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Magdalena Georgieva Maleeva (Bulgarian: Магдалена Георгиева Малеева, pronounced [mɐɡdɐˈlɛnɐ mɐˈlɛɛvɐ]; born 1 April 1975) is a Bulgarian former professional tennis player. She played on the WTA Tour competing in singles and doubles, from April 1989 to October 2005 and has won ten career singles titles. Her best WTA singles ranking was world No. 4.

In this Bulgarian name, the patronymic is Georgieva and the family name is Maleeva.
Magdalena Maleeva
Native nameМагдалена Малеева
Country (sports) Bulgaria
ResidenceSofia, Bulgaria
Born (1975-04-01) 1 April 1975 (age 47)
Sofia, Bulgaria
Height1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Turned pro1989
Retired2005
PlaysRight-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize moneyUS$ 4,398,582
Singles
Career record439–290 (60.2%)
Career titles10
Highest rankingNo. 4 (29 January 1996)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open4R (1991, 1993, 1994, 2002)
French Open4R (1993, 1996, 2003, 2004)
Wimbledon4R (2001, 2002, 2004, 2005)
US OpenQF (1992)
Other tournaments
Tour FinalsQF (2002)
Olympic Games3R (1992, 1996)
Doubles
Career record121–133 (47.6%)
Career titles5
Highest rankingNo. 13 (2 February 2004)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open3R (1992, 2001, 2004)
French Open3R (1993)
Wimbledon3R (1993, 2003)
US OpenQF (2003)
Other doubles tournaments
Olympic Games1R (1992, 1996)
Team competitions
Fed Cup27–17 (61.4%)
(singles 18–8; doubles 9-9)

Biography


Born in Sofia, Maleeva is the youngest of the three children of Yuliya Berberyan and Georgi Maleev. Yuliya, who came from a prominent Armenian family which found refuge in Bulgaria after the 1896 Armenian massacres in the Ottoman Empire, was one of the best Bulgarian tennis players in the 1960s.[1] After she retired from professional tennis in the 1970s, Berberyan started on a coaching career. She trained all of her three daughters, Magdalena, Katerina and Manuela, each of whom eventually became WTA top six players.

In 1988, Maleeva became the youngest ever national tennis champion of Bulgaria, at the age of 13 years and four months. She turned professional in 1989, reaching the final of her first professional tournament (ITF) at Bari. In her Grand Slam debut at the French Open in 1990, she passed the qualifications and reached the third round. In 1990, Maleeva won three junior Grand Slam tournaments at the Australian, French and US Open. In 1992, Maleeva snatched her first WTA Tour event victory in San Marino and scored her best Grand Slam tournament result with a quarterfinal run at the US Open, upsetting Martina Navratilova on the way. The following year, she reached the fourth round at the Australian, the French and the US Open, as well as the third round of Wimbledon. That same year, she was the opponent of Monica Seles at a tournament in Hamburg, Germany when a deranged fan stabbed Seles in the back on the court.

Her best performance at a Grand Slam championship came when she got to the quarterfinals of the 1992 US Open, defeating Kateřina Kroupová-Šišková, Martina Navratilova, Kimberly Po and Chanda Rubin before losing to her older sister Manuela. In 1995, Maleeva won a total of three tournaments, in Moscow, Chicago, Oakland, which saw her hit a career-high ranking of No. 4 in January 1996.[2]

In June 1998, Maleeva underwent shoulder surgery, which forced her off the tour for the next eleven months. She started competing again in May 1999 and re-entered top 20 in 2001. In 2002, she won the prestigious Kremlin Cup in Moscow, defeating three top-10 players on her way (Venus Williams, Amélie Mauresmo, and Lindsay Davenport). In 2004, she married her long-standing boyfriend, Lubomir Nokov.

Maleeva won a career total of ten WTA titles in singles and five in doubles. She was the recipient of the "WTA Most Improved Player 1993" award and was nominated for the "WTA Most Impressive Newcomer 1990". She participated at the Olympic Games in Barcelona, Atlanta, and Athens.


Life after tennis


In October 2005, Maleeva retired from professional tennis after 16 seasons (years), and became the last of the Maleeva sisters to retire. She now lives in Sofia. On 27 June 2007, she gave birth to her first child, a girl named Youlia, and on 13 December 2008, she gave birth to a second child, Marko, and on 20 August 2012 to their third child, Nina.

