Radu Albot

Radu Albot

Albot at the 2019 French Open
Country (sports)	Moldova
Residence	Chișinău, Moldova
Born	(1989-11-11) 11 November 1989 Kishinev, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union (now Chișinău, Moldova)
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Turned pro	2008
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	US$ 3,554,458
Singles
Career record	80–104
Career titles	1
Highest ranking	No. 39 (5 August 2019)
Current ranking	No. 85 (4 January 2021)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	2R (2019)
French Open	2R (2018, 2019, 2020)
Wimbledon	3R (2018)
US Open	3R (2017)
Doubles
Career record	42–59
Career titles	1
Highest ranking	No. 56 (29 April 2019)
Current ranking	No. 131 (1 February 2021)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	3R (2018, 2019)
French Open	QF (2015)
Wimbledon	1R (2015, 2018, 2019)
US Open	SF (2018)
Last updated on: 1 February 2021.

Radu Albot (born 11 November 1989) is a Moldovan professional tennis player. He is the first player from Moldova to win ATP singles (2019 Delray Beach Open) and doubles (2015 Istanbul Open) titles.

Albot has won 1 ATP World Tour singles title, 1 ATP World Tour doubles title, 7 singles and 8 doubles Challenger titles in his career, as well as 14 singles and 7 doubles Futures titles. He has been a regular member of the Moldovan Davis Cup team since 2007 and holds his country's records for the most singles wins (28) and total wins (41).

His ATP singles ranking of No. 99 on August 3, 2015 made him the first Moldovan to break into the top 100. Albot achieved a career high ranking of No. 39 on August 5, 2019. He finished in Top 100 in the year-end rankings for the past three years (2016, 2017, 2018).

Tennis career

2013-2016: First ATP doubles title

Radu Albot has achieved many 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, 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.

In May 2015, Albot teamed up with Dusan Lajovic to win the doubles title at the inaugural 2015 Istanbul Open, becoming the first Moldovan to win an ATP Tour level event. In October 2015, Albot together with his doubles partner František Čermák managed to reach the 2015 Kremlin Cup final, being defeated by Andrey Rublev and Dmitry Tursunov in the decisive set. In June 2016, he qualified for the 2016 Wimbledon Championships and won his first Grand Slam match in 4 attempts, defeating Gastao Elias in the first round.

2017-2019: First ATP singles title

In June 2017, Radu Albot reached the quarter-finals of the 2017 Antalya Open beating Joao Sousa and Paolo Lorenzi, before losing to Andreas Seppi in straight sets. In the same year, he played for the first time in the main draw of all four Grand Slam tournaments. He received direct entry into the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon tournaments. Albot qualified for the 2015 US Open tournament and won two main draw matches before being defeated by Sam Querrey in the third round, his best singles finish at a Grand Slam to date. He equalled this achievement at the 2018 Wimbledon Championships, defeating Pablo Carreno Busta in the first round before eventually losing in the third round to John Isner.

In February 2018, Radu Albot reached the quarter-finals of the 2018 New York Open, winning matches against Bjorn Fratangelo and John Isner, but being eliminated by Kei Nishikori in the decisive third set. In September 2018, he reached his first ATP Tour level singles semifinals at the 2018 Moselle Open where he lost against the eventual tournament champion, Gilles Simon. At the 2018 US Open, he and partner Malek Jaziri reached the doubles semifinals.

In early February 2019, Radu Albot reached the semifinals of the 2019 Open Sud de France tournament, beating Philipp Kohlschreiber, Ernests Gulbis and Marcos Baghdatis, before losing to the eventual tournament champion Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. In late February 2019, he won the 2019 Delray Beach Open, making history as the first Moldovan to win an ATP singles title, knocking out Ivo Karlovic, Nick Kyrgios, Steve Johnson and Mackenzie McDonald. In the final he defeated Dan Evans of Great Britain in a closely fought three-set match. In May 2019, Albot reached the 2019 Geneva Open semifinal losing in the penultimate round against Nicolás Jarry. In August, 2019 he reached his third semifinal of the year at the 2019 Los Cabos Open, losing to Taylor Fritz. His three victories in the tournament put him at a total of 25 for the year, his most ATP tour wins in a season.

ATP career finals

Singles: 1 (1 title)

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 (1–0)

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

Finals by setting Outdoor (1–0) Indoor (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Feb 2019	Delray Beach Open, United States	250 Series	Hard	Dan Evans	3–6, 6–3, 7–6(9–7)

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 (21)

Legend (Singles)

Challengers (7)

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
21.	28 October 2018	Liuzhou International Challenger, China	Hard	Miomir Kecmanović	6–2, 4–6, 6–3

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

Key

W

F

SF

QF

#R

RR

Q#

P#

DNQ

A

Z#

PO

G

S

B

NMS

NTI

P

NH

(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) preliminary round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze Olympic/Paralympic medal; (NMS) not a Masters tournament; (NTI) not a Tier I tournament; (P) postponed; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.

