Irina-Camelia Begu
Irina -Camelia Begu ( born August 26, 1990 in Bucharest ) is a Romanian tennis player. In the German Bundesliga, she plays for the TC Blau-Weiss Bocholt, with which it was in 2012 and 2013 German team champion.
Biography
Begus mother STELUTA, working for the Romanian government, her father Paul is an electrician. She has an older brother named Andrei.
Your working as a tennis coach aunt Aura Wagner brought her at the age of three years at the tennis. By the year 2011, she was cared for by Daniel Dolbea, then by Marius Comănescu. She is currently without a coach.
My favorite surface is the clay court.
Career
2007 succeeded Begu the first success on the ITF level, as she defeated her compatriot Cristina Mitu at a smaller tournament in Braşov.
The first big success she was able to start the 2011 season, when they won the tournament of Cali, where she then number 105 in the world, Laura Pous Tió, defeated in straight sets in the final. Two rounds before she was against the Austrian Patricia Mayr -Achleitner managed the first victory against a top 100 player.
In April of the same year they reached after three wins in qualifying the main draw of the WTA tournament in Marbella. In the first three rounds she beat Alberta Brianti 6-4, 6-1 to qualifier Estrella Cabeza Candela 7-5, 6-0 and the Czech Klára Zakopalová 6:3, 6:3. In the semifinals, she met the former French Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova, who defeated them 3:6, 7:63 and 6:4. In her first WTA final of her career, she had the top-seeded Azarenka Wiktoryja 3:6, defeated 2:6. Thus she succeeded the first time into the top 100 of the world tennis rankings.
In the same year, she still reached the final in Budapest, which they almost lost to Laura Pous successes over Tió, Ajla Tomljanović, Estrella Cabeza Candela and Anabel Medina Garrigues against the top-seeded Roberta Vinci.
In July, she managed the ITF tournament in her Haimatstadt Bucharest, the second tournament win of the year. In the final, she defeated the Spaniard Laura Pous Tió 6:3, 7:5. So she came into the top 50 in the world rankings; for a short time, she was even the best placed Romanian tennis player.
After the semi-finals of Dallas, where she failed to Sabine Lisicki, and a main draw victory at the WTA tournament in Tokyo, she reached in September 2011 in the ranking position of 38
At the end of 2011 they got from the WTA for their meteoric rise in the world rankings the trophy for the " Newcomer of the Year" award.
At the beginning of 2012 Begu was with her partner Monica Niculescu celebrate her first WTA doubles title. In September, her then succeeded with a tournament victory in Tashkent on the WTA Tour, the first success in the singles.