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Adrian Voinea (born 6 August 1974) is a former Romanian tennis player. He has been ranked as high as No. 36 in singles by the ATP. Voinea has won one ATP Tour singles title on the ATP Tour.

Between 1995 and 2003, Voinea played in 12 Davis Cup ties for the Romania Davis Cup team and compiled a record of ten wins and eight losses.

Early life

Voinea was born in Focșani, Romania. He started playing tennis with George Bucuroiu as his first coach. As a teenager, Voinea was among the top 3 on the national level. He moved to Italy when he was 15 years old with his older brother, Marian. Marian encouraged Adrian to play tennis, playing a crucial role in developing his tennis career.

After their arrival, the brothers were often short of money but were helped out by several people, including a nun from a church in Turin and Fabrizio Fanucci. Voinea was working with a tennis coach Alberto Castellani, who allowed him to train in Perugia for free as a personal guest.

Professional career

1995

Voinea achieved his greatest success in Grand Slam tournaments by advancing to the quarterfinals of the 1995 French Open as a qualifier, defeating Karol Kučera, Johan Van Herck, Boris Becker and Andrei Chesnokov.

1996

Voinea reached his career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 36 in April 1996. He reached the final of the 1996 Campionati Internazionali di Sicilia against Karim Alami, where he was forced to retire due to a right arm injury.

1999

Voinea defeated fifth-seeded Stefan Koubek in the final of the 1999 Brighton International in Bournemouth to win his only singles title at an ATP Tour event.

ATP career finals

Singles: 1 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

Legend
Grand Slam Tournaments (0–0)
ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)
ATP Masters 1000 Series (0–0)
ATP 500 Series (0–0)
ATP 250 Series (1–1)
Finals by surface
Hard (0–0)
Clay (1–1)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Finals by setting
Outdoors (1–1)
Indoors (0–0)
Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Sep 1996	Palermo, Italy	International Series	Clay	Karim Alami	5–7, 1–2 ret.
Win	1–1	Sep 1999	Bournemouth, United Kingdom	International Series	Clay	Stefan Koubek	1–6, 7–5, 7–6(7–2)

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 7 (4–3)

Legend
ATP Challenger (4–3)
ITF Futures (0–0)
Finals by surface
Hard (1–0)
Clay (3–3)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1-0	Valletta, Malta	Challenger	Hard	Ján Krošlák	6–3, 6–4
Loss	1-1	Ljubljana, Slovenia	Challenger	Clay	Jordi Burillo	2–6, 1–6
Win	2-1	Košice, Slovakia	Challenger	Clay	Roberto Carretero-Diaz	6–3, 4–6, 6–1
Loss	2-2	Ljubljana, Slovenia	Challenger	Clay	Dinu-Mihai Pescariu	6–7, 6–2, 3–6
Win	3-2	Venice, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Franco Squillari	6–3, 6–3
Loss	3-3	Poznań, Poland	Challenger	Clay	Christophe Rochus	4–6, 6–3, 6–7(4–7)
Win	4-3	Biella, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Christophe Rochus	3–6, 6–3, 6–4

Doubles: 1 (0–1)

Legend
ATP Challenger (0–1)
ITF Futures (0–0)
Finals by surface
Hard (0–0)
Clay (0–1)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Košice, Slovakia	Challenger	Clay	Jeff Tarango	Jiří Novák David Rikl	6–7, 2–6