Veronika Erjavec (born 30 December 1999) is a Slovenian tennis player. She has career-high

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of 169 in singles, attained on 22 April 2024, and world No. 125 in doubles, achieved on 5 February 2024. To date, Erjavec has won two doubles titles on the

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Career

2018

She won a bronze medal for Slovenia at the Mediterranean Games held in

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, Spain, in June 2018. Erjavec beat Italian

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in bronze medal match. In July, she won the doubles tournament in

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, Serbia, with her Croatian partner

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. In September, she played in the doubles final of the Royal Cup in

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, Montenegro. At the end of the year, she played in doubles finals of ITF tournaments in Italy.

2019

Erjavec started season with the tournament held in

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, Tunisia. She became champion in doubles with her Bosnian partner,

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. In May, Erjavec played her first singles final in Croatia at

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. She lost to Czech Johana Marková in the final, but won her second title of the season with Berberović in the doubles final. In June, she reached the third doubles championship of the season, alongside Berberović in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

2022

In May 2022, she won a tournament in

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, Croatia, with her partner Lea Bošković. The duo also won a $25k tournament in Austria. Erjavec then entered the final of the tournament held in Brasov, Romania in June. She won another championship with her Croatian partner Bošković at Tarviso, Italy in July.

2023

In April 2023, Erjavec won her first singles ITF tournament in Osijek, Croatia. She followed up with two more wins in the final of ITF Horb, Germany and ITF Cordenons, Italy, climbing in the ranking into top 200 for the first time. She also won four more doubles titles between March and June.

Grand Slam singles performance timeline

WTA Challenger finals

Doubles: 2 (2 titles)

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 8 (5 titles, 3 runner–ups)

Doubles: 33 (21 titles, 12 runner–ups)

National representation

Billie Jean King Cup

Doubles (0–2)

Multi-sports event

Erjavec made her debut representing Slovenia in multi-sports event at the

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, she won the women's singles bronze medal.

Singles: 1 (bronze medal)

References

External links

* * * 1999 births Living people Slovenian female tennis players Competitors at the 2018 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Slovenia Mediterranean Games medalists in tennis {{Slovenia-tennis-bio-stub