Maleeva has been very active with the environmental organization 'Gorichka.bg', which works to create public awareness about urgent environmental problems. She also has created 'Harmonica', a brand for organic foods, as well as a couple of organic food stores in Sofia under the brand 'Biomag'. She is also a partner at the Maleeva Tennis Club.

Maleeva in Fed Cup action in 2011
Maleeva in Fed Cup action in 2011

In October 2010, Maleeva won the Bulgarian national outdoor championship, becoming the youngest and the oldest player to have won it, within 22 years. In 2011, she made a brief tennis comeback, playing and winning three doubles matches for Bulgaria at the Fed Cup.[3]

In March 2011, Maleeva was voted eighth in the "100 most influential women in Bulgaria" by Pari newspaper. She has also appeared at Wimbledon's ladies' invitation doubles event on several occasions, achieving her best result in 2015, where she partnered Rennae Stubbs; the pair defeated Navratilova and Selima Sfar in the final to win the title.


Performance timelines


Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# DNQ A NH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.

Singles


Tournament19891990199119921993199419951996199719981999200020012002200320042005SRW-LWin%
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open A Q2 4R 1R 4R 4R 1R A A 1R A 1R 1R 4R 3R 2R 3R 0 / 12 17–12 59%
French Open Q1 3R 1R 3R 4R 1R 2R 4R 1R A 1R 3R 1R 1R 4R 4R 2R 0 / 15 20–15 66%
Wimbledon A 2R 1R 1R 3R 2R A 2R 3R A A 2R 4R 4R 2R 4R 4R 0 / 13 21–13 62%
US Open Q1 1R 2R QF 4R 4R 2R 1R 3R A A 2R 2R 3R 1R 2R 2R 0 / 14 20–14 59%
Win–loss 0–0 3–3 4–4 6–4 11–4 7–4 2–3 4–3 4–3 0–1 0–1 4–4 4–4 8–4 6–4 8–4 7–4 0 / 54 78–54 59%
Year–end championships
WTA Championships Did not qualify 1R A 1R Did not qualify 1R 2R Did not qualify 0 / 4 1–4 20%
National representation
Summer Olympics Not Held 3R Not Held 3R Not Held A Not Held 2R NH 0 / 3 5–3 63%
Fed Cup A A 2R 1R 2R QF 1R A A E/A I A A A E/A I E/A I A PO 0 / 5 18–8 69%
Career statistics
Titles 0 0 0 1 0 2 3 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 Career total: 10
Finals 0 0 1 1 1 2 6 1 0 0 1 1 3 2 1 1 0 Career total: 21
Year-end ranking 216 73 38 20 16 11 6 19 36 115 89 22 16 14 30 25 52 $4,398,582

Doubles


Tournament19891990199119921993199419951996199719981999200020012002200320042005SRW-LWin%
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open A A 1R 3R 2R A 1R A A A A A 3R 2R 1R 3R A 0 / 8 8–8 50%
French Open A A 1R 1R 3R 1R A A A A A A 2R A 1R 1R A 0 / 7 3–7 30%
Wimbledon A A 1R 1R 3R 1R A A A A A A 1R A 3R A A 0 / 6 4–6 40%
US Open A 1R 1R 1R 1R 2R A A A A A 1R 1R A QF A 2R 0 / 9 5–9 36%
Win–loss 0–0 0–1 0–4 2–4 5–4 1–3 0–1 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–1 3–4 1–1 5–4 2–2 1–1 0 / 30 20–30 40%
Career statistics
Titles 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 Career total: 5
Finals 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 1 Career total: 10
Year-end ranking 576 83 97 101 35 131 824 NR 363 892 340 129 92 54 14 51 92 $4,398,582

WTA career finals



Singles: 21 (10 titles, 11 runner-ups)


Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)
Tier I (2–3)
Tier II (2–4)
Tier III (3–3)
Tier IV (1–0)
Tier V (2–1)
Finals by surface
Hard (1–3)
Clay (2–4)
Grass (1–0)
Carpet (6–4)
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Loss 0–1 Apr 1991 Bol Open, Yugoslavia Tier V Clay Sandra Cecchini 4–6, 6–3, 5–7
Win 1–1 Jul 1992 San Marino Open Tier V Clay Federica Bonsignori 7–6(7–3), 6–4
Loss 1–2 Jan 1993 Hardcourt Championships, Australia Tier III Hard Conchita Martínez 3–6, 4–6
Win 2–2 Sep 1994 Moscow Open, Russia Tier III Carpet (i) Sandra Cecchini 7–5, 6–1
Win 3–2 Oct 1994 Zurich Open, Switzerland Tier I Carpet (i) Natasha Zvereva 7–5, 3–6, 6–4
Win 4–2 Feb 1995 Chicago Cup, United States Tier II Carpet (i) Lisa Raymond 7–5, 7–6(7–2)
Loss 4–3 Apr 1995 Charleston Open, United States Tier I Clay Conchita Martínez 1–6, 1–6
Loss 4–4 May 1995 German Open Tier I Clay Arantxa Sánchez Vicario 4–6, 1–6
Win 5–4 Sep 1995 Moscow Open, Russia Tier III Carpet (i) Elena Makarova 6–4, 6–2
Loss 5–5 Oct 1995 Leipzig Cup, Germany Tier II Carpet (i) Anke Huber w/o
Win 6–5 Nov 1995 Oakland Classic, United States Tier II Carpet (i) Ai Sugiyama 6–3, 6–4
Loss 6–6 May 1996 Madrid Open, Spain Tier II Clay Jana Novotná 6–4, 4–6, 3–6
Win 7–6 Nov 1999 Pattaya Open, Thailand Tier IV Hard Anne Kremer 4–6, 6–1, 6–2
Loss 7–7 Oct 2000 Luxembourg Open Tier III Carpet (i) Jennifer Capriati 6–4, 1–6, 4–6
Loss 7–8 Feb 2001 Internationaux de Nice, France Tier II Hard (i) Amélie Mauresmo 2–6, 0–6
Win 8–8 Apr 2001 Hungarian Ladies Open Tier V Clay Anne Kremer 3–6, 6–2, 6–4
Loss 8–9 Sep 2001 Leipzig Cup, Germany Tier II Carpet (i) Kim Clijsters 1–6, 1–6
Win 9–9 Oct 2002 Kremlin Cup, Russia Tier I Carpet (i) Lindsay Davenport 5–7, 6–3, 7–6(7–4)
Loss 9–10 Oct 2002 Luxembourg Open Tier III Hard (i) Kim Clijsters 1–6, 2–6
Win 10–10 Jun 2003 Birmingham Classic, UK Tier III Grass Shinobu Asagoe 6–1, 6–4
Loss 10–11 Feb 2004 Pan Pacific Open, Japan Tier I Carpet (i) Lindsay Davenport 4–6, 1–6

Doubles: 10 (5 titles, 5 runner–ups)


Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)
Tier I (1–1)
Tier II (2–1)
Tier III (1–3)
Tier IV (0–0)
Tier V (1–0)
Finals by surface
Hard (2–1)
Clay (2–1)
Grass (0–1)
Carpet (1–2)
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 1–0 Apr 1991 Bol Open, Yugoslavia Tier V Clay Laura Golarsa Sandra Cecchini
Laura Garrone		 6–3, 1–6, 6–4
Loss 1–1 Feb 1993 Asian Open, Japan Tier III Carpet (i) Manuela Maleeva Jana Novotná
Larisa Neiland		 1–6, 3–6
Loss 1–2 Apr 1993 Barcelona Open, Spain Tier II Clay Manuela Maleeva Conchita Martínez
Arantxa Sánchez Vicario		 6–4, 1–6, 0–6
Win 2–2 Feb 2002 Antwerp Open, Belgium Tier II Carpet (i) Patty Schnyder Nathalie Dechy
Meilen Tu		 6–3, 6–7(3–7), 6–3
Loss 2–3 Jun 2002 Rosmalen Championships, Netherlands Tier III Grass Bianka Lamade Catherine Barclay
Martina Müller		 4–6, 5–7
Win 3–3 Mar 2003 Miami Open, United States Tier I Hard Liezel Huber Shinobu Asagoe
Nana Miyagi		 6–4, 3–6, 7–5
Win 4–3 May 2003 Warsaw Open, Poland Tier II Clay Liezel Huber Eleni Daniilidou
Francesca Schiavone		 3–6, 6–4, 6–2
Loss 4–4 Jan 2004 Hard Court Championships, Australia Tier III Hard Liezel Huber Svetlana Kuznetsova
Elena Likhovtseva		 3–6, 4–6
Loss 4–5 Feb 2004 Pan Pacific Open, Japan Tier I Carpet (i) Elena Likhovtseva Cara Black
Rennae Stubbs		 0–6, 1–6
Win 5–5 Jan 2005 Hard Court Championships, Australia Tier III Hard Elena Likhovtseva Maria Elena Camerin
Silvia Farina Elia		 6–3, 5–7, 6–1

