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Katerina Georgieva Maleeva (Bulgarian: Катерина Георгиева Малеева; born 7 May 1969) is a former top 10 Bulgarian tennis player. She won eleven singles and two doubles WTA Tour titles. Her best position in the WTA rankings was No. 6 in 1990.
Biography
Born in Sofia, Maleeva is the second oldest of the three children of Georgi Maleev and Yuliya Berberyan. Her mother came from an Armenian family, which found refuge in Bulgaria after the 1896 Armenian massacres in the Ottoman Empire, 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 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
Manuela Maleeva
Magdalena Maleeva
List of female tennis players
References
External links
Katerina Maleeva at the Women's Tennis Association
Katerina Maleeva at the International Tennis Federation
Katerina Maleeva at the Billie Jean King Cup
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Gabriela Sabatini
- Jepang Terbuka (tenis)
- Linz Terbuka
- Katerina Maleeva
- Manuela Maleeva
- Magdalena Maleeva
- Katerina
- Maleeva sisters
- Maleev
- 1991 Canadian Open – Women's singles
- 1990 Canadian Open – Women's singles
- 1989 Virginia Slims of Indianapolis – Singles
- 1990 Jello Tennis Classic – Singles
