Florin Mergea
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Mergea at the 2016 French Open
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| Country (sports) |
 Romania
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| Residence | Bucharest, Romania | |||||||||
| Born |
26 January 1985 Craiova, Romania |
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| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||
| Turned pro | 2003 | |||||||||
| Plays | Right-handed (one-handed backhand) | |||||||||
| Prize money | $1,437,968 | |||||||||
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| Career record | 3–3 | |||||||||
| Career titles | 0 | |||||||||
| Highest ranking | No. 243 (9 May 2005) | |||||||||
| Current ranking | N/A | |||||||||
| Grand Slam Singles results | ||||||||||
| Australian Open | Q2 (2006) | |||||||||
| Wimbledon | Q2 (2004) | |||||||||
| US Open | Q1 (2005) | |||||||||
| Doubles | ||||||||||
| Career record | 131–94 | |||||||||
| Career titles | 6 | |||||||||
| Highest ranking | No. 7 (13 July 2015) | |||||||||
| Current ranking | No. 26 (7 November 2016) | |||||||||
| Grand Slam Doubles results | ||||||||||
| Australian Open | QF (2015) | |||||||||
| French Open | SF (2014) | |||||||||
| Wimbledon | SF (2015) | |||||||||
| US Open | QF (2015) | |||||||||
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| Tour Finals | F (2015) | |||||||||
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| Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results | ||||||||||
| Australian Open | 2R (2015) | |||||||||
| French Open | 2R (2015) | |||||||||
| Wimbledon | 3R (2014) | |||||||||
| US Open | 1R (2014, 2015) | |||||||||
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| Last updated on: 7 November 2016. | ||||||||||
Florin Mergea (Romanian pronunciation: [floˈrin ˈmerd͡ʒe̯a]; born 26 January 1985) is a Romanian tennis player and a doubles specialist. He has reached the final of the ATP World Tour Finals in 2015 and won an ATP Masters title at the Mutua Madrid Open earlier that year. He achieved a career-high ATP ranking of World No. 7 in doubles (July, 2015) and World No. 243 in singles (May 2005).
His current doubles partner is Dominic Inglot. Florin Mergea is presently coached by Alex Pop-Moldovan and managed by the McCartney Group, Vienna.
As a junior Mergea compiled a singles win/loss record of 87–33, reaching as high as No. 2 in the world in July 2003 (and No. 1 in doubles). Along the way, he beat future top ten singles players like Andy Murray, Tomas Berdych, Gaël Monfils and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. As well as winning the Boys' Singles at Wimbledon in 2003 and being runner-up in the Boys' Singles tournament at the 2003 Australian Open, he won the Boys' Doubles in 2002 alongside compatriot Horia Tecău.
The transition to the seniors tour proved difficult for Mergea. After turning pro in 2003, he struggled to make a breakthrough. Injuries hampered his career and in spite of reaching no. 103 in the doubles rankings, his lack of singles success and limited support drained his motivation. In 2010, Mergea decided to retire from tennis, a decision he turned around months later, with the help of his wife, Daiana. With renewed focus on the doubles game, his rankings rose steadily, playing alongside the likes of Andrei Daescu and Philipp Marx. After reaching thirteen challenger finals within little over a year, Mergea won his first ATP title in October 2013, when he teamed up with Lukas Rosol for the Erste Bank Open, Vienna.
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