Born in Sofia , Maleeva was the second oldest of the three children of Georgi Maleev and Yuliya Berberyan . Her mother came from a prominent Armenian family which found refuge in Bulgaria after the 1896 Armenian massacres in the Ottoman Empire , was the best Bulgarian tennis player in the 1960s . After she retired from professional tennis in the 1970s , Berberyan started on a coaching career . She was the coach of her three daughters , Katerina , Manuela and Magdalena , each of whom eventually became WTA top ten players
1896 Armenian massacres
Hamidian massacres
Katerina Maleeva