Larisa Neiland











































































































Larisa Savchenko-Neiland
Country (sports)
 Soviet Union
 Latvia
Residence
Jūrmala, Latvia
Born
(1966-07-21) 21 July 1966 (age 52)
Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Height 1.69 m (5 ft 6 12 in)
Turned pro 1983
Retired 2000
Plays Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Prize money $4,083,936
Singles
Career record 322–283
Career titles 2
Highest ranking No. 13 (23 May 1988)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open 4R (1992)
French Open 3R (1984, 1989)
Wimbledon QF (1994)
US Open QF (1988)
Doubles
Career record 766–258
Career titles 65
Highest ranking
No. 1 (27 January 1992)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open SF (1995, 1996, 1997)
French Open
W (1989)
Wimbledon
W (1991)
US Open F (1991, 1992)
Other doubles tournaments
Tour Finals F (1988, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1999)

Larisa Savchenko-Neiland (née Savchenko; also Larisa Neiland; born 21 July 1966) is a retired professional tennis player who represented the Soviet Union and Latvia. A former world No. 1 ranked doubles player, Neiland won two Grand Slam women's doubles and four mixed doubles titles. She also won two singles titles and 63 doubles titles on the WTA Tour.




Contents






  • 1 Career


  • 2 Major finals


    • 2.1 Grand Slam tournaments


      • 2.1.1 Women's doubles: 12 (2 titles, 10 runners-up)


      • 2.1.2 Mixed doubles: 9 (4 titles, 5 runners-up)




    • 2.2 Year-end championships


      • 2.2.1 Doubles: 5 (5 runners-up)






  • 3 Career finals


    • 3.1 Singles: 9 (2 titles, 7 runner-ups)


    • 3.2 Doubles: 65 titles




  • 4 Women's doubles performance timeline


  • 5 Head-to-head record against other players


  • 6 Personal life


  • 7 References


  • 8 External links





Career


Savchenko turned professional in 1983 as No. 10 on ITF World Junior rankings in that year. Doubles team of Savchenko and Svetlana Parkhomenko reached Wimbledon quarterfinals in 1983 and 1984, both times as an unseeded pair; beat No. 2 seeds Fairbank/Reynolds in 1983 and No. 3 seeds Horvath/Ruzici in 1984. In 1984, Savchenko reached the third round of the French Open as a qualifier, which was her best singles result at the French Open. She won her first singles title in Chicago in January 1984, where she only lost one set.


Having 1986 wins over Wendy Turnbull (twice), Ann Henricksson, and Annabel Croft, Savchenko was ranked No. 1 in USSR for 1986. She qualified for the Virginia Slims Championships in March and November 1986 with partner Svetlana Parkhomenko. She defeated Kathy Rinaldi, Peanut Louie Harper, and Nathalie Tauziat to reach the quarterfinals of Eastbourne in 1986.


Savchenko jumped from No. 53 to No. 28 (June 1983) on the Hewlett-Packard/WITA Computer rankings after performances at Birmingham and Eastbourne. She also had wins over Robin White, Ann Henricksson, Candy Reynolds, and Melissa Gurney.[1]


In 1988, Savchenko reached her first Grand Slam doubles final with Natasha Zvereva. They lost 10–12 in the final set to Gabriela Sabatini and Steffi Graf, who in that same year won all four Grand Slam singles titles and an Olympic gold medal. In 1989, again with Zvereva, Savchenko won her first doubles Grand Slam over Graf and Sabatini in straight sets.


After in December 1989 Larisa married Aleksandr Neiland and took his last name, she continued to compete as 'Larisa Savchenko-Neiland'.[2]


In 1991, she captured the Wimbledon title with Zvereva. In 1992, she lost in the US Open final to Jana Novotná and Helena Suková. She won her first mixed doubles title at Wimbledon, as well, when she and Cyril Suk teamed and won over Dutch duo Jacco Eltingh and Miriam Oremans. That year, she reached the No. 1 doubles ranking. Neiland then reached her next five doubles runners-up with Novotná. Each and every final played with Novotná was lost, the first being the US Open in 1991 and losing to Pam Shriver and Zvereva.


Her final Grand Slam doubles final appearance came in 1996 at Wimbledon. Neiland played in 2000 but retired after losing at Wimbledon. She lost in the first round, when she and her partner Lina Krasnoroutskaya lost to Ai Sugiyama and Julie Halard, the eventual runners-up, in straight sets, 4–6, 3–6.


She currently coaches Svetlana Kuznetsova and is part of the Russian Fed Cup coaching team.



