Gabriela Lee (née Talabă; born 23 August 1995) is a Romanian professional tennis player.
She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of 136, achieved on 1 August 2022, and a best doubles ranking of world No. 229, set on the same date. She has won six singles and 10 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.
Career Lee played collegiate tennis at Texas Tech University. She helped the Lady Raiders to four straight NCAA tournament berths, four straight Sweet 16 appearances, two Elite Eight appearances and the highest ranking in program history (No. 5).
She made her WTA Tour doubles main-draw debut at the Lexington Open, having received a wildcard into the doubles tournament, partnering Caitlin Whoriskey.
In September 2020, Lee entered the qualifying round of the French Open, her first Grand Slam tournament ever played. However, she lost her first match against Clara Tauson from Denmark.
She qualified for the 2021 Charleston Open main draw making her WTA Tour and WTA 500 singles debuts. She lost to eventual runner-up Danka Kovinić in the first round.
Lee recorded her first WTA Tour match win at the 2021 Poland Open as a lucky loser over Cypriot qualifier Raluca Serban.
In 2022, she qualified into the main draw of the Charleston Open for a second year in a row but lost to Jasmine Paolini.
Lee gained direct entry into the 2023 Morocco Open, losing her opening match to Léolia Jeanjean.
Having qualified for the 2023 Montevideo Open, Lee defeated wildcard entrant Lucía de Santa Ana to reach the second round, where she was double baggled by second seed and eventual champion Renata Zarazúa.
Ranked No. 313, she also qualified for the singles main draw at the 2024 Charleston Open but lost to Ashlyn Krueger. Despite the loss she returned to the top 300. Later that year, Lee qualified for the LTP Charleston Pro Tennis, where wins over lucky loser Kayla Cross and eighth seed Iva Jovic saw her reach the quarterfinals, at which point her run was ended by wildcard entrant Lauren Davis in three sets.
WTA 125 finals Doubles: 1 (runner-up) ResultW–LDateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss 0–1 Sep 2025Open de San Sebastián, Spain Clay Elvina Kalieva Anastasia Tikhonova Tara Würth 3–6, 0–6
ITF Circuit finals Singles: 11 (6 titles, 5 runner-ups) LegendW100 tournaments (1–0)W75 tournaments (0–2)W50 tournaments (1–0)W25 tournaments (2–2)W10/15 tournaments (2–1) ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreLoss 0–1 Aug 2014ITF Bucharest, RomaniaW10 Clay Cristina Stancu 4–6, 6–3, 2–6Loss 0–2 Jul 2016ITF Târgu Jiu, RomaniaW10 Clay Jaqueline Cristian 6–7(5), 3–6Win 1–2 Aug 2017ITF Bucharest, RomaniaW15 Clay Victoria Bosio 7–5, 6–4Win 2–2 Sep 2018ITF Marbella, SpainW15 Clay Aleksandrina Naydenova 6–2, 6–2Win 3–2 Oct 2018ITF Charleston Pro, United StatesW25 Clay Elizabeth Halbauer 6–4, 6–7(5), 6–2Win 4–2 Sep 2019ITF Redding, USW25 Hard Alycia Parks 6–1, 6–1Loss 4–3 Sep 2020ITF Frýdek-Místek, Czech RepublicW25 Clay Zheng Qinwen 6–3, 4–6, 0–6Win 5–3 May 2022Bonita Springs Championship, USW100 Clay Katarzyna Kawa 6–1, 6–3Loss 5–4 Jan 2024Vero Beach Open, USW75+H Clay María Lourdes Carlé 4–6, 6–7(4)Win 6–4 May 2025ITF Pelham, USW50 Clay Robin Anderson 6–3, 6–1Loss 6–5 Jul 2025ITS Cup Olomouc, Czech RepublicW75 Clay Ana Sofía Sánchez 5–7, 7–5, 3–6
Doubles: 18 (10 titles, 8 runner-ups) LegendW60 tournaments (0–1)W25 tournaments (4–3)W10/15 tournaments (6–4)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss 0–1 Jun 2013ITF Balș, RomaniaW10 Clay Oana Georgeta Simion Jaqueline Cristian Raluca Elena Platon 6–7(4), 4–6Loss 0–2 Dec 2013ITF Antalya, TurkeyW10 Clay Patricia Maria Țig Irina Bara Conny Perrin 3–6, 1–6Loss 0–3 Feb 2014ITF Antalya, TurkeyW10 Clay Patricia Maria Țig Li Yihong Zhu Lin 2–6, ret.Loss 0–4 Jul 2014ITF Iași, RomaniaW10 Clay Oana Georgeta Simion Raluca Elena Platon Cristina Stancu 6–2, 4–6, [6–10]Win 1–4 Jun 2015ITF Galați, RomaniaW10 Clay Oana Georgeta Simion Daniela Ciobanu Camelia Hristea 4–6, 7–5, [10–8]Win 2–4 Jul 2016ITF Focșani, RomaniaW10 Clay Oana Georgeta Simion Daniela Ciobanu Kassandra Davesne 5–7, 6–1, [10–6]Win 3–4 Aug 2016ITF Galați, RomaniaW10 Clay Oana Georgeta Simion Karola Patricia Bejenaru Georgia Crăciun 5–7, 6–4, [10–3]Win 4–4 Aug 2017ITF Bucharest, RomaniaW15 Clay Oana Georgeta Simion Elena Bogdan Elena-Teodora Cadar 6–3, 0–6, [12–10]Loss 4–5 Jun 2018ITF Baton Rouge, USW25 Hard Astra Sharma Hayley Carter Ena Shibahara 3–6, 4–6Win 5–5 Jul 2018ITF Horb, GermanyW25 Hard Oana Georgeta Simion Jana Jablonovská Vivien Juhászová 6–3, 6–0Win 6–5 Sep 2018ITF Marbella, SpainW15 Clay Claudia Hoste Ferrer Ana Lantigua de la Nuez Ángeles Moreno Barranquero 6–2, 6–2Win 7–5 Sep 2018ITF Varna, BulgariaW15 Clay Aymet Uzcátegui İpek Öz Melis Sezer 3–6, 7–5, [10–5]Loss 7–6 Oct 2018ITF Charleston Pro, USW25 Clay Hsu Chieh-yu Sophie Chang Alexandra Mueller 4–6, 4–6Loss 7–7 Apr 2019ITF Pelham, USW25 Clay Oana Georgeta Simion Usue Maitane Arconada Caroline Dolehide 3–6, 0–6Win 8–7 Aug 2019ITF Fort Worth, USW25 Hard Hsu Chieh-yu Elysia Bolton Jada Hart 7–6(8), 7–5Win 9–7 Aug 2019ITF Guayaquil, EcuadorW25 Clay Katerina Stewart Yuliana Lizarazo Camila Osorio 6–7(1), 7–6(6), [10–7]Loss 9–8 Sep 2019ITF Templeton Pro, USW60 Hard Marcela Zacarías Vladica Babić Caitlin Whoriskey 4–6, 2–6Win 10–8 Nov 2019ITF Naples, USW25 Clay María Portillo Ramírez Lea Bošković Seone Mendez 7–5, 6–2
References
External links Official website
Gabriela Lee at Texas Tech University