Tennis tournament
This article is about the men's tennis tournament. For the women's tournament, see
Transylvania Open .
Tennis tournament
The Romanian Open (also known as Țiriac Open) is a professional men's
tennis tournament played on
outdoor clay courts . It was the successor event to the earlier
Romanian International Championships (1930–1983).
[1] It is part of the
ATP 250 tournaments of the
ATP Tour . It was held annually in
Bucharest , Romania, between 1993 and 2016 and revived in 2024. Its name is taken from Romania's famous tennis players
Ilie Năstase and
Ion Țiriac .
The tournament never saw a Romanian winner in singles (though the 2005 edition saw two Romanian players reaching the semifinals, and the 2007 edition saw
Victor Hănescu reach the finals), but a Romanian pair (
Andrei Pavel and
Gabriel Trifu ) took home the doubles title in 1998. Also,
Horia Tecău took three consecutive doubles titles at the tournament (2012, 2013 & 2014), each time with a different partner.
The organizers announced that from 2012, the ATP World Tour 250 series tournament would be scheduled to take place in April, thus ending a period of 19 years when it took place in the last week of September.
[2]
The last edition of the tournament was in 2016, as ATP has relocated it to
Budapest .
[3] The tournament moved to Belgrade in 2021.
[4] In 2024, the tournament returned to Bucharest.
[5]
Past finals
Fernando Verdasco grabbed the title of the Romanian Open in 2016.
Gilles Simon (winner in 2007, 2008 & 2012) holds the record in Bucharest, for the most titles (three).
Grigor Dimitrov clinched Bucharest crown in 2014.
David Ferrer won his first ATP title in Romania in 2002.
Goran Ivanišević was the winner of the first edition of the tournament in 1993.
Horia Tecău (2012, 2013, 2014 & 2016) took a record of four doubles titles at the tournament, each time with a different partner.
Singles
Year
Champions
Runners-up
Score
1993
Goran Ivanišević
Andrei Cherkasov
6–2, 7–6(7–5)
1994
Franco Davín
Goran Ivanišević
6–2, 6–4
1995
Thomas Muster
Gilbert Schaller
6–3, 6–4
1996
Alberto Berasategui
Carlos Moyá
6–1, 7–6(7–5)
1997
Richard Fromberg
Andrea Gaudenzi
6–1, 7–6(7–2)
1998
Francisco Clavet
Arnaud Di Pasquale
6–4, 2–6, 7–5
1999
Alberto Martín
Karim Alami
6–3, 6–2
2000
Juan Balcells
Markus Hantschk
6–3, 3–6, 7–6(7–1)
2001
Younes El Aynaoui
Albert Montañés
7–6(7–5) , 7–6(7–2)
2002
David Ferrer
José Acasuso
6–3, 6–2
2003
David Sánchez
Nicolás Massú
6–2, 6–2
2004
José Acasuso
Igor Andreev
6–3, 6–0
2005
Florent Serra
Igor Andreev
6–3, 6–4
2006
Jürgen Melzer
Filippo Volandri
6–1, 7–5
2007
Gilles Simon
Victor Hănescu
4–6, 6–3, 6–2
2008
Gilles Simon
Carlos Moyá
6–3, 6–4
2009
Albert Montañés
Juan Mónaco
7–6(7–2) , 7–6(8–6)
2010
Juan Ignacio Chela
Pablo Andújar
7–5, 6–1
2011
Florian Mayer
Pablo Andújar
6–3, 6–1
2012
Gilles Simon
Fabio Fognini
6–4, 6–3
2013
Lukáš Rosol
Guillermo García-López
6–3, 6–2
2014
Grigor Dimitrov
Lukáš Rosol
7–6(7–2) , 6–1
2015
Guillermo García-López
Jiří Veselý
7–6(7–5) , 7–6(13–11)
2016
Fernando Verdasco
Lucas Pouille
6–3, 6–2
2017-2023
replaced by
Hungarian Open ,
Serbia Open and
Srpska Open
2024
Doubles
Year
Champions
Runners-up
Score
1993
Menno Oosting
Libor Pimek
George Cosac
Ciprian Petre Porumb
7–6, 7–6
1994
Wayne Arthurs
Simon Youl
Jordi Arrese
José Antonio Conde
6–4, 6–4
1995
Mark Keil
Jeff Tarango
Cyril Suk
Daniel Vacek
6–4, 7–6
1996
David Ekerot
Jeff Tarango
David Adams
Menno Oosting
7–6, 7–6
1997
Luis Lobo
Javier Sánchez
Hendrik Jan Davids
Daniel Orsanic
7–5, 7–5
1998
Andrei Pavel
Gabriel Trifu
George Cosac
Dinu Pescariu
7–6, 7–6
1999
Lucas Arnold Ker
Martín García
Marc-Kevin Goellner
Francisco Montana
6–3, 2–6, 6–3
2000
Alberto Martín
Eyal Ran
Devin Bowen
Mariano Hood
7–6(7–4) , 6–1
2001
Aleksandar Kitinov
Johan Landsberg
Pablo Albano
Marc-Kevin Goellner
6–4, 6–7(5–7) , [10–6]
2002
Jens Knippschild
Peter Nyborg
Emilio Benfele Álvarez
Andrés Schneiter
6–3, 6–3
2003
Karsten Braasch
Sargis Sargsian
Simon Aspelin
Jeff Coetzee
7–6(9–7) , 6–2
2004
Lucas Arnold Ker
Mariano Hood
José Acasuso
Óscar Hernández
7–6(7–5) , 6–1
2005
José Acasuso
Sebastián Prieto
Victor Hănescu
Andrei Pavel
6–3, 4–6, 6–3
2006
Mariusz Fyrstenberg
Marcin Matkowski
Martín García
Luis Horna
6–7(5–7) , 7–6(7–5) , [10–8]
2007
Oliver Marach
Michal Mertiňák
Martín García
Sebastián Prieto
7–6(7–2) , 7–6(10–8)
2008
Nicolas Devilder
Paul-Henri Mathieu
Mariusz Fyrstenberg
Marcin Matkowski
7–6(7–4) , 6–7(9–11) , [22–20]
2009
František Čermák
Michal Mertiňák
Johan Brunström
Jean-Julien Rojer
6–2, 6–4
2010
Juan Ignacio Chela
Łukasz Kubot
Marcel Granollers
Santiago Ventura
6–2, 5–7, [13–11]
2011
Daniele Bracciali
Potito Starace
Julian Knowle
David Marrero
3–6, 6–4, [10–8]
2012
Robert Lindstedt
Horia Tecău
Jérémy Chardy
Łukasz Kubot
7–6(7–2) , 6–3
2013
Max Mirnyi
Horia Tecău
Lukáš Dlouhý
Oliver Marach
4–6, 6–4, [10–6]
2014
Jean-Julien Rojer
Horia Tecău
Mariusz Fyrstenberg
Marcin Matkowski
6–4, 6–4
2015
Marius Copil
Adrian Ungur
Nicholas Monroe
Artem Sitak
3–6, 7–5, [17–15]
2016
Florin Mergea
Horia Tecău
Chris Guccione
André Sá
7–5, 6–4
2017-2023
replaced by
Hungarian Open ,
Serbia Open and
Srpska Open
2024
See also
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