Andrei Pavel

Andrei Pavel

Country (sports)	Romania
Residence	Borgholzhausen, Germany
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Turned pro	1995
Retired	Active
Plays	Right-handed; one-handed backhand
Prize money	$5,016,045
Singles
Career record	277–253
Career titles	3
Highest ranking	No. 13 (October 25, 2004)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	4th (1999, 2004)
French Open	QF (2002)
Wimbledon	3rd (2000, 2002)
US Open	4th (2000, 2004)
Doubles
Career record	130–124
Career titles	6
Highest ranking	No. 18 (April 30, 2007)
Last updated on: December 18, 2007.

Andrei Pavel (born January 27, 1974 in Constanţa) is a Romanian tennis player, who turned professional in 1995. He began playing tennis at age eight, and moved to Germany at age sixteen.

Career

Pavel has won three singles titles, including the ATP Masters Series tournament in Montreal/Toronto in 2001. He has also won seven doubles titles, the latest title being the Open Seat Barcelona, in 2007.

Pavel played what John McEnroe considers to be the best first round match at a Grand Slam he has ever seen at the U.S Open in August 2006, where he lost to Andre Agassi in four sets; 6–7(4), 7–6(10), 7–6(6), 6–2; taking three and half hours. Had Pavel won, it would have been Agassi's last match in a professional tournament.

His best single result over the course of his career took place in 2001, when he captured the Masters Series title in Montreal. For his efforts during that week alone, Pavel earned US$400,000.

Pavel at the 2006 Australian Open

Singles titles (7)

Legend (Singles)

Grand Slam (0)

Tennis Masters Cup (0)

ATP Masters Series (1)

ATP Tour (2)

Challengers (4)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in final	Score in final
1.	July 1, 1996	Montauban	Clay	Stephane Huet	6–3 6–4
2.	April 13, 1998	Tokyo	Hard	Byron Black	6–3 6–4
3.	June 28, 1999	Venice	Clay	Slava Dosedel	6–2 6–0
4.	May 22, 2000	St. Pölten	Clay	Andrew Ilie	7–5 3–6 6–2
5.	July 30, 2001	Montreal	Hard	Patrick Rafter	7–6 2–6 6–3
6.	November 15, 2004	Dnepropetrovsk	Hard (I)	Karol Kučera	walkover
7.	November 29, 2004	Mauritius	Hard	Hyung-Taik Lee	6–3 6–1

Runners-ups (10)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in final	Score in final
1.	July 17, 1995	Scheveningen	Clay	Jordi Arrese	6–3 6–7 6–4
2.	May 5, 1997	Ljubljana	Clay	Brett Steven	7–6 6–2
3.	May 2, 1998	Magdeburg	Carpet	Lars Burgsmüller	6–4 6–3
4.	April 26, 1999	Munich	Clay	Franco Squillari	6–4 6–3
5.	June 14, 1999	s’Hertogenbosch	Grass	Patrick Rafter	3–6 7–6 6–4
6.	October 27, 2003	Paris	Carpet	Tim Henman	6–2 7–6 7–6
7.	April 25, 2005	Munich	Clay	David Nalbandian	6–4 6–1
8.	May 22, 2006	Portschach	Clay	Nikolay Davydenko	6–0 6–3
9.	April 30, 2007	Tunis	Clay	Simone Bolelli	4–6 7–6 6–2
10.	July 23, 2007	Umag	Clay	Carlos Moyà	6–4 6–2

ATP Doubles titles (6)

Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponents in the final	Score
September 21, 1998	Bucharest, Romania	Clay	Gabriel Trifu	George Cosac Dinu Pescariu	7–6(2), 7–6(4)
July 31, 2005	Kitzbühel, Austria	Clay	Leoš Friedl	Christophe Rochus Olivier Rochus	6–2, 6–7(5), 6–0
January 15, 2006	Auckland, New Zealand	Hard	Rogier Wassen	Simon Aspelin Todd Perry	6–3, 5–7, (10–4)
May 7, 2006	Munich, Germany	Clay	Alexander Waske	Alexander Peya Bjorn Phau	6–4, 6–2
July 16, 2006	Gstaad, Switzerland	Clay	Jiří Novák	Marco Chiudinelli Jean-Claude Scherrer	6–3, 6–1
April 29, 2007	Barcelona, Spain	Clay	Alexander Waske	Rafael Nadal Bartolome Salva	6–3, 7–6(1)

Doubles runner-ups (4)

Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponents in final	Score in final
February 14, 1999	St. Petersburg, Russia	Carpet	Menno Oosting	Jeff Tarango Daniel Vacek	3–6, 6–3, 7–5
January 10, 2005	Doha, Qatar	Hard	Mikhail Youzhny	Albert Costa Rafael Nadal	6–3, 4–6, 6–3
September 18, 2005	Bucharest, Romania	Clay	Victor Hănescu	José Acasuso Sebastián Prieto	6–3, 4–6, 6–3
February 25, 2007	Rotterdam, Netherlands	Hard	Alexander Waske	Martin Damm Leander Paes	6–3, 6–7(5), (10–7)

External links

• Andrei Pavel at the Association of Tennis Professionals