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Laura Pigossi
Brazilian tennis player (born 1994) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Laura Pigossi Herrmann de Andrade[1] (Portuguese: [ˈlawɾɐ piˈɡɔsi]; born 2 August 1994) is a Brazilian professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of No. 100 by the WTA, achieved on 29 August 2022 and a best doubles ranking of No. 80, reached on 1 December 2025. Her most notable achievement was a bronze medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in doubles, with countrywoman Luisa Stefani.
Pigossi plays mostly on the WTA Challenger Tour, where she has won one title in singles and three in doubles. On the ITF Circuit, she earned nine singles and 43 doubles titles.
Playing for Brazil Billie Jean King Cup team since 2013, Pigossi has a win-loss record of 9–9 in competition, as of September 2024.
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Junior beginnings

Laura Pigossi at the
ITF São Paulo, 2014.
ITF São Paulo, 2014.
Pigossi started playing tennis at the age of six at Club Athletico Paulistano in São Paulo, following her father and brother in the sport.[2]
In 2009, at age 14, she travelled to compete on the ITF Junior Circuit, participating in the junior events at the US Open, Wimbledon and Roland Garros. In that same season, Pigossi earned her first points on the professional circuit.[3]
At the age of 15, she moved to Barcelona, where her brother had attempted to pursue tennis and later education.[4]
Professional
2013
Pigossi made her debut for Brazil in the Fed Cup (now Billie Jean King Cup) and has a win–loss record of 8–6 in the competition as of March 2023.
2017
Partnering with Nadia Podoroska of Argentina, Pigossi reached the quarterfinals of the doubles draw at the WTA Rabat in Rabat, Morocco, where they were defeated by Hungarian Tímea Babos and Czech Andrea Sestini Hlaváčková, the top seeds.[5]
2019
In October 2019, in Lagos, Nigeria, Pigossi won two consecutive ITF doubles titles, her 35th and 36th career titles, which helped her break into the top 150 of the world doubles rankings.[6] [7] [8] [9]
2020–2021: Olympics doubles bronze medal, third longest game in history
In April 2021, Pigossi competed at the ITF W25 event in Córdoba, and in her opening match she lost to Russian player Amina Anshba with scores of 7–5, 3–6, 7–5, in a contest that lasted 4 hours and 53 minutes, becoming the third-longest match in the history of professional women's tennis.[10]

Pigossi is an Olympic bronze medallist from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in the doubles event. She partnered with Luisa Stefani to defeat Veronika Kudermetova and defending gold medallist Elena Vesnina to win the bronze medal. Pigossi and Stefani became the first Brazilians to obtain an Olympic medal in tennis in history, surpassing Fernando Meligeni's campaign that took 4th place in 1996.
The medal was one of the most unexpected: the Brazilians got an Olympic spot at the last minute, confirmed one week before the Games opened, with Stefani ranked No. 23 in the doubles ranking and Pigossi only at No. 190. Although the Brazilian pair had lost in the only game they played together before, during the overall campaign they managed to save eight match points. In addition to the four in the bronze-medal match, they saved another four in the match against Czech duo Karolína Plíšková/Markéta Vondroušová in the round of 16.[11][12][13]
2022: Wimbledon debut, top 100
In 2022, she played her first qualifying competition at a major at the Australian Open. [citation needed] Pigossi had her first WTA Tour-level wins at Copa Colsanitas in Bogotá, Colombia, coming from the qualifying rounds and reaching the finals. The campaign in Bogotá included wins against Dayana Yastremska in the quarterfinals and top seed Camila Osorio in the semifinals before losing the final to Tatjana Maria. Consequently, Pigossi reached a new career-high of world No. 126 in the singles rankings on 11 April 2022. [citation needed]

