Tatjana Maria

Tatjana Maria (née Malek; born 8 August 1987) is a German professional tennis player. In July 2025, she reached her career-best singles ranking of world No. 36 at 37 years and 11 months old. In June 2016, she peaked at No. 54 in the doubles rankings.

She has won four singles titles and four doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as two singles titles on the Challenger Tour. She has also won 19 singles and 15 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. She has played 1317 singles matches, the third highest number of tennis matches in the Open Era, behind only Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert.

She won three of her four WTA Tour titles after becoming a mother and after turning 34, winning her biggest title (a WTA 500) aged 37.

Career 2013–2016: Wimbledon third round, top 100 debut Maria took a sabbatical in 2013, to have her first child, and returned to tour at the 2014 Copa Colsanitas.

2017–2020: Top 50, first WTA Tour title Maria reached a career-high ranking in the top 50 in November 2017.

She won her first singles WTA Tour title at the 2018 Mallorca Open defeating Anastasija Sevastova.

2022: First major semifinal at Wimbledon Maria won her second title at the 2022 Copa Colsanitas, defeating Laura Pigossi in the final.

At the Wimbledon Championships she defeated Astra Sharma, Sorana Cîrstea and then world No. 5, Maria Sakkari (her fifth top 10 win ), and, in the round of 16, the 12th-seeded Jeļena Ostapenko, winning after saving two match points. This made her the oldest player to debut in a Wimbledon quarterfinal. In the quarterfinals, she beat compatriot Jule Niemeier who was ranked 97th, in three sets. She became the sixth female player in the Open era to reach the Wimbledon semifinal after the age of 34, and only the sixth woman from Germany to reach the tournament's semifinal. She lost her semifinal match to the second seed and world No. 2, Ons Jabeur, in three sets. She was the first mother-of-two to make the last four of a major since Margaret Court at Wimbledon 1975, and only the fourth player ranked outside the top 100 to reach the Wimbledon semifinals. She was awarded the WTA Comeback Player of the Year for her performance in 2022.

2023–2024: Third title, Olympics qualification Maria defended her title at the 2023 Copa Colsanitas in Bogotá by defeating Peyton Stearns in the final.

At the 2024 Copa Colsanitas, she could not defend her title losing to local favorite and 2021 champion, Camila Osorio, in the quarterfinals and fell down to No. 65 in the singles rankings.

She was selected as the German No. 2 player for the 2024 Paris Olympics.

2025–2026: Oldest WTA 500 champion

At age 37 and 312 days, at the 2025 Queen's Club Championships, Maria became the oldest woman to reach a WTA 500 final and the oldest WTA singles finalist since Serena Williams won the 2020 title in Auckland at age 38. Maria defeated Amanda Anisimova to become the "Queen of Queen's" and win her first WTA 500 title and second on grass, the first woman champion at Queen's Club for over half a century, having come through qualifying to earn the right to play the tournament. She was also the oldest ever winner of a WTA 500 event.

The following month, she was runner-up at the WTA 125 Hall of Fame Open, losing to Caty McNally in the final.

In June 2026, Maria was not awarded a wildcard to Queen's, despite being the defending champion, after her world ranking of 52 was not high enough to gain direct entry into the draw. Instead, she won two rounds of qualifying to reach the main draw where she lost in the second round to top seed Elena Rybakina. Later that month, she became the oldest ever finalist at the Eastbourne Open, aged 38, where she was beaten to the title by Madison Keys.

Personal life Her father Heinrich Malek was a Polish international handball player originally from Zabrze.

On 8 April 2013, she married her coach, the French former tennis player Charles-Edouard Maria. Their first child, a daughter (Charlotte), was born in December 2013,

Performance timelines

Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Olympic Games and Billie Jean King Cup are included in win–loss records.

Singles Current through the 2026 Cincinnati Open.

Doubles

WTA Tour finals Singles: 5 (4 titles, 1 runner-up) LegendWTA 500 (1–0)WTA 250 (3–1)Finals by surfaceClay (2–0)Grass (2–1)

Doubles: 8 (4 titles, 4 runner-ups) Legend WTA 1000 WTA 500 WTA 250 (4–4)Finals by surfaceHard (2–1)Clay (1–3)Carpet (1–0)

WTA 125 finals Singles: 6 (2 titles, 4 runner-ups)

Doubles: 1 (runner-up) ResultW–LDateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss 0–1 Carlsbad Open, United States Hard Oksana Kalashnikova Verónica Cepede Royg Gabriela Cé 6–1, 4–6, [8–10]

ITF Circuit finals Singles: 33 (19 titles, 14 runner-ups) Legend $100,000 tournaments (6–5) $50/60,000 tournaments (5–1) $40,000 tournaments (1–0) $25,000 tournaments (6–7) $10,000 tournaments (1–1)Finals by surfaceHard (13–4)Clay (3–8)Grass (2–2)Carpet (1–0)

Doubles: 25 (15 titles, 10 runner-ups) Legend $100,000 tournaments (0–3) $75,000 tournaments (0–2) $50,000 tournaments (5–2) $25,000 tournaments (9–2) $10,000 tournaments (1–1)Finals by surfaceHard (5–5)Clay (8–4)Grass (1–0)Carpet (1–1)

Wins over top-10 players Maria has a 6–20 win-loss record against players who were, at the time the match was played, ranked in the top 10.

Season 2010 ... 2015 ... 2018 2019 ... 2022 ... 2025 Total Wins 1 1 1 1 1 1 6

Billie Jean King Cup performance