ITF Circuit finals



Singles: 2 (1–1)


Legend
$100,000 tournaments
$75,000 tournaments
$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments
Finals by surface
Hard (1–0)
Clay (0–1)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Loss 0–1 Apr 1989 ITF Bari, Italy 10,000 Clay Eva-Maria Schürhoff 6–2, 1–6, 6–7(5)
Win 1–1 Dec 1999 ITF Cergy-Pontoise, France 50,000 Hard (i) Seda Noorlander 6–1, 6–4

Doubles: 1 (1–0)


Legend
$100,000 tournaments
$75,000 tournaments
$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments
Finals by surface
Hard (0–0)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (1–0)
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 1–0 Mar 1990 ITF Moulins, France 25,000 Carpet (i) Andrea Strnadová Valerie Ledroff
Pascale Paradis		 3–6, 6–1, 6–1

Junior Grand Slam tournament finals



Singles: 3 (3 titles)


Result W–L Year Championship Surface Opponent Score
Win 1–0 1990 Australian Open Hard Louise Stacey 7–5, 6–7(2), 6–1
Win 2–0 1990 French Open Clay Tatiana Ignatieva 6–2, 6–3
Win 3–0 1990 US Open Hard Noëlle van Lottum 7–5, 6–2

Fed Cup


Magdalena Maleeva debuted for the Bulgaria Fed Cup team in 1991. Since then, she has an 18–8 singles record and a 9–9 doubles record (27–17 overall).


Singles (18–8)


Edition Round Date Against Surface Opponent W/L Result
1991 World Group I R1 22 July 1991  Hungary Hard Petra Schmitt W 6–1, 6–2
R2 24 July 1991  United States Jennifer Capriati L 5–7, 2–6
1992 World Group I R1 14 July 1992  Australia Clay Rachel McQuillan W 7–6(4), 6–2
RPO 16 July 1992  Romania Ruxandra Dragomir W 6–0, 6–1
1993 World Group I R1 19 July 1993  South Korea Clay Park Sung-hee W 6–0, 6–4
R2 21 July 1993  Argentina Florencia Labat W 6–4, 5–7, 6–3
1994 World Group I R1 19 July 1994  Croatia Clay Iva Majoli L 6–3, 4–6, 4–6
R2 21 July 1994  Indonesia Yayuk Basuki W 6–3, 6–3
QF 22 July 1994  France Mary Pierce W 6–7(6), 6–4, 6–4
1995 World Group I QF 22 April 1995  Spain Carpet (I) Conchita Martínez L 2–6, 4–6
23 April 1995 Arantxa Sánchez Vicario W 6–3, 6–3
1998 Europe/Africa Group I RR 14 April 1998  Romania Clay Raluca Sandu L 1–6, 3–6
15 April 1998  South Africa Mariaan de Swardt L 1–6, 5–7
16 April 1998  Latvia Elena Krutko L 6–7(2), 6–1, 1–6
2002 Europe/Africa Group I RR 24 April 2002  Portugal Clay Angela Cardoso W 6–0, 6–0
25 April 2002  Georgia Salome Devidze W 6–1, 6–3
26 April 2002  Estonia Kaia Kanepi W 6–4, 6–2
PPO 27 April 2002  Ukraine Yuliya Beygelzimer L 3–6, 4–6
2003 Europe/Africa Group I RR 21 April 2003  Georgia Clay Margalita Chakhnashvili W 6–3, 6–1
23 April 2003  Serbia and Montenegro Jelena Janković W 6–2, 3–6, 6–2
24 April 2003  Israel Anna Smashnova W 7–5, 6–4
2005 Europe/Africa Group I RR 20 April 2005  South Africa Clay Natalie Grandin W 6–4, 6–3
21 April 2005  Hungary Zsófia Gubacsi W 7–6(4), 6–2
PPO 23 April 2005  Netherlands Michaëlla Krajicek W 4–6, 6–3, 6–2
2005 World Group II Play-offs PO 9 July 2005  Japan Hard (I) Aiko Nakamura W 3–6, 6–4, 6–3
10 July 2005 Akiko Morigami L 6–7(3), 3–6

