Team 2025
Kris
Tournament Director
Marin
Scheduling
Mario
Draws
Vanja
Media & Communications
Edi
On-site Coordinator
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Denis
Web &
Visuals
Photography
Our Mission
PlayOut Tennis started as a group of three dedicated tennis enthusiasts and active players on the GLTA world tour. Initiated in 2018 by Goran Rakonjac, originally from Belgrade, Serbia, and joined by Kris Lazar from the Istrian coast, and Peter Matjašič originally from Slovenia, now living in Barcelona, PlayOut Tennis was founded.
As we wanted to give something back to the gay communities in the countries we grew up in, as well as offer our international tennis friends the chance to discover and explore new places, we have decided to take on the challenge to organize the first GLTA sanctioned tennis tournaments in Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia.
 Belgrade 2019 |  Pula 2021 |
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 Ljubljana Welcome Reception 2022 |  Pula Sightseeing 2023 |
 Pula 2023 |  Ljubljana 2024 |
Take a journey through our previous editions and galleries to o exIn May 2019 we successfully kicked off our adventure in Belgrade with 85 players from 27 different countries. However, the Belgrade PlayOut Open was only the beginning. Although the global COVID-19 pandemic interrupted our initial plans for 2020, we managed to hold the second tournament - the Istria PlayOut Tennis Classic - in August 2021 in Pula, Croatia, featuring only 56 players from 15 countries. End of May 2022, we organized the third leg of our tour, when 120 players from 20 different countries joined us in Slovenia for the Ljubljana PlayOut Open.
After the initial rotation of all three countries, we had two more editions - a masters series event in 2023 in Pula, being our biggest tournament so far with 148 players taking part, and a farewell edition in Ljubljana in 2024 with 75 players.
From 2025 onwards, Playout Tennis will remain in Istria, hopefully for many years to come.
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