Tennis Player Horia Tecau
For his remarkable achievement, Horia Tecau is Athlete of the Week on RRI
Florin Orban, 07.10.2014, 13:55
The pair made up of Romanian Horia Tecau and Jean-Julien Rojer of the Netherlands won Sunday’s doubles at the ATP tournament in Beijing, totaling 2.5 million dollars in prize money. In the finals Tecau and Rojer outperformed Julien Benneteau of France and Vasek Pospisil of Canada, seeded fourth in the competition, 6-7, 7-5, 10-5. This is the second ATP tournament the two have won in China over the last two weeks, after last weekend they won the men’s doubles in the Shenzhen tournament.
For his remarkable achievement, we have designated Horia Tecau Athlete of the Week on RRI for the second week in a row.
This was the seventh title for Tecau and Rojer, after the tournaments won in Zagreb, Casablanca, Bucharest, s’Hertogenbosch, Washington, Shenzhen. The two also played the final of the Rotterdam tournament.
In the ATP men’s doubles, Horia Tecau has gone down two places as compared to last week and is now ranked 18th, despite two wins in two weeks. Nevertheless, Tecau and Royer are now in sixth place in the Race to London rankings, of which the first eight pairs will play in the Champions Tournament.
Let us note that Horia Tecau was born on January 19, 1985 in Brasov. He took up tennis at the age of 7, and became a professional player in 2003. Since July 2008 he has been among the world’s top 100 players, and In November 2009 he made it to the top 50. In 2012 he was 5th ranked in the world’s doubles standings, becoming the best-ranked Romanian tennis player in the entire history of the Association of Tennis Professionals.
So far Tecau has won 23 ATP doubles tournaments. Apart from seven tournaments won alongside Rojer, Tecau also won three tournaments with Max Mirnyi of Belarus in 2013 and ten with Robert Lindstedt of Sweden between 2010 and 2012.
Horia also won the Auckland tournament in 2010 with Marcus Daniell of New Zealand, the 2011 tournament in Acapulco with Victor Hanescu, and the 2011 tournament in Zagreb with Dick Norman of Belgium. Adding to these performances is the 2012 win in the Australian Open’s mixed doubles alongside Bethanie Mattek-Sands of the United States.
