# Nicholas David Ionel

Nicholas David Ionel (born 12 October 2002) is a Romanian professional tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 184 achieved on 12 June 2023. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 356 achieved on 24 April 2023. He is currently the No. 3 Romanian player.

## Career
### 2020: ATP qualification debut

Ionel won the 2020 Australian Open – Boys' doubles title.
Ionel was awarded with a qualification wildcard to play his first ATP tournament at the 2020 European Open, where he pushed former world No. 36 Yūichi Sugita to three sets.

### 2022: Top 250 debut

He reached the top 250 in singles on 7 November 2022 at No. 241.

### 2023: Major qualifications, Top 200 debut
## Personal life

He trains at the Mouratoglou Tennis Academy in Sophia Antipolis since 2018.

## Junior Grand Slam titles
### Doubles: 1 (1 title)

| Result | Year | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
| Winner | 2020 | Australian Open | Hard | Leandro Riedi | Mikołaj Lorens Kārlis Ozoliņš | 6–7$^{(8–10)}$, 7–5, [10–4] |

## ITF World Tennis Tour and ATP Challenger finals
### Singles: 21 (14-7)

* Legend (singles)
* ATP Challenger Tour (0–0)
* ITF World Tennis Tour (14-7)
* Titles by surface
* Hard (3–1)
* Clay (11–6)
* Grass (0–0)
* Carpet (0–0)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
| Win | 1–0 | Sep 2019 | M15 Brașov, Romania | World Tennis Tour | Clay | Oleksii Krutykh | 7–5, 6–4 |
| Win | 2–0 | Sep 2019 | M15 Târgu Mureș, Romania | World Tennis Tour | Clay | Juan Ignacio Galarza | 6–7$^{(1–7)}$, 7–5, 6–4 |
| Win | 3–0 | Oct 2019 | M15 Tabarka, Tunisia | World Tennis Tour | Clay | Manuel Pena Lopez | 6–4, 7–5 |
| Win | 4–0 | Nov 2019 | M15 Tabarka, Tunisia | World Tennis Tour | Clay | Andrea Picchione | 6–4, 4–6, 6–4 |
| Win | 5–0 | Feb 2020 | M15 Heraklion, Greece | World Tennis Tour | Hard | Jordan Correia | 6–4, 4–6, 6–4 |
| Loss | 5–1 | Jul 2021 | M15 Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg | World Tennis Tour | Clay | Patrick Kypson | 6–4, 3–6, 5–7 |
| Loss | 5–2 | Oct 2021 | M15 Antalya, Turkey | World Tennis Tour | Clay | Daniel Michalski | 3-6, 4-6 |
| Loss | 5–3 | Nov 2021 | M15 Heraklion, Greece | World Tennis Tour | Hard | Jack Pinnington Jones | 6–7$^{(3–7)}$, 1–6 |
| Win | 6-3 | Feb 2022 | M15 Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt | World Tennis Tour | Hard | Matteo Gigante | 6–3, 4–6, 6–1 |
| Win | 7-3 | Mar 2022 | M15 Marrakech, Morocco | World Tennis Tour | Clay | Alexis Musialek | 6–3, 6-2 |
| Loss | 7-4 | Mar 2022 | M15 Marrakech, Morocco | World Tennis Tour | Clay | Edoardo Lavagno | 4-6, 2-6 |
| Win | 8-4 | Aug 2022 | M25 Pitești, Romania | World Tennis Tour | Clay | Juan Pablo Paz | 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 |
| Loss | 8-5 | Aug 2022 | M15 Craiova, Romania | World Tennis Tour | Clay | Cesar Crețu | 2-6, 6-2, 2-6 |
| Win | 9-5 | Oct 2022 | M25 Gaziantep, Turkey | World Tennis Tour | Clay | Corentin Denolly | 6-2, 6-2 |
| Win | 10-5 | Jan 2023 | M15 Jakarta, Indonesia | World Tennis Tour | Hard | Sidharth Rawat | 4-6, 6-1, 7-6$^{(11–9)}$ |
| Win | 11-5 | May 2023 | M15 Alaminos-Larnaca, Cyprus | World Tennis Tour | Clay | Filip Cristian Jianu | 6-3, 7-6$^{(7–2)}$ |
| Loss | 11-6 | Oct 2023 | M25 Pazardzhik, Bulgaria | World Tennis Tour | Clay | Martin Krumich | 6-4, 0-6, 4-6 |
| Loss | 11-7 | Oct 2023 | M25 Telavi, Georgia | World Tennis Tour | Clay | Martin Krumich | 4-6, 4-6 |
| Win | 12-7 | Jan 2024 | M15 Antalya, Turkey | World Tennis Tour | Clay | Cezar Cretu | 6-1, 6-1 |
| Win | 13-7 | Sep 2024 | M15 Constanta, Romania | World Tennis Tour | Clay | Liam Draxl | 6-3, 6-4 |
| Win | 14-7 | Sep 2024 | M15 Târgu Mureș, Romania | World Tennis Tour | Clay | João Eduardo Schiessl | 6-0, 4-6, 6-3 |

### Doubles: 3 (1–2)

* Legend (doubles)
* ATP Challenger Tour (0–0)
* ITF World Tennis Tour (1–2)
* Titles by surface
* Hard (0–0)
* Clay (1–2)
* Grass (0–0)
* Carpet (0–0)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
| Loss | 0–1 | Aug 2018 | Romania F10, Curtea de Argeș | Futures | Clay | Nicolae Frunză | Vasile Antonescu Alexandru Jecan | 1–6, 3–6 |
| Loss | 0–2 | Oct 2019 | M15 Tabarka, Tunisia | World Tennis Tour | Clay | Petru-Alexandru Luncanu | Nicolas Alberto Arreche Franco Feitt | 6–2, 5–7, [6–10] |
| Win | 1–2 | Oct 2019 | M15 Tabarka, Tunisia | World Tennis Tour | Clay | Petru-Alexandru Luncanu | Gianmarco Ferrari Niccolo Inserra | W/O |