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

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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, Natasha Zvereva, Katia Piccolini and Linda Ferrando before losing to eventual champion Gabriela Sabatini 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

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* * * * 1968 births Living people French Open junior champions Female tennis players from Georgia (country) Olympic bronze medalists for the Unified Team Olympic tennis players for the Soviet Union Olympic tennis players for the Unified Team Tennis players 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 Summer World University Games medalists in tennis FISU World University Games gold medalists for the Soviet Union Grand Slam (tennis) champions in girls' doubles Medalists at the 1987 Summer Universiade Long stubs with short prose {{Georgia-tennis-bio-stub