Sesil Karatantcheva
At Wimbledon, 2013
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| Country (sports) |
 Bulgaria (2003–2009, Oct 2014-present) Kazakhstan (2009–2014) |
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| Residence | Sofia, Bulgaria |
| Born |
8 August 1989 Sofia, Bulgaria |
| Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) |
| Turned pro | 2003 |
| Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) |
| Prize money | $ 1,172,322 |
| Singles | |
| Career record | 345–230 |
| Career titles | 0 WTA, 7 ITF |
| Highest ranking | 35 (7 November 2005) |
| Current ranking | 219 (27 February 2017) |
| Grand Slam Singles results | |
| Australian Open | 2R (2009) |
| French Open | QF (2005) |
| Wimbledon | 2R (2005) |
| US Open | 2R (2005) |
| Doubles | |
| Career record | 22–37 |
| Career titles | 0 WTA, 0 ITF |
| Highest ranking | 154 (19 April 2010) |
| Grand Slam Doubles results | |
| Wimbledon | 1R (2005) |
| US Open | 1R (2005) |
| Last updated on: 8 February 2016. | |
Sesil Radoslavova Karatantcheva (Bulgarian: Сесил Радославова Каратанчева; born 8 August 1989) is a Bulgarian tennis player.
Karatantcheva has won seven singles titles on the ITF tour in her career. On 7 November 2005, she reached her best singles ranking of world no. 35. On 19 April 2010, she peaked at world no. 154 on the doubles rankings.
Karatantcheva is perhaps best known for reaching the quarterfinals of the 2005 French Open, upsetting seven-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams en route. The same year, she twice tested positive for nandrolone and was therefore issued a two-year suspension. She returned to professional competition in January 2008.
She first began playing tennis at the age of 5. In 2001, 12-year-old Karatantcheva won the Orange Bowl tournament for her age group, defeating Alisa Kleybanova in the final. Early in her playing days, she trained for approximately six months at the famous Nick Bollettieri tennis academy.
Karatantcheva played her first professional tournament in September 2003 in Sofia, Bulgaria at the age of 14. As an unranked qualifier the next week, she defeated the #1, #2, and #3 seeds en route to her first professional tournament title at a small ITF tournament in Volos, Greece. Karatantcheva went on to win two other ITF titles in 2003. In 2004, Karatantcheva began her season at a large WTA tournament Indian Wells, California, where she defeated American Alexandra Stevenson in the first round, and upset the 17th seed Magüi Serna in the second round. In an interview prior to her match against 16th seed Maria Sharapova, Karatantcheva claimed that Sharapova had skipped a hitting session with her a few weeks earlier in Florida, and began a war of words with the Russian. Sharapova then defeated Karatantcheva in three sets in the third round. On April 19, she played her first match for the Bulgaria Fed Cup team. Because of her age, Karatantcheva was restricted in the number of tournaments she was able to play. In August, she reached the quarterfinals of a WTA tournament in Vancouver, British Columbia, and qualified for the US Open, before losing to eventual champion Svetlana Kuznetsova in the first round. Karatantcheva also reached the quarterfinals of a WTA tournament in Quebec City, and captured another ITF tournament in December at Palm Beach Gardens.
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