Biljana Pawlowa-Dimitrova

Biljana Pawlowa-Dimitrova
Биляна Павлова-Димитрова

Country	Bulgaria
Born	(1978-01-20) 20 January 1978 Bulgaria
Turned pro	1993
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$65,638
Singles
Career record	160–288
Career titles	0 WTA, 1 ITF
Highest ranking	490 (16 October 2006)
Doubles
Career record	167–229
Career titles	0 WTA, 2 ITF
Highest ranking	301 (20 April 2009)

Biljana Pawlowa-Dimitrova (Bulgarian: Биляна Павлова-Димитрова; born 20 January 1978) is a Bulgarian professional tennis player. Her career high WTA singles ranking is 490, which she reached on 16 October 2006. Her career high doubles ranking is 301, which she reached on 20 April 2009. Her current trainer is Teodor Bachev and she was first called up to the Bulgaria Fed Cup team in 2009, but represented it for the first time in 2010.

ITF Circuit finals: 21 (3–18)

Singles: 6 (1–5)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Winner	1.	June 28, 1998	Kavala, Greece ITF $10,000	Hard	Dragana Ilić	6–3, 7–6
Runner-up	2.	August 26, 2001	Volos, Greece ITF $10,000	Carpet	Christina Zachariadou	0–6, 0–6
Runner-up	3.	November 20, 2005	Giza, Egypt ITF $10,000	Clay	Galina Fokina	2–6, 5–7
Runner-up	4.	May 7, 2006	Bournemouth, United Kingdom ITF $10,000	Clay	Marrit Boonstra	3–6, 0–6
Runner-up	5.	September 2, 2007	Palić, Serbia ITF $10,000	Clay	Tadeja Majerič	2–6, 2–6
Runner-up	6.	October 14, 2007	Volos, Greece ITF $10,000	Carpet	Olga Brózda	7–6(7–2), 2–6, 0–6

Doubles: 17 (2–15)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Runners-up	1.	August 3, 1997	Muri Antichi, Italy ITF $10,000	Clay	Natalia Bondarenko	Giulia Casoni Federica Fortuni	6–7, 2–6
Runners-up	2.	May 21, 2000	Casale, Italy ITF $10,000	Clay	Magda Mihalache	Chloé Carlotti Eva Fislová	1–6, 4–6
Runners-up	3.	June 4, 2000	Skopje, Macedonia ITF $10,000	Clay	Ljiljana Nanušević	Katarina Mišić Marina Lazarovska	6–7(6–8), 3–6
Runners-up	4.	April 8, 2001	Athens, Greece ITF $10,000	Clay	Marijana Kovačević	Sandra Klemenschits Daniela Klemenschits	3–6, 5–7
Runners-up	5.	September 30, 2001	Kastoria, Greece ITF $10,000	Clay	İpek Şenoğlu	Asimina Kaplani Maria Pavlidou	3–6, 5–7
Runners-up	6.	October 10, 2004	Podgorica, Serbia and Montenegro ITF $10,000	Clay	Janette Bejlková	Katarina Mišić Dragana Zarić	1–6, 2–6
Runners-up	7.	December 4, 2005	Giza, Egypt ITF $10,000	Clay	Lenore Lăzăroiu	Galina Fokina Raissa Gourevitch	3–6, 5–7
Runners-up	8.	June 4, 2006	Rousse, Bulgaria ITF $10,000	Clay	Nadejda Vassileva	Dia Evtimova Karoline Borgersen	0–6, 0–6
Runners-up	9.	November 26, 2006	Cairo, Egypt ITF $10,000	Clay	Stefanie Haidner	Alexandra Dulgheru Marcella Koek	6–7(4–7), 6–3, 6–7(5–7)
Runners-up	10.	October 28, 2006	Dubrovnik, Croatia ITF $10,000	Clay	Soetkin van Deun	Miljana Adanko Nataša Zorić	W/O
Winners	11.	November 24, 2006	Barcelona, Spain ITF $10,000	Clay	Stefanie Haidner	Irina Kuzmina Sheila Solsona-Carcasona	6–3, 6–7(8–10), [10–3]
Runners-up	12.	March 30, 2008	Athens, Greece ITF $10,000	Hard	Raffaella Bindi	Nikola Hofmanova Vivienne Vierin	7–5, 5–7, [7–10]
Runners-up	13.	May 11, 2008	Edinburgh, United Kingdom ITF $10,000	Clay	Soetkin van Deun	Jade Curtis Elizabeth Thomas	1–6, 6–7(5–7)
Runners-up	14.	June 1, 2008	Budva, Montenegro ITF $10,000	Clay	Tamara Stojković	Ljubica Avramović Neda Kozić	4–6, 5–7
Winners	15.	December 14, 2008	Benicarló, Spain ITF $10,000	Clay	Neda Kozić	Simona Matei Cristina Mitu	6–4, 7–6(7–3)
Runners-up	16.	June 13, 2010	Iași, Romania ITF $10,000	Clay	Fatma Al Nabhani	Mădălina Gojnea Ionela-Andreea Iova	3–6, 3–6
Runners-up	17.	August 15, 2010	Onești, Romania ITF $10,000	Clay	Camelia Hristea	Laura-Ioana Andrei Mihaela Buzărnescu	6–7(7–9), 2–6

Fed Cup

Biljana Pawlowa-Dimitrova debuted for the Bulgaria Fed Cup team in 2010. Since then she has a 0–1 singles record and a 1–0 doubles record (1–1 overall).

Singles (0–1)

Edition	Round	Date	Against	Surface	Opponent	W/L	Result
2010 Europe/Africa Group I	RR	February 5, 2010	Slovenia	Hard (I)	Andreja Klepač	L	6–4, 4–6, 3–6

Doubles (1–0)

Edition	Round	Date	Partner	Against	Surface	Opponents	W/L	Result
2010 Europe/Africa Group I	RR	February 5, 2010	Elitsa Kostova	Slovenia	Hard (I)	Andreja Klepač Maša Zec-Peškirič	W	6–1, 6–2

• RR = Round Robin

External links

• Biljana Pawlowa-Dimitrova at the Women's Tennis Association
• Biljana Pawlowa-Dimitrova at the International Tennis Federation