Sesil Karatantcheva

Quick Facts

Full Name	Sesil Karatantcheva
Occupation	Tennis Player
Date Of Birth	Aug 8, 1989(1989-08-08)
Age	35
Birthplace	Sofia
Country	Bulgaria
Horoscope	Leo

Sesil Karatantcheva Biography

Sesil Karatantcheva is one of the most popular and richest Tennis Player who was born on August 8, 1989 in Sofia, Bulgaria. She began to work on her game after advancing to the semifinals of a $50,000 event at Troy, Alabama. Then, she played in a $25k event held in Rock Hill, losing in the quarterfinals. Karatantcheva later played in the $50k tournament held in Grapevine, Texas, where she reached the finals, but fell to the 8th place Kurumi Nara after three sets. After her performance at Grapevine, Sesil achieved her most impressive performance of the year by winning a $75k event which was at the Goldwater Women’s Tennis Classic, in Phoenix, Arizona, the largest title she has won in her career. Sesil won the title after losing only two sets during throughout the tournament, beating one seeded player along her course. Karatantcheva’s recent improvement in performance has pushed her to the top 200 players and she became one of the best Kazakh players.

Karatantcheva competed in her first professional event on September 23, 2003, in Sofia, Bulgaria at the age of 14 years old. In a non-ranked qualifying event the following week, she beat the number. 1, 2 and 3 seeds to winning her first title as a professional at a tiny ITF competition held in olos, Greece. Karatantcheva was able to claim two additional ITF championships in the year 2003. The year 2004, Karatantcheva kicked off her career with a win at her first WTA event at Indian Wells, where she defeated Alexandra Stevenson in the first round, and then beat 17th-seed Magui Serna during the following round. In an interview before the match with 16th-seed Maria Sharapova, Karatantcheva claimed that Sharapova had missed the hitting session she had with her just a few weeks prior in Florida and then began an argument with Sharapova. Russian. Sharapova won against Karatantcheva with three sets, in round three. On April 19 Sharapova took part in her first game for her Bulgaria Fed Cup team. Due to her age, she was limited in the number of tournaments she could choose to participate in. At the end of August she made it to the quarterfinals of an WTA event held in Vancouver, British Columbia, and was able to play in the US Open, before losing to the eventual champion Svetlana Kuznetsova in the opening round. Karatantcheva made it to her quarterfinals at the WTA tournament in Quebec City, and captured another ITF tournament in December at Palm Beach Gardens.

Following the US Open, Karatantcheva competed in Québec and Seoul, losing in the first round of both tournaments. She continued by then losing in the qualifying draw of the next four events in Tokyo, Beijing, Linz, and Moscow. Her final tournament of the year was in Phoenix, where she was the defending champion and second seed. She suffered a shock straight set loss to world No. 217 Shelby Rogers in the first round. Despite the loss, she ended the year at No. 93, her first year-end ranking inside the top 100 since 2005.

Karatantcheva then played at the Bank of the West Classic. She fell in the first round of qualifying. She then qualified for the Premier-level Mercury Insurance Open in Carlsbad. She was points away from winning, but was finally beaten by Melinda Czink in the first round. She then competed at the second annual Citi Open in Washington, D.C. She lost to American Sloane Stephens in the first round. She then continued her hard-court season at the Rogers Cup in Montreal. As the 18th seed in qualifying, she won three matches for a place in the main draw. In the first round she dismantled Sorana Cîrstea, without losing a single game, in only 43 minutes. Karatantcheva lost to 16th seed Lucie Šafářová in the second round in straight sets. Her ranking climbed to No. 92, her highest ranking since 2005. Karatantcheva then played at the Western & Southern Open, qualifying into the main draw by beating world No. 64 Arantxa Rus and Olga Govortsova. In the first round of the main draw, she won against fellow qualifier Kiki Bertens, but was soundly beaten by former world No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki in the second round. Her next tournament was the US Open. Ranked world No. 85, she was given direct entrance into the main draw. She lost to Lourdes Domínguez Lino in the first round.

