Larisa Neiland

Larisa Savchenko-Neiland

Country (sports)	Soviet Union  Latvia
Residence	Jūrmala, Latvia
Born	21 July 1966 Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.69 m (5 ft 6 ^1⁄2 in)
Turned pro	1983
Retired	2000
Plays	Right-handed (one handed backhand)
Prize money	US$ 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; born 21 July 1966) is a former professional tennis player who represented the Soviet Union and Latvia. A former world number one ranked doubles player, Neiland won two women's doubles Grand Slam titles and four mixed doubles Grand Slam titles. She also won two singles titles and sixty-five doubles titles.

Career

Neiland turned professional in 1983. No. 10 on ITF World Junior rankings in 1983. Doubles team of Neiland 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, Neiland 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 a set.

Had 1986 wins over Wendy Turnbull (twice), Ann Henricksson, and Annabel Croft. Larisa 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.

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

In 1988, Neiland 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, also with Zvereva, Larisa won her first doubles grand slam over Graf and Sabatini in straight sets.

In 1991, Neiland captured the Wimbledon title with Zvereva. In 1992, she lost in the U.S. 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 number one 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 U.S. 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, 6–4, 6–3.

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

Major finals

Grand Slam finals

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

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1988	Wimbledon	Grass	Natasha Zvereva	Steffi Graf Gabriela Sabatini	6–3, 1–6, 12–10
Winner	1989	French Open	Clay	Natasha Zvereva	Steffi Graf Gabriela Sabatini	6–4, 6–4
Runner-up	1989	Wimbledon	Grass	Natasha Zvereva	Jana Novotná Helena Suková	6–1, 6–2
Runner-up	1990	French Open	Clay	Natasha Zvereva	Jana Novotná Helena Suková	6–4, 7–5
Runner-up	1991	French Open	Clay	Natasha Zvereva	Gigi Fernández Jana Novotná	6–4, 6–0
Winner	1991	Wimbledon	Grass	Natasha Zvereva	Gigi Fernández Jana Novotná	6–4, 3–6, 6–4
Runner-up	1991	US Open	Hard	Jana Novotná	Pam Shriver Natasha Zvereva	6–4, 4–6, 7–6^(7–5)
Runner-up	1992	Wimbledon	Grass	Jana Novotná	Gigi Fernández Natasha Zvereva	6–4, 6–1
Runner-up	1992	US Open	Hard	Jana Novotná	Gigi Fernández Natasha Zvereva	7–6^(7–5), 6–1
Runner-up	1993	French Open	Clay	Jana Novotná	Gigi Fernández Natasha Zvereva	6–3, 7–5
Runner-up	1993	Wimbledon	Grass	Jana Novotná	Gigi Fernández Natasha Zvereva	6–4, 6–7^(7–9), 6–4
Runner-up	1996	Wimbledon	Grass	Meredith McGrath	Martina Hingis Helena Suková	5–7, 7–5, 6–1

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

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	1992	Wimbledon	Grass	Cyril Suk	Miriam Oremans Jacco Eltingh	7–6^(7–2), 6–2
Winner	1994	Australian Open	Hard	Andrei Olhovskiy	Helena Suková Todd Woodbridge	7–5, 6–7^(0–7), 6–2
Runner-up	1994	French Open	Clay	Andrei Olhovskiy	Kristie Boogert Menno Oosting	7–5, 3–6, 7–5
Winner	1995	French Open	Clay	Mark Woodforde	Jill Hetherington John-Laffnie de Jager	7–6^(10–8), 7–6^(7–4)
Winner	1996	Australian Open (2)	Hard	Mark Woodforde	Nicole Arendt Luke Jensen	4–6, 7–5, 6–0
Runner-up	1996	Wimbledon	Grass	Mark Woodforde	Helena Suková Cyril Suk	1–6, 6–3, 6–2
Runner-up	1997	Australian Open	Hard	John-Laffnie de Jager	Manon Bollegraf Rick Leach	6–3, 6–7^(5–7), 7–5
Runner-up	1997	Wimbledon	Grass	Andrei Olhovskiy	Helena Suková Cyril Suk	4–6, 6–3, 6–4
Runner-up	1999	French Open	Clay	Rick Leach	Katarina Srebotnik Piet Norval	6–3, 3–6, 6–3

Year-End Championships finals

Doubles: 5 finals (0 titles, 5 runners-up)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1988	New York City	Carpet (I)	Natalia Zvereva	Martina Navratilova Pam Shriver	6–3, 6–4
Runner-up	1989	New York City	Carpet (I)	Natalia Zvereva	Martina Navratilova Pam Shriver	6–3, 6–2
Runner-up	1992	New York City	Carpet (I)	Jana Novotná	Arantxa Sánchez Vicario Helena Suková	7–6^(7–4), 6–1
Runner-up	1993	New York City	Carpet (I)	Jana Novotná	Natalia Zvereva Gigi Fernández	6–3, 7–5
Runner-up	1999	New York City	Carpet (I)	Arantxa Sánchez Vicario	Martina Hingis Anna Kournikova	6–4, 6–4

Titles (67)

Singles (2)

