Elixane Lechemia

Elixane Lechemia
	Lechemia at the 2019 French Open
Country (sports)	France
Residence	Lyon, France
Born	3 September 1991 (age 32); Villeurbanne, France
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Plays	Left (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	US$ 337,376
Singles
Career record	234–207 (53.1%)
Career titles	4 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 343 (3 April 2017)
Doubles
Career record	215–208 (50.8%)
Career titles	1 WTA, 1 WTA Challenger
Highest ranking	No. 65 (7 March 2022)
Current ranking	No. 83 (29 January 2024)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	3R (2024)
French Open	1R (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)
Wimbledon	2R (2021)
US Open	2R (2021)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
French Open	2R (2023)
	Last updated on: 3 February 2024.

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 with four singles and 15 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.

Professional career

2019–2020: Grand Slam debut

Lechemia made her Grand Slam main-draw debut at the 2019 French Open, after receiving a wildcard for the doubles draw, partnering Estelle Cascino.^[1] She participated also in the 2020 French Open as a wildcard, partnering with debutante French teenager Elsa Jacquemot.

2021–2022: First WTA doubles title, top 65 debut

In April 2021, she won her first WTA Tour title at the Copa Colsanitas in Bogotá, partnering with American Ingrid Neel, defeating the third-seeded pair of Mihaela Buzărnescu and Anna-Lena Friedsam.

She then participated for the third consecutive year in the French Open as a wildcard, partnering again with Elsa Jacquemot.

2023–2024: Second doubles final, major third round

After the withdrawal of top seeds Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula, she entered as an alternate pair, partnering Tamara Korpatsch, and reached the third round of a major for the first time in her career.

Grand Slam doubles performance timeline

**Key**
W	F	SF	QF	#R	RR	Q#	P#	DNQ	A	Z#	PO	G	S	B	NMS	NTI	P	NH

(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) preliminary round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze Olympic/Paralympic medal; (NMS) not a Masters tournament; (NTI) not a Tier I tournament; (P) postponed; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.

To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Tournament	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	W–L
Australian Open	A	A	A	1R		3R	1–2
French Open	1R	1R	1R	1R	1R		0–5
Wimbledon	A	NH	2R	1R			1–2
US Open	A	A	2R	A			1–1
Win–loss	0–1	0–1	2–3	0–3	0–1	1–1	3–10

WTA Tour finals

Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

Legend
Grand Slam
WTA 1000
WTA 500
WTA 250 (1–1)

Finals by surface
Hard (0–1)
Grass (0–0)
Clay (1–0)
Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Apr 2021	Copa Colsanitas, Colombia	WTA 250	Clay	Ingrid Neel	Mihaela Buzărnescu Anna-Lena Friedsam	6–3, 6–4
Loss	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 Challenger finals

Doubles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Nov 2022	Montevideo Open, Uruguay	Clay	Quinn Gleason	Ingrid Gamarra Martins Luisa Stefani	5–7, 7–6^(8–6), [6–10]
Win	1–1	Aug 2023	Kozerki Open, Poland	Hard	Katarzyna Kawa	Naiktha Bains Maia Lumsden	6–3, 6–4
Loss	1–2	Sep 2023	Open delle Puglie, Italy	Clay	Valentini Grammatikopoulou	Katarzyna Kawa Anna Sisková	1–6, 2–6

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 9 (4 titles, 5 runner–ups)

Legend
$25,000 tournaments
$10/15,000 tournaments (4–5)

Finals by surface
Hard (3–1)
Clay (1–4)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Sep 2009	ITF Espinho, Portugal	10,000	Clay	Fatima El Allami	3–6, 2–6
Win	1–1	Sep 2010	ITF Lleida, Spain	10,000	Clay	Nadia Lalami	7–6⁽³⁾, 6–1
Loss	1–2	May 2011	ITF Getxo, Spain	10,000	Clay	Yevgeniya Kryvoruchko	6–7⁽⁹⁾, 6–3, 6–7⁽⁵⁾
Loss	1–3	Jun 2011	ITF Florence, Italy	10,000	Clay	Anastasia Grymalska	0–6, 6–4, 1–6
Loss	1–4	May 2012	ITF Edinburgh, United Kingdom	10,000	Clay	Quirine Lemoine	1–6, 0–6
Win	2–4	May 2016	ITF Antalya, Turkey	10,000	Hard	Yuliana Lizarazo	6–3, 3–6, 6–4
Win	3–4	Sep 2016	ITF Pétange, Luxembourg	10,000	Hard (i)	Magali Kempen	6–3, 6–0
Win	4–4	Oct 2016	GB Pro-Series Loughborough, UK	10,000	Hard (i)	Petra Krejsová	7–5, 6–1
Loss	4–5	Mar 2017	ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	15,000	Hard	Polina Monova	6–2, 5–7, 4–6

Doubles: 29 (15 titles, 14 runner–ups)

Legend
$60,000 tournaments (1–2)
$25,000 tournaments (8–4)
$10/15,000 tournaments (6–8)