She started playing tennis at age five. In 2001, the 12-year-old Karatantcheva was the winner of her first Orange Bowl tournament for her age group, beating Alisa Kleybanova at the end of the tournament. At the time of her first competitive season she trained for around one year at the renowned IMG Academy of Nick Bollettieri.

Sesil Karatantcheva Net Worth

Sesil Karatantcheva is one of the richest Tennis Player from Bulgaria. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Sesil Karatantcheva 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Sesil Radoslavova Karatantcheva (Bulgarian: Sesil Radoslavova Karatancheva ; born 8 August 1989) is a Bulgarian tennis player.

Karatancheva’s debut event of the year included her first tournament of the year, which was ASB Classic, where she has begun her qualifying process and lost in the final round of qualifying to Urszula Radwanska despite previously beating two of her opponents. Karatancheva was not able to make it to in the Australian Open, after losing in the second round of qualifying against Alexandra Panova. In February, Karatantcheva took part in the Abierto Mexicano Telcel, where she began her qualification process. She was defeated by a straight set during the 3rd qualifying match by Lucie Hradecka. Nevertheless, she was able to play in the main event as an unlucky winner. Karatantcheva then swept out Marie Bouzkova, Kiki Bertens and Monica Puig to secure herself her place into the semi-finals for only the first time ever in her tennis career. Then she fell to the fifth seed Timea Bacsinszky, in two sets. In the next round, she took on Monterrey Open and lost in the opening round of qualification. Despite this setback however, she was capable of continuing to work to improve her ranking by getting into the main phase that is the BNP Paribas Open shortly after the fact. In the opening round, she won an easy win in two sets over her fellow Bulgarian and close friend Tsvetana Pironkova. It marked the very first occasion since the year 2000 when two Bulgarian women were paired during the draw for an WTA tournament. Karatantcheva was then defeated by straight-sets against CoCo Vandeweghe. After that, Karatantcheva made it to the main draw at the Miami Open, where she was in the second round beating Lauren Davis then ranked No. at 61, in the initial round, in straight sets and then losing the 21st-seed Garbine Muguruza. Her ranking increased to 109. Following that to the Family Circle Cup in Charleston she was able to qualify to play in the main draw winning against Arantxa Rus, and Louisa Chirico along the way however she lost the opening round against the ninth seeds Samantha Stosur. Then, at the French Open, Karatantcheva was placed third in the draw to qualify and was able to play in an entry into the main draw. In the opening round, she defeated the former world No. 1 Jelena Jankovic in straight sets. This allowed her to rise back to the top 100 of the WTA rankings. In the second round, she fell the second round against Irina Falconi after three sets. Because of her higher rating, Karatantcheva started straight from the main draw of her first Wimbledon Championships. In the first round , she fell to Silvia Soler Espinosa, in a close three-set match. In the US Open, Karatantcheva suffered an 1-6, 2-6 defeat against Belinda Bencic from Switzerland.

Sesil Karatantcheva debuted for the Bulgaria Fed Cup team in 2004, winning her singles match in the tie against the Estonia Fed Cup team. Between 2010 and 2014 she competed for the Kazakhstan Fed Cup team. She maintains a 12–5 singles record and a 7–8 doubles record (19–13 overall). In January 2017, Karatantcheva was recalled to the Bulgarian team for the February 2017 Europe/Africa Zone (Group I) matches.

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She has won seven singles titles on the ITF Women’s Circuit. On 7 November 2005, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 35. On 19 April 2010, she peaked at No. 154 in the doubles rankings.

Facts & Trivia

Sesil Ranked on the list of most popular Tennis Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Bulgaria. Sesil Karatantcheva celebrates birthday on August 8 of every year.

On 11 January 2006, the ITF issued a two-year ban after two positive drug tests for nandrolone. While Karatantcheva has claimed she was pregnant at the time of one of the tests, another laboratory carried out a pregnancy test on her urine sample, and it tested negative. On 3 July 2006, the Court of Arbitration for Sport denied her appeal to overturn the ban with the argument that said nandrolone was found in concentrations which were inconsistent with the normal levels for that stage of pregnancy.