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Bulgaria's Pironkova Out of Rome Tennis Tournament [May 14, 2012] Bulgaria's top female tennis player Tsvetana Pironkova has been thrown out of the tennis tournament in Rome after losing in the first round. Pironkova lost 0:6, 1:6 to American Vania King at the start of the tournament, making 2012 the fourth consecutive year in which she fails to make it to the second round of the contest in Rome. Pironkova has thus registered her fifth loss in a row, and her ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Pironkova Out of Doha Tournament [Feb 17, 2012] Bulgaria's top female tennis player Tsvetana Pironkova has been beaten in the third round of the tennis tournament in Doha, Qatar. Pironkova lost 3:6, 3:6 on Friday to French tennis star Marion Bartoli, which is currently ranked seventh in the world. The Bulgarian got the lead in both sets but in both Bartoli eventually turned the score around. ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Pironkova Fails to Upset Wozniacki [Jan 04, 2012] Bulgaria's top female tennis player Tsvetana Pironkova failed to upset world No.1 Caroline Wozniacki and lost 5-7, 4-6, 2-6 in the first game of the Bulgaria ? Denmark Hopman Cup clash in Perth on Wednesday. The game lasted 152 minutes and turned out to be the the longest women's singles clash this week. ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Pironkova Wins Palermo Opener [Jul 12, 2011] Bulgaria's top female tennis player Tsvetana Pironkova is through to the second round of the Palermo tournament after she beat Georgian Anna Tatishvili 6-2 7-5 in one hour and 30 minutes. Both players traded breaks regularly in the match, with world number 83 Tatishvili giving up her serve seven times and Bulgarian Pironkova saving just one of the five break-point opportunities she conceded ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Pironkova Loses Wimbledon Quarter Final to Kvitova [Jun 28, 2011] Bulgaria's top female tennis player Tsvetana Pironkova has lost the women's singles quarter final match at Wimbledon 2011 to Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic. Even though she put up a great fight, especially in the second set, and even though the audience of the Wimbledon Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis Club, in London, was cheering for Pironkova lost 2:1 (3:6, 7:6, 6:2). She did ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Pironkova to Face Kvitova at Wimbledon Quarter-Final [Jun 28, 2011] After kicking Venus Williams out of Wimbledon on Monday, Bulgaria's top female tennis player Tsvetana Pironkova will play a quarter-final match Tuesday afternoon. Pironkova, seeded 32, will face the eighth-seeded Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic. Kvitova hasn't dropped a set yet headed into the quarterfinals and has faced the 29th (Vinci) and 19th (Wickmayer) seeds on her way to today. ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Pironkova Stuns Venus Williams at Wimbledon Again [Jun 27, 2011] Bulgaria's Tsvetana Pironkova produced a brilliant display on Monday to score a historic victory over Venus Williams at Wimbledon for the second time, making her way to the quarter-finals. In one of the most fascinating match-ups of the tournament, the Bulgarian top female tennis player clinched her victory against the US star confidently 6:2, 6:3. Pironkova and Williams faced off after on ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Pironkova Faces Williams in Repeat of Wimbledon 2010 Match [Jun 27, 2011] Bulgaria's top female tennis player Tsvetana Pironkova faces on Monday US star Venus Williams in the fourth round of Wimbledon and in a repeat of last year's quarter final match. Pironkova and Williams will have a face-off a round earlier at Wimbledon 2011 after on Friday Pironkova crushed Vera Zvonareva 6-2, 6-3, avenging her loss to Zvonareva at the semi-final of last year's Wimbledon. Shortly ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Pironkova Kicks Zvonareva Out of Wimbledon [Jun 24, 2011] Bulgaria's top female tennis player Tsvetana Pironkova has crushed second-seeded Vera Zvonareva in the third round of Wimbledon. Pironkova beat Zvonareva 6-2, 6-3 on Friday, avenging her loss to Zvonareva at the semi-final of last year's Wimbledon, which Zvonareva won in three sets to reach the first of her two Grand Slam finals in 2010. The 32nd-seeded Bulgarian broke four times and saved six ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Pironkova to Face Williams in Repeat of Wimbledon 2010 Match [Jun 24, 2011] Bulgaria's top female tennis player Tsvetana Pironkova will face US star