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Christian Saceanu (born 8 July 1968) is a German retired tennis player who turned professional in 1986. The right-hander won two grass court singles titles (1988, Bristol and 1991, Rosmalen) in his career. Saceanu reached his highest singles ATP-ranking in March 1988 when he became the number 60 of the world.

He began playing tennis when he was nine. He was ranked No. 1 in the Romanian 14s and one year later moved with his family to West Germany where he won the German national singles title in 1986. In that same year he was ranked No. 1 in the 18s.

ATP career finals

Singles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner-up)

Legend
Grand Slam Tournaments (0–0)
ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)
ATP World Tour Masters Series (0–0)
ATP Championship Series (0–0)
ATP World Series (2–1)
Finals by surface
Hard (0–1)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (2–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Finals by setting
Outdoors (2–1)
Indoors (0–0)
Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Jul 1987	Livingston, United States	Grand Prix	Hard	Johan Kriek	6–7(4–7), 6–3, 2–6
Win	1–1	Jul 1988	Bristol, United Kingdom	Grand Prix	Grass	Ramesh Krishnan	6–4, 2–6, 6–2
Win	2–1	Jun 1991	Rosmalen, Netherlands	World Series	Grass	Michiel Schapers	6–1, 3–6, 7–5

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 5 (3–2)

Legend
ATP Challenger (3–2)
ITF Futures (0–0)
Finals by surface
Hard (1–0)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (1–1)
Carpet (1–1)
Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Croydon, United Kingdom	Challenger	Carpet	Udo Riglewski	6–3, 6–0
Win	2–0	Bristol, United Kingdom	Challenger	Grass	Arnaud Boetsch	6–3, 6–7, 6–3
Win	3–0	Hong Kong, Hong Kong	Challenger	Hard	Felix Barrientos	6–4, 6–1
Loss	3–1	Cherbourg, France	Challenger	Carpet	Jan Apell	3–6, 7–6, 6–7
Loss	3–2	Manchester, United Kingdom	Challenger	Grass	Chris Wilkinson	4–6, 4–6

Doubles: 12 (7–5)

Legend
ATP Challenger (7–5)
ITF Futures (0–0)
Finals by surface
Hard (6–2)
Clay (0–1)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (1–2)
Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Guadeloupe, France	Challenger	Hard	Patrick Baur	Gilad Bloom Brad Pearce	4–6, 2–6
Loss	0–2	British Hong Kong	Challenger	Hard	Christian Geyer	Neil Borwick Paul Wekesa	2–6, 2–6
Loss	0–3	Heilbronn, Germany	Challenger	Carpet	Michiel Schapers	Diego Nargiso Stefano Pescosolido	2–6, 2–6
Win	1–3	Cherbourg, France	Challenger	Carpet	Kent Kinnear	Joost Winnink Tomas Anzari	6–1, 6–4
Loss	1–4	Aachen, Germany	Challenger	Carpet	Michael Mortensen	Grant Stafford Christo van Rensburg	1–6, 3–6
Loss	1–5	Guadalajara, Mexico	Challenger	Clay	Marc-Kevin Goellner	Royce Deppe David Rikl	6–7, 4–6
Win	2–5	Guangzhou, China	Challenger	Hard	Kent Kinnear	Richard Matuszewski John Sullivan	6–7, 6–3, 6–4
Win	3–5	Jerusalem, Israel	Challenger	Hard	Gilad Bloom	Danilo Marcelino Fernando Meligeni	4–6, 6–4, 7–6
Win	4–5	Aptos, United States	Challenger	Hard	Gilad Bloom	Cristiano Caratti Grant Doyle	7–5, 6–3
Win	5–5	Jerusalem, Israel	Challenger	Hard	Dirk Dier	Lionel Barthez Patrick Baur	7–6, 7–6
Win	6–5	Azores, Portugal	Challenger	Hard	Tim Henman	Nuno Marques Chris Wilkinson	6–2, 6–2
Win	7–5	Azores, Portugal	Challenger	Hard	Marcus Hilpert	Jamie Delgado Charlie Singer	6–7, 6–2, 6–4