Adrian Ungur
Adrian Ungur (born 25 January 1985 in Piteşti ) is a Romanian tennis player.
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Life and career
Until 2004: Junior career and first successes in Futures tournaments
Adrian Ungur began at the age of eight years, to play tennis. In the years 2001 to 2003 he participated in international junior tournaments, and was able to win multiple titles. Thus he rose in the junior world rankings at No. 10
Since 2001 he also took part in professional tournaments, and won his first Futures title in May 2004 in Romania. Later in the year he reached three other finals Future, of which he won one.
2005-2007: Establishment of the Challenger Tour
In 2005, Adrian Ungur won four other Future titles. Since he was now advanced into the world rankings in the top 400, he played now increasingly tournaments in the ATP Challenger Tour. He was able to reach two semi-finals in Oberstaufen and Braşov.
In May 2006 Ungur was in Rome for the first time in the finals of a Challenger tournament, but he lost in three sets against Oliver Marach. Nearly two months later, in Constanta another final, but again went Ungur against Konstantinos Economidis as losers from the square. By these successes he rose for the first time briefly in the top 200 in the world rankings.
2007 Adrian Ungur tried for the first time, to qualify for the Grand Slam tournaments in Melbourne and Paris, but did not manage each of the leap into the main draw. On Challenger level it reached in September 2007 in Todi, a final, but lost to Stefano Galvani.
2008-2011: Challenger titles and ATP debut
In June 2008, Adrian Ungur finally was able to win in Sofia in his fourth Challenger final against Franco Ferreiro his first title. Two weeks later he arrived in Constanta another final, but there ended his winning streak against Nicolas Devilder.
But then the following year was less successful for Ungur: Between July 2008 and May 2009 there were a total of twelve Erstrundenniederlagen. After he had reached in July 2008, with rank 169 had hitherto been his best world ranking placement, he was a year later fell back to square 621. In September 2009 Adrian Ungur was then but back on track: After a semi-final in Braşov he reached the Challenger tournament in Todi as the final qualifier, in which he lost narrowly Simon Greul. Just a week later he was in Palermo in another final, and won against Albert Ramos- Viñolas his second Challenger title there.
In May 2010, Adrian Ungur was first appointed to the Romanian Davis Cup team. Although he lost his singles match against Sergiy Stachowskyj, but Romania still won 3-1 against Ukraine. As you climb the match for the World Group in September 2010 Ungur wore then with two individual wins for the 5-0 victory over Ecuador. After this season, reached a total of four Challenger semi-final, and thereby pre- works in the world rankings to No. 122, he was given a wildcard for the ATP tournament in Bucharest. In the first round he was able to prevail in a tight three- set match against the set at position 7 top 100 player, Andreas Seppi, but had to retire against Bjorn Phau.
In February 2011, succeeded Adrian Ungur in Acapulco for the first time qualifying for an ATP tournament, but in the first round he had no chance against the set at position 1 eventual winner David Ferrer. In the subsequent Davis Cup match against Argentina Ungur won after losing to David Nalbandian in the final singles match against the top -50 player Juan Mónaco, at that time Romania had, however, already set back to 0:4. In April 2011 Ungur qualified in Belgrade for another ATP tournament. After a narrow victory over Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo he met in the second round to world number one Novak Djokovic, against whom he lost smooth. On Challenger level Ungur won two tournaments this year: In July 2011 he won the final in San Benedetto over Stefano Galvani, a month later, he won the final of Manerbio against Peter Gojowczyk. For the ATP tournament in Bucharest in September 2011, he got like last year, a wild card and could by a victory over Lukas Rosol again reached the second round before he retired against Joao Souza. In October 2011 he reached Palermo in a more Challenger final, but lost against Carlos Berlocq smooth.
2012: entry into the Top 100
The year 2012 began for Adrian Ungur with a Challenger finals in Bucaramanga, where he lost to Wayne Odesnik. In February 2012, he was first qualified in Viña del Mar directly for an ATP tournament, but retired in the first round against Horacio Zeballos of. Three weeks later was Ungur in Meknes again in a Challenger final. He lost this though against Yevgeny Donskoi, yet he first rose then into the top 100 in the world rankings. The end of March stood Ungur in Marrakech for the third time this year in a Challenger final, and the third time he went against Martin Klizan as losers from the square. At the French Open Ungur finally came to his Grand Slam debut and was for a first round victory over former world ranking third David Nalbandian immediately reach the second round. There he met on the set at position 3 eventual semi-finalists Roger Federer, against whom he could at least win a set.