Lia Karatancheva

Lia Radoslavova Karatancheva (; born 8 September 2003) is a Bulgarian tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking by the WTA of No. 263, achieved on 28 July 2025. She also has a career-high WTA doubles ranking of No. 155, achieved on 16 March 2026.

Karatancheva has won one singles title and eight doubles titles on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour. She participated in the Bulgaria BJK Cup team for the first time in 2023. Playing for Bulgaria, Karatancheva has a win–loss record of 13–7.

Career In March 2024, Karatancheva reached the doubles final in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Karatancheva made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2026 Copa Colsanitas defeating Miriana Tona in the last round of qualifying. She lost to Varvara Lepchenko in the first round.

Personal life She is the daughter of former rower and member of parliament as part of the Bulgarian Business Bloc, Radoslav Karatantchev. Her mother Zhivka Angelova is journalist.

Lia has three sisters, one of whom, Gabriel Karatantcheva, was a professional tennis player from 2014 to 2017. Her older sister, Sesil, and younger sister, Alexa, are also tennis players.

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups) LegendW75 tournaments (0–1)W50 tournaments (1–0)W35 tournaments (0–1)Finals by surfaceClay (1–1)Hard (0–1)

Doubles: 19 (8 titles, 11 runner-ups)

LegendW100 tournaments (0–2)W75 tournaments (1–3)W50 tournaments (3–2)W25/35 tournaments (4–4)Finals by surfaceHard (3–3)Clay (5–8)

National representation Billie Jean King Cup Karatancheva debuted in Bulgaria Billie Jean King Cup team in 2023; since then she has accumulated a win–loss record of 8–3 in singles and 5–5 in doubles (13–8 overall).

Singles (8–3)

Doubles (5–5)