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Magdalena Maleeva (born April 1, 1975) is a
successful Bulgaria|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==

Born in Sofia, Magdalena was the youngest of the
four children of Yulia Berberyan and Georgi
Maleev. The mother, who came from a prominent
Armenians|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
Maleeva|Katerina and Manuela Maleeva|Manuela, each
of whom eventually became WTA top ten 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 quarterfinals at the
Australian Open|Australian, the French Open|French
and the US Open (tennis)|US Open, as well as the
third round of Wimbledon championships|Wimbledon.
In 1995 Magdalena won a total of three tournaments
– in Moscow, Chicago, Oakland,
California|Oakland, which allowed her to reach a
career-high № in 4 the WTA rank list in
January 1996. 

In June 1998 Magdalena underwent shoulder surgery,
which forced her off the Tour for the next eleven
months. She started competing again in May 1999
and reached Top Twenty again in 2002. In 2004 she
married her long-standing boyfriend, Lyubomir
Nokov.

Since the start of her professional carrier,
Magdalena has won a total of ten WTA Tour titles
in singles and four in doubles. She is the
recipient of the 1993 WTA Tour Most Improved
Player Award and was nominated for the 1990 WTA
Tour Most Impressive Newcomer Award.

==Tournaments won==
===Singles===
Winner (WTA Tour): 
*2003 - Birmingham
*2002 - Moscow
*2001 - Budapest
*1999 - Pattaya City; ITF/Cergy-Pontoise-FRA
*1995 - Chicago; Moscow; Oakland
*1994 - Moscow; Zurich
*1992 - San Marino.

===Doubles===
Winner:
*2003 - Miami (with Liesel Huber); Warsaw (with
Liesel Huber)
*2002 - Antwerp (with Patty Schnyder)
*1991 - Bol (with Laura Golarsa).

==See also==

*Manuela Maleeva
*Katerina Maleeva
*List of female tennis players

==External links==
*http://www.magdalena-maleeva.net/ The official
website of Magdalena Maleeva
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