In May, she reached two second rounds at WTA 125-level in Saint-Malo and Karlsruhe.[citation needed] At the French Open, Pigossi made the qualifying draw as the 16th seed. [citation needed] In June, she made her major debut at Wimbledon.[14] At the Guadalajara Open, she made her main-draw debut at the WTA 1000-level as a lucky loser.[citation needed]
2023–2024: Pan American gold, WTA 125 titles
She also made her debut at the Australian Open as a lucky loser.[15] In August, Pigossi won an 60k event in Feira de Santana, Brazil.[16] During the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Pigossi won both the women's singles and doubles, the first Brazilian to ever do so – as well as the third to medal in both events after Maria Bueno and Gisele Miró – and earning her a spot in the 2024 Olympics singles tournament.[17] Pigossi earned her first singles Challenger Tour title by winning the Argentina Open in Buenos Aires.[18]

Pigossi started the 2024 season with a first-round singles loss at the Canberra International.[19][20] In doubles, Pigossi partnered with Alexandra Eala and advanced to the semifinals where they lost in straight sets.[21][22][23][24][25] She reached her second WTA 125 doubles final in San Luis Potosí with Polish partner Katarzyna Piter, but they withdrew on the day of the final due to Pigossi’s knee injury.[26] At the Copa Colsanitas, Pigossi won her opening match against fifth seed Nadia Podoroska, before losing her next match to Irina Bara.[27][28] She claimed her ninth ITF title at the W50 event in Pretoria, South Africa, defeating Hanne Vandewinkel in the final.[29]
During the Billie Jean King Cup (BJK Cup) qualifier against Germany in São Paulo in April 2024, Pigossi lost a three-set battle to Tatjana Maria, and withdrew from the following day’s match against Laura Siegemund due to pain.[30][31] In May, she made her debut at the French Open, after qualifying for the main draw.[citation needed] At the Olympics, she was defeated in her opening match by Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska.[32][33] In front of her home crowd, Pigossi won the W75 São Paulo tournament.[34]
In November at the BJK Cup tie between Brazil and Argentina, Pigossi fell in three sets to Solana Sierra.[35][36][37][38] She also lost her second match to Jazmín Ortenzi.[39][40][41][42][43][44] Partnering Maja Chwalińska, Pigossi won the doubles title at the WTA 125 MundoTenis Open in December, defeating Nicole Fossa Huergo and Valeriya Strakhova in the final. This was her last tournament in the 2024 season and also the first time she won a WTA 125 doubles title, her biggest achievement in doubles to date.[45]
2025: First two WTA 250 doubles finals
Pigossi began the 2025 season by participating in the singles qualifying rounds of the Auckland Classic in New Zealand. She was defeated in the opening round of the qualifying tournament by Sachia Vickery[46][47] She lost in the first round of doubles at the same event.[48] Pigossi's next tournament was the Australian Open, where, in the qualifying rounds, she won her first match but lost her second.[49][50][51][52]
In April, Pigossi participated in the 2025 Copa Colsanitas in Bogotá, Colombia. In the singles draw, she had a three-set comeback victory against No. 5 seed Laura Siegemund in the first round but lost in the second to Katarzyna Kawa, having been with a match point in the second set.[53][54] In the doubles draw, Pigossi and Irina Bara made the finals but lost to Sara Sorribes Tormo and Cristina Bucșa in a tiebreak. This was the first doubles final of Pigossi's career at the WTA 250 level and her biggest to date.[55]
At the US Open qualifying, Pigossi lost to Emerson Jones in the second round.[56]
In September, Pigossi participated in the first edition of the singles and doubles competitions of the SP Open, a WTA 250 in her hometown of São Paulo. Playing alongside Ingrid Martins, she was runner-up, losing in three sets against Luisa Stefani and Tímea Babos in the doubles final.[57][58] This was the first time that Pigossi reached a WTA tour tournament final on hard courts in either singles or doubles.
In the singles draw Pigossi got to the round of sixteen but lost to Beatriz Haddad Maia in straight sets.[59][60][61]
Then Pigossi returned to the Clube Paineiras do Morumby in her hometown of São Paulo to defend her singles title at the São Paulo Torneio Internacional de Tênis Feminino's ITF tournament, that this time was at the W35 level. Pigossi successfully defended her title by defeating Carolina Alves at the final in three sets and three hours and forty eight minutes of play.[62][63]
Again partnering with Martins, Pigossi went to play at two WTA 125 tournaments in Brazil in the month of October. First they played at the first edition of Martins hometown tournament, the Rio Ladies Open in Rio de Janeiro. Martins and Pigossi reached the semifinals but were defeated by Leyre Romero Gormaz and Tara Würth in straight sets. At the singles draw Pigossi lost to Julia Grabher in straight sets.
In the next week they played at the 2025 MundoTenis Open in Florianópolis, where they lost at the second round in three sets to Irene Burillo and Ekaterine Gorgodze. At the singles draw, Pigossi reached to the round of sixteen and lost to Alice Rame in two sets.
Pigossi then played at two more WTA 125 tournaments in South America. First in Cali, Colombia, she reached the singles round of sixteen where she lost in straight sets to Sara Bejlek. In the doubles draw she was the champion, partnering with fellow Brazilian Anna Candiotto and winning the final in straight sets against Ekaterine Gorgodze and Nicole Fossa Huergo. This was the second doubles title at a WTA 125 tournament for Pigossi.
Secondly, she played in the first edition of the WTA 125 tournament in Tucuman, Argentina, where she lost to Carla Markus of Argentina in straight sets in the first round of singles. At the doubles draw she reached the semifinal partnering with French player Carole Monnet, where they played against Valeriya Strakhova and Alicia Herrero Linana and lost in three sets on the first round.
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This article needs to be updated. (October 2025) |
| 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.
Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Billie Jean King Cup, United Cup, Hopman Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.
Singles
Current through the 2025 Cincinnati Open.
Doubles
Current through the 2023 US Open.
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Summer Olympics medal matches
Doubles: 1 (bronze medal)
WTA Tour finals
Singles: 1 (runner-up)
Doubles: 2 (2 runner-ups)
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WTA Challenger finals
Singles: 1 (title)
Doubles: 5 (3 titles, 2 runner-ups)
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ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 22 (11 titles, 11 runner-ups)
Doubles: 68 (43 titles, 25 runner-ups)
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Billie Jean King Cup participation
Singles (3–4)
Doubles (4–3)
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Best results by tournament type

