Athlete of the Week – Tennis Player Horia Tecau
The main sporting event hosted by Romania last week was the BRD Nastase – Tiriac Trophy, an ATP tennis tournament with 426,605 euro worth of prizes.
Florin Orban, 29.04.2014, 15:10
Bulgarian player Grigor Dimitrov, seed 16 in the world won the finals of the singles competition with a 7-6, 6-1 win against last year’s winner Lukas Rosol from the Czech Republic. The trophy in the doubles contest went to the Romanian-Dutch pair Tecau — Rojer who outperformed in the finals a Polish pair made up of Mariusz Frystenberg and Marcin Matkowski 6-4, 6-4.
For this performance in the BRD tennis tournament, Radio Romania International has designated Tecau, Athlete of the Week. We interviewed him shortly after the game and he told us: “I’m very happy I was able to win again this title in Bucharest, this time with a new partner. Playing and winning in this arena gives me a special feeling. I was very excited to see how many supporters I had during the game, family members and all, as this is the only place where I could play in front of them. Most of my games take place in cities around the world where you can get the support of two-three people, if you’re lucky…There aren’t many tournaments that manage to get so many people for a doubles game but I see it has quite become a tradition here to have plenty of spectators for the doubles games and I’m glad to see that…It’s great to play in a game and even greater to win.”
Horia Tecau’s prize closet includes 19 victories in ATP tournaments, all in doubles contests. He won three of them together with Rojer in Zagreb, Casablanca and Bucharest.
