Andrei Pavel

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Andrei Pavel

Country (sports)	Romania
Residence	Arizona, United States[1]
Born	(1974-01-27) 27 January 1974 (age 47) Constanța, Romania
Height	1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)
Turned pro	1995
Retired	September 23, 2009
Plays	Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Prize money	$5,123,329
Singles
Career record	277–266
Career titles	3
Highest ranking	No. 13 (25 October 2004)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	4R (1999, 2004)
French Open	QF (2002)
Wimbledon	3R (2000, 2002)
US Open	4R (2000, 2004)
Other tournaments
Olympic Games	1R (1992, 1996, 2000, 2004)
Doubles
Career record	137–130
Career titles	6
Highest ranking	No. 13 (30 April 2007)

Andrei Pavel (born 27 January 1974) is a Romanian tennis coach and former professional tennis player. He is currently coaching the no. 60 male tennis player Marius Copil.

Career[]

Andrei Pavel in 2009 during his last singles match

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.

After 19 years of living in Germany, he moved to Arizona, US.^[2] He spends his summers in Romania.^[3]

Coaching[]

At the start of 2011, former world number one Jelena Janković announced her decision to work with Andrei Pavel on a trial basis. The Serbian player did not perform up to the mark in 2010 and had dropped to as low as number eight in the WTA rankings.^[4]

Since the 2012 Indian Wells Masters, Pavel has been coaching Tamira Paszek, a world top-50 tennis player and dual Wimbledon quarter-finalist.^[5]

Career finals[]

Singles (3 wins, 6 losses)[]

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1.	Apr 1998	Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Byron Black	6–3, 6–4
Loss	1.	Apr 1999	Munich, Germany	Clay	Franco Squillari	4–6, 3–6
Loss	2.	Jun 1999	s’Hertogenbosch, Netherlands	Grass	Patrick Rafter	6–3, 6–7(7–9), 4–6
Win	2.	May 2000	St. Pölten, Austria	Clay	Andrew Ilie	7–5, 3–6, 6–2
Win	3.	Jul 2001	Montreal, Canada	Hard	Patrick Rafter	7–6(7–3), 2–6, 6–3
Loss	3.	Oct 2003	Paris, France	Carpet	Tim Henman	2–6, 6–7(6–8), 6–7(2–7)
Loss	4.	Apr 2005	Munich, Germany	Clay	David Nalbandian	4–6, 1–6
Loss	5.	May 2006	Portschach, Austria	Clay	Nikolay Davydenko	0–6, 3–6
Loss	6.	Jul 2007	Umag, Croatia	Clay	Carlos Moyà	4–6, 2–6

Doubles (6 titles, 5 runners-up)[]

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1.	Sep 1998	Bucharest, Romania	Clay	Gabriel Trifu	George Cosac Dinu Pescariu	7–6(7–2), 7–6(7–4)
Loss	1.	Feb 1999	Saint Petersburg, Russia	Carpet	Menno Oosting	Jeff Tarango Daniel Vacek	6–3, 3–6, 5–7
Loss	2.	Jan 2005	Doha, Qatar	Hard	Mikhail Youzhny	Albert Costa Rafael Nadal	3–6, 6–4, 3–6
Win	2.	Jul 2005	Kitzbühel, Austria	Clay	Leoš Friedl	Christophe Rochus Olivier Rochus	6–2, 6–7(5–7), 6–0
Loss	3.	Sep 2005	Bucharest, Romania	Clay	Victor Hănescu	José Acasuso Sebastián Prieto	3–6, 6–4, 3–6
Win	3.	Jan 2006	Auckland, New Zealand	Hard	Rogier Wassen	Simon Aspelin Todd Perry	3–6, 7–5, [4–10]
Win	4.	May 2006	Munich, Germany	Clay	Alexander Waske	Alexander Peya Björn Phau	6–4, 6–2
Win	5.	Jul 2006	Gstaad, Switzerland	Clay	Jiří Novák	Marco Chiudinelli Jean-Claude Scherrer	6–3, 6–1
Loss	4.	Feb 2007	Rotterdam, Netherlands	Hard	Alexander Waske	Martin Damm Leander Paes	3–6, 7–6(7–5), [7–10]
Win	6.	Apr 2007	Barcelona, Spain	Clay	Alexander Waske	Rafael Nadal Bartolomé Salvá-Vidal	6–3, 7–6(7–1)
Loss	5.	May 2009	Kitzbühel, Austria	Clay	Horia Tecău	Marcelo Melo André Sá	7–6(11–9), 2–6, [7–10]

Singles performance timeline[]

^a 2004 US Open counts as 3 wins, 0 losses. Roger Federer walkover in round 4, after Pavel withdrew because of a back injury, ^[6] does not count as a Pavel loss (nor a Federer win).

References[]

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Andrei Pavel.

• Andrei Pavel at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Andrei Pavel at the International Tennis Federation
• Andrei Pavel at the Davis Cup
• Andrei Pavel at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
• Andrei Pavel at the International Olympic Committee