Singles
- WTA 125: Champion
- WTA 250: Finalist
- WTA 500: Q1
- WTA 1000: R1
- Grand Slam: R1
Doubles
- WTA 125: Champion
- WTA 250: Finalist
Awards
- 2021
- Prêmio Brasil Olímpico - Best Brazilian tennis player of the year (tied with Luisa Stefani)[64]
Notes
- Formerly known as Fed Cup until 2020.
- Edition is split into the two years due to COVID-19.
- The first Premier 5 event of the year has switched back and forth between the Dubai Tennis Championships and the Qatar Ladies Open since 2009. Dubai was classified as a Premier 5 event from 2009 to 2011 before being succeeded by Doha from 2012 to 2014. In 2015, Dubai regained its Premier 5 status, while Doha was demoted to Premier status. The Premier 5 tournaments were reclassified as WTA 1000 tournaments in 2021.
- In 2014, the Pan Pacific Open was downgraded to a Premier event and replaced by the Wuhan Open. The Premier 5 tournaments were reclassified as WTA 1000 tournaments in 2021.
- During the season, she did not play in the main draw of any tour-level tournaments. However, she played at the Billie Jean King Cup, which is not counted as a played tournament but matches count.
- 2011: WTA ranking 1134, 2012: WTA ranking 580, ... 2017: WTA ranking 402, 2018: WTA ranking 580, 2019: WTA ranking 399, 2020: WTA ranking 391.
- 2009: WTA ranking 957, 2010: WTA ranking 797, 2011: WTA ranking 694, 2012: WTA ranking 358.
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