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 soccer, goes to games when he can…Favourite soccer teams are FC Barcelona and AC Milan.

Tecau-Lindstedt DEUCE Feature (Jan. 2011)

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)...

2012

Won Australian Open mixed doubles title (w/Mattek-Sands), beating Paes-Vesnina in final...With regular partner, Lindstedt, squandered one match point in SFs versus Bryans...