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Alexandra Dulgheru
Country	Romania
Residence	Bucharest, Romania
Date of birth	May 30, 1989 (age 20)
Place of birth	Bucharest, Romania
Height	1.72 m (5 ft 71⁄2 in)
Weight	62 kg
Turned pro	May 5, 2005
Retired	Active
Plays	Right Handed (Double Handed Backhand)
Career prize money	US$ 226,109
Singles
Career record	144–75
Career titles	1 WTA, 3 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 50 (December 14, 2009)
Current ranking	No. 52 (December 21, 2009)
Grand Slam results
US Open	1R (2009)
Doubles
Career record	47–38
Career titles	2 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 229 (July 27, 2009)
	Last updated on: October 26, 2009.

Alexandra Dulgheru (born May 30, 1989)^[1] is a Romanian professional tennis player. She achieved a singles career high of World No. 50 on December 14, 2009. Her career high in doubles was world no. 201 on May 18, 2009.^[1] She is coached by Daniel Dobre.^[1]

[edit] Career

[edit] Early life

She started playing tennis at the age of 4.^[1]

[edit] Junior

Her best junior result came at the 2006 Wimbledon Girls' Singles Championship, where she was defeated in the quarter finals by Tamira Paszek 4-6, 4-6. She also made the doubles final with Kristina Antoniychuk. They lost to the pairing of Alisa Kleybanova and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 1-6, 2-6.^[2]

[edit] ITF

In April 2009, she finished runner-up to Kimiko Date-Krumm in a $75,000 tournament in Monzon.^[3] Just over a fortnight later, she won a $25,000 tournament in Bari, where she defeated Sandra Zahlavova in the final.

[edit] WTA

She made her WTA debut as a qualifier in the 2009 Warsaw Open. She defeated fellow Romanian qualifier Agnes Szatmari 6-3, 6-4 in the first round. She followed that up with a 6-4, 6-3 win over 44th-ranked Sara Errani to advance to the quarterfinals. She made to the semi final after she beat 95th-ranked Galina Voskoboeva 6-1, 7-5. In the semifinal, she defeated world #36 and former world #5 Daniela Hantuchova 6-4, 6-7(2), 6-1 to reach her first WTA final; where she defeated Alona Bondarenko 7-6(3), 3-6, 6-0 for her first WTA tour title.

[edit] Professional Singles Finals

Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0)
WTA Championships (0)
Premier Mandatory (0)
Premier 5 (0)
Premier (1)
International (0)
ITF & Satellite (4)

[edit] Wins (4)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
1.	May 15, 2005	ITF $10 000 Bucharest, Romania	Clay	Liana Balaci	6-2, 6-2
2.	April 26, 2009	ITF $25 000 Bari, Italy	Clay	Sandra Zahlavova	6-4, 6-4
3.	May 23, 2009	Warsaw, Poland	Clay	Alona Bondarenko	7-6(3), 3-6, 6-0
4.	September 20, 2009	ITF $100 000 Sofia, Bulgaria	Clay	Tathiana Garbin	6-7(4), 7-5, 6-1
5.	October 10, 2009	ITF $75 000 + H Jounieh, Lebanon	Clay	Zuzana Kucova	3-6, 6-3, 6-4

[edit] Runner-ups (6)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
1.	May 22, 2005	ITF $10 000 Pitesti, Romania	Clay	Anamaria-Alexandra Sere	5-7, 2-6
2.	November 19, 2006	ITF $10 000 Cairo, Egypt	Clay	Liana Balaci	1-6, 1-6
3.	July 15, 2007	ITF $25 000 Torun, Poland	Clay	Stefanie Vogele	2-6, 6-4, 5-7
4.	August 5, 2007	ITF $25 000 Bucharest, Romania	Clay	Sorana Cirstea	4-6, 3-6
5.	April 11, 2009	ITF $75 000 Monzón, Spain	Hard	Kimiko Date-Krumm	5-7, 2-6
6.	September 27, 2009	ITF $100 000 + H Saint-Malo, France	Clay	Arantxa Parra Santonja	4-6, 3-6