Elixane Lechemia

Elixane Lechemia (born 3 September 1991) is a French tennis player.

She has career-high WTA rankings of No. 343 in singles, achieved on 3 April 2017, and of No. 65 in doubles, set on 7 March 2022. Lechemia has won one doubles title on the WTA Tour and two on WTA 125 tournaments, with four singles and 16 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.

Career 2019–2020: Major debut Lechemia made her major main-draw debut at the 2019 French Open, after receiving a wildcard for the doubles draw, partnering Estelle Cascino. She participated also in the 2020 French Open as a wildcard, partnering with debutante French teenager Elsa Jacquemot.

2021–2022: First WTA Tour doubles title Lechemia won her first WTA Tour title at the 2021 Copa Colsanitas in Bogotá, partnering with Ingrid Neel, defeating the third-seeded pair of Mihaela Buzărnescu and Anna-Lena Friedsam.

Partnering Quinn Gleason, Lechemia was runner-up in the doubles at the WTA 125 2022 Montevideo Open, losing to Ingrid Martins and Luisa Stefani in the final.

2023–2024: Second career final and major third round in doubles Partnering Quinn Gleason, Lechemia finished runner-up at the 2023 Prague Open, losing to Nao Hibino and Oksana Kalashnikova in the final.

Playing with Katarzyna Kawa, she was doubles champion at the WTA 125 2023 Polish Open, thanks to a win over Naiktha Bains and Maia Lumsden in the final.

After the withdrawal of top seeds Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula, she entered the 2024 Australian Open as an alternate pair, partnering Tamara Korpatsch, and reached the third round of a major for the first time in her career, but lost to Caroline Garcia and Kristina Mladenovic.

Grand Slam doubles performance timeline

WTA Tour finals Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up) LegendWTA 500WTA 250 (1–1)Finals by surfaceHard (0–1)Clay (1–0)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin 1–0 Apr 2021 Copa Colsanitas, Colombia WTA 250 Clay Ingrid Neel Mihaela Buzărnescu Anna-Lena Friedsam 6–3, 6–4Loss 1–1 Jul 2023 Prague Open, Czech Republic WTA 250 Hard Quinn Gleason Nao Hibino Oksana Kalashnikova 7–6(9–7), 5–7, [3–10]

WTA 125 finals Doubles: 8 (2 titles, 6 runner-ups)

ITF Circuit finals Singles: 9 (4 titles, 5 runner-ups) Legend$25,000 tournaments$10/15,000 tournaments (4–5)Finals by surfaceHard (3–1)Clay (1–4)

Doubles: 30 (16 titles, 14 runner-ups) Legend$60,000 tournaments (2–2)$25,000 tournaments (8–4)$10/15,000 tournaments (6–8)Finals by surfaceHard (7–8)Clay (8–5)Carpet (1–1)