Gabriela Talabă

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)

Doubles: 18 (10 titles, 8 runner-ups) LegendW60 tournaments (0–1)W25 tournaments (4–3)W10/15 tournaments (6–4)