Alexandra Dulgheru

She followed that up with a two-sets win over 44th-ranked Sara Errani to advance to the quarterfinals, where she beat 95th-ranked Galina Voskoboeva.

She defeated world No. 36 and former world No. 5, Daniela Hantuchová, to reach her first WTA tournament final, in which she beat Alona Bondarenko in three sets.

Her next tournament was Prague Open where she lost in the opening round to Carla Suárez Navarro.

In Bad Gastein, Alexandra suffered yet another opening-round exit at the hands of the fourth seeded Iveta Benešová.

Alexandra Dulgheru (born 30 May 1989) is a former professional tennis player from Romania.

Her best junior result came at the 2006 Wimbledon girls' championship, where she was defeated in the quarterfinals by Tamira Paszek 6–4, 6–4.

She also made the doubles final with Kristina Antoniychuk.

They lost to Alisa Kleybanova and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 1–6, 2–6.

At the end of 2008, she was No. 346 in the WTA rankings.

In April 2009, she finished runner-up to Kimiko Date-Krumm in a $75k tournament in Monzon.

Two weeks later, she won a $25k tournament in Bari, where she defeated Sandra Záhlavová in the final.

She made her WTA Tour debut as a qualifier in the Warsaw Open.

She defeated fellow Romanian qualifier Ágnes Szatmári in the first round.

In August 2009, she made her Grand Slam debut at the US Open where she lost in the first round to eighth seeded Victoria Azarenka.

At the Linz Open, she won in the first round over Sybille Bammer in two sets, before she lost to third seeded and eventual champion, Yanina Wickmayer.

She then lost in the first round of the Luxembourg Open to Wickmayer.

These results brought her to be, by the year end, world No. 52 in the WTA rankings.

At the first Grand Slam championship of the year, the Australian Open, Alexandra entered both the singles and the doubles events, these being her first appearances at Melbourne.

In singles, she lost in the first round to qualifier Yanina Wickmayer in three sets.

In doubles, she teamed up with compatriot Edina Gallovits; they lost in the first round to American-Czech team of Carly Gullickson/Vladimíra Uhlířová, in three sets.

The first highlight of the year came at the Barcelona Open where Alexandra reached the semifinals.

She defeated Sílvia Soler Espinosa, Sara Errani, Arantxa Parra Santonja, then lost in the semifinals to Roberta Vinci, 7–6, 1–6, 2–6.

Dulgheru got her first top-ten win at the Italian Open against world No. 3, Dinara Safina, 6–4, 6–7, 6–1.

In the third round, Dulgheru lost to Nadia Petrova.

At the Madrid Open, she defeated Elena Dementieva in the second round 6–1, 3–6, 7–5 for her second top-ten win.

In the third round, she lost to Lucie Šafářová, 7–6, 1–6, 6–7.

She won her second WTA Premier title and second WTA overall at the Warsaw Open where she was the defending champion.

In the first rounds, she won over Kateryna Bondarenko and Timea Bacsinszky, in straight sets.

In the quarterfinal, she defeated Bulgarian qualifier Tsvetana Pironkova.

In the semifinal, she won over third seeded Li Na 6–4, 3–6, 6–4.

In the final, she beat Zheng Jie in straight sets.

Playing at the French Open for the first time, she defeated Lucie Hradecká 7–6, 4–6, 6–3 in the first round, and Timea Bacsinszky 6–4, 6–2 in the second.

She then lost to third seeded Caroline Wozniacki, in straight sets.

In doubles, she teamed up with Alberta Brianti.

They defeated the team of Jill Craybas/Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6–1, 6–4 in the first round.

On 11 April 2011, she achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 26.

Her best ranking in doubles is No. 41, reached on 4 July 2011.

Her father Dumitru is a pilot, and her mother Doina is an airline coordinator.

Her sister Bianca is an assistant hotel manager.

She speaks Romanian, English, and Spanish, and is currently studying economics at Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies.