Milen Velev

Milen Velev
Милен Велев

Country (sports)	Bulgaria
Residence	Vienna, Austria
Born	(1971-09-04) 4 September 1971 Sofia, Bulgaria
Turned pro	1991
Retired	2002
Plays	Right-handed
Prize money	$94,296
Singles
Career record	5–11 (at Grand Slam-level, ATP World Tour-level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0 ATP, 4 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 121 (27 September 1993)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	1R (1994)
French Open	Q2 (1996)
Doubles
Career record	0–3 (at Grand Slam-level, ATP World Tour-level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0 ATP, 5 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 253 (17 August 1998)
Last updated on: 20 August 2012.

Milen Velev (Bulgarian: Милен Велев) (born 4 September 1971) is a former professional tennis player from Bulgaria.^[1]

Career

Velev appeared in 20 Davis Cup ties for Bulgaria, from 1988 to 2002. He was victorious in 20 of his 34 rubbers, finishing with a 14/7 record in singles and 6/7 in doubles. Only Todor Enev has won more Davis Cup matches for the national team. He had his best win in 1993, when he defeated top 30 player Marcos Ondruska, a South African.^[2]

He was a quarter-finalist at the 1992 Saab International, an ATP Tour tournament held in Athens.^[3] En route he upset fifth seed Guillermo Pérez-Roldán.^[3]

The Bulgarian played in the main draw of one Grand Slam event during his career, the 1994 Australian Open.^[3] He met veteran Mats Wilander in his opening round match, which he lost in four sets.^[3]

Year-end rankings

Futures and Challenger finals: 15 (9–6)

Singles: 7 (4–3)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Winner	1.	25 July 1993	Oberstaufen, Germany ATP Challenger $25,000	Clay	Sláva Doseděl	6–3, 7–6
Runner-up	1.	1 August 1993	Poznań, Poland ATP Challenger $50,000	Clay	Andrea Gaudenzi	3–6, 6–3, 3–6
Winner	2.	14 June 1998	Zaječar, Yugoslavia ITF Futures $10,000	Clay	Dejan Petrovic	6–4, 7–6
Runner-up	2.	21 June 1998	Skopje, Macedonia ITF Futures $10,000	Clay	Cyril Buscaglione	6–4, 4–6, 3–6
Winner	3.	11 July 1999	Thessaloniki, Greece ITF Futures $15,000	Clay	Solon Peppas	6–3, 6–1
Runner-up	3.	18 June 2000	Skopje, Macedonia ITF Futures $10,000	Clay	Xavier Pujo	2–6, 7–5, 3–6
Winner	4.	1 July 2001	Skopje, Macedonia ITF Futures $10,000	Hard	Todor Enev	7–5, 6–4

Doubles: 8 (5–3)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	1.	21 February 1998	Mondseeland, Austria ITF Futures $10,000	Carpet (I)	Ivaylo Traykov	Petr Pála Borut Urh	4–6, 6–7
Winner	1.	21 June 1998	Skopje, Macedonia ITF Futures $10,000	Clay	Matey Pampoulov	Cyril Buscaglione Olaf Knutel	3–6, 6–4, 6–4
Winner	2.	28 June 1998	Kočani, Macedonia ITF Futures $10,000	Clay	Matey Pampoulov	Erik Csarnakovics Stefano Galvani	7–5, 6–3
Runner-up	2.	19 August 1998	Sopot, Poland ATP Challenger $25,000	Clay	Alexander Shvets	James Greenhalgh Nenad Zimonjić	1–6, 3–6
Winner	3.	4 July 1999	Alexandroupolis, Greece ITF Futures $10,000	Carpet	Ivaylo Traykov	Fernando González Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	7–6(7–2), 7–6(7–4)
Winner	4.	2 July 2000	Skopje, Macedonia ITF Futures $10,000	Hard	Relja Dulić Fišer	Sebastian Fitz Sergei Pozdnev	2–6, 6–2, 7–6(7–3)
Runner-up	3.	24 June 2001	Skopje, Macedonia ITF Futures $10,000	Clay	Todor Enev	Michail Elgin Evgueni Smirnov	6–4, 4–6, 1–6
Winner	5.	1 July 2001	Skopje, Macedonia ITF Futures $10,000	Hard	Todor Enev	Radoslav Lukaev Predrag Rusevski	6–2, 7–5

Davis Cup

Milen Velev debuted for the Bulgaria Davis Cup team in 1988. Since then he has a 14–7 singles record and a 6–7 doubles record (20–14 overall).

