Réka Luca Jani (born 31 July 1991) is a Hungarian

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player. She has won 24 singles titles and 34 doubles titles on the

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. On 19 September 2022, she reached her best singles

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of world No. 104. On 22 August 2016, she peaked at No. 124 in the doubles rankings. Her favorite surface is clay. Playing for Hungary Billie Jean King Cup team, Jani has a win–loss record of 28–18.

Personal

Parents are Janos, Szilvia and Zsolt; brothers are Mate and Balint, sister is Petra.

Tennis career

Jani who began playing at age six, reached the first final on the

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in 2016, at the

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partnering

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. She was awarded a wildcard entry to the

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in Rio de Janeiro, along with Tímea Babos to play in women's doubles. Jani reached her first-ever WTA Tour quarterfinal at the

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defeating

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. As a result she returned to the top 200 in singles. On 9 May 2022, she reached a new career-high in singles of world No. 129 after reaching the quarterfinals in Chiasso, Switzerland ($60k), the final of the $60k Zagreb (lost to Jule Niemeier), Croatia, and quarterfinals of the $60k Prague tournaments. Jani made her Grand Slam main-draw debut at the 2011 US Open losing to wildcard

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in the first round. She didn't make it back into a major main draw until the

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when she made it through the qualifying rounds as a lucky loser.

Performance timelines

Singles

''Current after the 2022 Emilia Romagna Open.''

Doubles

WTA career finals

Doubles: 1 (runner-up)

WTA Challenger finals

Singles: 1 (runner-up)

Doubles: 3 (3 runner-ups)

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 42 (25 titles, 17 runner–ups)

Doubles: 67 (34 titles, 33 runner-ups)

National representation

Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup

Jani made her debut for the

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in 2010, while the team was competing in the Europe/Africa Zone Group I, when she was 18 years and 187 days old.

Singles: 21 (11–10)

Doubles: 19 (12–7)

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Jani, Reka Luca 1991 births Living people People from Siófok Hungarian female tennis players Olympic tennis players of Hungary Tennis players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Somogy County