The Slovenia women's national tennis team returned to the World Group of the Billie Jean King Cup for the 2026 season after all, as despite losing the qualifying match with Portugal last week, they squeaked in as the "lucky losers" by virtue of being the best-ranked team that failed to qualify directly.

Ajša Sivka, a 19-year-old Slovenian basketball talent, has been selected by the Chicago Sky as the 10th overall pick of the first round of the 2025 WNBA Draft. While she is the second Slovenian to be picked by a WNBA team thus far, she will be the first one to actually play in the strongest women's basketball league in the world.

The Slovenian women's handball team narrowly missed a berth at the upcoming World Handball Championship. After playing out a 29:29 draw against Serbia at home in the final round of qualifying, it lost the away game 31:33 on Sunday.

Slovenian cycling superstar Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) narrowly failed to win in his Paris-Roubaix debut on Sunday after a late crash. Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) from the Netherlands, bagged his third successive win over the famous cobbles. Danish racer Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) was third.

The Slovenian women's tennis team failed in their bid to return to the World Group of the Billie Jean King Cup after losing to Portugal in the Group I Europe/Africa in Vilnius on Saturday. This means they will remain a member of the regional group for another year.

Celje suffered a 1:2 (0:1) defeat at the hands of Fiorentia at home in the first leg of the UEFA Europa Conference League quarter-finals on Thursday. The first Slovenian team to make it to such a stage of a major European competition however remain optimistic ahead of the second leg, having offered serious resistance to the favoured Italians.

A discussion reflecting on the past, present, and future of Slovenian basketball, featuring former player greats Ivo Daneu and Aljoša Žorga, and coach Zmago Sagadin, noted the significant impact of the development of US basketball. They warned that the earnings in the US are a major draw for young talents and are disrupting the domestic scene.