Bulgaria’s second-best female tennis player Isabella Shinikova qualified for the doubles semifinals at the WAT 125 K tournament in Seoul, Korea. Isabella Shinikova and Su Jeong Jang (China) defeated 7:5; 6:0 Riya Bhatia (India) and Anastasia Kulikova (Finland) in a match that lasted for 52 minutes.
Earlier, Isabella Shinikova dropped out of the women's singles. She lost 6:3; 6:0 to the No. 2 seed Lin Zhu (China).
The No. 7 seed Bulgarian had a good start and took a 2:0 lead in the first set, but won only 3 games in the whole match. Shinikova earned 29 points for the world tennis ranking. Currently, she is ranked 226th.
22-year-old Kameliya Stoimenova broke the national record in the women’s 200-meter breaststroke in a short course pool belonging to Bulgarian swimming legend Tanya Bogomilova, announced the “Sprint-Sofia” swimming club. The news was confirmed to bTV..
Bulgaria will host the first three stages of the 2026 Giro d'Italia cycling race , Radsport aktuell reports, quoted by BTA. According to the German publication, the 109th Giro will start in Bulgaria's city Burgas on the Black Sea coast in May,..
After 110 days off the court, Bulgaria's tennis star Grigor Dimitrov has qualified for the second round of the last Masters 1000 tournament of the year in Paris . He defeated the representative of the hosts Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard 7-6 (5), 6-1...
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