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Another Olympic Update


Anyone missing the Olympics? If the answer is YES, here’s another dose of Tsveti Pironkova in London! 🙂

More Photos from the Olympics


Pironkova Off to Flying Start at London Olympics [INTERVIEW + PICS]


Bulgaria’s best female tennis player Tsvetana Pironkova has made it to the second round at the London Olympics tennis tournament. Pironkova beat Slovakia’s Dominika Cibulkova 7-6 (7-4), 6-2 Saturday afternoon in the first round of the tennis tournament of London 2012 at All England Club. This is Pironkova’s first win over Cibulkova, who had triumphed […]

Pironkova on her way to the Olympics


Pironkova at Sofia Airport preparing to fly to London for the Olympics – 25.07.2012.  

Pironkova: I’m going back to Bulgaria and then I’ll travel to London


Bulgaria’s best tennis player Tsvetana Pironkova will spend some time in Bulgaria after her loss at the Bastad tournament and then she will travel to London for the Olympics. “It was a tough match. I had my highs and lows. As a whole, I am happy with the way I played at the tournament. It […]

Pironkova Qualifies for the Olympics


Pironkova climbed to the 39th position in the WTA rankings, which determines who qualifies for the Olympics. The top 56 singles players are automatically accepted, with a maximum of four per country. The 24-year-old, who recently played at the Grand Slam tournament Roland Garros for the second time in her carrer, climbed two places up […]

Tsvetana Pironkova to Receive Funding for Olympics Preparation


Bulgaria’s top tennis players, Grigor Dimitrov and Tsvetana Pironkova, will receive monthly scholarships from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) until 2012. The scholarships for the Bulgarian tennis stars will be provided under the program “Olympic Solidarity” at IOC and will continue until the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London. The funding was made possible after […]