Horia Tecău

Horia Tecău (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈhori.a teˈkəw]; born January 19, 1985) is a Romanian tennis player currently ranked World No. 19 in doubles. He turned pro in 2003 and reached the men's doubles finals of the 2010, 2011 and 2012 Wimbledon Championships with Robert Lindstedt before winning it in 2015 with Jean-Julien Rojer. Tecău also won the 2012 Australian Open mixed doubles title with Bethanie Mattek-Sands and the 2015 ATP World Tour Finals with Rojer.

2010

On January 16, 2010, Tecău won his first ATP doubles title at the 2010 Heineken Open in Auckland, New Zealand, partnering Marcus Daniell.

Horia showed a solid game in the beginning of 2010 and won two doubles titles, (one Challenger and one ATP World Tour 250 Series), at Marrakech and Casablanca, which confirmed his good form.

He won his third doubles title at 's-Hertogenbosch and his second with partner Robert Lindstedt (his first with him came in Casablanca).

At the 2010 Wimbledon Championships, Tecău reached, for the first time in his career, a Grand Slam doubles final. He and his partner, Robert Lindstedt, defeated the pair of Tommy Robredo and Marcel Granollers in four sets in the quarter finals, qualifying for the semifinals where they defeated the duo of Juan Ignacio Chela and Eduardo Schwank. In the final Tecău and Lindstedt were defeated by the pair of Jürgen Melzer and Philipp Petzschner.

At Wimbledon in the mixed doubles, he and his partner, fellow Romanian Monica Niculescu, lost in the second round to Marcelo Melo and Rennae Stubbs.

Horia Tecău at the 2010 US Open

At the 2010 Swedish Open, Lindstedt and Tecău won their third title together after winning in the final against Andreas Seppi and Simone Vagnozzi.

At the 2010 Farmers Classic, Tecău and Lindstedt were defeated by Eric Butorac and Jean-Julien Rojer in the quarterfinals.

At the 2010 Legg Mason Tennis Classic Tecău and Lindstedt were defeated by the pair of Marcos Baghdatis and Stanislas Wawrinka in the first round on the doubles category.

The fifth title of Tecău's career and fourth partnering Lindstedt came at the 2010 Pilot Pen Tennis. The final saw them beating Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi, this being their second title win against the Indian-Pakistani pair.

2011

In 2011 Horia started the year alongside his partner, Robert Lindstedt, at the Brisbane International. They had a good start and reached the final of the tournament but a calf injury of Lindstedt forced them to retire after just one set and thus losing the match to the Lukáš Dlouhý / Paul Hanley pair. At the Heineken Open Horia was the defending champion and seeded No. 1 with Robert but they were forced to withdrew due to the Swede's left calf injury sustained just days earlier.

At the Australian Open Horia and Robert were eleventh seed but despite leading 1–0 in the first round match against wildcards Colin Ebelthite and Adam Feeney they were forced to retire yet again due to Robert's injury.

After the year's first Grand Slam, Horia decided to give his partner, Robert, time to recover and paired with experienced doubles player, Belgian Dick Norman, for the PBZ Zagreb Indoors. This was a successful choice and they reached the tournament final and won it.

Following the Zagreb title, Horia paired for the next two tournaments with Austrian Julian Knowle and Pakistani Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi but with little success, exiting both competitions after the first round. He then paired with fellow countryman Victor Hănescu for their biggest doubles title to date, the 500 point Abierto Mexicano Telcel. In the final they beat Brazilians Marcelo Melo and Bruno Soares in straight sets.

In April, Horia and Lindstedt defended their title in Casablanca, after an impressive display and losing just one set in the first round of the tournament.

He had a good grasscourt season with two finals together with Lindstedt, losing in the final of Wimbledon to the Bryan twins.

At the return to clay he defended his win at Swedish Open, again with Lindstedt.

2012

Horia Tecău playing at the 2012 BRD Năstase Țiriac Trophy

Horia Tecău and Bethanie Mattek-Sands from US won the Australian Open mixed doubles final on 29 January. He reached the semifinals in men´s doubles with Robert Lindstedt and lost to Bob and Mike Bryan in a close 3-setter. Together they reached the final of a Masters even for the first time in Madrid. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, Tecău and teammate Adrian Ungur lost in the first round.

