Gina Tajkov is one of the generation of Hungarian basketballers, who are starting to realize their enormous potential, both on the domestic and the international scene. She has achieved her short career's greatest accomplishment by winning a silver medal at the European Junior Championships.
In 2003/2004 she qualified with her Hungarian squad for the European Junior Championship finals in Bratislava and was a member of the Csata DSE club squad, which swept all before it to win the National Junior Championship trophy and to perform in an outstanding fashion in the Hungarian Division 1B league - fielding only players born 1986 or earlier against senior open age opposition. In 2004/05 Gina got her first taste of FIBA Europe Cup and Hungarian First Division action.
Gina commenced her love affair with hoops with her debut at the age of 14 in Division 1B for Tatabanya KC in January 2000. It took no time at all for Euroleague power house Euroleasing (then Gysev-Ringa) to note the youngster's talent and she transferred to the basketball hothouse of Sopron that summer. During the subsequent season, Gina was a mainstay of the squads which finished 3rd in the Hungarian Junior Championships, 2nd in the Hungarian Cadet Championships and won the Hungarian Division 1B open championship title under the direction of Australian coach Dirk Bevilaqua and Miklos Szakall.
Since then she has been an ever present in the Hungarian Junior age group national teams. Gina spent the 2003/2004 season on loan with Csata DSE. In 2004/2005 she graduated from Csata DSE to play for Foton Sopron (on loan again from Euroleasing Sopron) in Hungary's pro league, Division 1A, one of the top domestic competitions in European women's basketball. She will also get her first taste of senior international basketball in the FIBA Europe Cup. Gina is a player of skill, drive, determination and ambition, who is set to carve out a successful professional career for herself.
2005/2006 sees Gina first in the squad of Euroleague powerhouse MKB Euroleasing Sopron, then she moves to another Euroleague club, Szolnok. By the latter part of the 2006/2007 season, she got her first taste of pro basketball outside Hungary, joining Isla de Tenerife of Spain, switching to German Bundesliga 1 club Chemnitz for 2007/2008 in the wake of a successful FIBA U21 World Championship campaign in Moscow.. In 2008/09 Gina changed in mid-season from Spanish club Caceres, where maladministration resulted in almost all the players seeking a release. The rest of the season she spent with Italian club Florence Basket, becoming a stable, reliable and effective almost 30 minutes per game player.
Was the star of the 2009 Italian Serie A2 Playoff series, with 54 points scored in the final three matches.
