Bogdan Borza (born 5 April 1997) is a

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player. Borza reached a career high ATP singles ranking of 707 achieved on 11 September 2017. He also reached a career high ATP doubles ranking of 1073 achieved on 19 June 2017. Borza represents

at the

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, where he has a W/L record of 1–3.

Career

In 2010, the 13-year-old Borza reached five finals in the U14 circuit of the Tennis Europe Junior Tour and won three of them, including the U14 Dyadora Cup at Timisoara, in which he beat his fellow countryman and junior career rival

Nicolae Frunză Nicolae Frunză (born 15 November 1997 in Bucharest) is a Romanian professional tennis player. Frunză has a career high ATP singles ranking of 442 achieved on 26 June 2017. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 442 achieved on 24 Oc ...

in the final. Borza started off the 2011 season by winning a national title at the indoor championship held in

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, beating Frunză again en route to the title. He then participated in ''Les

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'', an unofficial world championship for U14 players, where he faced three Americans in a row, coming from behind to beat the tournament favorite

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in the quarters, 1-6, 6-3, 7-6^(7–5), beating future world No. 10

Frances Tiafoe Frances Tiafoe Jr. ( ; born January 20, 1998) is an American professional tennis player. The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) has ranked Tiafoe as high as world No. 17 in singles, on October 10, 2022, and world No. 160 in doubles, on No ...

in the semis, but losing the final to Henrik Wiersholm in three sets. Borza, who had been suffering from a fever on the day of the final, would have taken over the No. 1 slot in the U14 category of the Tennis Europe rankings with a win, but instead he was now just 10 points behind the then leader,

Andrey Rublev Andrey Andreyevich Rublev (russian: Андрей Андреевич Рублёв; born 20 October 1997) is a Russian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 5 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (AT ...

. Four months later, however, Borza beat Rublev in the final of the U14 Bohemia Cafex Cup in three sets. In July, Borza competed in the European Junior Championships at Pilsen, beating future World No. 2

Alexander Zverev Alexander "Sascha" Zverev (; born 20 April 1997) is a German professional tennis player. He has been ranked by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) as high as world No. 2, and was continuously ranked in the top 10 from July 2017 to N ...

in the semifinals and then winning the final with a victory over Frunză, while in the doubles final he won alongside him, beating Czech Republic's Miroslav Chyba and Ondrej Krstev. He thus became only the sixth player to win both the singles and doubles tournaments in the U14 events. Borza and Frunză also led Romania to a first-ever Summer Cups victory. In the season-ending Junior Masters at

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, he was eliminated in the semifinals by Zverev. Despite this, Borza finished the season as the No. 1, ahead of the likes of Frunză, Zverev, and Rublev. Because of these results, many thought that he would become a future world No. 50. However, his level dropped and between 2012 and 2014, he only reached three finals and won just one of them, the 2013 Neocom Open. Borza failed to reach a single final in the

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* * * 1997 births Living people Romanian male tennis players People from Cugir 21st-century Romanian people Sportspeople from Alba County {{Romania-tennis-bio-stub