The Slovenia Billie Jean King Cup team represents

Slovenia Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia, is a country in Central Europe. It borders Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the south and southeast, and a short (46.6 km) coastline within the Adriati ...

in the

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competition and are governed by the Slovene Tennis Association.

History

Slovenia competed in its first Fed Cup in

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. Its best result was reaching the quarterfinals in

2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

. Before 1992, Slovenian players represented Yugoslavia. In November 2022, the team made Billie Jean King Cup Play-offs stage for the first time since the introduction of Billie Jean King Cup. It defeated China with a 3-1 score and secured a place in 2023 Billie Jean King Cup qualifying round. In April 2023, after a huge turnaround, it beat Romania with a 3-2 score and qualified for the 2023 Billie Jean King Cup Finals for the first time in the team's history.

Current team (2023)

Tamara Zidanšek Tamara Zidanšek (; 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 by the WTA, and has won one singles title and four doubles titles on the WTA Tou ...

Kaja Juvan Kaja Juvan (born 25 November 2000) is a Slovenian tennis player. She turned professional on 17 October 2016 and has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 58, achieved on 6 June 2022. On 18 July 2022, she peaked at No. 97 in the WTA doubles ...

* Nina Potocnik *

Pia Lovrič Pia Lovrič (born 23 April 2002) is a Slovenian tennis player. Lovrič has a career-high singles ranking by the WTA of 438, reached on 17 March 2025. She also has a career-high WTA doubles ranking of 401, achieved on 5 August 2024. Lovrič re ...

Ela Nala Milić Ela Nala Milić (born 28 February 2006) is a Slovenian tennis player. Career Milić made her WTA main-draw debut at the 2021 Zavarovalnica Sava Portorož, after receiving a wildcard for the doubles tournament. She and her partner Tina Cvetkovi� ...

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* Billie Jean King Cup teams

Fed Cup The Billie Jean King Cup (or the BJK Cup) is the premier international team competition in women's tennis, launched as the Federation Cup in 1963 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the International Tennis Federation (ITF). The name was cha ...

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History

Current team (2023)

See also

References

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