Radu Albot
Radu Albot (Moldovan Cyrillic: Раду Албот; 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.
Albot has achieved a number of firsts for a Moldovan professional tennis player. In September 2013 he won the ATP Challenger event in Fergana, Italy, 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 of Serbia to win the doubles title at the inaugural Istanbul Open in Istanbul, Turkey, becoming the only Moldovan to win any ATP World Tour level event. At the 2015 French Open he partnered with Lukas Rosol of the Czech Republic and reached the Quarter Finals of the doubles tournament.
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 with a ranking of No. 5 in the 8 player field.
2016 US Open
In 2016 Albot entered the US Open but was defeated by Serbia's Viktor Troicki in the first round.
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) |
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Finals by Surface |
Hard (0–1) |
Clay (1–0) |
Grass (0–0) |
Carpet (0–0) |
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Career titles
Singles (19)
Legend (Singles) |
Challengers (5) |
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 |
Poznan, Poland |
Clay |
Clement Geens |
6-2, 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] |
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