Manuela Maleeva

Manuela Georgieva Maleeva, born on 14 February 1967, is a Bulgarian former professional tennis player who played on the WTA Tour between 1982 and 1994. Through her marriage she represented Switzerland officially from January 1990 until her retirement in February 1994. One of the most consistent players on tour in the 1980s and early 1990s, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 3 in February 1985 and finished in the year-end top ten for nine consecutive years, from 1984 to 1992. She won 19 WTA singles titles and four doubles titles, reached 14 Grand Slam quarterfinals and made two US Open semifinals, in 1992 and 1993, her best major results. She was a semifinalist at the 1987 Virginia Slims Championships. At the 1988 Seoul Olympics she won the singles bronze medal, Bulgaria's first and so far only Olympic tennis medal, and in 1992 she partnered Jakob Hlasek to win Switzerland's first Hopman Cup title.