Katerina Maleeva

Katerina Georgieva Maleeva (; 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, all 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.

Grand Slam finals Doubles: 1 (runner-up) ResultW–LYearChampionshipSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss 0–1 US Open Hard Robin White Jana Novotná Arantxa Sánchez Vicario 3–6, 3–6

Performance timelines

Singles

Doubles

WTA career finals Singles: 20 (11 titles, 9 runner-ups) Legend Grand Slam tournaments (0–0) Tier I (0–2) Tier II (0–1) Tier III (2–2) Tier IV (1–2) Tier V / Virginia Slims (8–2)Finals by surfaceHard (5–4)Clay (4–4)Grass (0–0)Carpet (2–1)

Doubles: 10 (2 titles, 8 runner–ups) Legend Grand Slam tournaments (0–1) Tier I (0–1) Tier II (1–0) Tier III (0–1) Tier IV (0–0) Tier V / Virginia Slims (1–5)Finals by surfaceHard (0–2)Clay (1–3)Grass (0–0)Carpet (1–3)

ITF Circuit finals Legend $100,000 tournaments $75,000 tournaments $50,000 tournaments $25,000 tournaments $10,000 tournaments

Singles: 2 (1–1)

Doubles: 1 (1–0) ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponents ScoreWin 1–0 ITF Sofia, Bulgaria25,000 Clay Manuela Maleeva Yvona Brzáková Hana Fukárková 6–1, 6–2

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

ResultW–LYearChampionshipSurfaceOpponentScoreLoss 0–1 French Open Clay Gabriela Sabatini 3–6, 7–5, 3–6Win 1–1 US Open Hard Niurka Sodupe 6–1, 6–2

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