Katerina Maleeva

Katerina Maleeva
Катерина Малеева

Country	Bulgaria
Residence	Sofia, Bulgaria
Born	7 May 1969 (1969-05-07) 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
Highest ranking	No. 6 (9 July 1990)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	QF (1990, 1991)
French Open	QF (1990)
Wimbledon	QF (1990, 1992)
US Open	QF (1988, 1993)
Doubles
Career record	131–156
Career titles	2
Highest ranking	No. 24 (12 September 1994)

Katerina Maleeva (Bulgarian: Катерина Малеева) (born 7 May 1969) is a former top 10 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.

Biography

Born in Sofia, Maleeva was the second oldest of the three 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 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.

Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 1 (0 titles, 1 runner-up)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents in final	Score in final
Runner-up	1994	US Open	Hard	Robin White	Jana Novotná Arantxa Sánchez Vicario	6–3, 6–3

Titles (13)

Singles (11)

Legend (Singles)
Grand Slam (0)
WTA Championship (0)
Tier I (0)
Tier II (0)
Tier III (2)
Tier IV (1)
Tier V (4)
VS (4)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
1.	7 April 1985	Seabrook Island, USA	Clay	Virginia Ruzici	6–3, 6–3
2.	10 November 1985	Hilversum, Netherlands	Carpet (I)	Carina Karlsson	6–3, 6–2
3.	18 April 1987	Tokyo, Japan (Japan Open)	Hard	Barbara Gerken	6–2, 6–3
4.	11 October 1987	Athens, Greece	Clay	Julie Halard	6–0, 6–1
5.	30 October 1988	Indianapolis, USA (VS of Indianapolis)	Hard (I)	Zina Garrison	6–3, 2–6, 6–2
6.	30 July 1989	Båstad, Sweden	Clay	Sabine Hack	6–1, 6–3
7.	22 October 1989	Bayonne, France	Hard (I)	Conchita Martínez	6–2, 6–2
8.	5 November 1989	Indianapolis, USA (VS of Indianapolis)	Hard (I)	Raffaella Reggi	6–4, 6–4
9.	1 April 1990	Houston, USA	Clay	Arantxa Sánchez Vicario	6–1, 1–6, 6–4
10.	16 November 1991	Indianapolis, USA (Jello Classic)	Hard (I)	Audra Keller	7–6(1), 6–2
11.	6 November 1994	Quebec, Canada	Carpet (I)	Brenda Schultz	6–3, 6–3

Doubles (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Partner	Opponents in Final	Score in Final
1.	22 July 1985	Indianapolis, USA (US Clay Courts)	Manuela Maleeva	Penny Barg Paula Smith	3–6, 6–3, 6–4
2.	9 February 1992	Essen, Germany	Barbara Rittner	Sabine Appelmans Claudia Porwik	7–5, 6–3

Runner-ups (17)

Singles (9)

Legend (Singles)
Grand Slam (0)
WTA Championship (0)
Tier I (2)
Tier II (1)
Tier III (2)
Tier IV (2)
Tier V (1)
VS (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
1.	27 April 1985	Orlando, USA	Clay	Martina Navratilova	6–1, 6–0
2.	5 March 1988	San Antonio, USA	Hard	Steffi Graf	6–4, 6–1
3.	31 July 1988	Hamburg, West Germany	Clay	Steffi Graf	6–4, 6–2
4.	6 August 1989	Sofia, Bulgaria	Clay	Isabel Cueto	6–2, 7–6(3)
5.	22 April 1990	Tampa, USA	Clay	Monica Seles	6–1, 6–0
6.	5 August 1990	Montreal, Canada	Hard	Steffi Graf	6–1, 6–7(8), 6–3
7.	11 August 1991	Toronto, Canada	Hard	Jennifer Capriati	6–2, 6–3
8.	24 August 1991	Washington, DC, USA	Hard	Arantxa Sánchez Vicario	6–2, 7–5
9.	7 November 1993	Quebec, Canada	Hard (I)	Nathalie Tauziat	6–4, 6–1

Doubles (8)

No.	Date	Tournament	Partner	Opponents in Final	Score in Final
1.	14 September 1986	Tokyo, Japan (Pan Pacific Open)	Manuela Maleeva	Bettina Bunge Steffi Graf	6–1, 6–7(7), 6–2
2.	20 September 1987	Tokyo, Japan (Pan Pacific Open)	Manuela Maleeva	Anne White Robin White	6–1, 6–2
3.	17 July 1988	Brussels, Belgium	Raffaella Reggi	Mercedes Paz Tine Scheuer-Larsen	7–6(3), 6–1
4.	14 August 1988	Sofia, Bulgaria	Sabrina Goleš	Conchita Martínez Barbara Paulus	1–6, 6–1, 6–4
5.	30 July 1989	Båstad, Sweden	Sabrina Goleš	Mercedes Paz Tine Scheuer-Larsen	6–2, 7–5
6.	10 May 1992	Rome, Italy	Barbara Rittner	Monica Seles Helena Suková	6–1, 6–2
7.	7 November 1993	Quebec, Canada	Nathalie Tauziat	Katrina Adams Manon Bollegraf	6–4, 6–4
8.	11 September 1994	US Open, New York City	Robin White	Jana Novotná Arantxa Sánchez Vicario	6–3, 6–3

Grand Slam singles performance timeline

Tournament	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	Career SR
Australian Open	A	3R	NH	A	A	A	QF	QF	4R	4R	1R	1R	A	A	0 / 7
French Open	A	3R	4R	4R	1R	4R	QF	3R	2R	4R	2R	1R	A	A	0 / 11
Wimbledon	A	1R	3R	1R	4R	A	QF	4R	QF	1R	1R	1R	A	A	0 / 10
US Open	A	1R	3R	3R	QF	2R	4R	3R	3R	QF	2R	A	A	A	0 / 10
SR	0 / 0	0 / 4	0 / 3	0 / 3	0 / 3	0 / 2	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 3	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 38

• NH = tournament not held.
• A = did not participate in the tournament.
• SR = the ratio of the number of Grand Slam singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played.

See also

• Manuela Maleeva
• Magdalena Maleeva
• List of female tennis players

External links

• Katerina Maleeva at the Women's Tennis Association
• Katerina Maleeva at the International Tennis Federation
• Katerina Maleeva at the Fed Cup