The Bulgarian Liya Karatancheva became the vice-champion in pairs of the W75 category women’s tournament with a prize fund of 60 thousand dollars. The competition from the calendar of the International Tennis Federation (ITF) is held under excellent conditions on the courts of TC “Favorite”, Pazardzhik.
The 21-year-old Karatancheva and Sappho Sakellaridi (Greece), seeded at No. 4, lost in a highly contested final 5:7, 6:3, 5-10 to third seeds Veronika Erjavec (Slovenia) and Anita Wagner (Bosnia and Herzegovina) . The meeting lasted an hour and 47 minutes.
Karatancheva has three ITF doubles titles, two of them this season, and reaching the final earned her $836 and 49 points in the world doubles rankings.
Nikolay Stoychev – tournament director, presented the prizes to the winners.
Germany’s Ella Seidel and Caroline Werner qualified for the singles final.