Tamara Zidanšek

Tamara Zidanšek
Zidanšek at Wimbledon in 2018
Nation:	Slovenia
Birthday:	December 26, 1997
Size:	168 cm
1st professional season:	2013
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Zoran Krajnc
Prize money:	$ 913,894
singles
Career record:	224: 91
Career title:	0 WTA , 2 WTA Challenger, 17 ITF
Highest ranking:	56 (July 22, 2019)
Current placement:	71
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	50:33
Career title:	1 WTA, 4 ITF
Highest ranking:	91 (September 23, 2019)
Current placement:	100
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: March 16, 2020
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Tamara Zidanšek (born December 26, 1997 in Postojna ) is a Slovenian tennis player .

Career

Zidanšek, who started playing tennis at the age of eight, has already achieved great success as a junior, especially in doubles. In 2015 she won the doubles competition at the renowned Orange Bowl alongside Pranjala Yadlapalli . A year earlier she gained her first experience on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour , where she won her first professional title in Slovenia.

In the following season, Zidanšek was able to win a total of five ITF titles, all on clay court, including her first success at a tournament in the $ 25,000 category in Dobrich . Four more followed in 2016, where she won on hard court for the first time in Pune . Due to her improved position in the world rankings , she was allowed to start in the qualification for the first time at the Australian Open 2017 , but lost, as well as at the French Open and the US Open , in the first round. On the ITF tour she was able to land her first triumph in a tournament of the $ 60,000 category in Bendigo and reached her biggest final to date in Toyota the following week , in which she was defeated by Mihaela Buzărnescu .

After Zidanšek won three more ITF titles at the beginning of 2018, on her debut on the WTA tour in Rabat she won the first victory in the main draw from qualifying against Magda Linette and thus made it into the top 100 of the world rankings. At the WTA Challenger Series she was then able to win her first big title in Bol after another success over Linette in the final. In Moscow she then achieved her first WTA semi-final, in which she had to give up against Anastassija Potapova in the decisive third set. After previously missing six qualifications, she was in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament in New York for the first time, but had no chance there against Kristina Mladenovic . Then she was able to win Tashkent in her first WTA final participation in doubles at the side of Olga Danilović her first title. Due to constant performance, she was able to end the 2018 season for the first time in her career in the top 100 in the world.

In Melbourne, Zidanšek mastered the opening round for the first time after beating Daria Gavrilova in the following year, before losing in round two against the eventual winner Naomi Osaka . Then she was in the semifinals of a WTA tournament on hard court in Hua Hin for the first time and even reached her first WTA final in Nuremberg , in which she was defeated by Julija Putinzewa in three sets. Subsequently, she was able to defend her title in Bol with a two-set success in the final against Sara Sorribes Tormo and achieved her best world ranking position to date in July with 56th place after she also survived the opening round for the first time at Wimbledon . In the further course of the year her results decreased significantly and she could only win one more game in the main draw of a WTA tournament by the end of the season. Nonetheless, she finished confidently in the top 100 in the world this year.

In 2017, Zidanšek was nominated for the first time for the Slovenian Fed Cup team . Since then, she has contested 13 matches in singles and doubles for her country, of which she was able to win six (individual balance 5: 4).

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	May 24, 2014	Velenje	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Barbara Haas	4: 6, 6: 2, 6: 3
2.	June 14, 2015	Banja Luka	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Marina Kachar	6: 4, 2: 6, 7: 5
3.	June 28, 2015	Telavi	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Sadafmoch Tolibova	6: 4, 6: 1
4th	5th July 2015	Telavi	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Szabina Szlavikovics	6: 3, 6: 3
5.	August 16, 2015	Arad	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Chantal Škamlová	6: 1, 6: 3
6th	20th September 2015	Dobrich	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Polina Leikina	6: 3, 6: 2
7th	17th April 2016	Hammamet	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Alice Bacquie	6: 1, 6: 0
8th.	May 15, 2016	Győr	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Ekaterina Alexandrowa	6: 4, 6: 4
9.	4th June 2016	Hódmezővásárhely	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Karolína Muchová	4: 6, 6: 2, 6: 4
10.	4th December 2016	Santiago	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Paula Cristina Gonçalves	6: 1, 6: 4
11.	17th December 2016	Pune	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Polina Monova	6: 4, 6: 2
12.	October 1, 2017	Santa Margherita di Pula	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Tereza Mrdeža	7: 6 4 , 7: 5
13.	November 12, 2017	Bendigo	ITF $ 60,000	Hard court	Olivia Rogowska	5: 7, 6: 1, 6: 0
14th	February 25, 2018	Curitiba	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Fiona Ferro	7: 5, 6: 4
15th	April 8, 2018	Santa Margherita di Pula	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Anastasia Grymalska	6: 3, 6: 1
16.	April 15, 2018	Santa Margherita di Pula	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Myrtille Georges	6: 1, 7: 6 4
17th	June 10, 2018	Bol	WTA Challenger	sand	Magda Linette	6: 1, 6: 3
18th	1st December 2018	Pune	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Karman Kaur Thandi	6: 3, 6: 4
19th	June 9, 2019	Bol	WTA Challenger	sand	Sara Sorribes Tormo	7: 5, 7: 5

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	April 24, 2015	Bol	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Pia Čuk	Natalija Sipek Eva Zagorac	6: 1, 6: 1
2.	7th August 2015	Tarvisio	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Pia Čuk	Biorgia Marchetti Maria Masini	6: 1, 6: 4
3.	October 7, 2016	Santa Margherita di Pula	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Jil Teichmann	Claudia Giovine Camilla Rosatello	6: 2, 6: 4
4th	3rd December 2016	Santiago	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Guadalupe Pérez Rojas	Usue Maitane Arconada Georgia Brescia	6: 3, 7: 6 5
5.	September 30, 2018	Tashkent	WTA International	Hard court	Olga Danilović	Irina-Camelia Begu Raluca Olaru	7: 5, 6: 3
6th	August 9, 2020	Palermo	WTA International	sand	Arantxa Rus	Elisabetta Cocciaretto Martina Trevisan	7: 5, 7: 5

Web links

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• WTA profile Tamara Zidanšek (English)
• ITF profile Tamara Zidanšek (English)
• ITF junior profile Tamara Zidanšek (English)
• Fed Cup stats by Tamara Zidanšek (English)