Laura Pigossi

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.

In 2022, she played her first qualifying competition at a major at the Australian Open. ^[] 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. ^[]

In May, she reached two second rounds at WTA 125-level in Saint-Malo and Karlsruhe.^[] At the French Open, Pigossi made the qualifying draw as the 16th seed. ^[] In June, she made her major debut at Wimbledon. At the Guadalajara Open, she made her main-draw debut at the WTA 1000-level as a lucky loser.^[]

She also made her debut at the Australian Open as a lucky loser. In August, Pigossi won an ITF-level 60k event in Feira de Santana, Brazil. 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. Pigossi earned her first singles Challenger tour title by winning the 2023 WTA Argentina Open in Buenos Aires.

Pigossi started the 2024 season with a first round singles loss at the Canberra Tennis International. In doubles, Pigossi partnered with Alexandra Eala and advanced to the semifinals where they lost in straight sets. 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. At the Copa Colsanitas tournament, Pigossi won her opening match against fifth seed Nadia Podoroska before losing her next match to Irina Bara. She claimed her ninth ITF title at the W50 event in Pretoria, South Africa, defeating Hanne Vandewinkel in the final.

During the Billie Jean King 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. In May 2024, she made her debut at the French Open, after qualifying for the main draw.^[] At the Olympics, she was defeated in her opening match by Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska. In front of her home crowd, Pigossi won the ITF W75 São Paulo tournament.

In November at the Billie Jean King Cup (BJKC) tie between Brazil and Argentina, Pigossi fell in three sets to Solana Sierra. She also lost her second BJKC match to Jazmín Ortenzi. Partnering Maja Chwalińska, Pigossi won the doubles title at WTA 125 MundoTenis Open in December 2024, 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.

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 She lost in the first round of doubles at the same event. Pigossi's next tournament was the Australian Open, where, in the qualifying rounds, she won her first match but lost her second.

In April, Pigossi participated in the 2025 Copa Colsanitas in Bogota, Colombia. At 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 round to Katarzyna Kawa, having been with a match point on the second set. 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.

At the US Open singles qualifying, Pigossi lost to Emerson Jones in the second qualification round.

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 Gamarra Martins, she was runner up, loosing in three sets against compatriot Luisa Stefani and Hungarian Timea Babos at the final.