Elise Tamaëla (born 22 January 1984) is a Dutch tennis coach and former professional tennis player. On 12 February 2007, she achieved a career-high WTA singles ranking of 129. On 9 April 2007, she reached her highest doubles ranking of 228. She was coached by Stephan Ehritt. In her career, Tamaëla won eight singles titles and nine doubles titles on the

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. She was the coach of

Kiki Bertens Kiki Bertens (; born 10 December 1991) is a Dutch former professional tennis player. Her career-high WTA singles ranking was world No. 4, which she reached on 13 May 2019, becoming the highest ranked Dutch female player ever. Her career-high do ...

in the period 2019-2021. Tamaëla succeeded

Paul Haarhuis Paul Vincent Nicholas Haarhuis (born 19 February 1966) is a Dutch former professional tennis player. He is a former world No. 1 doubles player, having reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 18 in November 1995. He won six Grand Sl ...

as captain of the Netherlands Billie Jean King Cup team in November 2021.

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 15 (8 titles, 7 runner-ups)

Doubles: 10 (9 titles, 1 runner-up)

Coaching career

From 2016 until 2018, Tamaëla was the coach of

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. After Bertens' break up with

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, she became her head coach in November 2019. She had been a member of the team for about a year.

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* * 1984 births Living people Dutch female tennis players People from Tiel Sportspeople from Gelderland {{Netherlands-tennis-bio-stub