Major finals



Grand Slam tournaments



Women's doubles: 12 (2 titles, 10 runners-up)
























































































































Outcome
Year
Championship
Surface
Partner
Opponents
Score
Runner-up 1988 Wimbledon Grass
Soviet Union Natasha Zvereva

West Germany Steffi Graf
Argentina Gabriela Sabatini
3–6, 6–1, 10–12
Winner 1989 French Open Clay
Soviet Union Natasha Zvereva

West Germany Steffi Graf
Argentina Gabriela Sabatini
6–4, 6–4
Runner-up 1989 Wimbledon (2)
Grass
Soviet Union Natasha Zvereva

Czechoslovakia Jana Novotná
Czechoslovakia Helena Suková
1–6, 2–6
Runner-up 1990 French Open (2)
Clay
Soviet Union Natasha Zvereva

Czechoslovakia Jana Novotná
Czechoslovakia Helena Suková
4–6, 5–7
Runner-up 1991 French Open (3)
Clay
Soviet Union Natasha Zvereva

United States Gigi Fernández
Czechoslovakia Jana Novotná
4–6, 0–6
Winner 1991 Wimbledon (3)
Grass
Soviet Union Natasha Zvereva

United States Gigi Fernández
Czechoslovakia Jana Novotná
6–4, 3–6, 6–4
Runner-up 1991 US Open Hard
Czechoslovakia Jana Novotná

United States Pam Shriver
Belarus Natasha Zvereva
4–6, 6–4, 6–7(5–7)
Runner-up 1992 Wimbledon (4)
Grass
Czechoslovakia Jana Novotná

United States Gigi Fernández
Belarus Natasha Zvereva
4–6, 1–6
Runner-up 1992 US Open (2)
Hard
Czechoslovakia Jana Novotná

United States Gigi Fernández
Belarus Natasha Zvereva
6–7(5–7), 1–6
Runner-up 1993 French Open (4)
Clay
Czech Republic Jana Novotná

United States Gigi Fernández
Belarus Natasha Zvereva
3–6, 5–7
Runner-up 1993 Wimbledon (5)
Grass
Czech Republic Jana Novotná

United States Gigi Fernández
Belarus Natasha Zvereva
4–6, 7–6(9–7), 4–6
Runner-up 1996 Wimbledon (6)
Grass
United States Meredith McGrath

Switzerland Martina Hingis
Czech Republic Helena Suková
7–5, 5–7, 1–6


Mixed doubles: 9 (4 titles, 5 runners-up)





























































































Outcome
Year
Championship
Surface
Partner
Opponents
Score
Winner 1992 Wimbledon Grass
Czechoslovakia Cyril Suk

Netherlands Miriam Oremans
Netherlands Jacco Eltingh
7–6(7–2), 6–2
Winner 1994 Australian Open Hard
Russia Andrei Olhovskiy

Czech Republic Helena Suková
Australia Todd Woodbridge
7–5, 6–7(0–7), 6–2
Runner-up 1994 French Open Clay
Russia Andrei Olhovskiy

Netherlands Kristie Boogert
Netherlands Menno Oosting
5–7, 6–3, 5–7
Winner 1995 French Open (2)
Clay
Australia Mark Woodforde

Canada Jill Hetherington
South Africa John-Laffnie de Jager
7–6(10–8), 7–6(7–4)
Winner 1996 Australian Open (2)
Hard
Australia Mark Woodforde

United States Nicole Arendt
United States Luke Jensen
4–6, 7–5, 6–0
Runner-up 1996 Wimbledon (2)
Grass
Australia Mark Woodforde

Czech Republic Helena Suková
Czechoslovakia Cyril Suk
6–1, 3–6, 2–6
Runner-up 1997 Australian Open (3)
Hard
South Africa John-Laffnie de Jager

Netherlands Manon Bollegraf
United States Rick Leach
3–6, 7–6(7–5), 5–7
Runner-up 1997 Wimbledon (3)
Grass
Russia Andrei Olhovskiy

Czech Republic Helena Suková
Czechoslovakia Cyril Suk
6–4, 3–6, 4–6
Runner-up 1999 French Open (3)
Clay
United States Rick Leach

Slovenia Katarina Srebotnik
South Africa Piet Norval
3–6, 6–3, 3–6


Year-end championships



Doubles: 5 (5 runners-up)

























































Outcome
Year
Championship
Surface
Partner
Opponents
Score
Runner-up 1988 New York Carpet (i)
Soviet Union Natalia Zvereva

United States Martina Navratilova
United States Pam Shriver
3–6, 4–6
Runner-up 1989 New York (2)
Carpet (i)
Soviet Union Natalia Zvereva

United States Martina Navratilova
United States Pam Shriver
3–6, 2–6
Runner-up 1992 New York (3)
Carpet (i)
Czechoslovakia Jana Novotná

Spain Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
Czechoslovakia Helena Suková
6–7(4–7), 1–6
Runner-up 1993 New York (4)
Carpet (i)
Czech Republic Jana Novotná

Belarus Natalia Zvereva
United States Gigi Fernández
3–6, 5–7
Runner-up 1999 New York (5)
Carpet (i)
Spain Arantxa Sánchez Vicario

Switzerland Martina Hingis
Russia Anna Kournikova
4–6, 4–6


Career finals



Singles: 9 (2 titles, 7 runner-ups)














Legend
Tier I (0–1)
Tier II (0–0)
Tier III (1–4)
Tier IV (0–0)
Tier V (1–0)
Virginia Slims (0–2)








