Tamara Zidanšek

Pro tennis player

Tamara Zidanšek is a Slovenian professional tennis player who’s been playing the sport since she was a young girl. She started her professional career as a snowboarder and won a Junior Championship. She discovered her passion for tennis later and quickly traded in her snowboard for a racket and a tennis court.

In 2014, she won her first tournament in Velenje, and has since won both singles and doubles titles at ITF tournaments in 2015, 2016 and 2017.

Her biggest career breakthrough came in 2018 when she entered the WTA rankings and became one of the top 100 players in the world for the first time. In 2021, she showed her prowess on her favoured clay courts by reaching the semi-finals of the French Open, which in turn helped her climb the rankings as she moved up to a career-high of #22 in 2022.

As well as excelling at tennis, she decided to pursue a parallel academic career with a degree in psychology. When she finds a gap in her busy schedule, Tamara likes to spend time with her family and friends, driving, going on nature walks, cross-country skiing and watching a good TV series.