Réka Luca Jani (born 31 July 1991) is a Hungarian
tennis
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player.
She has won 24 singles titles and 34 doubles titles on the
ITF Women's World Tennis Tour. On 19 September 2022, she reached her best singles
ranking
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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
WTA Tour
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in 2016, at the
Brasil Tennis Cup partnering
Tímea Babos.
She was awarded a wildcard entry to the
2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, along with Tímea Babos to play in women's doubles.
Jani reached her first-ever WTA Tour quarterfinal at the
2021 Serbia Open
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defeating
Anna Kalinskaya. 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
Sloane Stephens in the first round. She didn't make it back into a major main draw until the
2022 French Open
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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
Hungary Fed Cup team 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)
Notes
References
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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