Leila Meskhi ( ka, ლეილა მესხი, tr, ; born 5 January 1968) is a retired

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n professional

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player. Meskhi has won five singles and doubles titles on the WTA Tour. She has also won one singles and two doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 5 August 1991, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 12. On 10 April 1995, she peaked at No. 21 in the WTA doubles rankings. Her best performance at a Grand Slam tournament came when she got to the quarterfinals of the 1990 US Open, defeating

Akiko Kijimuta is a former professional tennis player from Japan. She was born on May 1, 1968, in Japan and played on the WTA tour from 1986 to 1992. She reached the fourth round at Roland Garros in 1992, where she led the world number-one-ranked player Moni ...

Natasha Zvereva Natallia Marataŭna Zvierava ( be, Наталля Маратаўна Зверава; russian: Наталья Маратовна Зверева, Natalia Maratovna Zvereva; born 16 April 1971) is a former professional tennis player from Belarus ...

, Katia Piccolini and

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before losing to eventual champion

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in straight sets.

WTA career finals

Singles: 11 (5 titles, 6 runner-ups)

Doubles: 12 (5 titles, 7 runner-up)

ITF finals

Singles (1–0)

Doubles (2-0)

Grand Slam performance timeline

Singles

External links

* * * * 1968 births Living people French Open junior champions Female tennis players from Georgia (country) Olympic bronze medalists for the Unified Team Olympic tennis players of the Soviet Union Olympic tennis players of the Unified Team Sportspeople from Tbilisi Soviet female tennis players Tennis players at the 1988 Summer Olympics Tennis players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in tennis Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics Universiade medalists in tennis Universiade gold medalists for the Soviet Union Grand Slam (tennis) champions in girls' doubles Medalists at the 1987 Summer Universiade {{Georgia-tennis-bio-stub