Veronika Erjavec (born 30 December 1999) is a Slovenian professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 84, achieved on 18 May 2026, and a best doubles ranking of also No. 84, reached on 8 June 2026.
Erjavec has won one WTA Tour title in doubles at the 2025 Iași Open, with Panna Udvardy. She also earned four WTA 125 doubles titles.
Career overview
2018: Mediterranean Games bronze medal Erjavec won a bronze medal for Slovenia at the Mediterranean Games held in Tarragona, Spain, in June. Erjavec defeated Italian Lucia Bronzetti in bronze medal match. In July, she won the doubles tournament in Prokuplje, Serbia, with her Croatian partner Lea Bošković. In September, she played in the doubles final of the Royal Cup in Podgorica, Montenegro. At the end of the year, she played in doubles finals of ITF tournaments in Italy.
2019–2022: ITF Circuit success Erjavec started the 2019 season at the tournament held in Tabarka, Tunisia. She became champion in doubles with her Bosnian partner, Nefisa Berberović. In May, Erjavec played her first singles final in Croatia at Tučepi. She lost to Czech Johana Marková in the final, but won her second title of the season with Berberović in the doubles final. In June 2019, she reached the third doubles championship of the season, alongside Berberović in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In May 2022, she won a tournament in Split, Croatia, with her partner Lea Bošković. The duo also won a $25k tournament in Austria. Erjavec then entered the final of the tournament held in Brașov, Romania in June 2022. She won another championship with her Croatian partner Bošković at Tarviso, Italy in July.
2023–2024: First WTA 125 doubles titles In April 2023, Erjavec won her first singles tournament in Osijek, Croatia. Partnering with Dalila Jakupović, she won her first WTA 125 doubles title at the 2023 Iași Open, defeating Irina Bara and Monica Niculescu in the final.
Partnering Darja Semeņistaja, Erjavec won the doubles title at the 2024 Canberra International, overcoming Kaylah McPhee and Astra Sharma in the final.
She was runner-up at the WTA 125 Cali Open, having defeated fourth seed Chloé Paquet, Francesca Jones, Jazmín Ortenzi and Panna Udvardy, before losing the championship match to second seed Irina-Camelia Begu. At the same tournament, partnering with Kristina Mladenovic, Erjavec won the doubles title, defeating Tara Würth and Katarina Zavatska in the final.
2025: Major and top 100 singles debuts, first career doubles title Erjavec made her major main-draw debut at the 2025 Australian Open, after conceding just 13 games across three qualifying matches. However, she lost in the first round to Suzan Lamens, in straight sets.
Teaming with Panna Udvardy, she won her first WTA Tour doubles title at the Iași Open, defeating María Lourdes Carlé and Simona Waltert in the final.
Erjavec won her first WTA 125 singles title at the Changsha Open, overcoming Maria Timofeeva in the final. The following week she made it back-to-back titles by defeating Alina Charaeva in the final at the Huzhou Open and, as a result, reached a new career-high ranking of world No. 99, on 16 September 2025.
Grand Slam performance timeline
Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup, Hopman Cup, United Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.
Singles Tournament202420252026W–L Australian OpenQ11R1R0–2 French OpenQ2Q31R0–1 WimbledonQ12R1R1–2 US OpenQ2Q31R0–1Win–loss0–01–20–41–6
