Alexandra Dulgheru (; born 30 May 1989) is an inactive professional tennis player from Romania. On 11 April 2011, she achieved her career-high singles ranking of world No. 26. Her best ranking in doubles is No. 41, reached on 4 July 2011. Personal Her father Dumitru is a pilot, and her mother Doina is an airline coordinator. Her sister Bianca is an assistant hotel manager. She speaks Romanian, English, and Spanish, and is currently studying economics at Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies. Career Her best junior result came at the 2006 Wimbledon girls' championship, where she was defeated in the quarterfinals by Tamira Paszek 6–4, 6–4. She also made the doubles final with Kristina Antoniychuk. They lost to Alisa Kleybanova and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 1–6, 2–6. At the end of 2008, she was No. 346 in the WTA rankings. 2009: First WTA title In April 2009, she finished runner-up to Kimiko Date-Krumm in a $75,000 tournament in Monzon. Two weeks later, she won a $25k tournament in Bari, where she defeated Sandra Záhlavová in the final. She made her WTA Tour debut as a qualifier in the Warsaw Open. She defeated fellow Romanian qualifier Ágnes Szatmári in the first round. She followed that up with a two-sets win over 44th-ranked Sara Errani to advance to the quarterfinals, where she beat 95th-ranked Galina Voskoboeva. She defeated world No. 36 and former world No. 5, Daniela Hantuchová, to reach her first WTA final, in which she beat Alona Bondarenko in three sets. Her next tournament was Prague Open where she lost in the opening round to Carla Suárez Navarro. In Bad Gastein tournament, Alexandra suffered yet another opening-round exit at the hands of the fourth seeded Iveta Benešová. In August 2009, she made her Grand Slam debut at the US Open where she lost in the first round to eighth seeded Victoria Azarenka. At the Linz tournament, she won in the first round over Sybille Bammer in two sets, before she lost to third seeded and eventual champion, Yanina Wickmayer. She then lost in the first round of the Luxembourg Open to Wickmayer. These results brought her to be, by the year end, world No. 52 in the WTA rankings. 2010: Reaching top 30 At the first Grand Slam championship of the year, the Australian Open, Alexandra entered both the singles and the doubles events, these being her first appearances at Melbourne. In