Australian Open Women | 01/10 13:35 | 60 | [119] Irina Bara v Yuki Naito [184] | 6-7,2-6 | |
WTA Linz | 11/08 09:00 | 168 | [116] Irina Bara v Jana Fett [235] | 1-6,6-4,2-6 | |
WTA Linz | 11/07 10:15 | 45 | [116] Irina Bara v Katharina Gerlach [243] | 2-6,6-3,6-4 | |
French Open Women | 10/03 11:30 | 25 | [142] Irina Bara v Sofia Kenin [6] | 2-6,0-6 | |
French Open Women | 10/01 14:00 | 24 | [142] Irina Bara v Alison Van Uytvanck [65] | Retired | |
French Open Women | 09/29 11:05 | 23 | [30] Donna Vekic v Irina Bara [142] | 3-6,4-6 | |
French Open Women | 09/25 09:40 | 19 | [142] Irina Bara v Richel Hogenkamp [221] | 6-2,7-6 | |
French Open Women | 09/24 09:25 | 15 | [151] Harriet Dart v Irina Bara [142] | 5-7,2-6 | |
French Open Women | 09/23 08:00 | 14 | [142] Irina Bara v Tereza Mrdeza [243] | 6-2,6-2 | |
ITF W80 Cagnes-Sur-Mer | 09/20 12:30 | 29 | [78] Sara Sorribes Tormo v Irina Maria Bara [163] | 6-3,6-4 | |
ITF W80 Cagnes-Sur-Mer | 09/19 14:35 | 28 | [94] Varvara Gracheva v Irina Maria Bara [163] | 5-7,4-6 | |
ITF W80 Cagnes-Sur-Mer | 09/17 17:45 | 27 | Irina Maria Bara v Lizette Cabrera | Walkover | |
ITF W80 Cagnes-Sur-Mer | 09/17 08:30 | 26 | [216] Ekaterine Gorgodze v Irina Maria Bara [163] | 6-2,3-6,3-6 | |
ITF W80 Cagnes-Sur-Mer | 09/15 08:30 | 25 | Irina Maria Bara v Carole Monnet | 6-1,6-3 | |
ITF W60 Saint Malo | 09/08 15:20 | 25 | [161] Irina Maria Bara v Varvara Lepchenko [180] | 6-4,6-7,4-6 | |
WTA Prague | 09/02 09:45 | 25 | [161] Irina Bara v Marie Benoit [254] | 3-6,2-6 | |
WTA Prague | 08/31 10:15 | 25 | [161] Irina Bara v Seone Mendez [275] | 6-3,6-0 | |
WTA Prague | 08/29 08:00 | 24 | [161] Irina Bara v Zuzana Zlochova [317] | 6-2,6-2 | |
German Premier League Women | 08/14 07:50 | - | [318] Maryna Zanevska v Irina Maria Bara [160] | 2-6,6-4,6-7 | |
German Premier League Women | 08/13 13:05 | - | Irina Maria Bara v Livia Cirnu | 6-0,6-0 | |
German Premier League Women | 08/12 07:30 | 1 | Irina Maria Bara v Gabriela Duca | 6-1,6-3 | |
German Premier League Women | 08/11 09:35 | 1 | [160] Irina Maria Bara v Arianne Hartono [414] | 7-5,3-6,6-4 | |
German Premier League Women | 08/10 09:05 | 1 | Irina Maria Bara v Elena-Teodora Cadar | 6-2,6-2 | |
WTA Prague | 08/08 13:10 | 54 | [159] Irina Bara v Magdalena Frech [169] | 6-2,3-6,1-6 | |
Winners Open Women | 07/04 11:00 | 1 | [81] Irina Begu v Irina Bara [159] | 6-1,6-0 | |
Winners Open Women | 07/03 12:00 | 1 | Irina Maria Bara v Elena-Gabriela Ruse | 5-7,4-6 | |
Winners Open Women | 07/02 08:00 | 1 | Irina Maria Bara v Georgia Andreea Craciun | 7-5,6-4 | |
WTA Lyon | 03/05 13:25 | 26 | [73] Daria Kasatkina v Irina Bara [168] | 6-3,6-2 | |
WTA Lyon | 03/02 11:15 | 25 | [99] Timea Babos v Irina Bara [168] | 3-6,7-6,4-6 | |
WTA Lyon | 03/01 13:05 | 64 | [163] Irina Bara v Isabella Shinikova [184] | 7-6,6-3 |
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.