The Most Famous
TENNIS PLAYERS from Moldova
This page contains a list of the greatest Moldovan Tennis Players. The pantheon dataset contains 1,148 Tennis Players, 2 of which were born in Moldova. This makes Moldova the birth place of the 66th most number of Tennis Players behind Uruguay and Kazakhstan.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Moldovan Tennis Players of all time. This list of famous Moldovan Tennis Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Radu Albot (1989 - )
With an HPI of 33.57, Radu Albot is the most famous Moldovan Tennis Player. His biography has been translated into 23 different languages on wikipedia.
Radu Albot (born 11 November 1989) is a Moldovan professional tennis player. He is the first player from Moldova to win ATP World Tour singles (2019 Delray Beach Open) and doubles (2015 Istanbul Open) titles. Albot has won one ATP singles and one doubles title, 7 singles and 10 doubles Challenger titles in his career, as well as 14 singles and 7 doubles Futures titles. He has been a regular member of the Moldovan Davis Cup team since 2007 and holds his country's records for the most singles wins (28) and total wins (41). His ATP singles ranking of No. 99 on 3 August 2015, made him the first Moldovan to break into the top 100. Albot achieved a career high ranking of No. 39 on 5 August 2019. He finished in the top 100 in the year-end rankings for five years (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020). His year-end career high was in 2019 when he finished at No. 46.
2. Aliona Bolsova (1997 - )
With an HPI of 26.45, Aliona Bolsova is the 2nd most famous Moldovan Tennis Player. Her biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Aliona Vadimovna Bolsova Zadoinova (Romanian: Aliona Bolșova; Russian: Алёна Вадимовна Большова, romanized: Alyona Vadimovna Bolshova; born 6 November 1997) is a Spanish-Moldovan tennis player. On the ITF Junior Circuit, Bolsova had a combined career-high ranking of No. 4, and reached the quarterfinals of the 2015 Australian Open. Bolsova has career-high WTA rankings of 88 in singles and 54 in doubles. She has won five doubles titles on the WTA Challenger Tour along with nine singles and 13 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. Playing for Spain, Bolsova has a win–loss record of 4–3 in Billie Jean King Cup competition (as of March 2024).
Pantheon has 2 people classified as tennis players born between 1989 and 1997. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living tennis players include Radu Albot and Aliona Bolsova. As of April 2022, 1 new tennis players have been added to Pantheon including Aliona Bolsova.
