Romana Tabak or Romana Tabaková (born 7 May 1991) is a Slovak professional tennis player. She is also a former World Junior No. 36, achieving that ranking in March 2008. Her career-high ranking of World No. 240 was achieved on 27 February 2012.
2008: Junior Tennis Player of the Year in Slovak Republic
Career in review
2003 – finished at No. 3 in Slovak ranking U12
2004 – won 1 singles title in tournament in Slovakia, runner-up one time
2005 – finished at No. 9 in Slovak ranking U14, won five singles titles, runner-up two times
2006 – finished at No. 13 in Slovak ranking U18, won two singles titles, runner-up two times, played her first ITF junior tournament in Bratislava as WC, also won her first doubles title in junior tournament Bratislava, grade 4
2007 – finished at No. 4 in Slovak ranking U18, won two junior tournaments grade 2 in Pieštany (d. Lenka Juríková in final) and Prato (d. Bojanovski in final), made junior Grand Slam main draw debut at Wimbledon, made Top 100 debut in ITF ranking in May 2007, played in European Junior Championships U16, also played her first ITF tournament in Maribor, reached 1st round as qualifier (d. Anikó Kapros and Kristína Kučová in qualifying, l. to Lenka Tvarošková), in October won her first ITF doubles title in Espinho (w./Zagorska)
2008 – finished at No. 1 in Slovak ranking U18, at No. 46 in ITF ranking, at No. 588 in WTA singles ranking and at No. 481 in WTA doubles ranking, played all four junior Grand Slam tournaments: French Open – reached semifinal doubles (w./Juríková); Wimbledon – reached semifinal singles (l. to Laura Robson) – played in European Junior Championships U18, won junior doubles title grade 1 (w./Toljan) in Umag, won one ITF singles titles in Ilawa (d. Aleksandra Rosolska in final) and two ITF doubles titles in Buchurest (w./Boczová) and Ilawa (w./Ima Bohush), was named as Junior Player of the Year 2008 in Slovakia. She also played at Wimbledon on 25 June 2008., dated Grigor Dimitrov, accompanied him at Championships Dinner at Wimbledon.
2010 – finished at No. 808 in WTA singles ranking and at No. 619 in WTA doubles ranking, won 1 ITF singles title in Bournemouth (d. Lisa Whybourn in final) and 1 ITF doubles title in Antalya (w./Michaela Pochabová). From June 2010 to March 2011 she did not play any tournaments apart from the ITF Espinho tournament in October 2010 because of a knee injury.
2011 – finished at No. 255 in WTA singles ranking and at No. 436 in WTA doubles ranking, won 4 ITF singles titles in Båstad (10.000 USD, d. Brozda in final) and hat trick in Asunción (10.000 USD, d. Irigoyen in final; 10.000 USD, d. Schiechtl in final and 25.000 USD, d. Molinero in final), Tabak was runner-up to Scarlett Werner in the ITF tournament at Bournemouth, but lost her WTA Singles Ranking on 9 May 2011, regaining it on 23 May 2011. Romana was awarded as player of November according to ITF.
