Ilia Kushev

Ilia Kushev
Илия Кушев

Country (sports)	Bulgaria
Residence	Sofia, Bulgaria
Born	(1980-12-13) 13 December 1980 Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Turned pro	2000
Plays	Right-handed
Prize money	$31,495
Singles
Career record	3–4 (at Grand Slam-level, ATP World Tour-level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0 ATP, 1 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 285 (16 August 2004)
Doubles
Career record	4–3 (at Grand Slam-level, ATP World Tour-level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0 ATP, 5 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 234 (17 January 2011)
Current ranking	No. 925 (16 August 2004)
Last updated on: 22 March 2015.

Ilia Kushev (sometimes also transliterated as Iliya Kushev) (Bulgarian: Илия Кушев, born 13 December 1980) is a professional tennis player from Bulgaria. He has frequently played for Bulgaria at the Davis Cup. On 16 August 2004, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of 285 whilst his best doubles ranking was 234 on 16 August 2004.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

In 2006, Kushev married Vesela Tomova, a tennis coach.^[6]

Year-end rankings

Futures and Challenger finals: 22 (6–16)

Singles: 9 (1–8)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Winner	1.	17 June 2001	Skopje, Macedonia ITF Futures $10,000	Clay	Artemon Apostu-Efremov	6–3, 7–6(9–7)
Runner-up	1.	19 October 2003	Thessaloniki, Greece ITF Futures $10,000	Clay	Konstantinos Economidis	6–2, 4–6, 1–6
Runner-up	2.	27 June 2004	Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro ITF Futures $10,000	Clay	František Polyak	4–6, 3–6
Runner-up	3.	3 December 2004	Doha, Qatar ITF Futures $10,000	Hard	Zbynek Mlynarik	6–4, 1–6, 3–6
Runner-up	4.	12 June 2005	Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro ITF Futures $10,000	Clay	Ilija Bozoljac	4–6, 6–4, 0–6
Runner-up	5.	18 June 2006	Skopje, Macedonia ITF Futures $10,000	Clay	Ivaylo Traykov	6–7(4–7), 7–6(7–3), 5–7
Runner-up	6.	2 July 2006	Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro ITF Futures $10,000	Clay	Predrag Rusevski	4–6, 1–6
Runner-up	7.	13 August 2006	Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro ITF Futures $10,000	Clay	Dejan Katić	0–6, 3–6
Runner-up	8.	13 May 2007	Sofia, Bulgaria ITF Futures $10,000	Clay	Maxime Authom	4–6, 5–7

Doubles: 13 (5–8)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	1.	15 September 2002	Sofia, Bulgaria ATP Challenger $25,000	Clay	Luben Pampoulov	Christopher Kas Oliver Marach	6–7(4–7), 7–6(9–7), 2–6
Winner	1.	14 September 2003	Sofia, Bulgaria ATP Challenger $25,000	Clay	Luben Pampoulov	Todor Enev Dimo Tolev	6–3, 6–1
Runner-up	2.	26 October 2003	Nicosia, Cyprus ITF Futures $10,000	Clay	Yordan Kanev	Elefterios Alexiou Alexandros Jakupovic	3–6, 3–6
Winner	2.	27 June 2004	Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro ITF Futures $10,000	Clay	Yordan Kanev	Nikola Ćirić Goran Tošić	6–7(8–10), 7–6(7–4), 6–0
Runner-up	3.	10 December 2004	Doha, Qatar ITF Futures $10,000	Hard	Yordan Kanev	Artem Sitak Dmitri Sitak	6–7(5–7), 0–6
Runner-up	4.	17 December 2004	Doha, Qatar ITF Futures $10,000	Hard	Yordan Kanev	Artem Sitak Dmitri Sitak	W/O
Runner-up	5.	7 August 2005	Timișoara, Romania ATP Challenger $25,000	Clay	Radoslav Lukaev	Ionuț Moldovan Gabriel Moraru	2–6, 0–6
Runner-up	6.	29 January 2006	Bergheim, Austria ITF Futures $15,000	Carpet (I)	Todor Enev	Werner Eschauer Florin Mergea	2–6, 3–6
Winner	3.	27 August 2006	Plovdiv, Bulgaria ITF Futures $10,000	Clay	Yordan Kanev	Robert Gustafsson Jim May	7–6(7–3), 7–6(7–3)
Winner	4.	10 September 2006	Sofia, Bulgaria ITF Futures $10,000	Clay	Yordan Kanev	Todor Enev Tihomir Grozdanov	7–6(7–4), 6–4
Runner-up	7.	3 June 2007	Sofia, Bulgaria ITF Futures $10,000	Clay	Vasil Mladenov	David Savić Miljan Zekić	4–6, 3–6
Winner	5.	10 June 2007	Skopje, Macedonia ITF Futures $10,000	Clay	Yordan Kanev	Daniel Danilović Lazar Magdinchev	1–6, 7–6(8–6), 6–4
Runner-up	8.	1 June 2008	Sofia, Bulgaria ITF Futures $10,000	Clay	Todor Enev	Tihomir Grozdanov Simeon Ivanov	3–6, 6–4, [4–10]

