Pavlina Stoyanova-Nola ( bg, Павлина Стоянова-Нола) (born 14 July 1974) is a former

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who played for both

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(up to May 2001) and

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(since June 2001) in her professional career.

Tennis career

Nola turned professional in 1995. She reached her career high ranking of No. 68 in the world on 14 May 2001. The best singles result of her career was finishing runner-up to

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at a WTA tournament in

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where she lost 3–6, 5–7. She also one won doubles title at the same tournament two years previously with

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-Wagner. She played her last match in 2002, losing in the first round of the

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. ''Captain of Campbells Bay Tennis Club – Chelsea Cup team 2010'' — Pavlina Nola was Captain of Campbell's Bay Tennis Club Chelsea Cup team in 2010. The Chelsea Cup is the premier club tennis league competition for North Shore City in New Zealand. Campbells Bay Tennis Club is a large tennis club based in the best location on the shore. Pavlina was successful winning captain leading a team consisting of Franziska Etzel, Kairangi Vano, Vicki Wild and Charlotte Roberts. Such was Pavlina's dominance in the competition that in the nine matches she ended with astonishing statistics of playing nine matches and winning 108 games and giving the opposition only 14 games.

WTA career finals

Singles: 1 (1 runner–up)

Doubles: 1 (1 title)

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 12 (7 titles, 5 runner–ups)

Doubles: 11 (8 titles, 3 runner–ups)

Fed Cup

Pavlina Nola debuted for the

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in 1995. Since then, she has a 4–4 singles record and a 1–3 doubles record (5–7 overall).

Singles (4–4)

Doubles (1–3)

* RR = Round Robin * PPO = Promotion Play-Off

Grand Slam singles performance timeline

External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Nola, Pavlina 1974 births Living people Bulgarian emigrants to New Zealand Bulgarian female tennis players Naturalised citizens of New Zealand New Zealand female tennis players Sportspeople from Varna, Bulgaria Tennis players from Auckland