Mariana Mesa

Mariana Mesa
Full name	Mariana Mesa Pineda
Country (sports)	Colombia
Born	1 April 1980 (age 44); Pereira, Colombia
Height	1.66 m (5 ft 5 in)
Plays	Right-handed
Prize money	$39,467
Singles
Career record	90–60 (60.0%)
Career titles	5 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 251 (15 May 2000)
Doubles
Career record	78–50 (60.9%)
Career titles	7 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 161 (7 August 2000)
Team competitions
Fed Cup	7–9 (43.8%)

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

Biography[edit]

Tennis career[edit]

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[edit]

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

ITF Circuit finals[edit]

Singles: 7 (5–2)[edit]

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)[edit]

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