Romanian Open

This article is about the men's tennis tournament. For the women's tournament, see WTA Romanian Open.

The Romanian Open (also known as the BRD Năstase Țiriac Trophy) was a professional men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the ATP Tour. It was held annually in Bucharest, Romania, since 1993. Its name is taken from Romania's famous tennis players Ilie Năstase and Ion Țiriac.

Romanian Open
Defunct tennis tournament
Event name	Romanian Open BRD Năstase Țiriac Trophy
Tour	ATP World Series (1993–1997) ATP International Series (1998–2008) ATP World Tour 250 series (2009–2016)
Founded	1993
Abolished	2016
Editions	24
Location	Bucharest, Romania
Venue	Arenele BNR
Surface	Clay, outdoors

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.^[1]

The last edition of the tournament was in 2016, as ATP has relocated it to Budapest.^[2]

Past finals

 

Fernando Verdasco grabbed the title of the last 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	replaced by Hungarian Open

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

See also

• BRD Bucharest Open
• Transylvania Open
• Bucharest Open
• List of tennis tournaments

References

1. Turneul BCR Open România s-a mutat în aprilie, în debutul sezonului de zgură! (in Romanian)
2. Bucharest Relocates To Budapest From 2017

External links

Coordinates: 44°25′52″N 26°04′37″E / 44.431°N 26.077°E / 44.431; 26.077