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Dessislava Mladenova
Dessislava Svetoslavova Mladenova (Bulgarian: Десислава Светославова Младенова, born 21 June 1988) is a Bulgarian former professional tennis player. On 6 October 2008, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of No. 684, whilst her best doubles ranking was 388 on 5 May 2008. IN her career, she won three doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 1 (1 runner–up) Doubles 10 (3 titles, 7 runner–ups) Fed Cup Dessislava Mladenova debuted for the Bulgaria Fed Cup team The Bulgaria women's national tennis team represents Bulgaria in Billie Jean King Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Bulgarian Tennis Federation. In 2022, Bulgaria competed in the Europe/Africa Zone Group I event in Antalya, where t ... in 2007. Since then, she has a 1–2 doubles record (1–2 overall). Doubles: 3 (1–2) References External links * * * 1988 births Living people Sportspeople from Sofia Bulgarian female tennis ...
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Sofia
Sofia ( ; bg, София, Sofiya, ) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain in the western parts of the country. The city is built west of the Iskar river, and has many mineral springs, such as the Sofia Central Mineral Baths. It has a humid continental climate. Being in the centre of the Balkans, it is midway between the Black Sea and the Adriatic Sea, and closest to the Aegean Sea. Known as Serdica in Antiquity and Sredets in the Middle Ages, Sofia has been an area of human habitation since at least 7000 BC. The recorded history of the city begins with the attestation of the conquest of Serdica by the Roman Republic in 29 BC from the Celtic tribe Serdi. During the decline of the Roman Empire, the city was raided by Huns, Visigoths, Avars and Slavs. In 809, Serdica was incorporated into the Bulgarian Empire by Khan Krum and became known as Sredets. In 1018, the Byzantines ended Bulgarian rule ...
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Justyna Jegiołka
Justyna Jegiołka (born 17 September 1991) is a retired Polish tennis player. She won two singles and 16 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit in her career. On 6 October 2014, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 298. On 18 April 2016, she peaked at No. 191 in the doubles rankings. Jegiołka made her WTA Tour debut at the 2013 Qatar Open partnering Veronika Kapshay in doubles; they lost in the first round to Shuko Aoyama and Megan Moulton-Levy Megan Moulton-Levy (born March 11, 1985) is a Jamaican-American former professional tennis player. Her career-high singles ranking is world No. 237, which she reached on 6 July 2009. Her career-high WTA doubles ranking is 50, achieved on 22 July .... ITF Circuit finals Singles: 7 (2–5) Doubles: 35 (16–19) References * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Jegiolka, Justyna 1991 births Living people Sportspeople from Opole Polish female tennis players 20th-century Polish women 21st-century Polish women ...
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Dia Evtimova
Dia Evtimova ( bg, Диа Евтимова; born 30 April 1987) is a Bulgarian tennis player. On 31 October 2011, she reached a career-high WTA singles ranking of 145 whilst her best doubles ranking was 228 on 23 June 2014. She has more than 550 match wins on the pro circuit which puts her 42nd on the List of Open era and tenth among the active players. Evtimova also played for Bulgarian Fed Cup team, with a current 15–20 record. Professional career In 2010, she qualified for the Internationaux de Strasbourg where she was defeated by Maria Sharapova in the second round. In 2011, she qualified for the Gastein Ladies and reached her first quarterfinal on the WTA Tour, before she was defeated by Patricia Mayr-Achleitner. Grand Slam performance timeline Singles ITF Circuit finals Singles: 26 (10 titles, 16 runner–ups) Doubles: 32 (18 titles, 14 runner–ups) Fed Cup participation Dia Evtimova debuted for the Bulgaria Fed Cup team The Bulgaria women's national ten ...
