Lina Gjorcheska ( mk, Лина Ѓорческа, Lina Ǵorčeska; born 3 August 1994) is a Macedonian

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player, and the most successful of her country to date. She has career-high

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of 170 in singles and 116 in doubles, both achieved on 12 June 2017. She has won 12 singles and 45 doubles titles on the

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. Playing for

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, Gjorcheska has a win–loss record of 14–4. At the 2016 US Open, she lost in the first round of qualifying to

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. It was her first Grand Slam appearance. At her first appearance at the

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in 2017, Gjorcheska beat

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in the first round of qualifications. In the second round, she beat

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in straight sets and then lost to

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in three. She played her first

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main draw at the 2017 Ladies Open Biel Bienne, and lost in the first round to

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. Then she made the finals at the Tunis $60k tournament where she was defeated by

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. She was recovering from right hand injury from August 2017 till April 2018 when she started to play again. Since then, she has been playing tournaments and is slowly climbing on the rankings again. She has been making a successful comeback in singles and doubles in 2019, 2020, and 2021.

Grand Slam singles performance

WTA Challenger finals

Doubles: 1 (runner-up)

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 30 (12 titles, 18 runner–ups)

Doubles: 68 (45 titles, 23 runner–ups)

Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup participation

Singles (3–0)

Doubles (2–1)

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