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Réka Luca Jani

Hungarian tennis player (born 1991) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Réka Luca Jani
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Réka Luca Jani (born 31 July 1991) is a Hungarian former professional tennis player.

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She has won 25 singles titles and 34 doubles titles on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour. As on 19 September 2022, she reached her best singles ranking 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 30–22 (as of July 2024).

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Early life

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

Career

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Jani who began playing at age six, reached the first final on the WTA Tour in 2016, at the Brasil Tennis Cup partnering Tímea Babos.[citation needed]

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.[citation needed]

Jani made her Grand Slam tournament main-draw debut at the 2011 US Open, losing to wildcard Sloane Stephens in the first round.[1]

Jani reached her first-ever WTA Tour quarterfinal at the 2021 Serbia Open defeating Anna Kalinskaya.[2] As a result, she returned to the top 200 in singles.[citation needed]

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.[citation needed]

After an 11 year gap, Jani made it back into a Grand Slam tournament main draw at the 2022 French Open when she made it through the qualifying rounds as a lucky loser.[3] She lost to 14th seed Belinda Bencic in the first round.[4]

Partnering Panna Udvardy, she was runner-up in the doubles at the WTA 125 2022 Iași Open, losing to Darya Astakhova and Andreea Roșca in the final which went to a deciding champions tiebreak.[5]

Jani made her first WTA 125 singles final at the 2022 Țiriac Foundation Trophy, defeating Andreea Roșca in the semifinals.[6] She lost the championship match to second seed Irina-Camelia Begu.[7]

In July 2024, Jani announced her retirement from professional tennis.[8]

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Performance timelines

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W  F  SF QF #R RRQ# P# DNQ A Z# PO G S B NMS NTI P NH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) preliminary round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze Olympic/Paralympic medal; (NMS) not a Masters tournament; (NTI) not a Tier I tournament; (P) postponed; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Singles

Current through the 2023 French Open.

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Doubles

WTA Tour finals

Doubles: 1 (runner-up)

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WTA Challenger finals

Singles: 1 (runner-up)

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Doubles: 3 (runner-ups)

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ITF Circuit finals

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

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

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National representation

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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.

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Singles: 21 (11–10)

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Doubles: 19 (12–7)

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Notes

  1. The first Premier 5 event of the year has switched back and forth between the Dubai Tennis Championships and the Qatar Ladies Open since 2009. Dubai was classified as a Premier 5 event from 2009 to 2011 before being succeeded by Doha for the 2012–2014 period. In 2015, Dubai regained its Premier 5 status while Doha was demoted to Premier status. The Premier 5 tournaments were reclassified as WTA 1000 tournaments in 2021.
  2. The WTA International tournaments were reclassified as WTA 250 tournaments in 2021.
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