Finals by surface
Hard (1–1)
Grass (0–1)
Clay (0–0)
Carpet (1–5)





























































































Outcome
No.
Date
Tournament
Surface
Opponent
Score
Runner-up
1.
26 January 1987

Wichita
Carpet (i)

United States Barbara Potter
6–7(6–8), 6–7(5–7)
Runner-up
2.
8 June 1987

Birmingham
Grass

United States Pam Shriver
6–4, 2–6, 2–6
Runner-up
3.
15 February 1988

Oakland
Carpet (i)

United States Martina Navratilova
1–6, 2–6
Runner-up
4.
20 February 1989
Oakland (2)
Carpet (i)

United States Zina Garrison
1–6, 1–6
Runner-up
5.
6 November 1989

Chicago
Carpet (i)

United States Zina Garrison
3–6, 6–2, 4–6
Runner-up
6.
1 February 1993

Tokyo
Carpet (i)

United States Martina Navratilova
2–6, 2–6
Winner
1.

23 September 1991

Saint Petersburg
Carpet (i)

Germany Barbara Rittner
3–6, 6–3, 6–4
Winner
2.
23 August 1993

Schenectady
Hard

Ukraine Natalia Medvedeva
6–3, 7–5
Runner-up
7.
24 August 1994
Schenectady (2)
Hard

Austria Judith Wiesner
5–7, 6–3, 4–6


Doubles: 65 titles


Grand Slam events in boldface











Women's doubles performance timeline
































































































































































































































































































































































Tournament 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 SR W–L

Grand Slam tournaments

Australian Open
A

2R
A
NH
A
A
A

QF

QF

QF

QF

3R

SF

SF

SF

2R

QF
A
0 / 11
31–11

French Open
A

1R

2R

QF
A
A

W

F

F

SF

F

QF

3R

SF

QF

SF

QF

1R
1 / 15
48–14

Wimbledon

QF

QF

QF

1R

SF

F

F

SF

W

F

F

QF

SF

F

SF
A

3R

1R
1 / 17
61–16

US Open

2R
A
A
A

1R

2R

QF

SF

F

F

2R

SF

3R
A

3R

2R

SF
A
0 / 13
33–13
Win–Loss
4–2
4–3
4–2
3–2
4–2
6–2
14–2
16–4
19–3
17–4
14–4
12–4
12–4
13–3
13–4
6–3
12–4
0–2
2 / 56
173–54

Year-end championships

Tour Championships
A
A
A

QF

QF

F

F

QF

QF

F

F
A

SF

SF

SF

QF

F
A
0 / 13
13–13

Tier I tournaments

Tokyo
NH
Not Tier I

SF

1R

QF
A
A
A

1R
A
0 / 4
3–4

Indian Wells
Not Held
Not Tier I

2R

QF
A
A
0 / 2
2–2

Boca Raton
NH
Not Tier I

W

W
Not Tier I
Not Held
2 / 2
8–0

Miami
Not Held
Not Tier I

QF

3R

W

W

QF

SF

F

3R

QF

QF

2R
2 / 11
27–9

Charleston
Not Tier I
A
A

F

SF

1R

SF

SF

2R

SF

2R

QF
0 / 9
13–8

Rome
Not Tier I
NH
Not Tier I

SF
A
A
A

QF
A
A

2R

2R

2R
A
0 / 5
5–5

Berlin
Not Tier I

QF

W

W
A

SF

F

W

SF

SF

SF
A
3 / 9
25–5

Montreal / Toronto
Not Tier I

2R

W
A

W

SF

SF

W

SF

1R

F
A
3 / 9
23–5

Zürich
NH
Not Tier I

SF

SF

1R

QF

F

SF

1R
A
0 / 7
9–7

Philadelphia
Not Held
Not Tier I

F
A

F
Not Tier I
0 / 2
6–2

Moscow
Not Held
NTI

SF

1R

QF
A
0 / 3
3–3

Career statistics
Year-end ranking
N/A
N/A
N/A
26
11
9
3
7
2
5
5
11
5
2
9
11
3
N/A

No. 1


Head-to-head record against other players


[citation needed]




  • Arantxa Sánchez Vicario 0–4


  • Serena Williams 0–1


  • Venus Williams 0–3


  • Lindsay Davenport 1–1


  • Steffi Graf 0–6


  • Monica Seles 0–2


  • Martina Navratilova 1–9



Personal life


She married Latvian tennis coach Aleksandr Neiland on 21 December 1989, after which her surname was changed from Savchenko to Neiland (Savčenko-Neiland). The marriage later ended in divorce.



References





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  2. ^ "Савченко-Нейланд, Лариса Ивановна биография". Peoplelife.ru. Retrieved 2018-10-21.

    "Лариса Савченко-Нейланд. Всю жизнь с теннисом". Championat.ru. 2011-07-21. Retrieved 2018-10-21.





External links




  • Larisa Neiland at the Women's Tennis Association Edit this at Wikidata


  • Larisa Neiland at the International Tennis Federation Edit this at Wikidata


  • Larisa Neiland at the Fed Cup Edit this at Wikidata










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