Nicholas David Ionel

Nicholas David Ionel
	Ionel at the 2023 French Open
Full name	Nicholas David Ionel
Country (sports)	Romania
Residence	Bucharest, Romania
Born	12 October 2002 (age 22); Bucharest, Romania
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Coach	Andrei Pavel
Prize money	$237,110
Singles
Career record	2–4 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 184 (12 June 2023)
Current ranking	No. 378 (12 August 2024)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	Q1 (2023)
French Open	Q1 (2023)
Wimbledon	Q1 (2023)
US Open	Q1 (2023)
Doubles
Career record	0–0 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 356 (24 April 2023)
Current ranking	No. 1085 (12 August 2024)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open Junior	W (2020)
	Last updated on: 20 August 2024.

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. 3 Romanian player.^[1]

Career

2020: ATP qualification debut

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

He reached the top 250 in singles on 7 November 2022 at No. 241.

2023: Major qualifications, Top 200 debut

Personal life

He trains at the Mouratoglou Tennis Academy in Sophia Antipolis since 2018.^[3]

Junior Grand Slam titles

Doubles: 1 (1 title)

Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	2020	Australian Open	Hard	Leandro Riedi	Mikołaj Lorens Kārlis Ozoliņš	6–7^(8–10), 7–5, [10–4]

ITF World Tennis Tour and ATP Challenger finals

Singles: 21 (14-7)

Legend (singles)
ATP Challenger Tour (0–0)
ITF World Tennis Tour (14-7)

Titles by surface
Hard (3–1)
Clay (11–6)
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
Win	12-7	Jan 2024	M15 Antalya, Turkey	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Cezar Cretu	6-1, 6-1
Win	13-7	Sep 2024	M15 Constanta, Romania	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Liam Draxl	6-3, 6-4
Win	14-7	Sep 2024	M15 Târgu Mureș, Romania	World Tennis Tour	Clay	João Eduardo Schiessl	6-0, 4-6, 6-3

Doubles: 3 (1–2)

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)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Aug 2018	Romania F10, Curtea de Argeș	Futures	Clay	Nicolae Frunză	Vasile Antonescu Alexandru Jecan	1–6, 3–6
Loss	0–2	Oct 2019	M15 Tabarka, Tunisia	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Petru-Alexandru Luncanu	Nicolas Alberto Arreche Franco Feitt	6–2, 5–7, [6–10]
Win	1–2	Oct 2019	M15 Tabarka, Tunisia	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Petru-Alexandru Luncanu	Gianmarco Ferrari Niccolo Inserra	W/O

References

External links

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[1] "ATP Rankings | Pepperstone ATP Rankings (Singles) | ATP Tour | Tennis | ATP Tour | Tennis".

[2] "Campion la Australian Open! Nicholas David Ionel a câștigat finala de dublu a juniorilor, devenind primul tenisman român care se impune la Melbourne într-o probă pe puncte". January 31, 2020.

[3] "Nicholas David Ionel, felicitat de Patrick Mouratoglou după ce a câștigat al 5-lea titlu ITF". Eurosport. March 2, 2020.

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v t e Association of Tennis Professionals Top Romanian male singles tennis players
As of May 6, 2025
1. Filip Cristian Jianu (226 3) 2. Nicholas David Ionel (347 9) 3. Cezar Cretu (362 1) 4. Gabi Adrian Boitan (368 16) 5. Stefan Palosi (569 )
6. Dan Alexandru Tomescu (570 19) 7. Radu Mihai Papoe (631 1) 8. Sebastian Gima (672 ) 9. Stefan Adrian Andreescu (704 2) 10. Ioan Alexandru Chirita (759 6)