Ionuţ "Ion" Moldovan (born 17 January 1978) is a former professional

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player from

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. He was Vice-President of the Romanian Tennis Federation from 2013 to 2015.

Career

Moldovan had his best results on the

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at the 1996 Open Romania, where he was a singles quarter-finalist and in 2005, when he made the semi-finals of the same event, this time in the doubles, with countryman

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. He played one Masters Series tournament, the

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. In that tournament he partnered

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in the doubles and the pair were eliminated in the first round by

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and

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. The Romanian played five

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matches (three World Group matches) for his country, four in singles and one in doubles, all of which were lost.Davis Cup Profile
/ref> He comes from a family of athletes. His father

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is a former soccer player and head coach of Dinamo Bucharest. Valentina, his mother, is a former handball player for Hidrotehnica Constanta. He also has a sister Mihaela who was a tennis player, with a highest WTA ranking of 390. She played Fed Cup for Romania.

Challenger titles

Singles: (2)

Doubles: (7)

References

1978 births Living people Romanian male tennis players Sportspeople from Constanța Tennis players from Bucharest {{Romania-tennis-bio-stub