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Klaudia Jans-Ignacik
Klaudia Jans-Ignacik (née Jans; born 24 September 1984) is a retired Polish tennis player. On 16 August 2004, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 410. On 10 September 2012, she peaked at No. 28 in the doubles rankings. Jans-Ignacik won three WTA doubles tournaments, 2009 Andalucia Tennis Experience with Alicja Rosolska, 2012 Internationaux de Strasbourg with Olga Govortsova, and 2012 Rogers Cup with Kristina Mladenovic. In 2012, she advanced to her first Grand Slam final at the French Open, with Santiago Gonzalez in the mixed-doubles tournament. Jans-Ignacik is one of nine Polish tennis players in history who played in a Grand Slam final, others being Jadwiga Jędrzejowska, Wojciech Fibak, Mariusz Fyrstenberg, Łukasz Kubot, Marcin Matkowski, Agnieszka Radwańska, Alicja Rosolska and Iga Świątek. She represented Poland in the Fed Cup and both the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics. Playing for Poland at the Fed Cup, Jans-Ignacik has a win–loss record of ...
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Marta Domachowska
Marta Domachowska (; born 16 January 1986) is a former tennis player from Poland. She was ranked world No. 37 in singles (2006) and No. 62 in doubles (2006), and reached 2008 Australian Open fourth round in singles and won 2006 Canberra International in doubles with Roberta Vinci. She also reached three WTA Tour singles finals at the 2004 Korea Open (lost to Maria Sharapova), 2005 Internationaux de Strasbourg (lost to Anabel Medina Garrigues) and 2006 U.S. National Indoor Tennis Championships (lost to Sofia Arvidsson). She was 2003 Australian Open finalist in girls' singles, represented Poland at the 2008 Summer Olympics and was member of Poland Fed Cup team. Domachowska was the best female Polish tennis player after Magdalena Grzybowska's retirement and before Agnieszka Radwańska's successes. Junior career Marta started playing tennis at age seven, and reached the semifinals of the Australian Open Junior Championships in 2003. Professional career 2001–2006 In her sole ...
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Claire Curran
Claire Curran (born 10 March 1978) is a former professional tennis player from Northern Ireland. She represented both Great Britain and Ireland in the Fed Cup during her career. Curran is the youngest ever Irish Fed Cup player (15 years 65 days) and before attending UC Berkeley was largely focussed on singles, with the highest singles win percentage of any Irish Fed Cup player. At UC Berkeley, Curran was an Academic All-American (Majoring in Political Science) and won the NCAA Championship. Serious injury resulted in her decision to focus on doubles post university. Curran reached a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 89, and won a total of 12 ITF titles over the course of her career and was a finalist in one WTA Tour event and was the key doubles players in the Great British Fed Cup teams of the mid 2000s. Her overall Fed Cup record has the highest win percentage of any British or Irish player who has played in over 25 matches. Curran retired from professional sport in ...
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Elena Baltacha
Elena Sergeevna Baltacha ( uk, Олена Сергіївна Балтача; 14 August 1983 – 4 May 2014) was a Ukrainian-born British professional tennis player. Being a four-time winner of the AEGON Awards, she was also a long-term British No. 1, a position she held intermittently from 2002 to 2012. However, as a result of her absence from competition due to knee surgery, she dropped down the world rankings and at the time of her retirement on 18 November 2013, she was ranked as the world No. 221 and British No. 6. Her career-high ranking of world No. 49 was achieved in September 2010. Over the course of her career, she won 11 ITF singles titles (five $25k, two $50k, two $75k, and two $100k) and four ITF doubles titles (all $25k). She was also a runner-up in three ITF events in singles and four in doubles. In 2010, Baltacha had victories over top 10-players, including two victories over Li Na (the second of which came via retirement) and one against Francesca Schiav ...
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Jaklin Alawi
Jaklin Alawi (born 28 December 1990) is a former professional tennis player from Bulgaria. Biography A right-handed player from Sofia, Alawi competed on the professional ITF circuit while a junior, from 2005 to 2008. Alawi featured in two ties for the Bulgaria Fed Cup team, against Great Britain and Poland in 2007, both times partnering Dessislava Mladenova. In 2009 she left the tour to play and attend college in the United States, first at Long Beach State, then the University of South Carolina. While in South Carolina, Alawi and her college teammate Dominika Kaňáková received a wildcard to compete in the doubles at the 2013 Family Circle Cup, which was her only WTA Tour main draw appearance. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 1 (1 runner–up) Fed Cup Jaklin Alawi debuted for the Bulgaria Fed Cup team The Bulgaria women's national tennis team represents Bulgaria in Billie Jean King Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Bulgarian Tennis Federation. In 2022, Bul ...
