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Albot Among Early Paris Winners

Moldova’s Radu Albot avenged his recent loss to Georgian Nikoloz Basilashvili at the Rolex Shanghai Masters with a 6-3, 6-2 win over 72 minutes against his doubles partner. He now challenges Italian lucky loser Andreas Seppi, who came into the main draw after 2011 champion Roger Federer, last week’s Swiss Indoors Basel titlist, pulled out.

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2019 w liczbach:

Ranking: 46
Bilans meczów: 31-26
Tytuły: 1 (Delray Beach)
Finały: 0
Zarobki: $996,200

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Radu Albot - Delray Beach [First-Time Winner Spotlight]

Radu Albot overcame the rain, three championship points against him and a tricky opponent in the Delray Beach Open by VITACOST.com final to win his first ATP Tour title, defeating British qualifier Daniel Evans 3-6, 6-3, 7-6(7). Albot was the first Moldovan to lift a tour-level trophy.

"It feels unbelievable. You work so much. You work your whole life, your whole career, and at the end you win a tournament," Albot said. "This is just a great feeling. I think it's difficult to put into words."

Albot had made only two previous ATP Tour semi-finals, winning four games apiece. But the Moldovan used his Delray Beach success as a springboard to a breakthrough season, reaching a career-high World No. 39 and earning just short of $1 million in prize money.

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Albot Climbs Umpire's Chair For Video Review: 'It's Really Cool'

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Albot speaks about video review technology and what the ATP Cup means for Moldova

You don’t see a player climb the umpire’s chair every day. In fact, you never see that.

But Moldovan No. 1 Radu Albot had something to investigate on Tuesday at the ATP Cup. During his doubles match alongside Alexander Cozbinov against Great Britain, Cozbinov was called for a foot fault in the ad court, with a linesman seeing his left foot touch the baseline.

Team Moldova challenged that call, utilising the video review technology innovation being used at this inaugural 24-team event. Chair umpire Aurelie Tourte watched the replay on a tablet, confirming the call due to a lack of conclusive evidence showing that Cozbinov’s foot did not touch the line.

Albot did not see a foot fault, so he climbed Tourte’s chair to take a look at the tablet, drawing laughs from the crowd.

“I think it’s really cool,” Albot said of video review. “I also saw yesterday with Novak when he put the racquet over the net. That was interesting because if there is no VR [Video Review], you cannot see, it is so quick.

“I went up to check, but still I didn’t see a foot fault!”

Late Monday evening, Novak Djokovic was playing doubles in Brisbane when Frenchmen Nicolas Mahut and Edouard Roger-Vasselin challenged whether the Serbian reached over the net to put away a volley. Upon review, it was ruled that Djokovic hit a “foul shot”, thus losing the point.

“It’s something cool that you could look,” Albot said. “I’m sure nobody will go there every time to check. Maybe not."

Moldova will not be moving forward to the Final Eight in Sydney, but the country had an opportunity to compete among the best tennis countries in the world.

“I really enjoyed it. I think it’s a great tournament. It’s a shame I couldn’t make any damage here. But I think the tournament itself is different. There are not so many players around you. You have your own locker room. You have your own table with the breakfast in the hotel,” Albot said. “You never have this experience. There are people at the courts who are helping you with towels and everything you need. It’s a more private tournament... Everything is for you, whatever you need.

“I really liked it. Especially for the first edition.”

Albot spends plenty of time on big stages, having cracked the Top 50 of the FedEx ATP Rankings. Last year in Miami, he even took a set off Roger Federer. But by qualifying Moldova for the ATP Cup, Albot gave lesser-profile players from his country a platform to show the world their skills. World No. 816 Alexander Cozbinov had never played a tour-level match, but in his country’s first tie of the event he pushed former World No. 38 Steve Darcis for more than three hours.

“It was probably the best experience of my life,” Cozbinov said. “I’m really thankful for Radu that he made it and he provided such an opportunity for me to play and compete against such good players.”

The motto of the ATP Cup is “for the love of country”. And what Moldova’s participation in this event means back home transcends just tennis.

“I’m really happy that the first edition of this tournament we made it for a small country. Even bigger countries like our neighbours, Romania, Ukraine, they didn’t make it. Portugal didn’t make it,” Albot said. “So I’m really happy that a small country like Moldova was here and I’m sure a lot of people didn’t know where Moldova is. So at least some people found out about a small country now.”

