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Radoslava Topalova
Radoslava Topalova (born 1 September 1980) is a former professional tennis player from Bulgaria. Topalova played doubles in three Fed Cup ties for Bulgaria, one in 2001 and two in 2002. She is the younger sister of tennis player Desislava Topalova. ITF Circuit finals Doubles: 4 (3 titles, 1 runner–up) References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Topalova, Radoslava 1980 births Living people Bulgarian female tennis players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plovdiv
Plovdiv ( bg, Пловдив, ), is the second-largest city in Bulgaria, standing on the banks of the Maritsa river in the historical region of Thrace. It has a population of 346,893 and 675,000 in the greater metropolitan area. Plovdiv is the cultural capital of Bulgaria and was the European Capital of Culture in 2019. It is an important economic, transport, cultural, and educational center. Plovdiv joined the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities in 2016. Plovdiv is situated in a fertile region of south-central Bulgaria on the two banks of the Maritsa River. The city has historically developed on seven syenite hills, some of which are high. Because of these hills, Plovdiv is often referred to in Bulgaria as "The City of the Seven Hills". There is evidence of habitation in the area dating back to the 6th millennium BCE, when the first Neolithic settlements were established. The city was subsequently a local Thracian settlement, later being conquered and ruled also by Persia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Tennis Federation
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) is the governing body of world tennis, wheelchair tennis, and beach tennis. It was founded in 1913 as the International Lawn Tennis Federation by twelve national tennis associations. As of 2016, there are 211 national and six regional associations that make up ITF's membership. The ITF's governance responsibilities include maintaining and enforcing the rules of tennis, regulating international team competitions, promoting the game, and preserving the sport's integrity via anti-doping and anti-corruption programs. The ITF partners with the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) and the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) to govern professional tennis. The ITF organizes the Grand Slam events, annual team competitions for men ( Davis Cup), women ( Billie Jean King Cup), and mixed teams ( Hopman Cup), as well as tennis and wheelchair tennis events at the Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games on behalf of the International Olympic Committe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fed Cup
The Billie Jean King Cup (or the BJK Cup) is the premier international team competition in women's tennis, launched as the Federation Cup in 1963 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the International Tennis Federation (ITF). The name was changed to the Fed Cup in 1995, and changed again in September 2020 in honor of former World No. 1 Billie Jean King. The Billie Jean King Cup is the world's largest annual women's international team sports competition in terms of the number of nations that compete. The current Chairperson is Katrina Adams. The Czech Republic dominated the BJK Cup in the 2010s, winning six of ten competitions in the decade. The men's equivalent of the Billie Jean King Cup is the Davis Cup, and the Czech Republic, Australia, Russia and the United States are the only countries to have held both Cups at the same time. After the 2022 Russia invasion of Ukraine, the International Tennis Federation suspended Russia and Belarus from Billie Jean King Cup competition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desislava Topalova
Desislava Topalova (also transliterated as Dessislava Topalova, bg, Десислава Топалова; born 8 June 1978) is a retired tennis player from Bulgaria. During her career she won 7 ITF singles titles and reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 152 on 15 May 2000, whilst her best doubles ranking was No. 184 on 10 September 2001. Topalova was a member of the Bulgaria Fed Cup team The Bulgaria women's national tennis team represents Bulgaria in Billie Jean King Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Bulgarian Tennis Federation. In 2022, Bulgaria competed in the Europe/Africa Zone Group I event in Antalya, where th ... between 1997 and the mid 2000s, serving as its captain in the later stages of her career. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 12 (7 titles, 5 runner–ups) Doubles: 17 (9 titles, 8 runner–ups) References External links * * * 1978 births Living people Sportspeople from Plovdiv Bulgarian female tennis players {{Bulga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dnevnik (Bulgarian Newspaper)
''Dnevnik'' ( bg, Дневник) is a business-oriented Bulgarian daily newspaper, that is published Monday - Friday in Sofia since 2001. Until early 2005, it was printed in broadsheet format, the last Bulgarian daily to use the large format. It adopted a compact format after research in 2005 found that more than 50% of the readers would prefer a smaller, thicker paper. Dnevnik's main editorial line is that the state should intervene less, and that business should have more freedom. Like the influential business and politics weekly '' Capital'', it is published by Sofia-based Economedia. German publishing group Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group was the owner of a 50 per cent stake in Economedia, but the Bulgarian owners of Economedia bought the shares back in November 2007. With a print-run of between 12,000 and 15,000, Dnevnik claimed 6,000 paid subscribers, distributed between 2,000 and 5,000 copies free-of-charge and sold about 5,000 copies at newsstands, the publisher' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filipa Gabrovska