WTA Tour finals
Doubles: 1 (title) LegendWTA 250 (1–0)Finals by surfaceClay (1–0)Finals by settingOutdoor (1–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin1–0Iași Open, RomaniaWTA 250Clay Panna Udvardy María Lourdes Carlé Simona Waltert 7–5, 6–3
WTA 125 finals
Singles: 4 (2 titles, 2 runner-ups) ResultW–LDateTournamentSurfaceOpponentScoreLoss0–1Cali Open, ColombiaClay Irina-Camelia Begu3–6, 3–6Win1–1Changsha Open, ChinaClay Maria Timofeeva6–1, 6–2Win2–1Huzhou Open, ChinaClay Alina Charaeva6–2, 6–1Loss2–2Huzhou Open, ChinaClay Katarzyna Kawa0–6, 4–6
Doubles: 6 (5 titles, 1 runner-up) ResultW–LDateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin1–0Iași Open, RomaniaClay Dalila Jakupović Irina Bara Monica Niculescu6–4, 6–4Win2–0Canberra International, AustraliaHard Darja Semeņistaja Kaylah McPhee Astra Sharma6–2, 6–4Win3–0Cali Open, ColombiaClay Kristina Mladenovic Katarina Zavatska Tara Würth6–2, 7–6(4)Loss3–1Grado Tennis Cup, ItalyClay Dominika Šalková Quinn Gleason Ingrid Martins2–6, 7–5, [5–10]Win4–1Huzhou Open, ChinaClay Zhibek Kulambayeva Momoko Kobori Ayano Shimizu6–4, 6–2Win5–1Oeiras Ladies Open, PortugalClay Kristina Mladenovic Naïma Karamoko Darja Semeņistaja6–2, 7–5
ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 10 (6 titles, 4 runner-ups) LegendW60/75 tournaments W25/35 tournaments W15 tournamentsFinals by surfaceClay (6–4)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreLoss 0–1 May 2019ITF Tučepi, CroatiaW15 Clay Johana Marková 4–6, 1–6Loss 0–2 Sep 2019ITF Kaposvár, HungaryW25 Clay Dejana Radanović 2–6, 3–6Loss 0–3 Aug 2021Internazionali di Cordenons, ItalyW15 Clay Mana Kawamura 6–7(5), 5–7Win 1–3 Apr 2023ITF Osijek, CroatiaW25 Clay Tena Lukas 7–5, 6–2Win 2–3 Jul 2023ITF Horb, GermanyW25 Clay Anna Gabrić 5–7, 6–2, 6–3Win 3–3 Aug 2023Internazionali di Cordenons, ItalyW60 Clay Alexandra Cadanțu-Ignatik 6–3, 6–4Win 4–3 Oct 2023ITF Santa Margherita di Pula, ItalyW25 Clay Leyre Romero Gormaz 2–6, 6–4, 7–5Win 5–3 Apr 2024Koper Open, SloveniaW75 Clay Polona Hercog 6–4, 6–3Win 6–3 Jul 2024ITF Horb am Neckar, GermanyW35 Clay Julie Štruplová 7–5, 6–0Loss 6–4 Jul 2025Internazionali di Cordenons, ItalyW75 Clay Nuria Brancaccio 2–6, 1–6
Doubles: 34 (22 titles, 12 runner-ups) LegendW60/75 tournaments (3–5)W40/50 tournaments (3–0)W25 tournaments (8–2)W15 tournaments (8–5)Finals by surfaceHard (3–2)Clay (18–9)Carpet (1–1)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore Loss 0–1 Apr 2018ITF Antalya, TurkeyW15 Clay Nina Potočnik Ulyana Ayzatulina Vlada Koval 1–6, 4–6Win 1–1 Apr 2018ITF Tučepi, CroatiaW15 Clay Nefisa Berberović Tena Lukas Saara Orav 6–3, 6–3Win 2–1 Jul 2018ITF Prokuplje, SerbiaW15 Clay Lea Bošković Barbara Bonić Jelena Stojanovic 6–0, 3–6, [10–7]Loss 2–2 Sep 2018Royal Cup, MontenegroW25 Clay Nefisa Berberović Miriam Kolodziejová Nina Potočnik 6–2, 3–6, [0–10]Loss 2–3 Dec 2018ITF Solarino, ItalyW15 Carpet Kristina Novak Catalina Pella Miriana Tona 5–7, 3–6Win 3–3 Dec 2018ITF Solarino, ItalyW15 Carpet Kristina Novak Melissa Morales Kirsten-Andrea Weedon 6–3, 7–6(4)Win 4–3 Dec 2018ITF Ortisei, ItalyW15 Hard (i) Kristina Novak Verena Hofer Simona Waltert 6–4, 7–5Win 5–3 Apr 2019ITF Tabarka, TunisiaW15 Clay Nefisa Berberović Émeline Dartron Marie Témin 4–6, 6–3, [10–7]Win 6–3 May 2019ITF Tučepi, CroatiaW15 Clay Nefisa Berberović Tamara Malešević Antonia Ružić 6–2, 6–2Win 7–3 Jun 2019ITF Banja