Elena Pampulova (also Elena Pampulova-Wagner, Elena Pampulova-Bergomi, bg, Елена Пампулова, born 17 May 1972) is a retired

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player from

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. She has won one singles and three WTA doubles titles. Her professional tennis career span from 1988 to 2001. Pampulova's career-high singles ranking is world No. 62, her career-high doubles ranking is No. 38, both achieved in September 1996.

Tennis career

Pampoulova played for Bulgaria and the

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from 1988 to 1992. Pampulova was one of only three players to represent Bulgaria in tennis at the

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in Barcelona (together with

Katerina Maleeva Katerina Georgieva Maleeva ( bg, Катерина Георгиева Малеева; born 7 May 1969) is a former top 10 Bulgarian tennis player. She won eleven singles and two doubles WTA Tour titles. Her best position in the WTA rankings was ...

and Magdalena Maleeva). From 1997 to 1999, Elena played for the

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. She won 13 career titles in singles (one WTA) and 11 titles in doubles (three of them from WTA Tour). Her first tennis coach was her own mother, Bulgarian tennis player Lubka Radkova. Elena's father, Emilian Pampoulov, is also a tennis player.

Personal life

On 11 July 2006, Pampoulova married her long-time boyfriend, Swiss banker Christian Bergomi. Their son Alex was born in early 2008. The couple lives in Switzerland, where Elena is an asset manager. In June 2022 she was found guilty of money laundering offences together with Credit Suisse and three other defendants. Prior to the trial, Credit Suisse ''unreservedly rejected as meritless all allegations raised against her and asconvinced that she asinnocent.'' Both the bank and Elena Pampoulova have announced their intentions to appeal the court decision.

WTA career finals

Singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner–up)

Doubles: 8 (3 titles, 5 runner-ups)

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 14 (12 titles, 2 runner–ups)

Doubles: 13 (8 titles, 5 runner–ups)

Fed Cup

Elena Pampoulova debuted for the

in 1988. She has a 5–6 singles record and a 3–2 doubles record (8–8 overall).

Singles (5–6)

Doubles (3–2)

Grand Slam singles performance timeline

Notes

External links

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Bulgarian Olympic Committee
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pampoulova, Elena 1972 births Living people Bulgarian expatriates in Switzerland Bulgarian female tennis players German expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland German female tennis players German people of Bulgarian descent Olympic tennis players of Bulgaria Sportspeople from Sofia Tennis players at the 1992 Summer Olympics