at the end of 2007 to No. 460 by the end of 2008. Sabău played far fewer events in 2009 – twenty compared with thirty-one in 2008. He reached two Futures finals but failed to win a single main draw match at Challenger level, in four events played. (The previous year he won just one Challenger main draw match in ten tournaments entered.) Sabău finished 2009 ranked World No. 627 in singles. For the second year in a row he competed in just two tour doubles events, both Futures, reaching the semi-finals in one. Sabău competed in sixteen events in 2010, all in Romania, Italy, and France, and all but three ITF Futures. He reached one final and four semi-finals, and won a Challenger main draw match for the first time in two seasons. His ranking climbed a hundred spots, to finish the year World No. 527. Sabău was busier in 2011, competing by early June in more events than he had in all the previous year. All but one were Futures tournaments. He won one title, Bulgaria F3, and lost in the first round just once. His singles ranking climbed to be in the middle 400s. Junior Grand Slam finals Singles: 1 (1 title) ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals Singles: 25 (9–16) Doubles: 2 (0–2) Performance timelines Singles References External links 1977 births Living people Sportspeople from Bradenton, Florida Tennis players from Bucharest Romanian expatriate sportspeople in the United States Romanian male tennis players Wimbledon junior champions Grand Slam (tennis) champions in boys' singles