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Magdalena Maleeva is one of the most successful Bulgarian female tennis players of all times. She was born on April 1, 1975 in Sofia, Bulgaria. In her professional career she has played 729 matches and won 439 of them. Magdalena Maleeva has entered Grand Slam tournaments 54 times and has 78 wins and 54 losses. She has accumulated 4.4 million USD from rewards in the tournaments she has played in. Maleeva has ... participated in three Olympic Games: Barcelona 1992, Atlanta 1996 and Athens 2004.... [Detailed Information]
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Magdalena Maleeva (Sofia, 1 april 1975) is een voormalig Bulgaars professioneel tennisspeelster. Zij komt uit een tennisfamilie. Ook haar oudere zussen Katarina en Manuela waren topspeelsters in het tennis. Haar moeder Yulia Berberyan was een professioneel tennisspeelster voor Bulgarije in de jaren zestig. Zij trainde haar drie dochters.
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Magdalena Maleeva hails from a tennis family. She is the youngest of three professional tennis-playing sisters, each of whom made the 1989 Bulgarian Fed Cup team - a team that was ... captained by their mother, a former tennis pro herself. Maleeva is one of only three players in the past five years to defeat both Lindsay Davenport and Venus Williams at the same event (Moscow 2002). Her portfolio also includes a career-high No. 4 singles ranking, the 1993 WTA Tour Most Improved Player Award, and wins over Amelie Mauresmo and Daniela Huntuchova. Currently ranked No. 21 in singles, Maleeva has gotten off to an impressive start this year, reaching the final of Tokyo's Toray Pan Pacific Open in early February.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn., June 9, 2004 – The Pilot Pen Tennis field continues to grow, as world No. 21 Magdalena Maleeva of Bulgaria has committed to make her fourth appearance in New Haven. With 10 weeks remaining until first serve, Maleeva joins top-15 standouts Kim Clijsters, Lindsay Davenport, Nadia Petrova, Vera Zvonareva, teen sensation Maria Sharapova, and world No. 24 Jelena Dokic, at the Pilot Pen presented by Michelob ULTRA, a US Open Series event, set for August 20-28 at the Connecticut Tennis Center at Yale.
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On April 30, 1993, during a match against Magdalena Maleeva in Hamburg, Germany, Seles was stabbed on court by Günter Parche, a 38-year-old German who was a deranged fan of her principal rival at that time, Steffi Graf. Seles, who was ranked No. 1 in the world at the time of the attack, did not play competitively again for more than two years. During her layoff, she became a United States citizen. Although she won the 1995 Canadian Open in her first tournament back and the Australian Open within months of her return, and has remained a consistent Top 10 performer, she struggled psychologically with the death of her father in 1998 and physically with a series of nagging injuries.
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Maleeva, who earned $99,000 in defeat, concluded her best season in six years. She was coming off her title win in Moscow, where she beat Venus Williams, Amelie Mauresmo and Lindsay Davenport, and a runner-up finish in Luxembourg.
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