Dea Herdželaš (born 7 November 1996) is a Bosnian professional tennis player.
Herdželaš achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 183 on 23 May 2022, and reached a best doubles ranking of 334 in June 2023. As a junior, she had a best combined ranking of world No. 82, which she achieved on 21 January 2013.
Herdželaš made her debut for the
Bosnia and Herzegovina Fed Cup team in February 2013, losing to
Anne Keothavong
Anne Viensouk Keothavong (born 16 September 1983) is a British former tennis player. In her career, she won a total of 28 titles on the ITF Women's Circuit, and reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 48 (achieved February 2009). Sh ...
of
Great Britain
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.
Herdželaš won the 2012 Serbian national team championships with
TK Partizan, winning each of her three singles matches.
Partnering
Nefisa Berberović
Nefisa Berberović (born 3 July 1999) is a Bosnian tennis player.
Berberović has career-high rankings of 221 in singles and 454 in doubles. Alongside Dea Herdželaš, she won the silver medal in the women's doubles at the 2018 Mediterranean Ga ...
, she won the silver medal in the women's doubles at the
2018 Mediterranean Games
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, losing to Turkish pair
Başak Eraydın
Başak Eraydın (born 21 June 1994) is a Turkish professional tennis player.
She has won 15 singles and 18 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 2 April 2018, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 156. On 6 June 2016, she peaked at ...
and
İpek Öz
İpek Öz (born 8 July 1999) is a Turkish tennis player.
She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 163, achieved on 18 July 2022. On 13 June 2022, she peaked at No. 327 in WTA the doubles rankings. She took part in the 2018 Mediterran ...
in the final which went to a deciding champions tiebreak.
Herdželaš has reached 19 career singles finals posting a record of nine wins. Additionally, she has reached 23 career doubles finals (7 titles). All of her finals both singles and doubles have come on the
ITF Circuit.
Grand Slam performance timelines
Singles
ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 19 (9 titles, 10 runner–ups)
Doubles: 23 (7 titles, 16 runner–ups)
National representation
Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup
Herdželaš made her
Fed Cup
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debut for
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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in 2013, while the team was competing in the
Europe/Africa Zone Group I, when she was 16 years and 92 days old.
Singles (9–14)
Doubles (5–6)
Mediterranean Games
Doubles: 1 (runner-up)
Notes
References
External links
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1996 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Sarajevo
Bosnia and Herzegovina female tennis players
Competitors at the 2018 Mediterranean Games
Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Bosnia and Herzegovina
Mediterranean Games medalists in tennis
21st-century Bosnia and Herzegovina sportswomen