Magdalena Maleeva (born April 1, 1975) is a successful Bulgarian tennis player. She has played in the WTA tour, competing in singles and doubles, since April 1989. Her best position in the WTA Tour was № 4 between January 29 to February 4 1996.

Biography

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Born in Sofia, Magdalena was the youngest of the three children of Yulia Berberyan and Georgi Maleev. The mother, who came from a prominent Armenian family which found refuge in Bulgaria after the 1896 Armenian massacres in the Ottoman Empire, was the best Bulgarian tennis player in the 1960s. 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 Magdalena 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 at ITF/Bari-ITA. In her Grand Slam debut at the French Open in 1990, she passed the qualifications and reached the third round. In 1992 Magdalena snatched her first Tour event victory in San Marino. 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. In 1995 Magdalena won a total of three tournaments – in Moscow, Chicago, Oakland, which allowed her to reach a career-high № in 4 the WTA rank list in January 1996.

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