Gabriela Niculescu (born 7 June 1986) is a retired professional tennis player and former member of the
Romania Fed Cup team
The Romania Billie Jean King Cup team represents Romania in Billie Jean King Cup tennis competition. It is governed by the Federația Română de Tenis and currently competes in the World Group I, the highest level of the competition.
Current t ...
. On July 4, 2005, she reached her highest
WTA singles ranking of 376, and her best doubles ranking was 199 on February 20, 2006.
In 2008 playing for the
University of Southern California
The University of Southern California (USC, SC, or Southern Cal) is a Private university, private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1880 by Robert M. Widney, it is the oldest private research university in C ...
in doubles, teamed up with
Amanda Fink, she won the 2008
Pac-10
The Pac-12 Conference is a collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference, that operates in the Western United States, participating in 24 sports at the NCAA Division I level. Its College football, football teams compete in the NCAA D ...
Doubles Championship, won the ITA West Regional doubles title, and finished the season ranked No. 4 in the nation.
She became a national platform tennis champion after retiring from professional tennis. She won titles in 2016, 2018 and 2019.
Personal life
She is the older sister of tennis player
Monica Niculescu
Monica Niculescu (born 25 September 1987) is a Romanian professional tennis player. She has been ranked by the Women's Tennis Association as high as 28 in singles and 11 in doubles. Niculescu has won several titles: three singles and ten doubles ...
.
ITF finals
Singles (1–2)
Doubles (25-11)
References
External links
*
*
*
1986 births
Living people
Romanian female tennis players
USC Trojans women's tennis players
{{Romania-tennis-bio-stub