Raluca Sandu

Raluca Sandu (born 3 February 1980) is a Romanian former tennis player and professional padel player.

On 18 January 1999, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 68 whilst her best doubles ranking was 228 on 13 September 1999.

Raluca turned pro at the age of 15 and reached WTA top 100 by the time she was 17 years old. She was also ranked top 10 in the world ITF juniors ranking, reaching the semifinals at the 1995 US Open. Raluca was forced to retire early due to shoulder injury (2004).

Personal Raluca is the daughter of former Romanian football player and former president of the Romanian Football Federation, Mircea Sandu and her late mother, Simona Arghir former handball player and captain of Romanian national handball team. Raluca has one more sibling, older brother Dan Mircea. In her youth, she was dating former world No. 1, Carlos Moya, for two years.

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Singles (4–7) ResultNo.DateTournamentSurfaceOpponentScoreWin 1. 24 April 1995 Bari, Italy Clay Stefania Pifferi 6–2, 6–4Loss 2. 7 August 1995 Istanbul, Turkey Hard Gülberk Gültekin 3–6, 1–6Win 3. 18 September 1995 Cluj-Napoca, Romania Clay Katalin Marosi 6–3, 6–3Win 4. 10 February 1996 Sunderland, UK Hard Samantha Smith 4–6, 7–5, 6–4Loss 5. 21 July 1996 Darmstadt, Germany Clay Julia Abe 2–6, 3–6Loss 6. 17 November 1996 Bad Gögging, Germany Carpet (i) Nirupama Vaidyanathan 4–6, 1–6Loss 7. 2 March 1997 Bushey, UK Carpet (i) Olga Barabanschikova 1–6, 6–7Loss 8. 20 July 1997 Darmstadt, Germany Clay Pavlina Stoyanova 4–6, 1–6Loss 9. 12 April 1998 Estoril, Portugal Clay Barbara Schwartz 2–6, 3–6Win 10. 26 July 1998 Valladolid, Spain Hard Rita Kuti-Kis 6–3, 6–3Loss 11. 24 June 2001 Gorizia, Italy Clay Eva Bes-Ostáriz 0–6, 6–1, 3–6

Doubles (1–2) ResultNo.DateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss 1. 7 August 1995 Istanbul, Turkey Hard Alice Pirsu Gülberk Gültekin Selin Nassi Tekikbas 2–6, 2–6Win 2. 20 June 1999 Marseille, France Clay Gisela Riera Eva Martincová Lenka Němečková 6–4, 7–6Loss 3. 1 August 1999 Bytom, Poland Clay Gisela Riera Eva Bes-Ostáriz Magdalena Grzybowska 4–6, 5–7

Head-to-head records Players who have been ranked world No. 1 are in boldface.

Magdalena Maleeva 1-0 Anna Kournikova 1-1 Elena Dementieva 1-0 Amélie Mauresmo 1–0 Svetlana Kuznetsova 1-0 Patty Schnyder 0–1 Serena Williams 0–1 Conchita Martínez Granados 1-0 Jelena Kostanić 0–1 Elena Vesnina 1–0