Brazilian tennis player

Last updated on: 11 April 2022.

Laura Pigossi Herrmann de Andrade (born 2 August 1994) is a Brazilian professional tennis player. She won an olympic bronze medal in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, playing alongside Luisa Stefani.

Pigossi has won seven singles and 41 doubles *les on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 11 April 2022, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 126, following her first WTA Tour final in the 2022 Copa Colsanitas. On 3 February 2020, she peaked at No. 125 in the WTA doubles rankings.

Playing for the Brazil Fed Cup team since 2013, Pigossi has a win/loss record of 6–5.

Pigossi is an Olympic bronze medallist from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in the doubles event. She partnered 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, surp*ing 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 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 and Markéta Vondroušová in the round of 16.

In 2022, she played her first qualifying at a Grand Slam in the Australian Open. After some decent campaigns at the ITF tour, Pigossi had her first WTA-level wins at Copa Colsanitas in Bogotá, Colombia, coming from the qualifyings and reaching the finals.The campaign in Bogotá included wins against Dayana Yastremska in the quarter-finals and #1 seed Camila Osorio Serrano in the semis before losing to Tatjana Maria in the finals. As a consequence, Pigossi reached a career-high #125 in the singles WTA rankings. In May, she reached two second-rounds at WTA 125 level in Saint-Malo and Karlsruhe. In Roland Garros, Pigossi made the qualifying draw as the #16 seed.

Contents

• 1 Olympics medal matches
  • 1.1 Doubles: 1 (bronze medal)
• 2 WTA career finals
  • 2.1 Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)
• 3 ITF Circuit finals
  • 3.1 Singles: 17 (7 *les, 10 runner–ups)
  • 3.2 Doubles: 65 (41 *les, 24 runner–ups)
• 4 Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup participation
  • 4.1 Singles
  • 4.2 Doubles
• 5 Notes
• 6 References
• 7 External links

Olympics medal matches

Luisa Stefani and Pigossi at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

Doubles: 1 (bronze medal)

WTA career finals

Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 17 (7 *les, 10 runner–ups)

Doubles: 65 (41 *les, 24 runner–ups)

Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup participation

Singles

Doubles

Notes

References

External links

• Laura Pigossi at the Women's Tennis *ociation
• Laura Pigossi at the International Tennis Federation
• Laura Pigossi at the Billie Jean King Cup