Horia Tecău and Robert Lindstedt separated in September 2012 after a fruitful three-year relationship.

2013

Horia Tecău paired up with Max Mirnyi for 2013. They reached five finals and won three of them.

2015: Wimbledon Doubles Title

Horia Tecău and Jean-Julien Rojer won Wimbledon defeating Jamie Murray and John Peers in the final.

Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 4 (1 title, 3 runners-up)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	2010	Wimbledon	Grass	Robert Lindstedt	Jürgen Melzer Philipp Petzschner	1–6, 5–7, 5–7
Runner-up	2011	Wimbledon	Grass	Robert Lindstedt	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	3–6, 4–6, 6–7(2–7)
Runner-up	2012	Wimbledon	Grass	Robert Lindstedt	Jonathan Marray Frederik Nielsen	6–4, 4–6, 6–7(5–7), 7–6(7–5), 3–6
Winner	2015	Wimbledon	Grass	Jean-Julien Rojer	Jamie Murray John Peers	7–6(7–5), 6–4, 6–4

Mixed Doubles: 3 (1 title, 2 runners-up)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Winner	2012	Australian Open	Hard	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	Elena Vesnina Leander Paes	6–3, 5–7, [10–3]
Runner-up	2014	Australian Open	Hard	Sania Mirza	Kristina Mladenovic Daniel Nestor	3–6, 2–6
Runner-up	2016	Australian Open	Hard	Coco Vandeweghe	Elena Vesnina Bruno Soares	4–6, 6–4, [5–10]

Year-End Championships

Doubles: 1 (1 title)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	2015	London	Hard (i)	Jean-Julien Rojer	Rohan Bopanna Florin Mergea	6–4, 6–3

Masters 1000 finals

Doubles: 3 (2 titles, 2 runners-up)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	2012	Madrid	Clay	Robert Lindstedt	Mariusz Fyrstenberg Marcin Matkowski	3–6, 4–6
Winner	2012	Cincinnati	Hard	Robert Lindstedt	Mahesh Bhupathi Rohan Bopanna	6–4, 6–4
Winner	2016	Madrid	Clay	Jean-Julien Rojer	Rohan Bopanna Florin Mergea	6-4, 7-6 7-5
Runner-Up	2016	Cincinnati	Hard	Jean-Julien Rojer	Ivan Dodig Marcelo Melo	6–7(5–7), 7–6(7–5), [6–10]

Doubles: 1 final (1 silver medal)

Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Silver	2016	Rio de Janeiro	Hard	Florin Mergea	Marc Lopez Rafael Nadal	2–6, 6–3, 4–6

