Gergana Topalova

Gergana Topalova
Гергана Топалова

Country (sports)	Bulgaria
Residence	Sofia, Bulgaria
Born	(2000-02-22) 22 February 2000 Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Turned pro	2018
Plays	Right (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	US$ 107,019
Singles
Career record	193–148
Career titles	6 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 210 (24 June 2024)
Current ranking	No. 234 (15 July 2024)
Grand Slam singles results
Wimbledon	Q3 (2024)
US Open	Q1 (2024)
Doubles
Career record	96–74
Career titles	4 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 388 (12 September 2022)
Current ranking	No. 539 (15 July 2024)
Team competitions
Fed Cup	7–7 (singles 3–4)
Last updated on: 15 July 2024.

Gergana Topalova (Bulgarian: Гергана Топалова; born 22 February 2000) is a Bulgarian tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of 210 in singles and 388 in doubles. Topalova is the current No. 2 Bulgarian female player. She has won six singles titles and four doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On the ITF Junior Circuit, she had a career-high combined ranking of 31, achieved on 22 January 2018.

Career

In 2019, Topalova made her Fed Cup debut for Bulgaria.

2023–2024: WTA Tour debut

On 23 November 2022, she was confirmed as a participant at the 2023 United Cup as part of the Bulgarian team. On New Year’s Eve 2022, she made her debut in mixed doubles match alongside Adrian Andreev which they lost to the top-seeded team of Maria Sakkari and Stefanos Tsitsipas. The following day, she made her WTA Tour debut and lost her maiden singles match to Elise Mertens in three sets. Topalova participated in the qualifying draw of the 2023 Hobart International. She entered as an alternate and lost in the first round of qualifying to Diane Parry. Topalova reached the final round of the qualifying competition at the 2024 Wimbledon Championships on her Grand Slam qualifying debut. She made her main-draw debut at the 2024 Budapest Grand Prix as a qualifier, defeating second qualifying seed Ella Seidel.

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 11 (6 titles, 5 runner-ups)

Legend W40 tournaments W25/W35 tournaments W15 tournaments

Finals by surface Hard (1–0) Clay (5–5)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Oct 2017	ITF Sozopol, Bulgaria	W15	Hard	Léa Tholey	6–3, 2–6, 6–3
Win	2–0	May 2018	ITF Cairo, Egypt	W15	Clay	Nuria Párrizas Díaz	7–5, 7–6(7–3)
Win	3–0	Nov 2020	ITF Heraklion, Greece	W15	Clay	Romy Koelzer	6–4, 6–0
Win	4–0	May 2021	ITF Cairo, Egypt	W15	Clay	Elina Avanesyan	6–3, 6–3
Win	5–0	Aug 2022	ITF Agadir, Morocco	W25	Clay	Angelica Moratelli	2–6, 6–2, 6–3
Loss	5–1	Aug 2022	ITF Parnu, Estonia	W25	Clay	Weronika Falkowska	5–7, 2–6
Loss	5–2	Jul 2023	ITF Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	W25	Clay	Martina Capurro	6–3, 0–6, 0–6
Loss	5–3	Aug 2023	ITF Wrocław, Poland	W40	Clay	Darya Astakhova	1–6, 5–7
Win	6–3	Sep 2023	ITF Saint-Palais-sur-Mer, France	W40	Clay	Justina Mikulskytė	7–5, 5–7, 6–1
Loss	6–4	Oct 2023	ITF Lisbon, Portugal	W40	Clay	Katarina Zavatska	3–6, 6–2, 5–7
Loss	6–5	May 2024	ITF Båstad, Sweden	W35	Clay	Berfu Cengiz	4–6, 2–6

Doubles: 13 (4 titles, 9 runner-ups)

Legend W40 tournaments W25 tournaments W15 tournaments

Finals by surface Hard (1–3) Clay (3–6)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	May 2018	ITF Cairo, Egypt	W15	Clay	Petia Arshinkova	Riya Bhatia Shelby Talcott	4–6, 6–3, [10–4]
Loss	1–1	Nov 2019	ITF Gwalior, India	W25	Clay	Petia Arshinkova	Mana Kawamura Funa Kozaki	4–6, 1–6
Loss	1–2	Feb 2020	ITF Monastir, Tunisia	W15	Hard	Petia Arshinkova	Julie Belgraver Mylène Halemai	6–2, 1–6, [4–10]
Loss	1–3	Mar 2020	ITF Monastir, Tunisia	W15	Hard	Petia Arshinkova	Mylène Halemai Andreea Prisăcariu	3–6, 4–6
Loss	1–4	Dec 2020	ITF Antalya, Turkey	W15	Clay	Daniela Vismane	Hurricane Tyra Black Svenja Ochsner	6–7(2), 5–7
Loss	1–5	Feb 2021	ITF Antalya, Turkey	W15	Clay	Petia Arshinkova	María Herazo González Yuliana Lizarazo	2–6, 1–6
Loss	1–6	Oct 2021	ITF Sozopol, Bulgaria	W15	Hard	Julia Terziyska	Katerina Dimitrova Oana Gavrilă	6–3, 4–6, [1–10]
Win	2–6	Nov 2021	ITF Monastir, Tunisia	W15	Hard	Eliessa Vanlangendonck	Anouk Koevermans Lexie Stevens	6–1, 6–2
Win	3–6	Apr 2022	ITF Antalya, Turkey	W15	Clay	Vlada Koval	Ksenia Laskutova Sapfo Sakellaridi	7–6(9), 6–2
Loss	3–7	Apr 2022	ITF Antalya, Turkey	W15	Clay	Ksenia Laskutova	Vanessa Ersöz Doğa Türkmen	6–7(2), 6–3, [5–10]
Loss	3–8	Aug 2022	ITF Parnu, Estonia	W25	Clay	Eleni Christofi	Justina Mikulskytė Valeriya Strakhova	2–6, 6–4, [8–10]
Win	4–8	Sep 2023	ITF Oldenzaal, Netherlands	W40	Clay	Daniela Vismane	Isabelle Haverlag Eva Vedder	7–5, 2–6, [10–5]
Loss	4–9	Sep 2023	ITF Pazardzhik, Bulgaria	W40	Clay	Daniela Vismane	Cristina Dinu Radka Zelníčková	6–1, 5–7, [6–10]

