Larisa Neiland

Larisa Savchenko-Neiland

Country (sports)	Soviet Union  Ukraine  Latvia
Residence	Jūrmala, Latvia
Born	(1966-07-21) 21 July 1966 (age 55) 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	$4,083,936
Singles
Career record	322–283 (53.2%)
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 (74.8%)
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)
show Medal record Women's tennis Representing  Soviet Union Friendship Games 1984 Women's doubles

Larisa Savchenko-Neiland (Ukrainian: Лариса Савченко-Нейланд, Latvian: Larisa Savčenko-Neilande; née Savchenko; also Larisa Neiland; born 21 July 1966) is a retired tennis player who represented the Soviet Union, Ukraine and Latvia. A former world number-one-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. She is listed in fourth place for the most doubles match wins (766) in WTA history, after Lisa Raymond, Rennae Stubbs and Liezel Huber.

Career[]

Savchenko turned professional in 1983 as No. 10 on the ITF Junior rankings in that year. Doubles team of Savchenko and Svetlana Parkhomenko reached the 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 final, over Graf and Sabatini in straight sets.

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.

Neiland tested positive for prohibited levels of the stimulant caffeine at the 1999 Australian Open. She was subsequently stripped of the $15k she had earned for reaching the women's doubles quarterfinals with Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, and issued a warning by the International Tennis Federation.^[3]

As a coach, she is best known for guiding Svetlana Kuznetsova to the 2009 French Open singles title and has been a part of the Russian Fed Cup coaching team.

Major finals[]

Grand Slam tournaments[]

Women's doubles: 12 (2 titles, 10 runner-ups)[]

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

Mixed doubles: 9 (4 titles, 5 runner-ups)[]

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

Year-end championships[]

Doubles: 5 (5 runner-ups)[]

Result	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	1988	New York	Carpet (i)	Natasha Zvereva	Martina Navratilova Pam Shriver	3–6, 4–6
Loss	1989	New York (2)	Carpet (i)	Natasha Zvereva	Martina Navratilova Pam Shriver	3–6, 2–6
Loss	1992	New York (3)	Carpet (i)	Jana Novotná	Arantxa Sánchez Vicario Helena Suková	6–7(4), 1–6
Loss	1993	New York (4)	Carpet (i)	Jana Novotná	Natasha Zvereva Gigi Fernández	3–6, 5–7
Loss	1999	New York (5)	Carpet (i)	Arantxa Sánchez Vicario	Martina Hingis Anna Kournikova	4–6, 4–6

WTA career finals[]

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

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	1.	Jan 1987	Wichita Open, U.S.	Carpet (i)	Barbara Potter	6–7(6), 6–7(5)
Loss	2.	Jun 1987	Birmingham Classic, UK	Grass	Pam Shriver	6–4, 2–6, 2–6
Loss	3.	Feb 1988	Oakland Classic, U.S.	Carpet (i)	Martina Navratilova	1–6, 2–6
Loss	4.	Feb 1989	Oakland Classic (2)	Carpet (i)	Zina Garrison	1–6, 1–6
Loss	5.	Nov 1989	Chicago Cup, U.S.	Carpet (i)	Zina Garrison	3–6, 6–2, 4–6
Loss	6.	Feb 1993	Pan Pacific Open, Japan	Carpet (i)	Martina Navratilova	2–6, 2–6
Win	1.	Sep 1991	Moscow Ladies Open, Russia	Carpet (i)	Barbara Rittner	3–6, 6–3, 6–4
Win	2.	Aug 1993	Schenectady Open, U.S.	Hard	Natalia Medvedeva	6–3, 7–5
Loss	7.	Aug 1994	Schenectady Open, U.S. (2)	Hard	Judith Wiesner	5–7, 6–3, 4–6

Doubles: 65 titles[]

Grand Slam events in boldface

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1.	Apr 1985	Seabrook Island, U.S.	Clay	Svetlana Parkhomenko	Elise Burgin Lori McNeil	6–1, 6–3
Win	2.	Sep 1985	Salt Lake City, U.S.	Hard	Svetlana Parkhomenko	Beverly Mould Rosalyn Fairbank	7–5, 6–2
Win	3.	Nov 1986	Little Rock, U.S.	Carpet (i)	Svetlana Parkhomenko	Iva Budařová Beth Herr	6–2, 1–6, 6–1
Win	4.	Jan 1987	Wichita, U.S.	Carpet (i)	Svetlana Parkhomenko	Barbara Potter Wendy White	6–2, 6–4
Win	5.	Feb 1987	Oklahoma City, U.S.	Hard	Svetlana Parkhomenko	Lori McNeil Kim Sands	6–4, 6–4
Win	6.	Feb 1987	Boca Raton, U.S.	Hard	Svetlana Parkhomenko	Chris Evert Pam Shriver	6–0, 3–6, 6–2
Win	7.	Jun 1987	Eastbourne, UK	Grass	Svetlana Parkhomenko	Rosalyn Fairbank Elizabeth Smylie	7–6(5), 4–6, 7–5

ITF finals[]

Singles (2–0)[]

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1.	2 January 1984	ITF Chicago, United States	Hard		6–2, 6–4
Win	2.	9 April 1984	ITF Caserta, Italy	Clay	Elena Eliseenko	6–2, 6–1

Doubles (3–1)[]

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	1.	2 January 1984	ITF Chicago, United States	Hard	Svetlana Parkhomenko	Csilla Bartos-Cserepy Marianne van der Torre	w/o
Win	2.	9 April 1984	ITF Caserta, Italy	Clay	Renata Šašak	Marie Pinterová Renáta Tomanová	6–1, 6–3
Win	3.	13 September 1993	ITF Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic	Clay	Karina Habšudová	Radka Bobková Petra Langrová	6–3, 6–4
Winner	4.	28 September 1996	ITF Limoges, France	Hard (i)	Natalia Medvedeva	Caroline Dhenin Dominique Monami	6–1, 6–1

Women's doubles performance timeline[]

Head-to-head records[]

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• 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[]

External links[]

• Larisa Neiland at the Women's Tennis Association
• Larisa Neiland at the International Tennis Federation
• Larisa Neiland at the Billie Jean King Cup