Katerina Georgieva Maleeva ( bg, Катерина Георгиева Малеева; born 7 May 1969) is a former top 10
Bulgarian
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tennis player. She won eleven singles and two doubles
WTA Tour
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titles. Her best position in the
WTA rankings
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Ranking method
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was No. 6 in 1990.
Biography
Born in
Sofia
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, Maleeva is the second oldest of the three children of Georgi Maleev and
Yuliya Berberyan
Yuliya Berberyan-Maleeva ( bg, Юлия Берберян-Малеева; born 6 October 1944) is a former Bulgarian tennis player. She and her husband, Georgi Maleev, had three daughters, Manuela, Katerina, and Magdalena, who were coached by th ...
. Her mother came from an
Armenian
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family, which found refuge in Bulgaria after the
1896 Armenian massacres in the
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...
, and was the best Bulgarian tennis player in the 1960s. After she retired from professional tennis in the 1970s, Berberyan started a coaching career. She was the coach of her three daughters, Katerina,
Manuela and
Magdalena, each of whom eventually became WTA top 10 players.
Throughout her professional career, Maleeva has won a total of 11 WTA singles titles and two titles in doubles. In July 1990, she achieved her career-high ranking of sixth. She has a record of 369 singles wins and 210 losses.
In 1994, she married Georgi Stoimenov, before retiring in 1997. The couple have two children and currently live in Sofia.
Major finals
Grand Slam tournament finals
Doubles: 1 (runner-up)
Performance timelines
Singles
Doubles
WTA career finals
Singles: 20 (11 titles, 9 runner-ups)
Doubles: 10 (2 titles, 8 runner–ups)
ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 2 (1–1)
Doubles: 1 (1–0)
Junior Grand Slam tournament finals
Singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)
In 1984 US open junior she defeated steffi graf in semis 7-5,7-6 & finally got the titles... but in doubles she partnered with steffi & lost in round 1 from niurka sodupe/shawn foltz 4-6,6-4,3-6
Fed Cup
Katerina Maleeva debuted for the
Bulgaria Fed Cup team
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In 2022, Bulgaria competed in the Europe/Africa Zone Group I event in Antalya, where t ...
in 1984. Since then she has a 20–9 singles record and a 9–13 doubles record (29–22 overall).
Singles (20–9)
Doubles (9–13)
*RPO = Relegation Play-off
See also
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Manuela Maleeva
Manuela Georgieva Maleeva ( bg, Мануела Георгиева Малеева; born 14 February 1967) is a Bulgarian former professional tennis player. She played on the WTA Tour between 1982 and 1994. Through her marriage, Maleeva began re ...
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Magdalena Maleeva
Magdalena Georgieva Maleeva ( bg, Магдалена Георгиева Малеева, ; born 1 April 1975) is a Bulgarian former professional tennis player. She played on the WTA Tour competing in singles and doubles, from April 1989 to Octo ...
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List of female tennis players
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**Officially ranked among the top 25 by the Women's Tennis Association (since 1975)
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References
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1969 births
Living people
Bulgarian female tennis players
Bulgarian people of Armenian descent
Olympic tennis players of Bulgaria
Sportspeople from Sofia
Tennis players at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Tennis players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
US Open (tennis) junior champions
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in girls' singles
Katerina
Katerina (Greek: Κατερίνα, ''Katerína''; Russian, Bulgarian and Macedonian: Катерина, ''Katerina'') is a feminine given name. It is a Greek variant of '' Ekaterini'' and a Russian and Bulgarian short form of ''Ekaterina'' or '' ...