Doubles (9–9)


Edition Round Date Partner Against Surface Opponents W/L Result
1991 World Group I R1 22 July 1991 Katerina Maleeva  Hungary Hard Virág Csurgó
Ágnes Muzamel		 W 6–1, 6–2
R2 24 July 1991 Katerina Maleeva  United States Gigi Fernández
Zina Garrison-Jackson		 L 2–6, 1–6
1992 World Group I R1 14 July 1992 Katerina Maleeva  Australia Hard Nicole Bradtke
Rennae Stubbs		 L 2–6, 1–6
RPO 16 July 1992 Elena Pampoulova  Romania Ruxandra Dragomir
Irina Spîrlea		 L 6–7(5), 2–6
1993 World Group I R2 21 July 1993 Katerina Maleeva  Argentina Clay Inés Gorrochategui
Patricia Tarabini		 L 7–5, 4–6, 2–6
1994 World Group I R1 19 July 1994 Katerina Maleeva  Croatia Clay Iva Majoli
Maja Murić		 W 6–2, 6–3
QF 22 July 1994 Katerina Maleeva  France Julie Halard
Nathalie Tauziat		 L 2–6, 6–3, 2–6
1995 World Group I QF 23 April 1995 Katerina Maleeva  Spain Carpet (I) Neus Ávila Bonastre
Virginia Ruano Pascual		 W 6–0, 6–1
2002 Europe/Africa Group I RR 24 April 2002 Desislava Topalova  Portugal Clay Angela Cardoso
Ana Catarina Nogueira		 W 6–2, 7–5
PPO 27 April 2002 Desislava Topalova  Ukraine Yuliya Beygelzimer
Alona Bondarenko		 L 4–6, 0–6
2003 Europe/Africa Group I RR 21 April 2003 Desislava Topalova  Georgia Clay Margalita Chakhnashvili
Tinatin Kavlashvili		 W 6–1, 6–2
23 April 2003 Desislava Topalova  Serbia and Montenegro Katarina Mišić
Dragana Zarić		 L 3–6, 6–3, 0–6
24 April 2003 Desislava Topalova  Israel Tzipora Obziler
Anna Smashnova		 L 7–6(3), 3–6, 3–6
2005 Europe/Africa Group I RR 20 April 2005 Sesil Karatantcheva  South Africa Clay Lizaan du Plessis
Alicia Pillay		 W 6–3, 6–2
21 April 2005 Sesil Karatantcheva  Hungary Virág Németh
Ágnes Szávay		 L 6–4, 3–6, 1–6
2011 Europe/Africa Group I RR 2 February 2011 Tsvetana Pironkova  Poland Hard Klaudia Jans-Ignacik
Alicja Rosolska		 W 6–1, 6–3
3 February 2011 Tsvetana Pironkova  Luxembourg Anne Kremer
Claudine Schaul		 W 6–2, 7–5
4 February 2011 Dia Evtimova  Israel Valeria Patiuk
Keren Shlomo		 W 6–3, 6–4

Head-to head record against other top players


Maleeva's win–loss record against certain players who have been ranked world No. 10 or higher is as follows:[4] Players who have been ranked World No. 1 are in boldface.


See also



References


  1. "Tennis Europe". Archived from the original on 15 April 2006.
  2. Manova, Tanya (2 April 2005). "Маги навършва 30 на корта" (in Bulgarian). 7sport.net. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
  3. http://www.fedcup.com/en/players/player/profile.aspx?playerid=20000595 [dead link]
  4. Player Profiles Archived 17 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine


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На других языках

[de] Magdalena Maleewa

Magdalena Maleewa (bulgarisch Магдалена Малеева; * 1. April 1975 in Sofia) ist eine ehemalige bulgarische Tennisspielerin.
- [en] Magdalena Maleeva

[es] Magdalena Maleeva

Magdalena Maleeva (1 de abril de 1975) es una extenista búlgara que estuvo en activo durante toda la década de 1990 hasta mediados de 2000. Es la hermana menor de las también tenistas Manuela Maleeva y Katerina Maleeva.

[ru] Малеева, Магдалена

Магдале́на Георгиева Мале́ева (род. 1 апреля 1975 (1975-04-01), София) — болгарская теннисистка, достигшая четвёртого места в рейтинге WTA. Самая молодая из трио сестёр Малеевых.


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