Davis Cup

Ilia Kushev debuted for the Bulgaria Davis Cup team in 2003. Since then he has a 3–5 singles record and a 4–4 doubles record (7–9 overall).

Singles (3–5)

Edition	Round	Date	Surface	Opponent	W/L	Result
2003 Europe/Africa Zone Group II	QF	11 July 2003	Clay	Janko Tipsarević	L	3–6, 6–1, 2–6, 3–6
2004 Europe/Africa Zone Group II	R1	11 April 2004	Carpet (I)	Amr Ghoneim	W	6–2, 6–2
	QF	18 July 2004	Clay	Filippo Volandri	L	2–6, 0–6
2005 Europe/Africa Zone Group II	QF	17 July 2005	Clay	Jarkko Nieminen	L	3–6, 5–7, 2–6
2006 Europe/Africa Zone Group II	R1	7 April 2006	Clay	Photos Kallias	W	6–3, 6–2, 7–5
		9 April 2006		Marcos Baghdatis	L	3–6, 2–6, 2–6
	QF	21 July 2006	Clay	Kornél Bardóczky	L	5–7, 3–6, 0–6
		23 July 2006		Sebő Kiss	W	7–5, 1–6, 6–2

Doubles (4–4)

Edition	Round	Date	Partner	Surface	Opponents	W/L	Result
2004 Europe/Africa Zone Group II	QF	17 July 2004	Yordan Kanev	Clay	Massimo Bertolini Andreas Seppi	L	4–6, 0–6, 1–6
2005 Europe/Africa Zone Group II	R1	5 March 2005	Yordan Kanev	Carpet (I)	Lado Chikhladze Irakli Ushangishvili	W	6–4, 3–6, 6–4, 6–4
	QF	16 July 2005	Radoslav Lukaev	Clay	Jarkko Nieminen Lauri Kiiski	W	7–5, 6–3, 6–7(5–7), 6–3
	SF	24 September 2005	Radoslav Lukaev	Hard	Mikhail Filima Orest Tereshchuk	L	4–6, 2–6, 6–7(3–7)
2006 Europe/Africa Zone Group II	R1	8 April 2006	Ivaylo Traykov	Clay	Marcos Baghdatis Photos Kallias	W	4–6, 6–3, 2–6, 7–6(7–1), 6–0
2007 Europe/Africa Zone Group II	R1	7 April 2007	Ivaylo Traykov	Carpet (I)	Ernests Gulbis Deniss Pavlovs	L	5–7, 4–6, 2–6
	RPO	21 July 2007	Todor Enev	Clay	Marcos Baghdatis Photos Kallias	L	2–6, 3–6, 3–6
2015 Europe/Africa Zone Group II	R1	7 March 2015	Tihomir Grozdanov	Hard (I)	Mārtiņš Podžus Jānis Podžus	W	3–6, 2–6, 6–4, 7–5, 6–1

• RPO = Relegation Play–off

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ilia Kushev.

• Ilia Kushev at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Ilia Kushev at the International Tennis Federation
• Davis Cup profile

Association of Tennis Professionals: Top ten Bulgarian male singles tennis players as of 18 January 2016 1. Grigor Dimitrov (28 ) 2. Dimitar Kuzmanov (294 4) 3. Dimitar Kutrovsky (332 16) 4. Alexander Lazov (445 ) 5. Vasko Mladenov (686 3) 6. Danail Tarpov (1101 1) 7. Plamen Milushev (1380 ) 8. Petar Trendafilov (1486 ) 9. Boris Nicola Bakalov (1510 2) 10. Tihomir Grozdanov (1603 3)