Mihnea-Ion Năstase (born 7 February 1967) is a former professional tennis player from Romania. He is a nephew of two-time Grand Slam winner Ilie Năstase and his father, Constantin Năstase, was a Romanian

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representative.

Career

Năstase was born in Bucharest but grew up in Italy and went to college in the United States, where he played tennis for

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. Partnering Leonardo Lavalle, Năstase was a winner in the boys' doubles event at the 1984 US Open. It was his second Grand Slam final, having finished runner-up to Mark Kratzmann and

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in the 1983 Wimbledon Championships, with

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. In 1984, Năstase became the third member of his family to play for the Romanian Davis Cup team. With

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, he took part in Romania's doubles rubber against West Germany in their World Group Relegation Play-off. The West Germans won the match and the tie. Năstase never appeared in the

again.Davis Cup Profile
/ref> The Romanian was primarily a doubles player and it was in the men's doubles that he made his only senior Grand Slam appearance.ATP World Tour Profile
/ref> It was in the 1989 Wimbledon Championships, where he and Lan Bale lost in the opening round to Javier Frana and his former junior partner Leonardo Lavalle. He was a semi-finalist with Borja Uribe at Florence in 1989 but his best performance came in the 1990 Sanremo Open, which he and Goran Prpic won.

ATP career finals

Doubles: 1 (1–0)

Challenger titles

Doubles: (3)

References

1967 births Living people Romanian male tennis players US Open (tennis) junior champions Mississippi State Bulldogs tennis players Tennis players from Bucharest Grand Slam (tennis) champions in boys' doubles 20th-century Romanian people {{Romania-tennis-bio-stub