ITF Junior Circuit finals

Legend
Category G1
Category G2
Category G3
Category G4
Category G5

Singles (4–3)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Grade	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Mar 2016	ITF Trnava, Slovakia	G4	Hard (i)	Adriana Šenkárová	6–3, 6–4
Loss	1–1	Sep 2016	ITF Cairo, Egypt	G2	Clay	Lulu Sun	4–6, 5–7
Loss	1–2	Mar 2017	ITF Tashkent, Uzbekistan	G2	Hard	Daria Snigur	0–6, 0–2 ret.
Win	2–2	Apr 2017	ITF Plovdiv, Bulgaria	G2	Clay	Oona Orpana	6–1, 6–3
Win	3–2	Oct 2017	ITF Montevideo, Uruguay	G2	Clay	Ana Geller	6–2, 6–3
Win	4–2	Nov 2017	ITF La Paz, Bolivia	G2	Clay	Gabriela Rivera	6–3, 6–4
Loss	4–3	Apr 2018	ITF Plovdiv, Bulgaria	G2	Clay	Elina Avanesyan	3–6, 4–6

Doubles (2–3)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Grade	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Aug 2015	ITF Sofia, Bulgaria	G5	Clay	Laura Cazacu	Katarina Marinkovikj Derya Yahe	5–7, 6–2, [12–10]
Win	2–0	Oct 2015	ITF Mohammedia, Morocco	G4	Clay	Oumaima Aziz	Diae El Jardi Sada Nahimana	6–3, 6–4
Loss	2–1	Apr 2017	ITF Plovdiv, Bulgaria	G2	Clay	Linda Puppendahl	Vitória Okuyama Nathalia Wolf Gasparin	5–7, 4–6
Loss	2–2	May 2017	ITF Casablanca, Morocco	G1	Clay	Weronika Falkowska	Lea Ma Zheng Qinwen	6–7(4), 1–6
Loss	2–3	Apr 2018	ITF Plovdiv, Bulgaria	G2	Clay	Weronika Falkowska	Elina Avanesyan Diana Khodan	2–6, 6–4, [6–10]

National representation

Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup

Gergana Topalova debuted in Bulgaria Fed Cup team in 2019; since then she has accumulated a 3–4 singles and a 4–3 doubles (7–7 overall) win–loss record.

Singles (3–4)

Edition	Round	Date	Location	Against	Surface	Opponent	W/L	Result
2023	Z1 RR	11 Apr 2023	Antalya (TUR)	Croatia	Clay	Tara Würth	W	6–4, 2–6, 6–3
		12 Apr 2023		Sweden		Caijsa Hennemann	W	1–6, 7–5, 6–3
		13 Apr 2023		Norway		Malene Helgø	L	0–6, 2–6
		14 Apr 2023		Denmark		Clara Tauson	L	3–6, 1–6
2024	Z1 RR	8 Apr 2024	Antalya (TUR)	Hungary	Clay	Adrienn Nagy	L	5–7, 6–7(4–7)
	Z1 PO	12 Apr 2024		Norway		Emily Sartz-Lunde	W	3–6, 6–3, 6–2
		13 Apr 2024		Portugal		Francisca Jorge	L	4–6, 4–6

Doubles (4–3)

Edition	Round	Date	Location	Partner	Surface	Against	Opponents	W/L	Result
2019	Z1 RR	8 Feb 2019	Zielona Góra (POL)	Petia Arshinkova	Hard (i)	Sweden	Mirjam Björklund Cornelia Lister	L	2–6, 3–6
2020-21	Z1 RR	8 Feb 2019	Tallinn (EST)	Petia Arshinkova	Hard (i)	Ukraine	Lesia Tsurenko Katarina Zavatska	L	2–6, 1–6
2023	Z1 RR	10 Apr 2023	Antalya (TUR)	Lia Karatancheva	Clay	Serbia	Katarina Kozarov Lola Radivojević	W	2–6, 6–3, 6–2
		13 Apr 2023		Lia Karatancheva		Norway	Ulrikke Eikeri Malene Helgø	L	6–2, 1–6, 4–6
		14 Apr 2023		Lia Karatancheva		Denmark	Rebecca Munk Mortensen Johanne Svendsen	W	6–3, 3–6, 6–1
2024	Z1 RR	10 Apr 2024	Oeiras (POR)	Lia Karatancheva	Clay	Austria	Melanie Klaffner Tamira Paszek	W	6–7(5–7), 6–1, [10–6]
	Z1 PO	12 Apr 2024		Lia Karatancheva		Norway	Emily Sartz-Lunde Carina Syrtveit	W	7–6(7–3), 7–5

United Cup

Singles (0–1)

Edition	Round	Date	Location	Against	Surface	Opponent	W/L	Result
2023	RR	01 Jan 2023	Perth (AUS)	Belgium	Hard	Elise Mertens	L	4–6, 6–3, 0–6

Doubles (0–1)

Edition	Round	Date	Location	Partner	Surface	Against	Opponents	W/L	Result
2023	RR	20 Dec 2022	Perth (AUS)	Adrian Andreev	Hard	Greece	Maria Sakkari Stefanos Tsitsipas	L	4–6, 4–6