Katerina Maleewa

Katerina Maleewa
Nation:	Bulgaria
Birthday:	May 7, 1969
Size:	168 cm
1st professional season:	1984
Resignation:	1997
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Prize money:	$ 2,187,183
singles
Career record:	369: 210
Career title:	11 WTA, 2 ITF
Highest ranking:	6 (July 9 1990)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	131: 156
Career title:	2 WTA, 1 ITF
Highest ranking:	24 (September 12 1994)
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Katerina Maleewa ( Bulgarian Катерина Малеева ; born  May 7, 1969 in Sofia ) is a former Bulgarian tennis player . She celebrated eleven tournament wins in singles and two in doubles on the WTA Tour .

Career

Together with her two sisters, the older Manuela and the younger Magdalena , Katerina entered the history books in women's tennis. So they made sure that three sisters appeared on the seeding list of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time, all of whom also reached the last sixteen at the 1993 French Open.

Katerina herself made it to the quarter-finals at least once in all Grand Slam tournaments. In 1990 she reached the round of the last eight in three of these four major tournaments.

In 1988 and 1992 she took part in the Olympic Games for her country . To date, she has the most individual victories (20) for the Bulgarian Fed Cup team ; Overall, their record shows 29 wins out of 22 defeats.

WTA title

singles

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	April 7, 1985	Charleston	sand	Virginia Ruzici	6: 3, 6: 3
2.	November 10, 1985	Hilversum	Carpet (hall)	Carina Karlsson	6: 3, 6: 2
3.	April 19, 1987	Tokyo	Hard court	Barbara Gerken	6: 2, 6: 3
4th	October 11, 1987	Athens	race	Julie Halard	6-0, 6-1
5.	October 30, 1988	Indianapolis	Hard court (hall)	Zina Garrison	6: 3, 2: 6, 6: 2
6th	July 30, 1989	Båstad	sand	Sabine Hack	6: 1, 6: 3
7th	October 22, 1989	Bayonne	Hard court (hall)	Conchita Martínez	6: 2, 6: 2
8th.	5th November 1989	Indianapolis	Hard court (hall)	Raffaella Reggi	6: 4, 6: 4
9.	April 1, 1990	Houston	sand	Arantxa Sánchez Vicario	6: 4, 6: 4
10.	November 17, 1991	Indianapolis	Hard court (hall)	Audra Keller	7: 6, 6: 2
11.	November 6, 1994	Quebec	Carpet (hall)	Brenda Schultz	6: 3, 6: 3

Double

No.	date	competition	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	July 27, 1985	Indianapolis	sand	Manuela Maleewa	Penny Barg-Lean Paula Smith	3: 6, 6: 3, 6: 4
2.	February 9, 1992	eat	Carpet (hall)	Barbara Rittner	Claudia Porwik Sabine Appelmans	7: 5, 6: 3

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments

singles

competition	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	Career
Australian Open	AF	-	-	-	-	VF	VF	AF	AF	1	1	VF
French Open	3	AF	AF	1	AF	VF	3	2	AF	2	1	VF
Wimbledon	1	3	1	AF	-	VF	AF	VF	1	1	1	VF
US Open	1	3	3	VF	2	AF	3	3	VF	2	-	VF

Double

competition	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	Career
Australian Open	AF	-	-	-	-	AF	1	1	AF	1	1	1	AF
French Open	2	VF	1	2	2	2	1	AF	VF	1	1	-	VF
Wimbledon	1	2	1	AF	-	1	1	AF	2	AF	2	-	AF
US Open	2	1	1	1	2	-	1	1	2	F.	-	-	F.

Web links

• WTA profile of Katerina Maleeva (English)
• ITF profile Katerina Maleeva (English)
• Fed Cup stats by Katerina Maleeva (English)