Lilli Tagger

Lilli Tagger

Tagger in March 2025
Country (sports)	Austria
Residence	Varese, Italy
Born	(2008-02-17) 17 February 2008 Lienz, Austria
Plays	Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Coach	Francesca Schiavone
Prize money	US $256,671
Singles
Career record	76–37
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 91 (20 April 2026)
Current ranking	No. 91 (20 April 2026)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	Q3 (2026)
Doubles
Career record	8–3
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 1,085 (12 August 2024)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open Junior	1R (2025)
French Open Junior	SF (2025)
Wimbledon Junior	2R (2024)
US Open Junior	1R (2024)
Last updated on: 20 April 2026.

Lilli Tagger (born 17 February 2008) is an Austrian tennis player.¹ She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of world No. 91, achieved on 20 April 2026. She is currently the No. 2 Austrian player in women's singles.

Tagger won the girls' singles title at the 2025 French Open.²

From Lienz, Tagger moved to Varese near Milan, in Italy, and trained at the academy of Francesca Schiavone.³⁴

In July 2024, the Austrian qualified for the girls' singles at the 2024 Wimbledon Championships with a win over Ksenia Efremova in a 10–6 match tiebreak.⁵

Tagger beat British Mimi Xu to reach the quarterfinals of the girls singles at the 2025 Australian Open, where she lost to Australian Emerson Jones.⁶

At the 2025 French Open, Tagger had Francesca Schiavone as part of her support team.⁷ She reached the semifinals of the girls' singles with a win over the number 12 seed Julia Stusek. In doing so, she became the first female Austrian player to reach the semifinals of a junior Grand Slam tournament since Tamira Paszek in 2006, and the first Austrian overall since Dominic Thiem in 2011.³ Tagger again faced Emerson Jones and won in straight sets, before also defeating Hannah Klugman of Great Britain in straight sets, for the loss of only two games in the final.⁸ In the girls' doubles she played alongside Slovakian Mia Pohánková and they reached the semifinals before facing German pairing Sonja Zhenikhova and Eva Bennemann.³⁹

In November 2023, Tagger reached her first ITF Women's Circuit final in Sharm El Sheik. She won her first ITF tour doubles title in Viserba, Italy in July 2024 playing alongside Italian Anastasia Bertacchi, they defeated Francesca Pace and Inès Ibbou in the final.³⁴

In December 2024, she played in her first WTA 125 tournament main-draw in Limoges as a wildcard entrant, where she won her first round match against the world No. 159, Victoria Jiménez Kasintseva,¹⁰¹¹ before losing in the second round to sixth seed Nuria Parrizas-Diaz.¹²

In March, Tagger won her first ITF Circuit singles title defeating Lois Boisson in a straight-sets final in Terrassa, Spain.³

In October, Tagger was given a wildcard entry to make her WTA Tour debut at the Jiangxi Open, recording wins over fellow WTA debutante Zhu Chenting,¹³ Elisabetta Cocciaretto¹⁴ and Tamara Korpatsch¹⁵ to make it through to the semifinals, where she fought back from three match points down to overcome second seed and defending champion, Viktorija Golubic, in three sets to become the first player born in 2008 to reach a WTA Tour final.¹⁶ In the championship match she lost to Anna Blinkova in straight sets.¹⁷ Despite her defeat, she reached a new career-high ranking in the top 200 at world No. 156, on 3 November 2025.¹⁸

Tagger reached her first WTA 125 final at the Mumbai Open, losing to Mananchaya Sawangkaew in straight sets.¹⁹

In March, she received a wildcard entry to make her WTA 1000 tournament main-draw debut at the Indian Wells Open and defeated Varvara Gracheva in the first round in straight sets.²⁰²¹ She lost to world No. 34 Maria Sakkari in the second round.²²

At the Miami Open, where she also received a wildcard for her debut at the event, Tagger defeated qualifier Ella Seidel,²³ before losing to 11th seed Ekaterina Alexandrova.²⁴

At her home tournament, the Upper Linz Open, Tagger, again competing with a wildcard, defeated fellow wildcard entrant Paula Badosa²⁵ and then third seed and world No. 21, Liudmila Samsonova, to reach her second WTA quarterfinal and first on clay and at the WTA 500-level.²⁶ She lost to Anastasia Potapova in the last eight.²⁷ As a result of her run, she reached world No. 97 in the WTA singles rankings on 13 April 2026, making her the sixth teenager and the youngest player in the elite top 100 group.²⁸

Tagger plays with a single-handed backhand.⁹

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Nov 2025	Jiangxi Open, China	WTA 250	Hard	Anna Blinkova	3–6, 3–6

Result	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponents	Score
Loss	Feb 2026	Mumbai Open, India	Hard	Mananchaya Sawangkaew	4–6, 3–6

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Mar 2025	ITF Terrassa, Spain	W35	Clay	Loïs Boisson	7–6(4), 6–3
Loss	1–1	Aug 2025	Ladies Open Amstetten, Austria	W75	Clay	Sinja Kraus	2–6, 4–6
Win	2–1	Sep 2025	ITF Bucharest, Romania	W75	Clay	Lina Gjorcheska	6–4, 3–6, 6–4
Win	3–1	Sep 2025	ITF Kuršumlijska Banja, Serbia	W75	Clay	Rada Zolotareva	5–7, 6–2, 6–2
Win	4–1	Jan 2026	ITF Fujairah Championships, UAE	W100	Hard	Harriet Dart	6–4, 6–2

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Nov 2023	ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	W15	Hard	Mariam Atia	Evgeniya Burdina Nina Rudiukova	7–5, 4–6, [6–10]
Win	1–1	Jul 2024	ITF Viserba, Italy	W15	Clay	Anastasia Bertacchi	Inès Ibbou Francesca Pace	6–0, 2–6, [10–5]

Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	2025	French Open	Clay	Hannah Klugman	6–2, 6–02930