Séléna Janicijevic

Séléna Janicijevic (, born 23 July 2002) is a French tennis player of Serbian origin.

On 16 September 2024, she reached her career-high of world No. 153 in singles. Janicijevic has won eleven singles titles and one doubles title on the ITF Circuit.

Career 2019: Major debut Janicijevic made her Grand Slam tournament main-draw debut as a wildcard entrant at the 2019 French Open, losing to Iga Świątek in the first round.

2022: ITF Tour success

Janicijevic started the year in Egypt where she reached two semifinals showing in the first two $15k in Giza and Cairo, stopped only by Sapfo Sakellaridi in both tournaments, and a championship win in the $25k in Cairo. This title was followed by another in February, at a $15k in Antalya over Angelica Moratelli. However, she would lose the two consequent tournaments on the Turkish clay, one ending in retirement. She did not play for a few weeks after this, before returning to the European ITFs where she found minimum success. Upon her return to Egypt, she found herself in a much better position, immediately going to the final of a $25k, losing to Anastasia Zolotareva.

She received a wildcard entry into the Paris WTA 125 event, losing to Magda Linette in the first round in three sets. In June, Janicijevic won a $25k in Périgueux, defeating top seed Katharina Hobgarski in the final.

2023: Australian Open debut and first WTA Tour win Janicijevic made her debut at the Australian Open, where she defeated Jodie Burrage in the final qualifying round, before losing to Kaja Juvan in the main draw first round. However, she entered a period of drought following that feat as she went on a five-match losing streak, before winning a $25k title in Colombia, her first of the year.

In May, Janicijevic recorded her first career WTA Tour singles main-draw win in Strasbourg by defeating fellow Frenchwoman Océane Dodin in the first round, before losing to sixth seed Varvara Gracheva in the second round.

2024: First WTA Tour quarterfinal, top 160 In July, Janicijevic made it through to the semifinals at the Contrexéville Open, with wins over wildcard entrant Amandine Hesse, seventh seed Suzan Lamens and Dalila Jakupović, before her run was ended by third seed Mayar Sherif. Later that month she reached her first WTA Tour singles quarterfinal at the Iași Open after winning two qualifying matches and defeating fellow qualifier Gergana Topalova and wildcard entrant Miriam Bulgaru in the main draw first and second rounds respectively. Janicijevic lost her quarterfinal match to fellow French Chloé Paquet, in three sets. As a result, she reached the top 160 in the rankings on 29 July.

Partnering Erika Andreeva, Janicijevic reached the doubles final at the WTA 125 Open de Limoges, losing to Elsa Jacquemot and Margaux Rouvroy.

Grand Slam performance

Singles

WTA 125 finals Doubles: 1 (runner-up) ResultW–LDateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss 0–1 Open de Limoges, France Hard (i) Erika Andreeva Margaux Rouvroy Elsa Jacquemot 4–6, 3–6

ITF Circuit finals Singles: 17 (11 titles, 6 runner-ups) LegendW60/75 tournamentsW50 tournamentsW25 tournamentsW15 tournamentsFinals by surfaceClay (11–6)

Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up) LegendW25/35 tournamentsW15 tournamentsFinals by surfaceHard (1–0)Clay (0–1)

Junior Grand Slam tournament finals Doubles: 1 (runner-up) ResultYearTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss 2019 US Open Hard Aubane Droguet Oksana Selekhmeteva Kamilla Bartone 5–7, 6–7(6–8)