Winner — Legend Grand Slam tournaments (0–0) WTA Tour Championships (0–0) Tier I (0–1) Tier II (0–0) Tier III (1–4) Tier IV (0–0) Tier V (1–0) Virginia Slims (0–2)

Titles 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)	Barbara Potter	7–6^(8–6), 7–6^(7–5)
Runner-up	2.	8 June 1987	Birmingham	Grass	Pam Shriver	4–6, 6–2, 6–2
Runner-up	3.	15 February 1988	Oakland	Carpet (I)	Martina Navratilova	6–1, 6–2
Runner-up	4.	20 February 1989	Oakland	Carpet (I)	Zina Garrison	6–1, 6–1
Runner-up	5.	6 November 1989	Chicago	Carpet (I)	Zina Garrison	6–3, 2–6, 6–4
Runner-up	6.	1 February 1993	Tokyo	Carpet (I)	Martina Navratilova	6–2, 6–2
Winner	1.	23 September 1991	Saint Petersburg	Carpet (I)	Barbara Rittner	3–6, 6–3, 6–4
Winner	2.	23 August 1993	Schenectady	Hard	Natalia Medvedeva	6–3, 7–5
Runner-up	7.	24 August 1994	Schenectady	Hard	Judith Wiesner	7–5, 3–6, 6–4

Doubles (65)

Grand slam events in boldface.

1985: Seabrook Island (with Svetlana Parkhomenko) 1985: Salt Lake City (with Svetlana Parkhomenko) 1986: Little Rock (with Svetlana Parkhomenko) 1987: Wichita (with Svetlana Parkhomenko) 1987: Oklahoma City (with Svetlana Parkhomenko) 1987: Boca Raton (with Svetlana Parkhomenko) 1987: Eastbourne (with Svetlana Parkhomenko) 1988: Birmingham (with Natasha Zvereva) 1988: Indianapolis (with Natasha Zvereva) 1989: Amelia Island (with Natasha Zvereva) 1989: French Open (with Natasha Zvereva) 1989: Birmingham (with Natasha Zvereva) 1989: Moscow (with Natasha Zvereva) 1989: Chicago (with Natasha Zvereva) 1990: Birmingham (with Natasha Zvereva) 1990: Eastbourne (with Natasha Zvereva) 1990: Orlando (with Natasha Zvereva) 1990: Nashville (with Kathy Jordan) 1991: Aukland (with Patty Fendick) 1991: Boca Raton (with Natasha Zvereva) 1991: Hamburg (with Jana Novotná) 1991: Berlin (with Natasha Zvereva) 1991: Eastbourne (with Natasha Zvereva) 1991: Wimbledon (with Natasha Zvereva) 1991: Toronto (with Natasha Zvereva) 1991: Manhattan Beach (with Natasha Zvereva) 1991: Washington, D.C. (with Jana Novotná) 1991: Philadelphia (with Jana Novotná) 1992: Brisbane (with Jana Novotná) 1992: Boca Raton (with Natasha Zvereva) 1992: Key Biscayne (with Arantxa Sánchez Vicario) 1992: Wesley Chapel (with Jana Novotná) 1992: Berlin (with Jana Novotná)

1992: Eastbourne (with Jana Novotná) 1992: San Diego (with Jana Novotná) 1992: Leipzig (with Jana Novotná) 1992: Brighton (with Jana Novotná) 1993: Brisbane (with Conchita Martínez) 1993: Osaka (with Jana Novotná) 1993: Key Biscayne (with Jana Novotná) 1993: Toronto (with Jana Novotná) 1994: Osaka (with Rennae Stubbs) 1994: Amelia Island (with Arantxa Sánchez Vicario) 1994: Barcelona (with Arantxa Sánchez Vicario) 1994: Birmingham (with Zina Garrison) 1994: Schenectady (with Meredith McGrath) 1994: Brighton (with Manon Bollegraf) 1995: Paris Open Gaz de France (with Meredith McGrath) 1995: Barcelona (with Arantxa Sánchez Vicario) 1995: Edinburgh (with Meredith McGrath) 1995: Moscow (with Meredith McGrath) 1995: Leipzig (with Meredith McGrath) 1995: Brighton (with Meredith McGrath) 1996: Essen (with Meredith McGrath) 1996: Berlin (with Meredith McGrath) 1996: Rosmalen (with Brenda Schultz-McCarthy) 1996: Montreal (with Arantxa Sánchez Vicario) 1996: Moscow (with Natalia Medvedeva) 1997: Birmingham (with Katrina Adams) 1997: Luxembourg (with Helena Suková) 1999: Gold Coast (with Corina Morariu) 1999: Hamburg (with Arantxa Sánchez Vicario) 1999: Birmingham (with Corina Morariu) 1999: Los Angeles (with Arantxa Sánchez Vicario) 1999: Leipzig (with Mary Pierce)

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 Championship
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

• 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 Alex Neiland at 21 December 1989, her surname was changed from Savchenko to Neiland.

References

1. Gossett, Peggy; Teitelbaum, Mike; Hanlon, Maureen; Riach, Ros; Hinkley, Suzanne. 1987 WITA Media Guide. p. 205.

External links and sources

• Larisa Neiland at the Women's Tennis Association
• Larisa Neiland at the International Tennis Federation
• Larisa Neiland at the Fed Cup