Finals by surface
Hard (7–8)
Clay (7–5)
Carpet (1–1)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	May 2009	ITF Bournemouth, United Kingdom	10,000	Clay	Alizé Lim	Stephanie Cornish Tímea Babos	w/o
Win	1–1	Sep 2009	ITF Espinho, Portugal	10,000	Clay	Caroline Garcia	Mishel Okhremchuk Morgane Pons	7–5, 6–1
Win	2–1	Nov 2009	ITF Équeurdreville, France	10,000	Hard (i)	Constance Sibille	Elitsa Kostova Kinnie Laisné	6–4, 6–2
Win	3–1	Aug 2010	ITF Innsbruck, Austria	10,000	Clay	Victoria Larrière	Xenia Knoll Amra Sadiković	w/o
Loss	3–2	Oct 2010	ITF Clermont-Ferrand, France	25,000	Hard	Alizé Lim	Youlia Fedossova Iryna Brémond	6–7⁽⁵⁾, 3–6
Loss	3–3	July 2011	ITF Denain, France	25,000	Hard	Céline Ghesquière	Verónica Cepede Royg Teliana Pereira	1–6, 1–6
Loss	3–4	Nov 2011	ITF Équeurdreville, France	10,000	Hard	Silvia Njirić	Elyne Boeykens Eva Wacanno	4–6, 4–6
Loss	3–5	Jan 2012	ITF Sutton, United Kingdom	10,000	Hard (i)	Irina Ramialison	Amy Bowtell Quirine Lemoine	6–7⁽⁵⁾, 3–6
Loss	3–6	May 2012	ITF Edinburgh, United Kingdom	10,000	Clay	Martina Přádová	Eva Wacanno Karolina Wlodarczak	6–4, 0–6, [11–13]
Win	4–6	Nov 2016	ITF Solarino, Italy	10,000	Carpet	Mathilde Armitano	Deborah Chiesa Maria Masini	7–5, 6–1
Loss	4–7	Nov 2016	ITF Solarino, Italy	10,000	Carpet	Mathilde Armitano	Anna-Giulia Remondina Dalila Spiteri	w/o
Loss	4–8	Jul 2017	ITF Denain, France	25,000	Hard	Mathilde Armitano	Momoko Kobori Ayano Shimizu	4–6, 3–6
Loss	4–9	Nov 2017	ITF Benicarló, Spain	15,000	Clay	Cristina Bucșa	Noelia Bouzó Zanotti Ángeles Moreno Barranquero	3–6, 4–6
Loss	4–10	Feb 2018	Open de l'Isère, France	25,000	Hard (i)	Estelle Cascino	Amra Sadiković Eva Wacanno	6–4, 1–6, [6–10]
Win	5–10	Mar 2018	ITF Mâcon, France	15,000	Hard	Mathilde Armitano	Manon Arcangioli Diāna Marcinkēviča	6–1, 3–6, [10–8]
Loss	5–11	Mar 2018	ITF Tel Aviv, Israel	15,000	Hard (i)	Mathilde Armitano	Alicia Barnett Olivia Nicholls	6–7⁽³⁾, 3–6
Loss	5–12	Jun 2018	ITF Hammamet, Tunusia	15,000	Clay	Claudia Hoste Ferrer	Fernanda Brito Sofía Luini	3–6, 2–6
Win	6–12	Jun 2018	Open de Montpellier, France	25,000	Clay	Alice Ramé	Carolina Alves Martina Colmegna	6–7⁽⁵⁾, 6–2, [10–6]
Win	7–12	Jun 2018	ITF Périgueux, France	25,000	Clay	Eleni Kordolaimi	Cristina Bucșa María Herazo González	6–4, 3–6, [11–9]
Win	8–12	Jul 2018	ITF Setúbal, Portugal	25,000	Hard	Mathilde Armitano	Tereza Mihalíková Julia Terziyska	6–7⁽⁵⁾, 6–3, [13–11]
Win	9–12	Nov 2018	Open Nantes Atlantique, France	25,000	Hard (i)	Estelle Cascino	Akgul Amanmuradova Alina Silich	7–5, 6–4
Win	10–12	Feb 2019	Open de l'Isère, France	25,000	Hard (i)	Estelle Cascino	Andreea Mitu Elena-Gabriela Ruse	6–2, 6–2
Win	11–12	Mar 2019	ITF Gonesse, France	15,000	Clay	Mathilde Armitano	Tayisiya Morderger Yana Morderger	7–6⁽¹⁾, 7–5
Win	12–12	Apr 2019	ITF Calvi, France	25,000	Hard	Estelle Cascino	Ekaterina Kazionova Linnéa Malmqvist	6–3, 6–2
Win	13–12	Apr 2019	ITF Pula, Italy	25,000	Clay	Manon Arcangioli	Victoria Kan Anna Morgina	w/o
Win	14–12	Feb 2020	Open de l'Isère, France	25,000	Hard (i)	Amandine Hesse	Samantha Murray Sharan Julia Wachaczyk	6–3, 4–6, [13–11]
Win	15–12	Sep 2022	ITF Prague Open, Czech Republic	60,000	Clay	Julia Lohoff	Linda Klimovičová Dominika Šalková	7–5, 7–5
Loss	15–13	Jan 2023	ITF Vero Beach, United States	60,000	Clay	Quinn Gleason	Francesca Di Lorenzo Makenna Jones	6–4, 3–6, [3–10]
Loss	15–14	Feb 2023	Guanajuato Open, Mexico	60,000+H	Hard	Quinn Gleason	Emina Bektas Ingrid Neel	6–7⁽⁴⁾, 6–3, [6–10]

References

^ "Roland-Garros 2019 – Double Dames" (PDF).

External links

Elixane Lechemia at the Women's Tennis Association
Elixane Lechemia at the International Tennis Federation
Elixane Lechemia at Wimbledon
Elixane Lechemia at ESPN.com

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[1] "Roland-Garros 2019 – Double Dames" (PDF).

v t e Women's Tennis Association: Top French female doubles tennis players
as of 4 December 2023
1. Kristina Mladenovic (71 1) 2. Diane Parry (74 3) 3. Caroline Garcia (90 ) 4. Elixane Lechemia (101 ) 5. Estelle Cascino (145 8)
6. Jessika Ponchet (156 17) 7. Léolia Jeanjean (168 ) 8. Yasmine Mansouri (250 5) 9. Carole Monnet (257 5) 10. Alizé Cornet (315 1)