Horia Tecau

Father, Romeo, works in local police office; Mother, Dorinela, works for electric company in Constanta…Older brother, Andrei, works in bank…Started playing tennis aged seven…Stellar junior career, reached 2002-2003 Australian Open doubles final, won 2002-2003 Wimbledon doubles (w/Mergea) and was a 2003 Wimbledon singles semi-finalist. Finished No. 1 in junior doubles in 2002…Favourite surface is hard courts…Favourite players are Pete Sampras and Roger Federer…Likes basketball and football, goes to games when he can…Favourite football teams are FC Barcelona and AC Milan.

Tecau-Lindstedt DEUCE Feature (Jan. 2011)

2012 -- The Romanian teamed with Swede Lindstedt for a 3rd season to compile a 48-23 match record and 4-3 in finals. They finished No. 4 in ATP Doubles Team Rankings (individually was year-end best No. 9) and closed with 1-2 showing at Barclays ATP World Tour Finals in London...Played well in Grand Slam tournaments with a 12-4 record, highlighted by their 3rd straight Wimbledon final (l. to Marray-Nielsen in 5 sets)...Also compiled a 12-8 record in ATP Masters 1000 events. Their biggest title came in August at ATP Masters 1000 Cincinnati (d. Bhupathi-Bopanna)...Captured 1st title of season on clay in Bucharest (d. Chardy-Kubot) and 2 weeks later reached final at ATP Masters 1000 Madrid (l. to Fyrstenberg-Matkowski)...Put together strong results on grass with title in ‘s-Hertogenbosch (d. Cabal-Tursunov) and final at Wimbledon, where they fell to wild cards Marray-Nielsen 6-3 in 5th set...Returned to clay in Båstad and won title without dropping a set (d. Peya-Soares)...In August, reached SF at ATP Masters 1000 Toronto (l. to Granollers-M. Lopez) and followed with title run in Cincinnati...Earned a career-high $497,956... 

2011 -- The Romanian teamed with Lindstedt to compile a 2-5 finals record while qualifying in their 1st Barclays ATP World Tour Finals in London…Went 1-2 in round robin play and 39-23 on season...They also advanced to their 2nd straight Wimbledon final...In 1st week of season, reached final in Brisbane (l. to Dlouhy-Hanley) and in April, repeated clay court title in Casablanca (d. Fleming-Zelenay)...During European clay court circuit, advanced to QF in Barcelona, ATP Masters 1000 Rome and Roland Garros...Played well on grass (9-3 mark) with QF at Queen’s Club, runner-up in ‘s-Hertogenbosch (l. to Bracciali-Cermak) and Wimbledon (l. to Bryans)...In July, won title in Båstad (d. Aspelin-Siljestrom) and 1 month later reached final in Washington (l. to Llodra-Zimonjic)…Lost opening round in next 2 events before reaching QF at US Open (l. to Bolelli-Fognini)...In October, reached final in Beijing (l. to Llodra-Zimonjic in 2 TBs)...Finished No. 12 in doubles and earned a career-high $447,311...

2010 -- Reached his first Grand Slam final at Wimbledon (w/Lindstedt), losing to Melzer-Petzschner 61 75 75...Went 5-1 in ATP World Tour doubles titles, winning his first title (w/Daniell) at Auckland...In tandem with Lindstedt since March, the duo lifted trophies at Casablanca (d. Bopanna-Qureshi), 's-Hertogenbosch (d. Dlouhy-Paes), Bastad (d. Seppi-Vagnozzi) and New Haven (d. Bopanna-Qureshi)...

2009 -- Reached two ATP World Tour doubles finals at Kitzbuhel (w/Pavel) and Stuttgart (w/Hanescu)...

2008 -- Went 5-4 in doubles Challenger finals…Won 3 titles with Allegro, 2 with Mergea

2006 -- Lost in 1R at ATP World Tour debut in Bucharest (w/Pavel)...

2003 -- Made his Davis Cup debut against the Ecuador, winning 13-11 in 5th set against Lapentti-Lapentti (w/Mergea)...

2013

In tandem with Mirnyi, they did not drop a set en route to the Sydney final (l. to Bryans in straight sets)…

In his 26th doubles final at Delray Beach, partnering Mirnyi, the duo lost to Blake-Sock…

On 8 March, withdrew from Indian Wells doubles (w/Mirnyi) due to a calf strain...

Fell in ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Monte-Carlo QFs (l. to Marrero-Verdasco)…On 27 April, partnering Mirnyi, captured their first team title in third final of year at Bucharest…Beat Dlouhy-Marach 10-6 in Match TB win…Presented the trophy Olympic icon and Romanian gymnastics hero Nadia Comaneci…Had won 2012 title (w/Lindstedt)…

Fell in ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Rome SFs (l. to Bryans)…