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Gergana Topalova (; born 22 February 2000) is a Bulgarian
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player. She has career-high WTA rankings of world No. 210 in singles and No. 388 in doubles. Topalova is the current No. 3 Bulgarian female player. She has won six singles titles and four doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On the ITF Junior Circuit, she had a career-high combined ranking of No. 31, achieved on 22 January 2018.


Career

In
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, Topalova made her
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debut for
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.


2023–2024: WTA Tour debut

On 23 November 2022, she was confirmed as a participant at the
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as part of the Bulgarian team. On New Year’s Eve 2022, she made her debut in mixed doubles match alongside
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which they lost to the top-seeded team of
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and
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. The following day, she made her WTA Tour debut and lost her maiden singles match to
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in three sets. Topalova participated in the qualifying draw of the
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. She entered as an alternate and lost in the first round of qualifying to
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. Topalova reached the final round of the qualifying competition at the
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on her Grand Slam qualifying debut. She entered the main-draw at the
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as a qualifier.She also qualified for the main draw of the 2024 Budapest Grand Prix but lost to fourth seed
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in three sets.


Grand Slam performance timeline


Singles


ITF Circuit finals


Singles: 12 (6 titles, 6 runner-ups)


Doubles: 15 (5 titles, 10 runner-ups)


ITF Junior Circuit finals


Singles (4–3)


Doubles (2–3)


National representation


Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup

Gergana Topalova debuted in
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in 2019; since then she has accumulated a 3–4 singles and a 4–3 doubles (7–7 overall) win–loss record.


Singles (3–4)


Doubles (4–3)


United Cup


Singles (0–1)


Doubles (0–1)


References


External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Topalova, Gergana 2000 births Living people Bulgarian female tennis players Tennis players from Plovdiv Tennis players from Sofia