Larisa Neiland won two singles titles and 63 doubles titles on the WTA Tour.
15 Facts About Larisa Neiland
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Larisa Neiland is listed in fourth place for the most doubles match wins in WTA history, after Lisa Raymond, Rennae Stubbs and Liezel Huber.
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Larisa Neiland has been the coach of Ukrainian tennis player Daria Snigur since 2017.
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Larisa Neiland won her first singles title in Chicago in January 1984, where she only lost one set.
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Larisa Neiland defeated Kathy Rinaldi, Peanut Louie Harper, and Nathalie Tauziat to reach the quarterfinals of Eastbourne in 1986.
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Larisa Neiland had wins over Robin White, Ann Henricksson, Candy Reynolds, and Melissa Gurney.
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In December 1989, Larisa married Aleksandr Neiland and took his last name, she continued to compete as Larisa Savchenko-Neiland.
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Larisa Neiland 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.
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Larisa Neiland then reached her next five doubles runners-up with Novotna.
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Larisa Neiland represented Latvia at the 1992 Summer Olympics in both singles and doubles, but lost in the first round in both events.
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Larisa Neiland played in 2000 but retired after losing at Wimbledon.
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Larisa Neiland 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.
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Larisa Neiland tested positive for prohibited levels of the stimulant caffeine at the 1999 Australian Open.
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Larisa Neiland was 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.
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Larisa Neiland married Latvian tennis coach Aleksandr Neiland on 21 December 1989, after which her surname was changed from Savchenko to Neiland.