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Magdalena Maleeva was born on 1 April, 1975 in Sofia, Bulgaria, is a Bulgarian tennis player. Discover Magdalena Maleeva's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 48 years old?

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Age 48 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 1 April, 1975
Birthday 1 April
Birthplace Sofia, Bulgaria
Nationality Bulgaria

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Magdalena Maleeva Height, Weight & Measurements

At 48 years old, Magdalena Maleeva height is 1.68 m .

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Height 1.68 m
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Who Is Magdalena Maleeva's Husband?

Her husband is Lubomir Nokov (m. 2004)

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Husband Lubomir Nokov (m. 2004)
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Magdalena Maleeva Net Worth

Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Magdalena Maleeva worth at the age of 48 years old? Magdalena Maleeva’s income source is mostly from being a successful Player. She is from Bulgaria. We have estimated Magdalena Maleeva's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

Prize money $4,398,582
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1896

Yuliya, who came from a prominent Armenian family which found refuge in Bulgaria after the 1896 Armenian massacres in the Ottoman Empire, was one of the best Bulgarian tennis players in the 1960s.

1970

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.

1975

Magdalena Georgieva Maleeva (Магдалена Георгиева Малеева, ; born 1 April 1975) is a Bulgarian former professional tennis player.

1988

In 1988, Maleeva became the youngest ever national tennis champion of Bulgaria, at the age of 13 years and four months.

1989

She played on the WTA Tour competing in singles and doubles, from April 1989 to October 2005 and has won ten career singles titles.

Her best WTA singles ranking was world No. 4.

Born in Sofia, Maleeva is the youngest of the three children of Yuliya Berberyan and Georgi Maleev.

She turned professional in 1989, reaching the final of her first professional tournament (ITF) at Bari.

1990

In her Grand Slam debut at the French Open in 1990, she passed the qualifications and reached the third round.

In 1990, Maleeva won three junior Grand Slam tournaments at the Australian, French and US Open.

1992

In 1992, Maleeva snatched her first WTA Tour event victory in San Marino and scored her best Grand Slam tournament result with a quarterfinal run at the US Open, upsetting Martina Navratilova on the way.

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.

That same year, she was the opponent of Monica Seles at a tournament in Hamburg, Germany when a deranged fan stabbed Seles in the back on the court.

Her best performance at a Grand Slam championship came when she got to the quarterfinals of the 1992 US Open, defeating Kateřina Kroupová-Šišková, Martina Navratilova, Kimberly Po and Chanda Rubin before losing to her older sister Manuela.

1993

She was the recipient of the "WTA Most Improved Player 1993" award and was nominated for the "WTA Most Impressive Newcomer 1990".

She participated at the Olympic Games in Barcelona, Atlanta, and Athens.

1995

In 1995, Maleeva won a total of three tournaments, in Moscow, Chicago, Oakland, which saw her hit a career-high ranking of No. 4 in January 1996.

1998

In June 1998, Maleeva underwent shoulder surgery, which forced her off the tour for the next eleven months.

1999

She started competing again in May 1999 and re-entered top 20 in 2001.

2002

In 2002, she won the prestigious Kremlin Cup in Moscow, defeating three top-10 players on her way (Venus Williams, Amélie Mauresmo, and Lindsay Davenport).

2004

In 2004, she married her long-standing boyfriend, Lubomir Nokov.

Maleeva won a career total of ten WTA titles in singles and five in doubles.

2005

In October 2005, Maleeva retired from professional tennis after 16 seasons (years), and became the last of the Maleeva sisters to retire.

She now lives in Sofia.

2007

On 27 June 2007, she gave birth to her first child, a girl named Youlia, and on 13 December 2008, she gave birth to a second child, Marko, and on 20 August 2012 to their third child, Nina.

Maleeva has been very active with the environmental organization 'Gorichka.bg', which works to create public awareness about urgent environmental problems.

She also has created 'Harmonica', a brand for organic foods, as well as a couple of organic food stores in Sofia under the brand 'Biomag'.

She is also a partner at the Maleeva Tennis Club.

2010

In October 2010, Maleeva won the Bulgarian national outdoor championship, becoming the youngest and the oldest player to have won it, within 22 years.

2011

In 2011, she made a brief tennis comeback, playing and winning three doubles matches for Bulgaria at the Fed Cup.

In March 2011, Maleeva was voted eighth in the "100 most influential women in Bulgaria" by Pari newspaper.

2015

She has also appeared at Wimbledon's ladies' invitation doubles event on several occasions, achieving her best result in 2015, where she partnered Rennae Stubbs; the pair defeated Navratilova and Selima Sfar in the final to win the title.