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)
Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Category | Surface | Opponent | Score |
Runner-up | 1. | 24 July 1995 | Maria Lankowitz, Austria | Tier IV | Clay | Judith Wiesner | 6–7, 3–6 |
Winner | 1. | 6 May 1996 | Budapest, Hungary | Tier IV | Clay | Melanie Schnell | 7–6, 6–1 |
Winner | 2. | 9 September 1996 | Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic | Tier IV | Clay | Patty Schnyder | 6–2, 3–6, 6–4 |
Winner | 3. | 18 November 1996 | Pattaya City, Thailand | Tier IV | Hard | Tamarine Tanasugarn | 7–6, 6–4 |
Runner-up | 2. | 28 April 1997 | Hamburg, Germany | Tier II | Clay | Iva Majoli | 3–6, 2–6 |
Winner | 4. | 16 June 1997 | Rosmalen, Netherlands | Tier III | Grass | Miriam Oremans | 5–7, 6–2, 6–4 |
Runner-up | 3. | 11 April 1999 | Amelia Island, United States | Tier II | Clay | Monica Seles | 2–6, 3–6 |
Runner-up | 4. | 25 June 2000 | Rosmalen, Netherlands | Tier II | Grass | Martina Hingis | 2–6, 0–3 ret. |
Doubles: 10 (5 titles, 5 runner-ups)
Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
Winner | 1. | 4 July 1994 | Palermo, Italy | Clay | Laura Garrone | Alice Canepa Giulia Casoni | 6–1, 6–0 |
Winner | 2. | 15 May 1995 | Bournemouth, Great Britain | Clay | Mariaan de Swardt | Kerry-Anne Guse Patricia Hy-Boulais | 6–3, 7–5 |
Runner-up | 1. | 5 January 1997 | Gold Coast, Australia | Hard | Silvia Farina | Naoko Kijimuta Nana Miyagi | 7–6, 6–1 |
Runner-up | 2. | 28 April 1997 | Hamburg, Germany | Clay | Iva Majoli | Anke Huber Mary Pierce | 6–4, 6–7, 2–6 |
Winner | 3. | 14 July 1997 | Prague, Czech Republic | Clay | Karina Habšudová | Eva Martincová Helena Vildová | 6–1, 5–7, 6–2 |
Winner | 4. | 21 July 1997 | Warsaw, Poland | Clay | Inés Gorrochategui | Catherine Barclay Meike Babel | 6–4, 6–0 |
Runner-up | 3. | 10 July 2000 | Palermo, Italy | Clay | Virginia Ruano Pascual | Silvia Farina Elia Rita Grande | 4–6, 6–0, 6–7 |
Runner-up | 4. | 7 January 2001 | Hobart, Australia | Hard | Virginia Ruano Pascual | Elena Likhovtseva Cara Black | 4–6, 1–6 |
Winner | 5. | 18 June 2001 | 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands | Grass | Nadia Petrova | Kim Clijsters Miriam Oremans | 7–6, 6–7, 6–4 |
Runner-up | 5. | 22 July 2001 | Knokke-Heist, Belgium | Clay | 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
- Serena Williams 0-1
- Venus Williams 0-3
- Martina Hingis 0-4
- Lindsay Davenport 0-7
- Anna Kournikova 2-1
- Dominique Monami 1-2
- Kim Clijsters 0-1
- Arantxa Sánchez Vicario 0-5
- Nadia Petrova 2-0