Luka, Bosnia and HerzegovinaW15 Clay Nefisa Berberović Barbora Miklová Elena Milovanović 6–1, 6–3Loss 7–4 Jul 2019ITF Prokuplje, SerbiaW15 Clay Nefisa Berberović İpek Öz Melis Sezer 5–7, 5–7Loss 7–5 Jul 2019ITF Prokuplje, SerbiaW15 Clay Nefisa Berberović Darya Astakhova Laura Svatiková 3–6, 6–0, [6–10]Win 8–5 Aug 2019Internazionali di Cordenons, ItalyW25 Clay Nika Radišić Martina Caregaro Lisa Sabino 6–3, 7–5Loss 8–6 Aug 2021Internazionali di Cordenons, ItalyW15 Clay Nefisa Berberović Martina Colmegna Amy Zhu 4–6, 3–6Win 9–6 Mar 2022ITF Palmanova, SpainW15 Clay Nina Potočnik Angelica Moratelli Aurora Zantedeschi 7–5, 6–3Win 10–6 May 2022ITF Split, CroatiaW25 Clay Lea Bošković Mana Kawamura Funa Kozaki 4–6, 6–1, [10–2]Win 11–6 May 2022ITF Warmbad-Villach, AustriaW25 Clay Lea Bošković Miharu Imanishi Kanako Morisaki 3–6, 6–3, [11–9]Loss 11–7 Jun 2022Brașov Open, RomaniaW60 Clay Weronika Falkowska Jesika Malečková Isabella Shinikova 6–7(5), 3–6Win 12–7 Jun 2022ITF Tarvisio, ItalyW25 Clay Lea Bošković Ilona Georgiana Ghioroaie Oana Georgeta Simion 6–1, 6–7(5), [10–7]Win 13–7 Jul 2022ITF Perugia, ItalyW25 Clay Valeriya Strakhova Ángela Fita Boluda Angelica Moratelli w/oLoss 13–8 Aug 2022ITF Braunschweig, GermanyW25 Clay Weronika Falkowska Anna Klasen Martina Colmegna 3–6, 6–2, [5–10]Loss 13–9 Oct 2022Hamburg Ladies Cup, GermanyW60 Hard (i) Malene Helgø Miriam Kolodziejová Jesika Malečková 4–6, 2–6Loss 13–10 Nov 2022Open Nantes Atlantique, FranceW60 Hard (i) Emily Webley-Smith Magali Kempen Wu Fang-hsien 2–6, 4–6Win 14–10 Mar 2023Open de Touraine, FranceW25 Hard (i) Justina Mikulskytė Chiara Scholl Anita Wagner 6–4, 6–0Win 15–10 Apr 2023Split Open, CroatiaW40 Clay Lina Gjorcheska Nika Radišić Tara Würth 6–1, 6–4Win 16–10 May 2023ITF Otočec, SloveniaW40 Clay Dominika Šalková Mariana Dražić Emily Webley-Smith 7–5, 6–3Loss 16–11 Jun 2023ITF Říčany, CzechiaW60 Clay Dominika Šalková Karolína Kubáňová Aneta Kučmová 6–4, 3–6, [4–10]Win 17–11 Jun 2023ITF Tarvisio, ItalyW25 Clay Dominika Šalková Nika Radišić Anita Wagner 6–2, 7–6(5)Win 18–11 Oct 2023ITF Santa Margherita di Pula, ItalyW25 Clay Justina Mikulskytė Nuria Brancaccio Angelica Moratelli 7–6(6), 6–0Win 19–11 Jan 2024Porto Indoor, PortugalW50 Hard (i) Dominika Šalková Francisca Jorge Matilde Jorge 4–6, 7–5, [10–8]Loss 19–12 Apr 2024Split Open, CroatiaW75 Clay Justina Mikulskytė Valentini Grammatikopoulou Prarthana Thombare 4–6, 1–6Win 20–12 Apr 2024Koper Open, SloveniaW75 Clay Dominika Šalková Sapfo Sakellaridi Aurora Zantedeschi 6–1, 6–3Win 21–12 May 2024Empire Slovak Open, SlovakiaW75 Clay Tamara Zidanšek Dalila Jakupović Sabrina Santamaria 6–4, 6–4Win 22–12 Sep 2024Pazardzhik Cup, BulgariaW75 Clay Anita Wagner Lia Karatancheva Sapfo Sakellaridi 7–5, 3–6, [10–5]
National representation
Billie Jean King Cup finals
Doubles (0–2) EditionDateLocationSurfacePartneringAgainstOpponentsW/LResult2023Nov 2023Seville ()Hard (i) Ela Nala Milić Australia Kimberly Birrell Storm HunterL 5–7, 7–6(2), [5–10] Ela Nala Milić Kazakhstan Anna Danilina Zhibek KulambayevaL 6–2, 4–6, [7–10]
Multi-sports event Erjavec made her debut representing Slovenia in multi-sports event at the 2018 Mediterranean Games, she won the women's singles bronze medal.
Singles: 1 (bronze medal) ResultDateTournamentSurfaceOpponentScore Bronze June 2018Mediterranean Games, Tarragona, Spain Clay Lucia Bronzetti 2–6, 6–4, 6–3
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