Begu won her first championship in five years in the 2022 Palermo Open by defeating qualifier Marina Bassols Ribera, Océane Dodin, Diane Parry, Sara Sorribes Tormo, and Lucia Bronzetti.
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Irina-Camelia Begu, a tennis player, was born in Romania on August 26, 1990. She reached her highest position in the global singles rankings—No. 22—in August 2016. Two years later, she achieved her greatest WTA doubles ranking, which was No. 22. Begu has won five singles titles and nine doubles titles on the WTA Tour. In addition to her two singles triumphs on the WTA Challenger Tour, she has also won 12 singles titles and 19 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. With the help of Oksana Kalashnikova, she advanced to the semifinals of the 2007 Wimbledon Championships as a junior. She continued to win Grand Slam doubles matches later on as a senior. She advanced to the semifinals of the 2017 French Open, 2018 Wimbledon Championships, and the 2018 Australian Open. Her highest Grand Slam performance in singles was reaching the round of 16 at the 2015 Australian Open, 2016 French Open, and 2022 French Open. At the 2014 Kremlin Cup, she competed in a singles Premier final but fell to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. She has achieved notable singles results in the semifinal of the Premier 5 Italian Open in 2016 and two appearances in the quarterfinals of the Premier Mandatory level Madrid Open in 2015 and 2016. Despite reaching the final of the Premier-5 Wuhan Open in 2015 and two Premier-level finals at the Kremlin Cup in 2015 and the Eastbourne International in 2018, she has never won a doubles competition at a level higher than International.
In the championship match at the Korea Open in September 2015, she defeated qualifier Aliaksandra Sanovich to claim the WTA title. She made her top-ten debut in May, moving up to number 25—her highest spot at the time. In July, she reached the $100K Southsea final but lost to Tatjana Maria. A short while later, she won the Bucharest Open without dropping a set, beating Julia Görges, ranked 50th, in the title match. In the semifinal, she overcame top-40 player Carla Suárez Navarro. She had trouble after that, but in October, she competed at the Premier level, reaching the Kremlin Cup quarterfinals before falling to Daria Kasatkina. Anastasija Sevastova, ranked in the top 30, was beaten by her in the previous round. For the balance of the year, she stayed in the top 70.
In January, she participated in the Melbourne Summer Set 2. She eliminated the tournament’s top seed, Jessica Pegula, in the opening round. In the quarterfinals, she was defeated by Amanda Anisimova in straight sets. She then fell to Elise Mertens in the second round of the Australian Open. The following tournament was in Saint Petersburg, where she won in straight sets over Zhang Shuai, sixth seed Petra Kvitová, and Tereza Martincová before falling to top seed Maria Sakkari in the semifinals. She then had defeats in the opening rounds of the Indian Wells Open, Qatar Open, and Dubai Tennis Championships. She advanced to the round of 16 in Charleston and made the main draw in Madrid during the clay-court season, where she was defeated by Belinda Bencic.
She reached the second week of a Grand Slam event for the first time since the 2016 French Open, when she lost to Jessica Pegula, by defeating 30th seed Ekaterina Alexandrova in the second round and wildcard Léolia Jeanjean in the third. Begu threw her racket during her match against Ekaterina Alexandrova in the third round, and was fined $10,000 for her unsportsmanlike behaviour. Begu was defeated by Jeena Ostapenko in the third round at Wimbledon and went down in three sets. Begu won her first championship in five years in the 2022 Palermo Open by defeating qualifier Marina Bassols Ribera, Océane Dodin, Diane Parry, Sara Sorribes Tormo, and Lucia Bronzetti.
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Begu was born in Bucharest on August 26, 1990. Her father Paul is an electrician, and her mother Steluţa works in government. Andrei is her older brother. When she was three and a half years old, her aunt Aurelia Gheorghe, a former tennis player, introduced her to the game. She also participated in handball and gymnastics as a junior. There isn’t much information available about her family, they lived a very private life away from media.
Irina-Camelia Begu has not been dating anyone as of 2023. The age of Irina-Camelia is 32. Her current focus is on her tennis career.
