Radu Albot

Radu Albot

Country (sports)	Moldova
Residence	Chișinău, Moldova
Born	(1989-11-11) 11 November 1989 Kishinev, Moldavia, Soviet Union
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Turned pro	2008
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$1,918,145
Singles
Career record	42–63
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 81 (17 April 2017)
Current ranking	No. 100 (8 October 2018)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	1R (2017, 2018)
French Open	2R (2018)
Wimbledon	3R (2018)
US Open	3R (2017)
Doubles
Career record	26–30
Career titles	1
Highest ranking	No. 61 (8 October 2018)
Current ranking	No. 61 (8 October 2018)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	3R (2018)
French Open	QF (2015)
Wimbledon	1R (2015, 2018)
US Open	SF (2018)
Last updated on: 25 September 2018.

Radu Albot (born 11 November 1989) is a Moldovan professional tennis player.

Albot has so far won five singles and eight doubles Challenger titles in his career as well as fourteen singles and seven doubles Futures titles and one ATP World Tour doubles title. He has been a regular member of the Moldova Davis Cup team since 2007.

Tennis career

Albot has achieved a number of 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 in Flushing, N.Y. 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. He qualified for Wimbledon in 2016 and won his first Grand Slam match in 4 attempts, defeating Gastao Elias of Portugal in the first round. He lost in the second round to #19 seed Bernard Tomic of Australia in 4 sets.

In May, 2015 he teamed with Dusan Lajovic to win the doubles title at the inaugural Istanbul Open in Istanbul, Turkey, becoming the only Moldovan to win an ATP World Tour level event. At the 2015 French Open he partnered with Lukas Rosol and reached the quarterfinals of the doubles tournament. At the 2018 US Open, double, he and partner Malek Jaziri defeated the #4 and #6 seeded teams on thei way to reaching the semifinals

His ATP worldwide singles ranking of No. 99 on August 3, 2015 made him the first Moldovan to break into the top 100. He achieved a career high ranking of No. 85 on August 24, 2015.

In 2015 he won the Kolkata Challenger and reached the final in Furth, qualifying for the ATP Challengers Tour Finals in São Paulo, Brazil, where he finished 5th in the 8 player field.

In 2017 for the first time he played in the main draw of all four Grand Slam tournaments. He received direct entry into the Australian Open, French Open, and Wimbledon. At the US Open he qualified and then won two main draw matches before being defeated by #17 seed Sam Querrey in the third round, his best singles finish at a Grand Slam to date. He matched this achievement in 2018 at Wimbledon, defeating #20 seed Pablo Carreno Busta in the first round before eventually losing in the third round to #9 seed John Isner.

In 2018 he reached his first ATP tour level singles semifinals at the 2018 Moselle Open were he lost to Frenchman Gilles Simon, the eventual champion.

ATP career finals

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

Legend Grand Slam Tournaments (0–0) ATP World Tour Finals (0–0) ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0) ATP World Tour 500 Series (0–0) ATP World Tour 250 Series (1–1)

Finals by surface Hard (0–1) Clay (1–0) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	May 2015	Istanbul Open, Turkey	250 Series	Clay	Dušan Lajović	Robert Lindstedt Jürgen Melzer	6–4, 7–6(7–2)
Loss	1–1	Oct 2015	Kremlin Cup, Russia	250 Series	Hard (i)	František Čermák	Andrey Rublev Dmitry Tursunov	6–2, 1–6, [6–10]

ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Tour Titles

Singles (20)

Legend (Singles)

Challengers (6)

