Līga Dekmeijere

Līga Dekmeijere
Country	Latvia
Residence	Riga, Latvia
Born	May 21, 1983 (age 28); Riga, Soviet Union
Height	1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	65 kg (140 lb; 10.2 st)
Turned pro	2000
Retired	2011
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize money	US$347,337
Singles
Career record	174–268
Career titles	0 WTA; 0 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 287 (August 26, 2002)
Doubles
Career record	263–271
Career titles	1 WTA; 19 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 54 (April 5, 2010)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	2R (2005, 2010, 2011)
French Open	2R (2006, 2011)
Wimbledon	1R (2006, 2009, 2010)
US Open	2R (2008, 2009)
	Last updated on: August, 2011.

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Līga Dekmeijere (born May 21, 1983 in Riga) is a professional tennis player from Latvia who has won nineteen International Tennis Federation doubles titles and one Women's Tennis Association doubles title. Dekmeijere has been as high as World Number 54 in the overall women's doubles rankings, a ranking that she achieved on April 5, 2010. The Latvian has also played in seventeen various Grand Slam tennis events (as of August 2011).

Dekmeijere won her only WTA title at the 2008 Cachantún Cup, where she entered the doubles event with Poland's Alicja Rosolska. The team reached the final after defeating the number two seeded doubles team on the way to the finals, where the team defeated Mariya Koryttseva and Julia Schruff.^[1]

[edit] 2011

Dekmeijere took part at the 2011 Citi Open – Singles Qualifying where she beat Tara Iyer of India in Round 1 in two very close sets, but lost to Ryoko Fuda of Japan, 0–6, 0–6.

[edit] WTA Career Finals

[edit] Doubles: 6 (1-5)

Legend (pre/post 2009)
Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)
WTA Tour Championships (0–0)
Tier I / Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0–0)
Tier II / Premier (0–1)
Tier III, IV & V / International (1–4)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in final	Score in final
Runner-up	1.	November 6, 2005	Quebec City, Canada	Hard (i)	Ashley Harkleroad	Anastasia Rodionova Elena Vesnina	6–7^(4–7), 6–4, 6–2
Runner-up	2.	January 13, 2006	Canberra, Australia	Hard	Claire Curran	Marta Domachowska Roberta Vinci	7–6^(7–5), 6–3
Winner	1.	February 17, 2008	Viña del Mar, Chile	Clay	Alicja Rosolska	Mariya Koryttseva Julia Schruff	7–5, 6–3
Runner-up	3.	June 20, 2008	's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands	Grass	Angelique Kerber	Marina Erakovic Michaëlla Krajicek	6–3, 6–2
Runner-up	4.	April 19, 2009	Charleston, United States	Clay	Patty Schnyder	Bethanie Mattek-Sands Nadia Petrova	6–7^(5–7), 6–2, [11–9]
Runner-up	5.	January 15, 2011	Hobart, Australia	Hard	Kateryna Bondarenko	Sara Errani Roberta Vinci	6–3, 7–5