Filipa Gabrovska (born 26 March 1982) is a former professional tennis player from Bulgaria. Born in Varna, Gabrovska played in six Fed Cup ties for Bulgaria between 1998 and 2002. Gabrovska is now based in the Austrian capital Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST ..., where she coaches tennis. ITF Circuit finals Doubles: 4 (2 titles, 2 runner–ups) References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gabrovska, Filipa 1982 births Living people Bulgarian female tennis players Sportspeople from Varna, Bulgaria Bulgarian expatriates in Austria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teodora Nedeva
Teodora Nedeva ( bg, Теодора Недева, born 22 April 1977) is a retired tennis player from Bulgaria. On 6 March 1995, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 409 whilst her best doubles ranking was 168 on 10 July 1995. Playing for Bulgaria at the Fed Cup, Nedeva has accumulated a win–loss record of 0–3 (all doubles). ITF Circuit finals Doubles: 31 (19 titles, 12 runner–ups) Fed Cup Teodora Nedeva debuted for the Bulgaria Fed Cup team in 1996. Doubles * RR = Round Robin * PPO = Promotion Play-off External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Nedeva, Teodora 1977 births Living people Sportspeople from Plovdiv Bulgarian female tennis players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoaneta Pandjerova
Antoaneta Pandjerova ( bg, Антоанета Панджерова, born 22 June 1977) is a retired tennis player from Bulgaria. On 25 September 2000, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 174 whilst her best doubles ranking was 177 on 31 October 1994. In her career, she won five singles titles and 17 doubles tournaments on the ITF Women's Circuit. Playing for the Bulgaria Fed Cup team, Pandjerova has accumulated a win–loss record of 8–13 (singles 3–8; doubles 5–5). ITF Circuit finals Singles: 10 (5 titles, 5 runner–ups) Doubles: 27 (17 titles, 10 runner–ups) References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Pandjerova, Antoaneta 1977 births Living people Sportspeople from Plovdiv Bulgarian female tennis players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ljiljana Nanušević
Ljiljana Nanušević (born 2 August 1981) is a Serbian former professional tennis player who played in the Fed Cup for Yugoslavia. Nanušević made all of her Fed Cup appearances in the 1997 Fed Cup The 1997 Fed Cup was the 35th edition of the most important competition between national teams in women's tennis. The final took place at Brabant Hall in 's-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands on 4–5 October, with France defeating the Netherlands ..., while aged only 15. Playing in a total of five ties, she played doubles in each of them, as well as singles once, managing to win every rubber. She won an ITF singles tournament in Istanbul in 2001 and won a further two ITF titles in doubles. ITF finals Singles: 2 (1–1) Doubles: 11 (2–9) References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Nanusevic, Ljiljana 1981 births Living people Serbian female tennis players Serbia and Montenegro female tennis players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Pavlidou
Maria Pavlidou (born 20 January 1978) is a Greek former professional tennis player. A right-handed player from Thessaloniki, Pavlidou spent much of her early career playing college tennis in the United States for the University of Arkansas. She was an All-American in 1999 when she became the first female Arkansas player to reach the quarterfinals of an NCAA singles championships. Pavlidou represented Greece in the Fed Cup from 2000 to 2003, featuring in a total of five singles and four doubles rubbers. She also competed for Greece at the Mediterranean Games, winning a gold medal in Tunis in 2001, as partner of Eleni Daniilidou Eleni Daniilidou ( el, Ελένη Δανιηλίδου; ; born 19 September 1982) is a Greek former tennis player from the island of Crete. She is considered one of the best Greek tennis players of the Open Era, winning five singles titles and t ... in the women's doubles. ITF finals Singles: 2 (0–2) Doubles: 11 (5–6) References External lin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriela Niculescu
Gabriela Niculescu (born 7 June 1986) is a retired professional tennis player and former member of the Romania Fed Cup team. On July 4, 2005, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 376, and her best doubles ranking was 199 on February 20, 2006. In 2008 playing for the University of Southern California in doubles, teamed up with Amanda Fink, she won the 2008 Pac-10 Doubles Championship, won the ITA West Regional doubles title, and finished the season ranked No. 4 in the nation. She became a national platform tennis champion after retiring from professional tennis. She won titles in 2016, 2018 and 2019. Personal life She is the older sister of tennis player Monica Niculescu Monica Niculescu (born 25 September 1987) is a Romanian professional tennis player. She has been ranked by the Women's Tennis Association as high as 28 in singles and 11 in doubles. Niculescu has won several titles: three singles and ten double .... ITF finals Singles (1–2) Doubles (25-11) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monica Niculescu
Monica Niculescu (born 25 September 1987) is a Romanian professional tennis player. She has been ranked by the Women's Tennis Association as high as 28 in singles and 11 in doubles. Niculescu has won several titles: three singles and ten doubles titles on the WTA Tour, one singles and one doubles title at WTA 125 tournaments, as well as 19 singles and 22 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. She has ranked within the top 30 for several years in singles. Niculescu entered the Grand Slam doubles final at Wimbledon 2017 tournament, together with Chan Hao-ching. She reached the quarterfinals in doubles in all Grand Slam championships. In WTA 1000 tournaments, she got into three finals (doubles), six semifinals (5 in doubles), and 12 quarterfinals (11 in doubles). In singles, her best Grand Slam performance is reaching round four, which she did at the 2011 US Open and 2015 Wimbledon Championships. Early life Niculescu was born in Slatina but moved to Bucharest when she w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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