Venus Williams in the fourth round of Wimbledon in a repeat of last year's quarter final match. Pironkova and Williams will have a face-off a round earlier at Wimbledon 2011 after on Friday Pironkova crushed Vera Zvonareva 6-2, 6-3, avenging her loss to Zvonareva at the semi-final of last year's Wimbledon. Shortly after ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Pironkova Off to Flying Start at Wimbledon [Jun 21, 2011] Bulgaria's top female tennis player Tsvetana Pironkova smashed Italian Camila Giorgi 6-2, 6-1 for less than an hour in her opening match at the Wimbledon Grand Slam Tournament. The first set took Pironkova just 21 minutes, as she succeeded in breaking two of the 19-year-old Italian's service games. The Bulgarian then closed the second set with even greater ease, giving away just one game to her ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Pironkova Defeated at Roland Garros [May 25, 2011] Tsvetana Pironkova, Bulgaria's top female tennis player, failed to advance to the third round of the Roland Garros Grand Slam tournament, losing 4:6, 2:6 to Argentine Gisela Dulko. The Bulgarian, seeded 32nd, had her chances in the first set, but her opponent succeeded in braking her service game. In the second set, the Argentine took a 3:0 lead and Pironkova was unable to get back into the game ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Pironkova Advances at French Open [May 22, 2011] Bulgaria's top female tennis player, Tsvetana Pironkova, is through to round two, completing a 7-5 6-3 win over Australia's Casey Dellacqua at the French Open tournament. Pironkova made two unforced errors all game and while even though she experienced some differences in the first set against the 26-year old Australian, ranked 317th in the world, she secured herself 100 WTA points and EUR 25 ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria?s Pironkova Advances at Marbella Tournament [Apr 05, 2011] Bulgaria's top female tennis player, Tsvetana Pironkova secured herself an easy victory in the first round of her first clay court tournament for the year in Marbella, Spain. The 23-year old Bulgarian defeated Spaniard Maria Teresa Torro-Flor with 6:2, 6:2, thus earning 30 points for her WTA ranking. Pironkova, who is currently ranked 36th, may face a much tougher challenge, as she will play ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Pironkova Seed 3 at Monterrey Open [Feb 20, 2011] Bulgaria's top female tennis player Tsvetana Pironkova has been seeded 3rd in the main draw of the Monterrey Open tournament in Mexico. Seeded 1st and 2nd are Jelena Jankovic from Serbia and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova from Russia. The other seeded are Germany's Julia Goerges, Latvia's Anastasija Sevastova, Italy's Sara Errani, Czech Republic's Iveta Benesova and Slovenia's Polona Hercog. ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Pironkova Out of Dubai Tennis Tournament [Feb 16, 2011] Bulgaria's top female tennis player Tsvetana Pironkova was defeated in the second round of the Dubai Duty Free Championship. The 23-year-old Bulgarian was defeated 5-7, 6-2, 6-4 by Russia's Svetlana Kuznetsova, who ranks 23rd in the world. The 25-year-old Russian, who is former number two in the world, has a total of 13 titles, including two from Grand Slam tournament US Open. ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Pironkova Out of Australian Open [Jan 19, 2011] Bulgaria's top female tennis player Tsvetana Pironkova has bid farewell to Australian Open in the second round after losing 4-6 1-6 to Romanian Monica Niculescu. On Wednesday, Pironkova was far from her top form, notching up quite a lot of unforced errors, which led to her dropping out of Australian open in the second round for a fourth consecutive year. Pironkova was seeded in the first two ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Pironkova Advances in Sidney [Jan 17, 2011] Tsvetana Pironkova , Bulgaria's best female tennis player, has progressed to the second round of the Australian Open Grand Slam tournament. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Pironkova Seed at Australian Open [Jan 13, 2011] Bulgaria's top female tennis player Tsvetana Pironkova landed at the 32nd and final seeding for the Australian Open , which starts in Melbourne next week. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Pironkova Turns 23, Hits No. 31 in WTA List [Sep 13, 2010] Bulgaria's best female tennis player, Tsvetana Pironkova, has climbed the rankings to a new career-high of No 31 in the world on the back of her success at the US Open, where she bowed out in the second round. [via YahooNews] More >>