Lia Radoslavova Karatancheva (; born 8 September 2003) is a Bulgarian tennis player.
She has a career-high singles ranking world No. 270, by the
WTA, achieved on 26 May 2025. She also has a career-high doubles ranking of No. 167, achieved on 26 May 2025.
Karatancheva has won five doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.
She took part in the
Bulgaria BJK Cup team for the first time in 2023. Playing for
Bulgaria
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, Karatancheva has a win–loss record of 13–8.
Career
In March 2024, Karatancheva reached the doubles final in
Santo Domingo
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, Dominican Republic.
Personal life
She is the daughter of former
rower
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and
member of parliament as part of the
Bulgarian Business Bloc
The Bulgarian Business Bloc (, BBB) was a political party in Bulgaria.
History
The party first participated in national elections in 1991, when it received 1.3% of the national vote in the parliamentary elections but failed to win a seat. In the ...
, Radoslav Karatantchev.
Her mother Zhivka Angelova is journalist.
She has three sisters one of whom, Gabriel Karatantcheva, was active as a professional tennis player from 2014 to 2017.
Her older sister,
Sesil, and younger sister, Alexa, are also tennis players.
ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 3 (1 titles, 2 runner–ups)
Doubles: 14 (5 titles, 9 runner-ups)
National representation
Billie Jean King Cup
Karatancheva debuted in
Bulgaria Billie Jean King Cup team in 2023; since then she has accumulated a win–loss record of 8–3 in singles and 5–5 in doubles (13–8 overall).
Singles (8–3)
Doubles (5–5)
References
External links
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2003 births
Living people
Bulgarian female tennis players
Tennis players from Sofia
{{Top Bulgarian female tennis players