The 21st century
Romania · born Brașov, 1985 · Wimbledon men's doubles champion 2015 after three lost finals
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Wimbledon men's doubles finals: lost 2010, 2011 and 2012, won 2015
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Wimbledon boys' doubles titles with Florin Mergea, 2002 and 2003
4
Titles at 's-Hertogenbosch, 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2014, with three partners
38
Tour-level doubles titles, 20 of them with Jean-Julien Rojer
No. 2
Doubles world ranking, November 2015
Horia Tecău was born in Brașov on 19 January 1985 and started playing at seven. With Florin Mergea he won the Wimbledon boys' doubles in 2002 and again in 2003, and he turned professional in 2003. He entered the doubles top 100 in July 2008.
His breakthrough came with the Swede Robert Lindstedt. They won 's-Hertogenbosch in 2010 and reached the Wimbledon final three years running, from 2010 to 2012, losing to Jürgen Melzer and Philipp Petzschner, to Bob and Mike Bryan, and to Jonathan Marray and Frederik Nielsen. In 2012 Tecău also won the Australian Open mixed doubles with Bethanie Mattek-Sands and, with Lindstedt, the Masters event in Cincinnati, before the partnership ended that September. In 2013 he won 's-Hertogenbosch again with Max Mirnyi.
From 2014 he played with Jean-Julien Rojer. They won eight titles that year, including 's-Hertogenbosch, then the 2015 Wimbledon title, the 2015 ATP Finals and the 2017 US Open; Tecău reached No. 2 in November 2015. He carried Romania's flag at the 2012 Olympics and won silver in the men's doubles at Rio 2016 with Mergea. In 2021, with Kevin Krawietz, he won Halle, his 38th title, and he retired after the ATP Finals in Turin that November. In 2022 he became Romania's Billie Jean King Cup captain.
| Wimbledon finals | 2010 with Robert Lindstedt: lost to Jürgen Melzer and Philipp Petzschner 6-1, 7-5, 7-5. 2011: lost to Bob and Mike Bryan 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (7-2). 2012: lost to Jonathan Marray and Frederik Nielsen 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7-5), 6-7 (5-7), 6-3. 2015 with Jean-Julien Rojer, seeded four: beat Jamie Murray and John Peers 7-6 (7-5), 6-4, 6-4 in 112 minutes on Centre Court |
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| Wimbledon boys' doubles | With Florin Mergea: 2002, unseeded, beat Brian Baker and Rajeev Ram 6-4, 4-6, 6-4; 2003, top seeds, beat Adam Feeney and Chris Guccione 7-6 (7-4), 7-5 |
| 's-Hertogenbosch | 2010 with Lindstedt: beat Lukáš Dlouhý and Leander Paes 1-6, 7-5, 10-7. 2011: runners-up to Daniele Bracciali and František Čermák. 2012: beat Juan Sebastián Cabal and Dmitry Tursunov 6-3, 7-6 (7-1). 2013 with Max Mirnyi: beat Andre Begemann and Martin Emmrich 6-3, 7-6 (7-4). 2014 with Rojer: beat Santiago González and Scott Lipsky 6-3, 7-6 (7-3) |
| Halle, 2021 | With Kevin Krawietz, in their first title as a team: beat Félix Auger-Aliassime and Hubert Hurkacz 7-6 (7-4), 6-4 |
| Wimbledon | ||
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| 2015 | Men's doubles | with Jean-Julien Rojer |
| 's-Hertogenbosch (Rosmalen) | ||
| 2010 | Men's doubles Rosmalen Grass Court Championships | with Robert Lindstedt |
| 2012 | Men's doubles Rosmalen Grass Court Championships | with Robert Lindstedt |
| 2013 | Men's doubles Rosmalen Grass Court Championships | with Max Mirnyi |
| 2014 | Men's doubles Rosmalen Grass Court Championships | with Jean-Julien Rojer |
| Halle | ||
| 2021 | Men's doubles | with Kevin Krawietz |
Leading grass titles only: the grass majors, tour-level grass events since 1968 and the leading grass championships before 1968. † single source; ‡ sources disagree. Roll of champions
"I have to come back to my senses, enjoy this trophy and find the next dream."
The person behind the player.
Brașov
He started playing at seven. His father, Romeo, worked in a police office and his mother, Dorinela, for an electricity company; he named Pete Sampras and Roger Federer as his idols, and hard courts, not grass, as his favourite surface.
Source: ATP Tour biographyWimbledon, 2002 and 2003
Tecău and Florin Mergea won the Wimbledon boys' doubles as an unseeded pair in 2002 and as top seeds in 2003. Thirteen years later the same two won Olympic silver for Romania in Rio.
Source: Wimbledon Compendium 2025; ATP TourWimbledon, 2010 to 2015
After three straight Wimbledon finals lost with Lindstedt, Tecău and Rojer beat Jamie Murray and John Peers 7-6, 6-4, 6-4 in 2015. Radio Romania International described Wimbledon as the loftiest dream of his career; he said his next dream would be the US Open, which he and Rojer won two years later.
Source: Radio Romania InternationalBucharest
Sony Pictures chose him to dub the voice of Charles Darwin in the Romanian version of the animated film The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
Source: WikipediaOff court
He wrote a children's book, Viata in ritm de tenis (Life in the Rhythm of Tennis), became a national ambassador for UNICEF Romania and won the ATP's Arthur Ashe Humanitarian of the Year award in 2017.
Source: ATP Tour biographyTurin, 2021
He won his last match, his 471st doubles win, with Kevin Krawietz at the 2021 ATP Finals. "Couldn't have had a better script to live this moment," he said. Robert Lindstedt, his old partner, said he was sad to see him go but respected the choice: "On your terms."
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