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Romania · born Pitești, 1972 · right-handed · 's-Hertogenbosch champion 1997 in singles and 2001 in doubles
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15
Career-high singles ranking, August 1997
1997
's-Hertogenbosch champion, the second winner of its women's event
2
's-Hertogenbosch singles finals, 1997 and 2000
3
Olympic Games for Romania: 1992, 1996 and 2000
2009
Elected president of the Romanian Tennis Federation
Ruxandra Dragomir was born in Pitești in 1972 and played professionally from 1990 to 2005. She won four singles and five doubles titles on the WTA Tour and seven singles and eight doubles titles on the ITF circuit, mainly on clay: her first two tour titles came at Budapest and Prague in 1996, with a third at Pattaya on hard courts that November.
Her best year was 1997. She reached the Hamburg final, the French Open quarter-finals and, in June, won the grass title at 's-Hertogenbosch. She rose to No. 15 in singles that August and to No. 21 in doubles in September. She represented Romania at three Olympic Games and in the Fed Cup. In 2009 she was elected president of the Romanian Tennis Federation, a post she held until 2013.
| 's-Hertogenbosch 1997 | Beat Miriam Oremans of the Netherlands 5-7, 6-2, 6-4 in the final, held 16 to 22 June, in the second year of the women's event |
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| 's-Hertogenbosch 2000 | Reached the final again and lost to Martina Hingis, retiring at 2-6, 0-3 |
| 's-Hertogenbosch 2001 | Won the doubles with Nadia Petrova, beating Kim Clijsters and Miriam Oremans 7-6, 6-7, 6-4 |
| Wimbledon | Best singles result the third round, in 1996 |
| 's-Hertogenbosch (Rosmalen) | ||
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| 1997 | Women's singles Rosmalen Grass Court Championships | |
| 2001 | Women's doubles Rosmalen Grass Court Championships | with Nadia Petrova |
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Spring and summer 1997
In 1997 she lost the Hamburg final to Iva Majoli 6-3, 6-2, reached the quarter-finals of the French Open, and then won on grass at 's-Hertogenbosch. By August she was No. 15 in the world, her highest ranking.
Source: Olympedia's-Hertogenbosch, June 2000
Three years after her title she returned to the final and met Martina Hingis. She retired early in the second set, trailing 6-2, 3-0, and Hingis took the only 's-Hertogenbosch title of her career.
Source: Land of TennisBarcelona, 1992
She first played the Olympics in Barcelona in 1992, in the doubles with Irina Spîrlea. She returned for the singles in Atlanta in 1996 and Sydney in 2000.
Source: OlympediaPoiana Brașov, February 2009
At an extraordinary general assembly on 23 February 2009, after an earlier attempt had failed for lack of a quorum, the club delegates elected her president of the Romanian Tennis Federation by 87 votes to 70 over Aurel Muntean. Ilie Năstase had been talked of as a candidate but did not stand.
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