Katerina Maleeva

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**Katerina Maleeva**

Country	Bulgaria
Residence	Sofia, Bulgaria
Date of birth	May 7, 1969 (1969-05-07) (age 39)
Place of birth	Sofia, Bulgaria
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight	55.3 kg (122 lb/8.71 st)
Turned pro	1984
Retired	1997
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize money	$2,220,371
Singles
Career record:	369-210
Career titles:	11 WTA, 1 ITF
Highest ranking:	No. 6 (July 9, 1990)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	QF (1990-91)
French Open	QF (1990)
Wimbledon	QF (1990, 1992)
US Open	QF (1988, 1993)
Doubles
Career record:	131-156
Career titles:	2 WTA, 1 ITF
Highest ranking:	n/a

Katerina Maleeva (Bulgarian: Катерина Малеева) (born May 7, 1969) is a Bulgarian tennis player. She played in the WTA tour, competing in singles, doubles and mixed doubles between 1984 and 1997. Her best position in the WTA rank list was number 6 in 1990.

1 Biography
2 Tournaments won
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Biography

Born in Sofia, Maleeva was the second oldest of the four children of Yulia Berberyan and Georgi Maleev. The mother, who came from a prominent Armenian family, which found refuge in Bulgaria after the 1896 Armenian massacres in the Ottoman Empire, was the best Bulgarian tennis player in the 1960s. After she retired from professional tennis in the 1970s, Berberyan started on a coaching career. She was the coach of all of her three daughters, Katerina, Manuela and Magdalena, each of whom eventually became WTA top ten players.

Throughout her professional career, Maleeva has won a total of 11 WTA Tour singles titles and two titles in doubles. She has been six times in the top ten and has a balance of 369 victories and 210 losses. In 1994 she married her year-long partner, Georgi Stoimenov. The two have two children and currently live in Sofia.

[edit] Tournaments won

[edit] Singles wins (12)

Legend
Grand Slam
Tier I
Tier II
Tier III (2)
Tier IV & V (6)
ITF Tour (1)
Pre-Tier wins (4)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	1984	ITF / Lyon, France
2.	April 1, 1985	Seabrook Island, South Carolina, USA	Clay	Virginia Ruzici	6–3, 6–3
3.	November 4, 1985	Hilversum, Netherlands	Carpet (i)	Carina Karlsson	6–3, 6–2
4.	April 13, 1987	Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Barbara Gerken	6–2, 6–3
5.	October 5, 1987	Athens, Greece	Clay	Julie Halard	6–0, 6–1
6.	24 October 1988	Indianapolis, Indiana, USA	Hard (i)	Zina Garrison	6–3, 2–6, 6–2
7.	24 July 1989	Båstad, Sweden	Clay	Sabine Hack	6–1, 6–3
8.	16 October 1989	Bayonne, France	Hard (i)	Conchita Martínez	6–2, 6–2
9.	30 October 1989	Indianapolis, Indiana, USA	Hard (i)	Raffaella Reggi	6–4, 6–4
10.	26 March 1990	Houston, Texas, USA	Clay	Arantxa Sánchez Vicario	6–1, 1–6, 6–4
11.	11 November 1991	Indianapolis, Indiana, USA	Hard (i)	Audra Keller	7–6 (7–1), 6–2
12.	31 October 1994	Quebec, Canada	Carpet (i)	Brenda Schultz	6–3, 6–3

[edit] Singles runner-ups (9)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	22 April 1985	Orlando, Florida, USA	Clay	Martina Navrátilová	6–1, 6–0
2.	29 February 1988	San Antonio, Texas, USA	Hard	Steffi Graf	6–4, 6–1
3.	25 July 1988	Hamburg, West Germany	Clay	Steffi Graf	6–4, 6–2
4.	31 July 1989	Sofia, Bulgaria	Clay	Isabel Cueto	6–2, 7–6(3)
5.	16 April 1990	Tampa, Florida, USA	Clay	Monica Seles	6–1, 6–0
6.	30 July 1990	Montréal, Canada	Hard	Steffi Graf	6–1, 6–7(8), 6–3
7.	5 August 1991	Toronto, Canada	Hard	Jennifer Capriati	6–2, 6–3
8.	19 August 1991	Washington D.C., USA	Hard	Arantxa Sánchez Vicario	6–2, 7–5
9.	1 November 1993	Quebec, Canada	Hard (i)	Nathalie Tauziat	6–4, 6–1

[edit] Doubles wins (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	22 July 1985	Indianapolis, Indiana, USA	Clay	Manuela Maleeva	Penny Barg-Mager Paula Smith	3–6, 6–3, 6–4
2.	3 February 1992	Essen, Germany	Carpet (i)	Barbara Rittner	Sabine Appelmans Claudia Porwik	7–5, 6–3

[edit] Doubles runner-ups (9)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	8 September 1986	Tokyo, Japan	Carpet (i)	Manuela Maleeva	Steffi Graf Bettina Bunge	6–1, 6–7(7), 6–2
2.	14 September 1987	Tokyo, Japan	Carpet (i)	Manuela Maleeva	Anne White Robin White	6–1, 6–2
3.	11 July 1988	Brussels, Belgium	Clay	Raffaella Reggi	Mercedes Paz Tine Scheuer-Larsen	7–6(3), 6–1
4.	8 August 1988	Sofia, Bulgaria	Hard (i)	Sabrina Goleš	Barbara Paulus Conchita Martínez	1–6, 6–1, 6–4
5.	24 July 1989	Båstad, Sweden	Clay	Sabrina Goleš	Mercedes Paz Tine Scheuer-Larsen	6–2, 7–5
6.	5 May 1992	Rome, Italy	Clay	Barbara Rittner	Monica Seles Helena Suková	6–1, 6–2
7.	1 November 1993	Quebec, Sweden	Hard (i)	Nathalie Tauziat	Katrina Adams Manon Bollegraf	6–4, 6–4
8.	29 August 1994	New York City, New York. USA	Hard	Robin White	Jana Novotná Arantxa Sánchez Vicario	6–3, 6–3
7.	5 January 2004	Gold Coast, Australia	Hard	Liezel Huber	Svetlana Kuznetsova Elena Likhovtseva	6–3, 6–4