Doubles: 47 (29 titles, 18 runners-up)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	1.	May 17, 2009	Interwetten Austrian Open Kitzbühel, Kitzbühel, Austria	Clay	Andrei Pavel	Marcelo Melo André Sá	7–6(11–9), 2–6, [7–10]
Runner-up	2.	July 13, 2009	MercedesCup, Stuttgart, Germany	Clay	Victor Hănescu	František Čermák Michal Mertiňák	5–7, 4–6
Winner	1.	January 16, 2010	Heineken Open, Auckland, New Zealand	Hard	Marcus Daniell	Marcelo Melo Bruno Soares	7–5, 6–4
Winner	2.	April 10, 2010	Grand Prix Hassan II, Casablanca, Morocco (1)	Clay	Robert Lindstedt	Rohan Bopanna Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	6–2, 3–6, [10–7]
Winner	3.	June 19, 2010	UNICEF Open, 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands	Grass	Robert Lindstedt	Lukáš Dlouhý Leander Paes	1–6, 7–5, [10–7]
Runner-up	3.	June 21, 2010	Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom1	Grass	Robert Lindstedt	Jürgen Melzer Philipp Petzschner	1–6, 5–7, 5–7
Winner	4.	July 18, 2010	Swedish Open, Båstad, Sweden	Clay	Robert Lindstedt	Andreas Seppi Simone Vagnozzi	6–4, 7–5
Winner	5.	August 28, 2010	Pilot Pen Tennis, New Haven, United States	Hard	Robert Lindstedt	Rohan Bopanna Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	6–4, 7–5
Runner-up	4.	January 9, 2011	Brisbane International, Brisbane, Australia	Hard	Robert Lindstedt	Lukáš Dlouhý Paul Hanley	4–6, ret.
Winner	6.	February 6, 2011	PBZ Zagreb Indoors, Zagreb, Croatia	Hard (i)	Dick Norman	Marcel Granollers Marc López	6–3, 6–4
Winner	7.	February 26, 2011	Abierto Mexicano Telcel, Acapulco, Mexico	Clay	Victor Hănescu	Marcelo Melo Bruno Soares	6–1, 6–3
Winner	8.	April 9, 2011	Grand Prix Hassan II, Casablanca, Morocco(2)	Clay	Robert Lindstedt	Colin Fleming Igor Zelenay	6–2, 6–1
Runner-up	5.	June 18, 2011	UNICEF Open, 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands	Grass	Robert Lindstedt	Daniele Bracciali František Čermák	3–6, 6–2, [8–10]
Runner-up	6.	July 2, 2011	Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom2	Grass	Robert Lindstedt	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	3–6, 4–6, 6–7(3–7)
Winner	9.	July 17, 2011	Swedish Open, Båstad, Sweden	Clay	Robert Lindstedt	Simon Aspelin Andreas Siljeström	6–3, 6–3
Runner-up	7.	August 7, 2011	Legg Mason Tennis Classic, Washington, United States	Hard	Robert Lindstedt	Michaël Llodra Nenad Zimonjić	7–6(9–7), 6–7(8–10), [7–10]
Runner-up	8.	October 9, 2011	China Open, Beijing, China	Hard	Robert Lindstedt	Michaël Llodra Nenad Zimonjić	6–7(2–7), 6–7(4–7)
Runner-up	9.	February 19, 2012	Rotterdam Open, Rotterdam, Netherlands	Hard (i)	Robert Lindstedt	Michaël Llodra Nenad Zimonjić	6–4, 5–7, [14–16]
Winner	10.	April 28, 2012	BRD Năstase Țiriac Trophy, Bucharest, Romania	Clay	Robert Lindstedt	Jérémy Chardy Łukasz Kubot	7–6(7–2), 6–3
Runner-up	10.	May 13, 2012	Madrid Open, Madrid, Spain	Clay (blue)	Robert Lindstedt	Mariusz Fyrstenberg Marcin Matkowski	3–6, 4–6
Winner	11.	June 23, 2012	UNICEF Open, 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands	Grass	Robert Lindstedt	Juan Sebastián Cabal Dmitry Tursunov	6–3, 7–6(7–1)
Runner-up	11.	July 8, 2012	Wimbledon Championships, London, United Kingdom	Grass	Robert Lindstedt	Jonathan Marray Frederik Nielsen	6–4, 4–6, 6–7(5–7), 7–6(7–5), 3–6
Winner	12.	July 15, 2012	Swedish Open, Båstad, Sweden	Clay	Robert Lindstedt	Alexander Peya Bruno Soares	6–3, 7–6(7–5)
Winner	13.	August 19, 2012	Cincinnati Masters, Cincinnati, United States	Hard	Robert Lindstedt	Mahesh Bhupathi Rohan Bopanna	6–4, 6–4
