1996Pattaya City, ThailandTier IVHard Tamarine Tanasugarn7–6, 6–4
Runner-up2.28 April 1997Hamburg, GermanyTier IIClay Iva Majoli3–6, 2–6
Winner4.16 June 1997Rosmalen, NetherlandsTier IIIGrass Miriam Oremans5–7, 6–2, 6–4
Runner-up3.11 April 1999Amelia Island, United StatesTier IIClay Monica Seles2–6, 3–6
Runner-up4.25 June 2000Rosmalen, NetherlandsTier IIGrass Martina Hingis2–6, 0–3 ret.

Doubles: 10 (5 titles, 5 runner-ups)

OutcomeNo.DateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Winner1.4 July 1994Palermo, ItalyClay Laura Garrone Alice Canepa
Giulia Casoni
6–1, 6–0
Winner2.15 May 1995Bournemouth, Great BritainClay Mariaan de Swardt Kerry-Anne Guse
Patricia Hy-Boulais
6–3, 7–5
Runner-up1.5 January 1997Gold Coast, AustraliaHard Silvia Farina Naoko Kijimuta
Nana Miyagi
7–6, 6–1
Runner-up2.28 April 1997Hamburg, GermanyClay Iva Majoli Anke Huber
Mary Pierce
6–4, 6–7, 2–6
Winner3.14 July 1997Prague, Czech RepublicClay Karina Habšudová Eva Martincová
Helena Vildová
6–1, 5–7, 6–2
Winner4.21 July 1997Warsaw, PolandClay Inés Gorrochategui Catherine Barclay
Meike Babel
6–4, 6–0
Runner-up3.10 July 2000Palermo, ItalyClay Virginia Ruano Pascual Silvia Farina Elia
Rita Grande
4–6, 6–0, 6–7
Runner-up4.7 January 2001Hobart, AustraliaHard Virginia Ruano Pascual Elena Likhovtseva
Cara Black
4–6, 1–6
Winner5.18 June 2001's-Hertogenbosch, NetherlandsGrass Nadia Petrova Kim Clijsters
Miriam Oremans
7–6, 6–7, 6–4
Runner-up5.22 July 2001Knokke-Heist, BelgiumClay Andreea Ehritt-Vanc Virginia Ruano Pascual
Magüi Serna
4–6, 3–6

ITF finals

Singles (7–2)

Doubles (8–6)

Grand Slam singles performance timeline

Head-to-head records