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Romanian tennis player
Nicholas David Ionel (born 12 October 2002) is a Romanian professional tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 184 achieved on 12 June 2023. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 356 achieved on 24 April 2023. He is currently the No. 2 Romanian player.[ 1]
2020: ATP qualification debut [ edit ]
Ionel won the 2020 Australian Open – Boys' doubles title.[ 2]
Ionel was awarded with a qualification wildcard to play his first ATP tournament at the 2020 European Open , where he pushed former world No. 36 Yūichi Sugita to three sets.
2022: Top 250 debut [ edit ]
He reached the top 250 in singles on 7 November 2022 at No. 241.
2023: Major qualifications, Top 200 debut[ edit ]
He trains at the Mouratoglou Tennis Academy in Sophia Antipolis since 2018.[ 3]
Junior Grand Slam titles [ edit ]
Doubles: 1 (1 title)[ edit ]
ITF World Tennis Tour and ATP Challenger finals [ edit ]
Legend (singles)
ATP Challenger Tour (0–0)
ITF World Tennis Tour (11-7)
Titles by surface
Hard (3–1)
Clay (8–6)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Result
W–L
Date
Tournament
Tier
Surface
Opponent
Score
Win
1–0
Sep 2019
M15 Brașov , Romania
World Tennis Tour
Clay
Oleksii Krutykh
7–5, 6–4
Win
2–0
Sep 2019
M15 Târgu Mureș , Romania
World Tennis Tour
Clay
Juan Ignacio Galarza
6–7(1–7) , 7–5, 6–4
Win
3–0
Oct 2019
M15 Tabarka , Tunisia
World Tennis Tour
Clay
Manuel Pena Lopez
6–4, 7–5
Win
4–0
Nov 2019
M15 Tabarka, Tunisia
World Tennis Tour
Clay
Andrea Picchione
6–4, 4–6, 6–4
Win
5–0
Feb 2020
M15 Heraklion , Greece
World Tennis Tour
Hard
Jordan Correia
6–4, 4–6, 6–4
Loss
5–1
Jul 2021
M15 Esch-sur-Alzette , Luxembourg
World Tennis Tour
Clay
Patrick Kypson
6–4, 3–6, 5–7
Loss
5–2
Oct 2021
M15 Antalya , Turkey
World Tennis Tour
Clay
Daniel Michalski
3-6, 4-6
Loss
5–3
Nov 2021
M15 Heraklion, Greece
World Tennis Tour
Hard
Jack Pinnington Jones
6–7(3–7) , 1–6
Win
6-3
Feb 2022
M15 Sharm El Sheikh , Egypt
World Tennis Tour
Hard
Matteo Gigante
6–3, 4–6, 6–1
Win
7-3
Mar 2022
M15 Marrakech , Morocco
World Tennis Tour
Clay
Alexis Musialek
6–3, 6-2
Loss
7-4
Mar 2022
M15 Marrakech, Morocco
World Tennis Tour
Clay
Edoardo Lavagno
4-6, 2-6
Win
8-4
Aug 2022
M25 Pitești, Romania
World Tennis Tour
Clay
Juan Pablo Paz
6-3, 3-6, 6-4
Loss
8-5
Aug 2022
M15 Craiova, Romania
World Tennis Tour
Clay
Cesar Crețu
2-6, 6-2, 2-6
Win
9-5
Oct 2022
M25 Gaziantep, Turkey
World Tennis Tour
Clay
Corentin Denolly
6-2, 6-2
Win
10-5
Jan 2023
M15 Jakarta, Indonesia
World Tennis Tour
Hard
Sidharth Rawat
4-6, 6-1, 7-6(11–9)
Win
11-5
May 2023
M15 Alaminos-Larnaca, Cyprus
World Tennis Tour
Clay
Filip Cristian Jianu
6-3, 7-6(7–2)
Loss
11-6
Oct 2023
M25 Pazardzhik, Bulgaria
World Tennis Tour
Clay
Martin Krumich
6-4, 0-6, 4-6
Loss
11-7
Oct 2023
M25 Telavi, Georgia
World Tennis Tour
Clay
Martin Krumich
4-6, 4-6
Legend (doubles)
ATP Challenger Tour (0–0)
ITF World Tennis Tour (1–2)
Titles by surface
Hard (0–0)
Clay (1–2)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)