Tamara Zidanà ¡ek (; born 26 December 1997) is a Slovenian professional tennis player. She has career-high rankings of world No. 22 in singles and No. 47 in doubles. She has won one singles title, as well as four doubles titles on the WTA Tour and three singles titles along with one doubles title on the WTA Challenger Tour. Additionally, she has won 18 titles in singles and six in doubles on the ITF Circuit. She is currently the second highest WTA-ranked player from Slovenia.
Playing for the Slovenia Fed Cup team, she has a winâÂÂloss record of 12âÂÂ13 (as of July 2025).
On the ITF Junior Circuit, she was in the top 20 and reached a career-high ranking of No. 16, achieved in December 2015.
Zidanà ¡ek made a perfect professional debut in 2014 at her home in Velenje, passing three qualifying rounds to go in the main draw and claim her first title on the pro-level at the age of 16.
She reached the semifinals of a Grand Slam championship for the first time at the 2021 French Open, defeating Sorana Cîrstea in straight sets and Paula Badosa in three sets. These wins made her the first Slovenian female player to accomplish this since the country became independent in 1991. As a result, Zidanà ¡ek entered the top 50 for the first time. She also scored her first top-ten win in the first round, against the No. 6 seed, Bianca Andreescu. In her semifinal match, Zidanà ¡ek was defeated by Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in straight sets.
At the Ladies Open Lausanne, as the top seed, Zidanà ¡ek beat Marina Melnikova, Mandy Minella, Lucia Bronzetti, Maryna Zanevska and Clara Burel to win her first WTA Tour singles title.
Seeded 29th at the Australian Open, she reached the third round for the first time, but lost to Alizé Cornet. At the French Open, Zidanà ¡ek also reached the third round in which she lost to Jessica Pegula, in straight sets.
After saving four championship points and defeating Rebecca à  ramková in the final, Zidanà ¡ek won the WTA 125 tournament in Bari. As a result, she moved 30 positions up in the rankings back to the top 100 on 11 September 2023.
She qualified for the 2024 French Open defeating Hailey Baptiste in the final qualifying round. In the main draw, she defeated Alison Van Uytvanck, to set up a match against world No. 3, Coco Gauff, which she lost in straight sets.
Ranked No. 261 at the Thailand Open, Zidanà ¡ek reached her first WTA Tour semifinal since January 2022 coming back from a set down to beat Tatiana Prozorova, sixth seed Katie Volynets, and Nadia Podoroska, saving four match points in the quarterfinals. She lost in the last four to eventual champion, Rebecca à  ramková.
Zidanà ¡ek qualified for the main draw of the Australian Open, before losing to Anastasia Potapova in the first round.
Zidanà ¡ek was coached by Zoran Krajnc until April 2021. In May 2021, her team signed with Pancho Alvariño from Spain. Carl Maes joined the team in December 2021 for a period of one year. After a few coaching trials, she was coached by former Slovenian ATP Tour player Blaà ¾ KavÃÂiàuntil June 2024.
Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Billie Jean King Cup, United Cup, Hopman Cup and Olympic Games are included in winâÂÂloss records.
Current through the 2025 Wimbledon Championships.
Current through the 2022 Australian Open
Zidanà ¡ek has a 1âÂÂ7 () record against players who, at the time the matches were played, were ranked in the top 10.