Mariana Mesa Pineda (born 1 April 1980) is a Colombian former professional tennis player.

Mariana Mesa
Full nameMariana Mesa Pineda
Country (sports) Colombia
Born (1980-04-01) 1 April 1980 (age 44)
Pereira, Colombia
Height1.66 m (5 ft 5 in)
PlaysRight-handed
Prize money$39,467
Singles
Career record90–60
Career titles5 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 251 (15 May 2000)
Doubles
Career record78–50
Career titles7 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 161 (7 August 2000)
Team competitions
Fed Cup7–9

Biography

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Tennis career

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Mesa, who grew up in the city of Pereira, made her Fed Cup debut in 1995, having just turned 15. She featured in a total of 12 ties for Colombia during her career, mostly as doubles player, winning seven matches overall.

On the WTA Tour, she made most of her main-draw appearances at her home event, the Copa Colsanitas, playing in every edition of the tournament from 1998 to 2000. She had her best performance in 1998, when she made the round of 16 of the singles and was a doubles semifinalist. Her only other singles main draw came at the 1999 Brasil Open, which she made as a qualifier.

Mesa reached a best singles ranking on tour of 251 in the world and won five ITF Women's Circuit tournaments. As a doubles player she had a top ranking of 161, with seven ITF titles.

At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Mesa represented Colombia in the doubles competition, with Fabiola Zuluaga as her partner.[1]

Life after tennis

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Mesa now coaches tennis and also works as broadcaster with Win Sports. She studied political science at Universidad Javeriana.[2]

ITF Circuit finals

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Singles: 7 (5–2)

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Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Winner 1. 18 September 1994 ITF Manizales, Colombia Clay   Stephania Gehrke 6–3, 6–4
Winner 2. 6 July 1998 ITF Vigo, Spain Clay   Paula Racedo 6–1, 6–4
Winner 3. 13 September 1998 ITF Lima, Peru Clay   Sabrina Valenti 6–0, 7–6
Winner 4. 23 May 1999 ITF Zaragoza, Spain Clay   Luciana Masante 1–6, 6–4, 6–1
Winner 5. 29 August 1999 ITF La Paz, Bolivia Clay   Melisa Arévalo 6–1, 6–4
Runner-up 1. 26 September 1999 ITF Asunción, Paraguay Clay   María Emilia Salerni 6–3, 6–7, 5–7
Runner-up 2. 3 September 2000 ITF Buenos Aires, Argentina Clay   Romina Ottoboni 6–7(3), 2–6

Doubles: 14 (7–7)

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Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Runner-up 1. 11 September 1995 ITF Bucaramanga, Colombia Clay   Carmiña Giraldo   Joanne Moore
  Ximena Rodríguez
5–7, 6–4, 4–6
Runner-up 2. 22 June 1998 ITF Santander, Spain Clay   Juliana Garcia   Marina Escobar
  Lourdes Domínguez Lino
1–6, 6–7(1)
Winner 1. 7 September 1998 ITF Lima, Peru Clay   Nina Nittinger   Natalia Gussoni
  Sabrina Valenti
6–3, 7–5
Runner-up 3. 30 November 1998 ITF Bogotá, Colombia Clay   Fabiola Zuluaga   Katarina Srebotnik
  Zuzana Váleková
3–6, 4–6
Winner 2. 23 May 1999 ITF Zaragoza, Spain Clay   Lourdes Domínguez Lino   Melisa Arévalo
  Jorgelina Torti
w/o
Runner-up 4. 31 May 1999 ITF Azeméis, Portugal Hard   Jorgelina Torti   Kelly Liggan
  Tzipora Obziler
4–6, 6–4, 6–7(6)
Winner 3. 2 August 1999 ITF Caracas, Venezuela Hard   Melisa Arévalo   Gabriela Voleková
  Aliénor Tricerri
7–5, 7–6(1)
Winner 4. 23 August 1999 ITF La Paz, Bolivia Clay   Melisa Arévalo   Helga Vieira
  Ana Paula Novaes
6–1, 6–4
Runner-up 5. 19 September 1999 ITF Asunción, Paraguay Hard   Aliénor Tricerri   Rossana de los Ríos
  Larissa Schaerer
2–6, 3–6
Winner 5. 5 December 1999 ITF Cali, Colombia Clay   Fabiola Zuluaga   Miriam D'Agostini
  Larissa Schaerer
2–6, 7–6, 6–1
Runner-up 6. 24 July 2000 ITF Pamplona, Spain Hard   Leanne Baker   Yvette Basting
  Mia Buric
2–6, 0–6
Runner-up 7. 3 September 2000 ITF Buenos Aires 2 Clay   Larissa Schaerer   Melisa Arévalo
  Paula Racedo
3–6, 5–7
Winner 6. 10 September 2000 ITF Buenos Aires 3 Clay   Romina Ottoboni   Sabrina Valenti
  Natalia Gussoni
1–6, 6–4, 6–3
Winner 7. 8 October 2000 ITF Mexico City Hard   Branka Bojović   Alejandra Rivero
  Zerene Reyes
5–3, 4–0, 3–5

References

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  1. ^ "La tenista Mariana Mesa incluida en equipo olímpico de Colombia". Caracol Radio (in Spanish). 10 August 2000.
  2. ^ "Mariana Mesa, "No fui novia de Jaime Garzón"" (in Spanish). quepasocon.co. 3 March 2018. Archived from the original on 24 October 2019. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
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