To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Current through 2021 Murray River Open.

Singles

Tournament	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	W–L
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	A	Q2	Q2	Q1	Q2	Q2	1R	1R	2R	A		1–3
French Open	A	A	A	A	A	Q1	Q2	1R	1R	2R	2R	2R		3–5
Wimbledon	A	A	A	Q1	Q1	Q1	Q1	2R	2R	3R	1R	NH		4–4
US Open	A	A	A	Q2	Q1	1R	1R	1R	3R	1R	1R	1R		2–7
Win–Loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–1	1–3	3–4	3–4	2–4	1–2	0–0	10–19
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
Indian Wells Masters	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	1R	3R	NH		2–3
Miami Open	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	2R	2R	NH		2–3
Monte-Carlo Masters	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	Q1	A	2R	NH		1–1
Madrid Open	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	NH		0–1
Italian Open	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	2R	Q1		1–1
Canadian Open	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	2R	NH		1–1
Cincinnati Masters	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	Q1	A	2R	Q1		1–1
Shanghai Masters	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	Q2	Q2	1R	NH		0–1
Paris Masters	A	A	A	A	A	A	Q1	Q2	A	A	3R	2R		3–2
Win–Loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–2	1–2	9–9	1–1	0–0	11–14
Career statistics
Tournaments	0	0	0	0	0	4	4	11	17	23	27	10	2	98
Titles	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Finals	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Overall Win–Loss	1–2	0–0	0–0	2–2	5–1	7–4	2–5	4–11	9–17	12–23	31–26	7–12	0–2	80–105
Year-end ranking	726	503	281	225	169	168	121	97	87	98	46	93

Doubles

Tournament	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	W–L
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	A	1R	A	3R1	3R	A		4–2
French Open	QF	A	1R	A	1R	1R		3–4
Wimbledon	1R	A	A	1R	1R	NH		0–3
US Open	1R	A	A	SF	2R	A		5–3
Win–Loss	3–3	0–1	0–1	6–2	3–4	0–1	0–0	12–12

• ¹: Retired of tournament, doesn't count as a lost match

Record against top-10 players

Opponent	Highest ranking	Matches	Won	Lost	Win %	Last match
Roger Federer	1	2	0	2	0%	Lost (0–6, 3–6) at 2019 Swiss Indoors 2R
Marin Čilić	3	2	1	1	50%	Won (6–4, 7–6(8–6)) at 2019 Cincinnati 1R
David Ferrer	3	1	0	1	0%	Lost (6–4, 5–7, 1–6, 0–6) at 2015 US Open 1R
Alexander Zverev	3	1	0	1	0%	Lost (1–6, 3–6, 6–3, 6–4, 2–6) at 2019 US Open 1R
Kei Nishikori	4	1	0	1	0%	Lost (6–4, 3–6, 1–6) at 2018 New York Open QF
Kevin Anderson	5	1	0	1	0%	Lost (4–6, 3–6) at 2018 Acapulco 1R
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	5	1	0	1	0%	Lost (1–6, 3–6) at 2019 Montpellier SF
Gilles Simon	6	3	1	2	33%	Won (6–4, 6–2) at 2019 Montreal 1R
David Goffin	7	3	0	3	0%	Lost (6–4, 4–6, 3–6) at 2019 Halle 2R
Fernando Verdasco	7	3	0	3	0%	Lost (2–6, 6–3, 1–6) at 2019 Mutua Madrid Open 1R
John Isner	8	4	1	3	25%	Lost (3–6, 3–6, 4–6) at 2018 Wimbledon 3R
Janko Tipsarević	8	1	1	0	100%	Won (7–5, 2–6, 6–0) at 2019 Los Cabos 1R
Mikhail Youzhny	8	1	1	0	100%	Won (4–6, 7–6(8–6), 7–5) at 2017 Gstaad 1R
Marcos Baghdatis	8	1	1	0	100%	Won (6–2, 7–6(7–2)) at 2019 Montpellier QF
Jack Sock	8	1	0	1	0%	Lost (4–6, 6–7(2–7)) at 2017 Delray Beach 1R
Stefanos Tsitsipas	8	1	0	1	0%	Lost (6–7(2–7), 2–6) at 2018 Indian Wells 1R
Nicolás Almagro	9	2	1	1	50%	Won (7–6(8–6), 6–3) at 2017 Marrakesh 1R
Ernests Gulbis	10	1	1	0	100%	Won (7–6(7–5), 4–6, 6–4) at 2R
Pablo Carreño Busta	10	2	1	1	50%	Lost (3–6, 4–6) at 2019 Chengdu 1R
Total		32	9	23	28%	* Statistics correct as of 30 October 2019

Top 10 wins

• Albot has a 0–8 record against players who were ranked in the top 10 at the time the match was played.

Season	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	Total
Wins	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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