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Radu Returns: One year ago, Radu Albot became the first Moldovan to win an ATP Tour title, saving three championship points against Daniel Evans to beat the Brit in a final-set tie-break and triumph in Delray Beach. Now 30, Albot returns to the home of his maiden trophy as the eighth seed.

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The Motivational Moldovan: Albot Making History

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Albot became the first Moldovan to lift an ATP Tour title in 2019

Editor's Note: ATPTour.com is resurfacing features to bring fans closer to their favourite players. This story was originally published on 13 February 2019.

Years ago, a Moldovan man was watching his television, clicking through the channels when he saw something he had never seen before: tennis. The man liked the sport, and decided his son should try it. That boy was Radu Albot.

“When I started playing tennis, I was not following it on TV. It was just fun for me, running after balls, running around the court, playing games besides tennis,” Albot said. “Just more like a fun activity, it wasn’t like a serious sport.”

The 29-year-old says that there are not many public courts in Moldova. Mostly, there are courts available at private clubs. The country is small, with just more than 3.5 million residents.
“There are enough courts to practise and enough to start playing there,” Albot said.

And that’s all the right-hander needed. Albot has set the bar for Moldovan tennis, and he hopes to inspire children in his country to take up the sport. Albot became the first player from his country to crack the Top 100 on 27 July 2015. Since 1984 Wimbledon, only two other Moldovans had reached the Top 500, so, as a kid, Albot found players from other countries to idolise.

“I was mostly following the Russian players like Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Marat Safin and I liked very much Roger Federer and David Ferrer,” Albot said. “I thought I was playing a little bit like David with my game style. I really admired him. When I got on the Tour, I tried to organise practice with him as much as I could.

“The first time you have a little bit of emotions, you’re excited to practise and to give your best in a practice. It’s a little bit like a dream. You see the guy for years on TV and suddenly you’re practising with him on the other side of the court, so that’s really cool and you could put it as an achievement in your career.”
Albot stands only 5’9”, but he makes up for his lack of height with his footwork and grit on the court, battling to make his opponents hit as many balls as possible.

“I’m an overall player, I’m fighting until the end, every point. Every time I play the ball in the court, so it’s really difficult to take me off the court,” Albot said. “For sure they think I’m a tough opponent to play.”

At the New York Open, Albot defeated two of the tallest players in the sport in two consecutive years. On Wednesday, he defeated 6’11” Ivo Karlovic, withstanding a barrage of 37 aces to reach the second round. Last season, Albot ousted 6’10” John Isner, this year's top seed.

"He competes very well. I think he has to, and his match today against Ivo was very indicative of that. He got aced almost 40 times, but he stayed the course and was able to win that match," Isner said. "He's a very little guy... He competes very well and he's actually a pretty aggressive player for being someone who's smaller in stature.

"I think a surface like this actually suits him pretty well because he likes to play aggressively and on his front foot. He takes the ball early. I know he plays Sam [Querrey] tomorrow, so I think that will be a pretty good match because Radu is very capable and I have a lot of respect for him."

Albot made his biggest breakthrough yet at the Delray Beach Open by VITACOST.com, coming from a set down in his final three matches to become the first Moldovan to lift an ATP Tour title. It took a while for Albot to get to this level, as he was 25 when he made the Top 100 for the first time. But he was motivated to play in the main draw of more Grand Slam and ATP Tour events. Now that he’s there, Moldova’s tennis trailblazer will look to continue pushing forward.

“Now that I’m at my career-high, I want to be higher,” Albot said. “I had a goal for a couple of years now to break the Top 50 and I haven’t achieved it yet, but I really hope that in the future or in 2019 this will happen.”

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Becoming A Father: The New Role In Radu Albot’s Life

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Radu Albot and his girlfriend, Doina, became parents on 19 April.
Becoming A Father: The New Role In Radu Albot’s Life
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Moldovan welcomed baby girl in April

Since the suspension of the ATP Tour in March, Radu Albot has experienced a significant change in his life.

Just over a month after flying back to his home country, the Moldovan No. 1 welcomed the birth of his first child on 19 April. Due to tightened COVID-19 security measures, the Chisinau native could not join his girlfriend, Doina, in hospital for the birth of his daughter. Instead, Albot discovered the exciting news during a phone call.

“I was at home. The birth was at 7:03am and Doina was not answering my messages or phone calls, so I didn’t know,” said Albot. “I started calling [from 10pm to 3am] but there was no answer. I went to bed and wrote her a message so, when she could, she could read. I put the phone on full volume next to my bed and she called at 8 or 9am, that was when I learned for the first time that she was born.”

