Maria Vladimirova Penkova ( bg, Мария Владимирова Пенкова, born 25 June 1984) is a retired professional

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player from

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Career

Penkova is a former member of the

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. In 2005, Penkova won a European club championship in Rennes,

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as a member of the Cherno More Elite team (Bulgarian: Черно море Елит). Her teammates were Virginiya Trifonova,

Sesil Karatantcheva Sesil Radoslavova Karatantcheva ( bg, Сесил Радославова Каратанчева; born 8 August 1989) is a Bulgarian former tennis player. In her career, she won nine singles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 7 November 2005, ...

and

Tsvetana Pironkova Tsvetana Kirilova Pironkova ( bg, Цветана Кирилова Пиронкова ; born 13 September 1987) is a Bulgarian professional tennis player. Considered to be one of the best grass court players of her generation, she has been not ...

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 4 (2 titles, 2 runner–ups)

Doubles: 1 (1 runner–up)

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* * * 1984 births Living people Sportspeople from Sofia Bulgarian female tennis players {{Bulgaria-tennis-bio-stub