Singles (14–7)

Edition	Round	Date	Surface	Opponent	W/L	Result
1990 Europe Zone Group II	QF	4 May 1990	Clay	George Kalovelonis	W	6–3, 6–4, 6–0
		6 May 1990		Konstantinos Effraimoglou	W	6–2, 7–5
	SF	15 June 1990	Clay	Tomasz Iwanski	L	3–6, 2–6, 3–6
		17 June 1990		Wojciech Kowalski	L	6–7(3–7), 5–7
1993 Europe/Africa Zone Group II	R1	30 April 1993	Clay	Darek Nowicki	W	7–5, 6–4, 7–6(8–6)
		2 May 1993		Bartłomiej Dąbrowski	W	6–2, 5–7, 6–4, 6–1
	QF	16 July 1993	Clay	Marcos Ondruska	W	6–4, 6–4, 1–6, 6–1
		18 July 1993		Wayne Ferreira	L	3–6, 6–3, 6–4, 4–6, 2–6
1998 Europe/Africa Zone Group II	R1	1 May 1998	Clay (I)	Karim Alami	L	6–7(3–7), 6–4, 6–7(2–7), 2–6
		3 May 1998		Mehdi Tahiri	W	6–2, 6–3
	RPO	17 July 1998	Clay	Pascal Schaul	W	6–3, 6–1, 7–5
1999 Europe/Africa Zone Group II	R1	30 April 1999	Clay	Goudjo Gbedey	W	6–2, 6–2, 6–2
	QF	16 July 1999	Clay	Attila Sávolt	W	1–6, 7–6(7–2), 6–2, 6–0
2000 Europe/Africa Zone Group II	R1	30 April 2000	Clay	Vasilis Mazarakis	L	6–7(5–7), 2–6, 0–6
	QF	21 July 2000	Clay	Harel Levy	L	1–6, 3–6, 2–6
2001 Europe/Africa Zone Group III	RR	23 May 2001	Clay	Johan Theron	W	4–1, 4–0, 4–0
		24 May 2001		Komlavi Loglo	W	5–3, 4–0, 4–2
		25 May 2001		Predrag Rusevski	W	4–2, 4–5(4–7), 1–4, 5–4(7–3), 8–6
	SF	26 May 2001		Haris Bašalić	W	4–0, 5–3, 4–1
2002 Europe/Africa Zone Group II	R1	3 May 2002	Clay	Orest Tereshchuk	L	3–6, 6–2, 4–6, 1–6
		5 May 2002		Andrei Dernovskiy	W	7–5, 5–7, 6–4, 6–3

Doubles (6–7)

Edition	Round	Date	Partner	Surface	Opponents	W/L	Result
1988 Europe Zone Group I	RPO	11 June 1988	Julian Stamatov	Clay	George Cosac Florin Segărceanu	L	4–6, 1–6, 4–6
1988 Europe Zone Group II	QF	13 May 1989	Krassimir Lazarov	Clay	Christophe Boggetti Jacques Vincileoni	L	6–7(2–7), 6–1, 6–3, 1–6, 6–8
1990 Europe Zone Group II	R1	31 March 1990	Ivan Keskinov	Clay	Yiannos Hadjigeorgiou Neoclis Neocleous	W	6–1, 6–1, 6–4
	QF	5 May 1990	Stefan Tzvetkov	Clay	George Kalovelonis Ioannis Rigas	W	6–7(5–7), 1–6, 6–2, 6–1, 6–3
	SF	16 June 1990	Stefan Tzvetkov	Clay	Tomasz Iwanski Wojciech Kowalski	L	6–3, 4–6, 1–6, 2–6
1993 Europe/Africa Zone Group II	R1	1 May 1993	Krassimir Lazarov	Clay	Tomasz Iwanski Darek Nowicki	L	6–4, 5–7, 5–7, 2–6
1998 Europe/Africa Zone Group II	R1	2 May 1998	Orlin Stanoytchev	Clay (I)	Karim Alami Mounir El Aarej	L	4–6, 5–7, 2–6
	RPO	18 July 1998	Orlin Stanoytchev	Clay	Adrian Graimprey Pascal Schaul	W	6–3, 6–2, 6–4
1999 Europe/Africa Zone Group II	R1	1 May 1999	Ivaylo Traykov	Clay	Jean-Kome Loglo Kossi Loglo	W	6–2, 6–4, 6–4
	QF	17 July 1999	Ivaylo Traykov	Clay	Zoltán Boróczky Attila Sávolt	L	3–6, 6–2, 3–6, 6–3, 5–7
2001 Europe/Africa Zone Group III	F	27 May 2001	Todor Enev	Clay	Mohamed Mamoun Marwan Zewar	W	4–2, 4–2, 4–1
2002 Europe/Africa Zone Group II	R1	4 May 2002	Todor Enev	Clay	Andrei Dernovskiy Orest Tereshchuk	W	7–6(7–5), 6–7(5–7), 7–6(7–4), 6–3
	QF	13 July 2002	Todor Enev	Hard	Claude N'Goran Valentin Sanon	L	4–6, 7–5, 2–6, 6–1, 4–6

• RPO = Relegation Play–off
• RR = Round Robin

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