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2007 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone
The Europe/Africa Zone was one of three zones of regional competition in the 2007 Fed Cup. Group I *Venue: TC Lokomotiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria (outdoor clay) *Date: 18–21 April The sixteen teams were divided into four pools of four. The top teams of each pool played-off against each other to determine which two nations progress to World Group II Play-offs. The four nations coming last played-off against each other to decide which teams are relegated to Group II for 2008. Pools Play-offs * and advanced to the 2007 World Group II Play-offs. * ' and ' were relegated to Group II for 2008. Group II *Venue: National Tennis Centre, Vacoas-Phoenix, Mauritius (outdoor hard) *Date: 17–20 April The seven teams were divided into one pool of three teams and one pool of four. The top two teams of each pool played-off against each other to decide which two nations progress to Group I for 2008. The four nations coming third in each pool then played-off to determine which te ...
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Bulgaria Fed Cup Team
The Bulgaria women's national tennis team represents Bulgaria in Billie Jean King Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Bulgarian Tennis Federation. In 2022, Bulgaria competed in the Europe/Africa Zone Group I event in Antalya, where they finished in fourth place in Pool B of the competition. The team ended the group stage with a 2-3 W/L ratio after defeating Sweden and Georgia and successfully maintained their place in the Europe/Africa Zone Group I until 2023. History Bulgaria competed in its first Fed Cup in 1966. Until the 1996 edition of the competition the team has always played in the Fed Cup World Group. From 1996 the team is competing in Group I of the Europe/Africa Zone. The best results of the Bulgarian Fed Cup team are the semifinals the team played in 1985 and 1987. The team also reached the quarterfinals of the competition in 1968, 1984, 1986, 1989, 1992 and 1994. These results are closely connected with the success of the Maleeva sisters (Magdalena Male ...
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Anastasiya Vasylyeva
Anastasiya Yuriyivna Vasylyeva ( uk, Анастасія Юріївна Васильєва; born 18 January 1992) is a Ukrainian former professional tennis player. She won nine singles and 28 doubles titles on tournaments of the ITF Circuit. Her highest WTA rankings are 129 in singles, achieved August 2014, and No. 145 in doubles, which she reached in October 2015. Vasylyeva played only one match for the Ukraine Fed Cup team, partnering Olga Savchuk Olga Mykolayivna Savchuk ( uk, Ольга Миколаївна Савчук; born 20 September 1987) is a retired tennis player from Ukraine. Savchuk grew up in the city of Makiyivka in Donetsk province. She resides in Nassau, Bahamas. Her best .... In February 2016, they defeated Swedish pair of Cornelia Lister and Jacqueline Cabaj Awad, in straight sets. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 24 (9 titles, 15 runner-ups) Doubles: 53 (28–25) External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Vasylyeva, Anastasiya 1992 births Living p ...
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Anja Prislan
Anja Prislan (born 11 December 1985 in Ljubljana) is a Slovenian former tennis player. In her career, Prislan won seven doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 17 October 2011, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 460. On 7 October 2013, she peaked at No. 289 in the doubles rankings. On the WTA Tour The WTA Tour is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for women organized by the Women's Tennis Association. The second-tier tour is the WTA 125K series, and third-tier is the ITF Women's Circuit. The men's equivalent is the ATP Tour. WTA Tour tourna ..., Prislan twice played in the doubles main draw of the Slovenia Open. ITF finals Singles (0–1) Doubles (7–16) References * * 1985 births Living people Sportspeople from Ljubljana Slovenian female tennis players {{Slovenia-tennis-bio-stub ...
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