Futures (14)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	11 October 2010	Antalya	Hard	Denys Molchanov	6–3, 4–6, 7–5
2.	21 February 2011	Antalya	Clay	Ruan Roelofse	7–5, 6–4
3.	28 March 2011	Antalya	Hard	Alejandro González	7–5, 6–3
4.	4 April 2011	Antalya	Hard	Yannik Reuter	6–3, 7–6(7–1)
5.	11 April 2011	Antalya	Hard	Peter Gojowczyk	6–3, 6–2
6.	23 May 2011	Cesena	Clay	Walter Trusendi	2–6, 6–2, 7–6(7–1)
7.	20 February 2012	Antalya	Hard	Aleksandr Lobkov	7–6(7–5), 6–3
8.	27 February 2012	Antalya	Hard	Ádám Kellner	7–6(7–5), 6–2
9.	26 March 2012	Antalya	Hard	Sergio Gutierrez-Ferrol	6–1, 6–3
10.	16 April 2012	Antalya	Hard	Tomislav Brkić	6–1, 4–6, 6–1
11.	23 April 2012	Antalya	Hard	Tomislav Brkić	3–6, 6–4, 7–6(7–3)
12.	28 May 2012	Bacău	Clay	Roman Borvanov	7–5, 6–4
13.	26 February 2013	Antalya	Hard	Reid Carleton	6–1, 6–4
14.	5 March 2013	Antalya	Hard	Marsel İlhan	6–3, 3–6, 7–6(9–7)
15.	29 September 2013	Fergana, Uzbekistan	Hard	Ilija Bozoljac	7–6(11–9), 6–7(3–7), 6–1
16.	28 February 2015	Kolkata, India	Hard	James Duckworth	7–6(7–0), 6–1
17.	5 June 2016	Furth, Germany	Hard	Jan-Lennard Struff	6–3, 6–4
18.	19 June 2016	Fergana, Uzbekistan	Hard	Konstantin Kravchuk	6–4, 6–2
19.	17 July 2016	Poznań, Poland	Clay	Clement Geens	6–2, 6–4
20.	5 November 2017	Shenzhen, China	Hard	Hubert Hurkacz	7–6(8–6), 6–7(3–7), 6–4

Doubles (15)

Legend (Doubles)

Challengers (8)

Futures (7)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	28 July 2008	Oradea	Clay	Andrei Ciumac	Steven Goh Zakary van Min	7–6(7–5), 6–7(5–7), [10–3]
2.	11 May 2009	Bucharest	Clay	Andrei Ciumac	Florin Mergea Costin Pavăl	6–1, 6–2
3.	31 August 2009	Kempten	Clay	Jiří Školoudík	James Lemke Richard Waite	6–1, 6–2
4.	24 May 2010	Pitești	Clay	Andrei Ciumac	Ivan Anikanov Artem Smirnov	2–6, 6–3, [10–7]
5.	7 March 2011	Antalya	Clay	Denys Molchanov	Roman Jebavý Adrian Sikora	6–7(3–7), 6–3, [12–10]
6.	16 May 2011	Aosta	Clay	Yasutaka Uchiyama	Hiroki Moriya Shuichi Sekiguchi	4–6, 7–5, [10–7]
7.	14 April 2012	Mersin, Turkey	Clay	Denys Molchanov	Alessandro Motti Simone Vagnozzi	6–0, 6–2
8.	5 May 2012	Ostrava, Czech Republic	Clay	Teymuraz Gabashvili	Adam Pavlásek Jiří Veselý	7–5, 5–7, [10–8]
9.	21 October 2013	Kazan, Russia	Hard	Farrukh Dustov	Egor Gerasimov Dzmitry Zhyrmont	6–2, 6–7(3–7), [10–7]
10.	3 March 2014	Guangzhou	Hard	Christopher Rungkat	Claudio Grassi Ricadro Ghedin	1–6, 7–5, [10–7]
11.	7 April 2014	Mersin, Turkey	Clay	Jaroslav Pospíšil	Thomas Fabbiano Matteo Viola	7–6(9–7), 6–1
12.	10 May 2014	Rome, Italy	Clay	Artem Sitak	Andrea Arnaboldi Flavio Cipolla	4–6, 6–2, [11–9]
13.	20 July 2014	Poznań, Poland	Clay	Adam Pavlásek	Tomasz Bednarek Henri Kontinen	7–5, 2–6, [10–8]
14.	10 August 2014	San Marino, San Marino	Clay	Enrique López-Pérez	Franko Škugor Adrian Ungur	6–4, 6–1
15.	15 February 2015	Launceston, Australia	Hard	Mitchell Krueger	Adam Hubble Jose Rubin Statham	3–6, 7–5, [11–9]

Performance timelines

Davis Cup

External links

• Radu Albot at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Radu Albot at the International Tennis Federation
• Radu Albot at the Davis Cup
• Radu Albot at facebook