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 one singles title on the WTA Challenger Tour. She has also won 19 singles and 15 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. She has played 1268 singles matches, the third highest number of tennis matches in the Open Era, after just Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert.

She has made 16 appearances (23 matches) for Germany in the Billie Jean King Cup competition between 2006 and 2011 and since 2018. She won three of her four WTA Tour titles after giving births and after being 34, winning her biggest title (a WTA 500) at 37 years old.

Maria took a sabbatical in 2013, to have her first child, and returned to tour at the 2014 Copa Colsanitas.

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.

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 reached a Wimbledon semifinal as the sixth female player in the Open era over the age of 34, and the sixth woman from Germany. 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.