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Andrei Pavel
Nickname(s)	Neamţul ("The German guy")
Country	Romania
Residence	Borgholzhausen, Germany
Date of birth	January 27, 1974 (age 35)
Place of birth	Constanţa, Romania
Height	1.82 m (5 ft 111⁄2 in)
Weight	86 kg (190 lb; 13.5 st)
Turned pro	1995
Retired	September 23, 2009
Plays	Right-handed; one-handed backhand
Career prize money	$5,123,329
Singles
Career record	277–261
Career titles	3
Highest ranking	No. 13 (October 25, 2004)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	4th (1999, 2004)
French Open	QF (2002)
Junior	W (1992)
Wimbledon	3rd (2000, 2002)
US Open	4th (2000, 2004)
Doubles
Career record	137–130
Career titles	6
Highest ranking	No. 18 (April 30, 2007)
	Last updated on: May 25, 2009.

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.

[edit] 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,^{[citation needed]} where he lost to Andre Agassi in four sets; 6–7(4), 7–6(8), 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.^{[original research?]}

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. When playing Andy Murray in the Australian Open in 2009, Pavel was forced to retire from the game in the second set due to a recurring back injury. He had lost the previous set. Andrei entered the 2009 French Open, where he was defeated by Tommy Haas 6-1, 6-4, 6-4.

Pavel during his last singles match

He played his last singles match in his homeland tournament in Bucharest in 2009, where he lost in the first round to Pablo Cuevas of Uruguay. In the same tournament he teamed up with his old friend Gabriel Trifu, losing in the quarter finals to Spaniards Ramírez Hidalgo / Ventura. He also played two more exhibition matches, one facing Goran Ivanišević, while in the other he paired up with Ilie Năstase against the Mansour Bahrami / Yannick Noah pair. The week before, he had been the captain of Romania's Davis Cup team, where they lost to Sweden 3-2 in the qualifying rounds.

[edit] Singles titles (3)

Legend (Singles)
Grand Slam (0)
Tennis Masters Cup (0)
ATP Masters Series (1)
ATP International Series Gold (1)
ATP Tour (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in final	Score in final
1.	April 13, 1998	Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Byron Black	6–3, 6–4
2.	May 22, 2000	St. Pölten, Austria	Clay	Andrew Ilie	7–5, 3–6, 6–2
3.	July 30, 2001	Montreal, Canada	Hard	Patrick Rafter	7–6, 2–6, 6–3

[edit] Runners-ups (6)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in final	Score in final
1.	April 26, 1999	Munich, Germany	Clay	Franco Squillari	6–4, 6–3
2.	June 14, 1999	s’Hertogenbosch, Netherlands	Grass	Patrick Rafter	3–6, 7–6, 6–4
3.	October 27, 2003	Paris, France	Carpet	Tim Henman	6–2, 7–6, 7–6
4.	April 25, 2005	Munich, Germany	Clay	David Nalbandian	6–4, 6–1
5.	May 22, 2006	Portschach, Austria	Clay	Nikolay Davydenko	6–0, 6–3
6.	July 23, 2007	Umag, Croatia	Clay	Carlos Moyà	6–4, 6–2

[edit] 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 Tomeu Salva	6–3, 7–6(1)

[edit] Doubles runner-ups (5)

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)
May 23, 2009	Kitzbühel, Austria	Clay	Horia Tecău	Marcelo Melo Andre Sa	6–7(9), 6–2, (10–7)

[edit] Singles performance timeline

Pavel at the 2006 Australian Open

To help interpret the performance table, the legend below explains what each abbreviation and color coded box represents in the performance timeline.

Terms to know
SR	the ratio of the number of singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played	W-L	player's Win-Loss record
Performance Table Legend
NH	tournament not held in that calendar year	A	did not participate in the tournament
LQ	lost in qualifying draw	#R	lost in the early rounds of the tournament (RR = round robin)
QF	advanced to but not past the quarterfinals	SF	advanced to but not past the semifinals
F	advanced to the final, tournament runner-up	W	won the tournament

Tournament	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	A	A	A	A	LQ	1R	A	4R	A	2R	3R	1R	4R	2R	2R	LQ	1R	1R
French Open	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	2R	A	1R	1R	1R	QF	A	2R	1R	1R	LQ	A	1R
Wimbledon	A	A	A	A	LQ	A	LQ	2R	1R	1R	3R	1R	3R	A	2R	2R	2R	2R	A	1R
US Open	A	A	A	A	LQ	A	1R	1R	1R	1R	4R	2R	1R	A	4R	1R	1R	2R	A	1R
Olympic Games
Singles	NH		1R	Not Held			1R	Not Held			1R	Not Held			1R	Not Held			A	NH
ATP Masters Series 1000
Indian Wells Masters	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	LQ	A	1R	2R	1R	2R	3R	1R	LQ	A	A
Miami Masters	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	3R	3R	4R	QF	2R	QF	1R	1R	LQ	A	A
Monte Carlo Masters	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	2R	LQ	2R	3R	A	3R	A	A	1R	A	A
Rome Masters	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	3R	1R	2R	A	QF	1R	A	A	A	A
Madrid Masters(Stuttgart)	A	A	A	A	A	LQ	LQ	LQ	2R	QF	QF	2R	1R	LQ	3R	1R	A	1R	A	A
Canada Masters	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	2R	W	2R	A	1R	2R	A	A	A	A
Cincinnati Masters	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	1R	2R	1R	A	1R	1R	A	LQ	A	A
Paris Masters	A	A	A	A	A	1R	A	A	LQ	A	1R	1R	1R	F	3R	1R	A	A	A
Hamburg Masters	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	SF	1R	2R	A	3R	1R	A	LQ	A
Year End Ranking	460	548	489	311	408	214	135	118	68	41	27	28	26	69	18	80	113	75	1142	N/A

[edit] External links

Andrei Pavel at the Association of Tennis Professionals

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