Lubomira Bacheva ( bg, Любомира Бачева, born 7 March 1975) is a retired tennis player from Bulgaria. She reached her career-high ranking of world No. 68 on 1 November 1999.
Tennis career
As a junior, Bacheva won the European Championships in 1989 and 1991.
Bacheva turned professional in 1990 and spent several years on the
ITF Women's Circuit
The ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, previously known as the ITF Women's Circuit, is a series of professional tennis tournaments run by the International Tennis Federation for female professional tennis players.
History
It serves as a developmental ...
building up her ranking. In 1999, she finally broke through the top 100 and reached her first
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.
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semifinal at the
Estoril Open as a lucky loser. She finished that year at No. 73. She finished 2000 again in the top 100. In 2001, she beat Chanda Rubin for her career best win. She played her last professional match in 2004—a first-round loss to Dally Randriantefy in an ITF event.
Bacheva won no WTA Tour singles titles, but did win two doubles titles in Casablanca and Budapest, respectively. She was a member of the Bulgarian Fed Cup team from 1993 to 1996
with a win–loss record of 1–6.
Grand Slam performance timeline
Singles
Doubles
WTA career finals
Doubles: 4 (2 titles, 2 runner–ups)
ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 25 (9 titles, 16 runner–ups)
Doubles: 28 (11 titles, 17 runner–ups)
* w/o = walkover
Fed Cup
Lubomira Bacheva 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 1993. She has a 0–4 singles and a 1–2 doubles record (1–6 overall).
Singles (0–4)
Doubles (1–2)
* RPO = Relegation Play–off
References
External links
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1975 births
Living people
Bulgarian female tennis players
Sportspeople from Sofia