Andrei Pavel

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Andrei Pavel

Country	Romania
Residence	Borgholzhausen, Germany
Born	(1974-01-27) January 27, 1974 (age 38) Constanţa, Romania
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	86 kg (190 lb; 13.5 st)
Turned pro	1995
Retired	September 23, 2009
Plays	Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Career prize money	$5,123,329
Singles
Career record	277–261
Career titles	3
Highest ranking	No. 13 (October 25, 2004)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	4R (1999, 2004)
French Open	QF (2002)
Wimbledon	3R (2000, 2002)
US Open	4R (2000, 2004)
Doubles
Career record	137–130
Career titles	6
Highest ranking	No. 13 (April 30, 2007)
Last updated on: May 3, 2012.

Andrei Pavel (born January 27, 1974 in Constanţa) is a tennis coach and former professional tennis player from Romania. He is currently coaching the world top-50 tennis player, Tamira Paszek. ^[1]

Career

Andrei began playing tennis at age eight, and moved to Germany at age sixteen.

Pavel has turned professional in 1995. He has won three singles titles, including the ATP Masters Series tournament in Montreal/Toronto in 2001. He has also won seven doubles titles, the latest title being the Open Seat Barcelona, in 2007.

Pavel played what John McEnroe considers to be the best first round match at a Grand Slam he has ever seen at the U.S Open in August 2006, where he lost to Andre Agassi in four sets; 6–7(4), 7–6(8), 7–6(6), 6–2; taking three and half hours. Had Pavel won, it would have been Agassi's last match in a professional tournament.

His best single result over the course of his career took place in 2001, when he captured the Masters Series title in Montreal. For his efforts during that week alone, Pavel earned $400,000. When playing Andy Murray in the Australian Open in 2009, Pavel was forced to retire from the game in the second set due to a recurring back injury. He had lost the previous set. Andrei entered the 2009 French Open, where he was defeated by Tommy Haas 6–1, 6–4, 6–4.

He played his last singles match in his homeland tournament in Bucharest in 2009, where he lost in the first round to Pablo Cuevas of Uruguay. In the same tournament he teamed up with his old friend Gabriel Trifu, losing in the quarter finals to Spaniards Ramírez Hidalgo / Ventura. He also played two more exhibition matches, one facing Goran Ivanišević, while in the other he paired up with Ilie Năstase against the Mansour Bahrami / Yannick Noah pair. The week before, he had been the captain of Romania's Davis Cup team, where they lost to Sweden 3–2 in the qualifying rounds.

Pavel's career-high singles ranking was World No. 13 in October 2004.

Coaching

At the start of 2011, former world number one Jelena Janković announced her decision of working with Andrei Pavel on a trial basis. The Serbian player has not performed up to the mark in 2010 and thus dropped to as low as number eight in the WTA rankings.^[2]

Since 2012 Indian Wells Masters, Pavel is coaching Tamira Paszek, a world top-50 tennis player. ^[3]

Singles titles (3)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in final	Score in final
1.	April 13, 1998	Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Byron Black	6–3, 6–4
2.	May 22, 2000	St. Pölten, Austria	Clay	Andrew Ilie	7–5, 3–6, 6–2
3.	July 30, 2001	Montreal, Canada	Hard	Patrick Rafter	7–6, 2–6, 6–3

Runners-ups (6)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in final	Score in final
1.	April 26, 1999	Munich, Germany	Clay	Franco Squillari	6–4, 6–3
2.	June 14, 1999	s’Hertogenbosch, Netherlands	Grass	Patrick Rafter	3–6, 7–6, 6–4
3.	October 27, 2003	Paris, France	Carpet	Tim Henman	6–2, 7–6, 7–6
4.	April 25, 2005	Munich, Germany	Clay	David Nalbandian	6–4, 6–1
5.	May 22, 2006	Portschach, Austria	Clay	Nikolay Davydenko	6–0, 6–3
6.	July 23, 2007	Umag, Croatia	Clay	Carlos Moyà	6–4, 6–2

ATP Doubles titles (6)

Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponents in the final	Score
September 21, 1998	Bucharest, Romania	Clay	Gabriel Trifu	George Cosac Dinu Pescariu	7–6(2), 7–6(4)
July 31, 2005	Kitzbühel, Austria	Clay	Leoš Friedl	Christophe Rochus Olivier Rochus	6–2, 6–7(5), 6–0
January 15, 2006	Auckland, New Zealand	Hard	Rogier Wassen	Simon Aspelin Todd Perry	6–3, 5–7, (10–4)
May 7, 2006	Munich, Germany	Clay	Alexander Waske	Alexander Peya Björn Phau	6–4, 6–2
July 16, 2006	Gstaad, Switzerland	Clay	Jiří Novák	Marco Chiudinelli Jean-Claude Scherrer	6–3, 6–1
April 29, 2007	Barcelona, Spain	Clay	Alexander Waske	Rafael Nadal Bartolomé Salvá-Vidal	6–3, 7–6(1)

Doubles runner-ups (5)

Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponents in final	Score in final
February 14, 1999	St. Petersburg, Russia	Carpet	Menno Oosting	Jeff Tarango Daniel Vacek	3–6, 6–3, 7–5
January 10, 2005	Doha, Qatar	Hard	Mikhail Youzhny	Albert Costa Rafael Nadal	6–3, 4–6, 6–3
September 18, 2005	Bucharest, Romania	Clay	Victor Hănescu	José Acasuso Sebastián Prieto	6–3, 4–6, 6–3
February 25, 2007	Rotterdam, Netherlands	Hard	Alexander Waske	Martin Damm Leander Paes	6–3, 6–7(5), (10–7)
May 23, 2009	Kitzbühel, Austria	Clay	Horia Tecău	Marcelo Melo André Sá	6–7(9), 6–2, (10–7)

Singles performance timeline

Pavel during his last singles match

To help interpret the performance table, the legend below explains what each abbreviation and color coded box represents in the performance timeline.

References

External links

• Andrei Pavel at the Association of Tennis Professionals

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