Lubomira Bacheva

Lubomira Bacheva (, born 7 March 1975) is a retired tennis player from Bulgaria. She reached her career-high ranking of world No. 68 on 1 November 1999.

Tennis career As a junior, Bacheva won the European Championships in 1989 and 1991.

Bacheva turned professional in 1990 and spent several years on the ITF Women's Circuit building up her ranking. In 1999, she finally broke through the top 100 and reached her first WTA Tour semifinal at the Estoril Open as a lucky loser. She finished that year at No. 73. She finished 2000 again in the top 100. In 2001, she beat Chanda Rubin for her career best win. She played her last professional match in 2004—a first-round loss to Dally Randriantefy in an ITF event.

Bacheva won no WTA Tour singles titles, but did win two doubles titles in Casablanca and Budapest, respectively. She was a member of the Bulgarian Fed Cup team from 1993 to 1996 with a win–loss record of 1–6.

Grand Slam performance timeline

Singles

Doubles

WTA career finals Doubles: 4 (2 titles, 2 runner–ups) Legend Grand Slam tournaments (0–0) Tier III tournaments (0–1) Tier IV tournaments (1–0) Tier V tournaments (1–1)Finals by surfaceHard (0–0)Clay (2–1)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–1)

ITF Circuit finals Singles: 25 (9 titles, 16 runner–ups) Legend $100,000 tournaments $75,000 tournaments $50,000 tournaments $25,000 tournaments $10,000 tournamentsFinals by surfaceHard (1–3)Clay (7–12)Grass (0–0)Carpet (1–1)

Doubles: 28 (11 titles, 17 runner–ups) Legend $100,000 tournaments $75,000 tournaments $50,000 tournaments $25,000 tournaments $10,000 tournamentsFinals by surfaceHard (2–2)Clay (7–11)Grass (0–0)Carpet (2–4) w/o = walkover

Fed Cup Lubomira Bacheva debuted for the Bulgaria Fed Cup team in 1993. She has a 0–4 singles and a 1–2 doubles record (1–6 overall).

Singles (0–4) EditionRoundDateAgainstSurfaceOpponentW/LResult1995 World Group IRPO 22 July 1995 Hard Joannette KrugerL 0–6, 3–6 23 July 1995 Amanda CoetzerL 2–6, 4–61996 World Group IIQF 27 April 1996 Clay Karina HabšudováL 0–6, 1–6 28 April 1996 Katarína StudeníkováL 3–6, 4–6

Doubles (1–2) EditionRoundDatePartnerAgainstSurfaceOpponentsW/LResult1993 World Group IR1 19 July 1993 Katerina Maleeva Clay Kim Il-soon Park Sung-heeL 6–3, 6–7(2), 1–4 ret.1994 World Group IR2 21 July 1994 Svetlana Krivencheva Clay Natalia Soetrisno Romana TedjakusumaW 6–1, 6–31995 World Group IRPO 23 July 1995 Dora Djilianova Hard Amanda Coetzer Elna ReinachL 1–6, 4–6 RPO = Relegation Play–off