One of the first decisions that faced Albot and his girlfriend was the naming of their daughter. The pair had created a shortlist of options prior to the birth and soon selected the name, Adeline.

“We just liked the name. We didn’t decide before, we gave it after the birth,” said Albot. “We had a list of four or five names and we decided to use this one. I think it is a very beautiful name. It sounds very nice and when I say the name, everybody likes it.”

Radu Albot and his girlfriend, Doina, named their first child Adeline.

While the pandemic stopped Albot attending Adeline’s birth, it has gifted the 30-year-old extra time to enjoy his new role as a father. During this period of the year, the Moldovan would usually be competing at clay-court events across Europe.

“It is a good time for me [to become a father], because I can be home full-time with the family,” said Albot. “I can help and I can see how the baby is growing. She is doing some new stuff every day.

“She is starting to laugh back and kind of talk to you, so this is an interesting experience. I would not experience this if I were travelling at this moment. This is very good timing, in a way, for me.”

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Despite suffering from a lack of sleep, Albot is enjoying the responsibility that comes with his duties as a father. The World No. 67 has learned to take each day in his stride, as he adapts to his new role.

“You have to take care, full-time, of another little person. You want to give the best for that person because they are a part of you. It is your baby,” said Albot. “It is a new life. Every day we are learning something new. We are exploring how it is to be with a baby and we both like it. We are doing a pretty good job.”

Albot may have been ready to compete in Indian Wells in March, but the current ATP Tour suspension has given last year’s Delray Beach champion some added time to fully recover from a pectoral muscle tear he sustained at the start of this year. Now playing pain-free, Albot appears to have already struck a healthy balance between his roles as both an ATP Tour player and a father.

“[Just before the birth], I was doing fitness and tennis. I was practising three or four hours a day,” said Albot. “I didn’t want to break the rhythm of what I was doing before… I still do my routines, my practices and, when I am at home, I can be full-time with the baby.”
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Albot Stuns Shapovalov In Sofia

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Moldovan knocks out top seed for biggest win of the season
Radu Albot ended Denis Shapovalov's dream of finishing the season inside the Top 10 of the year-end FedEx ATP Rankings on Tuesday, eliminating the top seed 6-2, 6-4 in the second round of the Sofia Open.

"I'm really happy that I was focussed for the whole match and I was just trying to think about my game and not about what he was doing," Albot said. "There are some days that everything goes your way and I think this was one of those days."

The Moldovan star lost his first seven tour-level matches of the season as he struggled with an injury that he suffered last December. But he has come on strong in the past month. By upsetting Shapovalov, Albot advances to his second ATP Tour quarter-final of the year.

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"The beginning of the year was not good for me. I was not competing at all in the beginning of the year," Albot said. "When tournaments restarted in the U.S. swing [in August] I was also not playing good there. I was not injured anymore, but I was just playing bad.

"It took me a while to remind myself how the game is played, to understand how to play the game, how to compete, what my strength is, how the game works for me. This is not easy to execute all the time at the highest level, especially when you play with the top, top guys."

Shapovalov is one of the world's best shotmakers, and a leaping backhand he crushed in the first set for a winner proved that. But Shapovalov struggled to find consistency on the Bulgarian hard court, making uncharacteristic errors.

Albot did well to avoid giving the Canadian many free points. He forced the World No. 12 to earn everything in the match, which he was unable to do often enough. Albot won 86 per cent of his first-serve points (31/36) and saved the two break points he faced. Next up for the World No. 93 will be fifth seed Adrian Mannarino or Belarusian Egor Gerasimov.

"Everybody knows how he plays, how aggressive he is," Albot said. "I'm really happy that I could handle the pace at the beginning of the match and I'm really happy that I was able to handle it for the rest."


Shapovalov was the top seed at an ATP Tour event for the first time, and he was trying to reach his sixth quarter-final of the season. On 21 September, he cracked the Top 10 of the FedEx ATP Rankings for the first time.

Vasek Pospisil also advanced to the quarter-finals with a 6-3, 6-4 win against fourth seed Jan-Lennard Struff. They had split their two previous ATP Head2Head meetings.

The big-serving Canadian will play Nur-Sultan champion John Millman or former Top 10 star Gilles Simon in the last eight.

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This was Albot's first victory against a Top 20 opponent since the 2019 Western & Southern Open, where he defeated then-World No. 18 Marin Cilic.

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