Bulgaria's Best Rackets Brace for Fed Cup

Sports | April 15, 2005, Friday // 00:00
Bulgaria's Best Rackets Brace for Fed Cup Bulgaria’s best tennis rackets, including Maria Penkova (L), Sesil Karatantcheva (R), Tsvetelina Pironkova (not pictured) and playing captain Magdalena Maleeva (C) will play at this year’s Fed Cup tournament, April 20-23, in Antalia. Photo by bulphoto.com

Fed Cup, the largest international team competition for women in sport, will see the best of Bulgarian women tennis with Magdalena Maleeva heading the national team as playing captain.

Besides Maggie, also teen tennis wonder Sesil Karatantcheva, Tsvetana Pironkova and Maria Penkova will play at the April 20-23 tournament to take place in Antalia, Turkey.

The Bollettieri Academy's starlet Karatantcheva told journalists Friday she was proud to be a teammate with Maggie Maleeva and voiced her hopes to reach the play-offs this year.

Sesil Karatantcheva has recently quit Nick Bollettieri as coach because, in her words, "he was an outside man, but wanted to impose some things I did not agree with."

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