Runner-up	12.	January 12, 2013	Apia International Sydney, Sydney, Australia	Hard	Max Mirnyi	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	4-6, 4-6
Runner-up	13.	March 3, 2013	Delray Beach International Tennis Championships, Delray Beach, United States	Hard	Max Mirnyi	James Blake Jack Sock	4-6, 4-6
Winner	14.	April 28, 2013	BRD Năstase Ţiriac Trophy, Bucharest, Romania	Clay	Max Mirnyi	Lukáš Dlouhý Oliver Marach	4-6, 6-4, [10-6]
Winner	15.	June 22, 2013	Topshelf Open, 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands	Grass	Max Mirnyi	Andre Begemann Martin Emmrich	6–3, 7–6(7–4)
Winner	16.	October 6, 2013	China Open, Beijing, China	Hard	Max Mirnyi	Fabio Fognini Andreas Seppi	6-4, 6-2
Winner	17.	February 9, 2014	PBZ Zagreb Indoors, Zagreb, Croatia	Hard (i)	Jean-Julien Rojer	Philipp Marx Michal Mertiňák	3-6, 6-4, [10-2]
Runner-up	14.	February 16, 2014	ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament, Rotterdam, Netherlands	Hard (i)	Jean-Julien Rojer	Michaël Llodra Nicolas Mahut	2–6, 6–7(7–4)
Winner	18	April 12, 2014	Grand Prix Hassan II, Casablanca, Morocco	Clay	Jean-Julien Rojer	Tomasz Bednarek Lukáš Dlouhý	6–2, 6–2
Winner	19.	April 27, 2014	BRD Năstase Țiriac Trophy, Bucharest, Romania	Clay	Jean-Julien Rojer	Mariusz Fyrstenberg Marcin Matkowski	6-4, 6-4
Winner	20.	June 22, 2014	Topshelf Open, 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands	Grass	Jean-Julien Rojer	Scott Lipsky Santiago González	6–3, 7–6(7–3)
Winner	21.	August 3, 2014	Citi Open, Washington DC., United States	Hard	Jean-Julien Rojer	Samuel Groth Leander Paes	7-5, 6-4
Winner	22.	September 27, 2014	Shenzhen Open, Shenzhen, China	Hard	Jean-Julien Rojer	Chris Guccione Sam Groth	6–4, 7–6(7–4)
Winner	23.	October 5, 2014	China Open, Beijing, China	Hard	Jean-Julien Rojer	Julien Benneteau Vasek Pospisil	6–7(6–8), 7–5, [10–5]
Winner	24.	October 26, 2014	Valencia Open 500, Valencia, Spain	Hard (i)	Jean-Julien Rojer	Kevin Anderson Jérémy Chardy	6-4, 6-2
Runner-up	15.	January 17, 2015	Apia International Sydney, Sydney, Australia	Hard	Jean-Julien Rojer	Rohan Bopanna Daniel Nestor	4–6, 6–7(5–7)
Winner	25.	February 15, 2015	ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament, Rotterdam, Netherlands	Hard (i)	Jean-Julien Rojer	Jamie Murray John Peers	3-6, 6-3, [10–8]
Runner-up	16.	May 23, 2015	Open de Nice Côte d'Azur, Nice, France	Clay	Jean-Julien Rojer	Mate Pavić Michael Venus	6–7(4–7), 6–2, [7–10]
Winner	26.	July 11, 2015	Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom	Grass	Jean-Julien Rojer	Jamie Murray John Peers	7–6(7–5), 6–4, 6–4
Winner	27.	22 November 2015	ATP World Tour Finals, London, United Kingdom	Hard (i)	Jean-Julien Rojer	Rohan Bopanna Florin Mergea	6–4, 6–3
Winner	28.	25 April 2016	BRD Năstase Țiriac Trophy, Bucharest, Romania	Clay	Florin Mergea	Chris Guccione André Sá	7–5, 6–4
Winner	29.	8 May 2016	Mutua Madrid Open, Madrid, Spain	Clay	Jean-Julien Rojer	Rohan Bopanna Florin Mergea	6–4, 7–6(7–5)
Runner-Up	17.	12 August 2016	Summer Olympics, Rio	Hard	Florin Mergea	Marc López Rafael Nadal	2–6, 6–3, 4–6
Runner-Up	18.	August 21, 2016	Cincinnati Masters, Cincinnati, United States	Hard	Jean-Julien Rojer	Ivan Dodig Marcelo Melo	6–7(5–7), 7–6(7–5), [6–10]

1 Held as Hamburg Masters (outdoor clay) until 2008, Madrid Masters (outdoor clay) 2009 – present.
2 Held as Stuttgart Masters (indoor hard) until 2001, Madrid Masters (indoor hard) from 2002–08, and Shanghai Masters (outdoor hard) 2009 – present.