ITF W100 Bonita Springs | 05/06 18:35 | 27 | [105] Irina Maria Bara v Gabriela Lee [234] | 6-2,1-6,1-6 | |
ITF W100 Bonita Springs | 05/05 14:25 | 26 | [105] Irina Maria Bara v Robin Anderson [168] | 6-2,6-4 | |
ITF W100 Bonita Springs | 05/04 14:20 | 25 | [105] Irina Maria Bara v Timea Babos [246] | 6-3,5-7,6-2 | |
ITF W100 Charleston | 04/29 19:55 | 27 | [105] Irina Maria Bara v Xiyu Wang [123] | 4-6,6-4,1-6 | |
ITF W100 Charleston | 04/28 15:30 | 26 | [105] Irina Maria Bara v Emma Navarro [226] | 6-2,6-1 | |
ITF W100 Charleston | 04/27 13:55 | 25 | [105] Irina Maria Bara v Catherine Harrison [269] | 7-5,7-6 | |
ITF W60 Charlottesville | 04/20 14:00 | 25 | [104] Irina Maria Bara v Robin Anderson [171] | 3-6,5-7 | |
ITF W100 Palm Harbor | 04/16 16:30 | 28 | [110] Irina Maria Bara v Katie Volynets [154] | 3-6,2-6 | |
ITF W100 Palm Harbor | 04/15 14:55 | 27 | [196] Grace Min v Irina Maria Bara [110] | 3-6,4-6 | |
ITF W100 Palm Harbor | 04/14 14:00 | 26 | [303] Elvina Kalieva v Irina Maria Bara [110] | 3-6,2-6 | |
ITF W100 Palm Harbor | 04/13 15:50 | 25 | [194] Francesca Di Lorenzo v Irina Maria Bara [110] | 3-6,3-6 | |
WTA Bogota | 04/08 21:30 | 27 | [118] Irina Bara v Kamilla Rakhimova [111] | 3-6,6-4,2-6 | |
WTA Bogota | 04/07 15:00 | 26 | [204] Suzan Lamens v Irina Bara [118] | 0-6,6-0,4-6 | |
WTA Bogota | 04/05 18:10 | 25 | [146] Paula Ormaechea v Irina Bara [118] | 3-6,5-7 | |
WTA Marbella | 03/28 14:45 | 25 | [83] Panna Udvardy v Irina Bara [120] | 6-1,6-4 | |
ITF W25 Anapoima | 03/17 17:15 | 27 | [116] Irina Maria Bara v Suzan Lamens [275] | 0-6,0-6 | |
ITF W25 Anapoima | 03/16 16:10 | 26 | Irina Maria Bara v Jasmin Jebawy | 6-1,6-1 | |
WTA Indian Wells | 03/07 21:10 | 14 | [141] Lesia Tsurenko v Irina Bara [116] | 6-0,3-6,6-2 | |
WTA Lyon | 02/28 10:30 | 25 | [48] Jasmine Paolini v Irina Bara [114] | 4-6,7-5,6-3 | |
WTA Doha | 02/18 09:30 | 14 | [68] Arantxa Rus v Irina Bara [118] | 6-3,6-0 | |
WTA St. Petersburg | 02/06 12:45 | 19 | [81] Varvara Gracheva v Irina Bara [123] | 6-3,6-3 | |
WTA St. Petersburg | 02/05 14:55 | 45 | Irina Bara v Diana Shnaider | 6-4,6-2 | |
Australian Open Women | 01/17 04:50 | 23 | [134] Irina Bara v Nuria Parrizas-Diaz [63] | 3-6,1-6 | |
Australian Open Women | 01/14 02:10 | 19 | [119] Viktoriya Tomova v Irina Bara [136] | 6-2,6-1 | |
Australian Open Women | 01/12 05:45 | 15 | Alexandra Cadantu v Irina Bara | 7-5,1-6,4-6 | |
Australian Open Women | 01/09 23:00 | 14 | [180] Mariam Bolkvadze v Irina Bara [136] | 1-6,4-6 | |
WTA Melbourne 2 | 01/04 03:35 | 19 | [138] Irina Bara v Anna Kalinskaya [111] | 5-7,2-6 | |
WTA Melbourne 2 | 01/03 04:40 | 14 | [91] Oceane Dodin v Irina Bara [138] | 5-7,7-6,5-7 | |
WTA Montevideo | 11/18 16:00 | 26 | [265] Xiaodi You v Irina Bara [132] | 6-2,6-4 | |
WTA Montevideo | 11/15 17:30 | 25 | [223] Katharina Gerlach v Irina Bara [133] | 6-3,1-6,1-6 |
Irina Maria Bara (born 18 March 1995) is a professional tennis player from Romania.
She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 104, achieved on 18 April 2022. On 13 May 2019, she peaked at No. 56 in the WTA doubles rankings. She won her maiden WTA Tour doubles title at the 2021 Transylvania Open, partnering Ekaterine Gorgodze. Bara has also won five doubles titles on the WTA Challenger Tour, with eleven singles and thirty-three doubles titles on the ITF Circuit, most of them on clay.
In singles, she reached a $100k and an $80k finals, three finals at $60k events, but lost all of them, having $25k as her highest category that she won. In doubles, she won a couple of $60k and $80k tournaments, but also won one $100k event, the 2016 Soho Square Tournament in Sharm El Sheik, Egypt.
Bara is better known for her performances in doubles, reaching the top 100. Her most significant result so far is a quarterfinal at the 2018 French Open, partnering with Mihaela Buzărnescu. In 2019, she also reached quarterfinals of the Madrid Open, again with Buzărnescu. In singles, her best result so far is a third round at the 2020 French Open on her Grand Slam singles debut, also her first major singles match win. The highest round she reached in singles is the quarterfinals, at the 2019 Baltic Open, while in doubles, she reached a couple of semifinals, but never a final. She made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2015 Bucharest Open in the doubles event, partnering Buzărnescu, while her first match in a singles event was two years later, at the same tournament, when she, as a wildcard player, lost in the first round to Aliaksandra Sasnovich.