Pavlina Nola

Pavlina Stoyanova-Nola (born 14 July 1974) is a former tennis player who played for both Bulgaria (up to May 2001) and New Zealand (since June 2001) in her professional career.

Tennis career Nola turned professional in 1995. She reached her career high ranking of No. 68 in the world on 14 May 2001. The best singles result of her career was finishing runner-up to Henrieta Nagyová at a WTA tournament in Palermo where she lost 3–6, 5–7. She also one won doubles title at the same tournament two years previously with Elena Pampoulova-Wagner. She played her last match in 2002, losing in the first round of the 2002 Australian Open to Janette Husárová.

Captain of Campbells Bay Tennis Club – Chelsea Cup team 2010 — Pavlina Nola was Captain of Campbell's Bay Tennis Club Chelsea Cup team in 2010. The Chelsea Cup is the premier club tennis league competition for North Shore City in New Zealand. Campbells Bay Tennis Club is a large tennis club based in the best location on the shore.

Pavlina was successful winning captain leading a team consisting of Franziska Etzel, Kairangi Vano, Vicki Wild and Charlotte Roberts. Such was Pavlina's dominance in the competition that in the nine matches she ended with astonishing statistics of playing nine matches and winning 108 games and giving the opposition only 14 games.

WTA career finals

Singles: 1 (1 runner–up) Legend Grand Slam tournaments (0–0) Tier I tournaments (0–0) Tier II tournaments (0–0) Tier III tournaments (0–0) Tier IV tournaments (0–1) Tier V tournaments (0–0)Finals by surfaceHard (0–0)Clay (0–1)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0) ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponent ScoreLoss 0–1 Palermo, Italy Tier IV Clay Henrieta Nagyová 3–6, 5–7

Doubles: 1 (1 title) Legend Grand Slam tournaments (0–0) Tier I tournaments (0–0) Tier II tournaments (0–0) Tier III tournaments (0–0) Tier IV tournaments (1–0) Tier V tournaments (0–0)Finals by surfaceHard (0–0)Clay (1–0)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0) ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponents ScoreWin1–0 Palermo, Italy Tier IV Clay Elena Pampoulova Barbara Schett Patty Schnyder 6–4, 6–2

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 12 (7 titles, 5 runner–ups) Legend $100,000 tournaments $75,000 tournaments $50,000 tournaments $25,000 tournaments $10,000 tournamentsFinals by surfaceHard (3–2)Clay (4–3)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)

Doubles: 11 (8 titles, 3 runner–ups) Legend $100,000 tournaments $75,000 tournaments $50,000 tournaments $25,000 tournaments $10,000 tournamentsFinals by surfaceHard (2–0)Clay (6–3)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)

Fed Cup Pavlina Nola debuted for the Bulgaria Fed Cup team in 1995. Since then, she has a 4–4 singles record and a 1–3 doubles record (5–7 overall).

Singles (4–4) Edition Round Date Against Surface Opponent W/L Result 1995 World Group I Play-Offs PO 22 July 1995 Hard Amanda Coetzer L 0–6, 1–6 23 July 1995 Joannette Kruger L 3–6, 1–6 1996 World Group II Play-Offs PO 13 July 1996 Clay Kim Eun-ha W 3–6, 6–0, 6–1 14 July 1996 Park Sung-hee L 3–6, 5–7 1999 Europe/Africa Group I RR 19 April 1999 Clay Dragana Zarić W 6–1, 6–2 20 April 1999 Hanna-Katri Aalto W 6–3, 6–1 21 April 1999 Samantha Smith W 7–6(7–4), 6–4 PPO 22 April 1999 Katarina Srebotnik L 2–6, 2–6

Doubles (1–3) Edition Round Date Partner Against Surface Opponents W/L Result 1996 World Group II PO 28 April 1996 Antoaneta Pandjerova Slovakia Clay Henrieta Nagyová Radka Zrubáková L 7–5, 3–6, 1–6 1996 World Group II Play-Offs PO 14 July 1996 Teodora Nedeva South Korea Clay Choi Ju-yeon Choi Young-ja L 4–6, 6–4, 6–7(3–7) 1999 Europe/Africa Group I RR 19 April 1999 Desislava Topalova Yugoslavia Clay Branka Bojović Dragana Zarić W 6–2, 6–2 21 April 1999 Desislava Topalova Great Britain Julie Pullin Joanne Ward L 3–6, 5–7 RR = Round Robin PPO = Promotion Play-Off

Grand Slam singles performance timeline