BIOGRAPHY
WHERE IT ALL BEGAN.
GIL KITA · OFF COURTI started playing tennis at four. My mother wanted me to take up a sport and she liked tennis. Nobody else in my family played, so I was the first.
For eight years I trained one hour a week. We have a house in Trbovlje and I spend every summer there. The summer I turned twelve, I was choosing between basketball and tennis. We found a coach in Trbovlje and I began training every day.
I won my first tournament without fully knowing the rules. I remember being 2–8 down in a match tie-break, and my parents rescheduling a trip because I had reached the final. My family has been there from the start. Today I represent Tenis klub AS Litija.
“The journey was never about tennis.”— GIL KITA
PLAYER PROFILE
- BORN
- 2010
- PLAYS
- Right-handed
- BACKHAND
- Two-handed
- CLUB
- Tenis klub AS Litija
- RACKET
- Head Speed
- EDUCATION
- Gymnasium
THE GOAL
“To win Roland Garros — and to show players from small countries that the same path is open to them.”— GIL KITA