Luisa Stefani

She reached the milestone on 1 November 2021 when she rose to world No. 9 in doubles. On 20 May 2019, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 431. She had a career-high combined junior ranking of No. 10 on 30 March 2015.

Luisa Stefani

Stefani at the 2019 French Open
Full name	Luisa Veras Stefani
Country (sports)	Brazil
Residence	São Paulo, Brazil
Born	(1997-08-09) 9 August 1997 (age 26) São Paulo
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Turned pro	2015
Plays	Right (two-handed backhand)
Coach	Guilherme Pachane
Prize money	$1,195,566
Singles
Career record	85–66 (56.3%)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 431 (20 May 2019)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open Junior	2R (2015)
French Open Junior	2R (2014, 2015)
Wimbledon Junior	1R (2014, 2015)
US Open Junior	1R (2014, 2015)
Doubles
Career record	243–100 (70.8%)
Career titles	9
Highest ranking	No. 9 (1 November 2021)
Current ranking	No. 14 (18 March 2024)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	QF (2024)
French Open	3R (2020, 2023)
Wimbledon	QF (2023)
US Open	SF (2021, 2023)
Other doubles tournaments
Olympic Games	(2020)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Australian Open	W (2023)
French Open	QF (2023)
Wimbledon	2R (2021)
US Open	1R (2021, 2023)
Team competitions
Fed Cup	10–2
Medal record Women's tennis Representing  Brazil Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo Doubles Pan American Games 2023 Santiago Doubles 2023 Santiago Mixed doubles 2019 Lima Doubles
Last updated on: 26 February 2024.

She won the mixed doubles at the 2023 Australian Open with compatriot Rafael Matos, becoming the first Brazilian pair to win a Grand Slam title.

Stefani is a bronze medalist in women's doubles from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Representing Brazil, she partnered with Laura Pigossi to defeat Veronika Kudermetova and defending gold medalist Elena Vesnina in the bronze medal match. Stefani and Pigossi were only granted entry to the Olympics one week before the 2020 Games opened, with Stefani ranked world No. 23 in the doubles ranking and Pigossi at No. 190, and had played together once, a defeat at the 2020 Fed Cup, and yet became the first Brazilians to obtain an Olympic tennis medal, surpassing the performance of Fernando Meligeni that took 4th place in men's singles in 1996. During the campaign, they saved eight match points: four in the bronze medal match and another four against Czechs Karolína Plíšková and Markéta Vondroušová in the round of 16.

At the age of 14, Stefani's family moved to the United States, where it was hoped she would develop herself better in tennis. She started training at Saddlebrook Tennis Academy, and eventually reached two junior Grand Slam semifinals in doubles: the 2014 French Open and the 2015 US Open. As she attended Pepperdine University, Stefani was ranked as high as No. 2 in the ITA rankings, and was also named the 2015 ITA National Rookie of the Year, having compiled a 40–6 record in her freshman season and reached the semifinals of the 2016 NCAA Singles Championships, where she lost to eventual champion Danielle Collins. Stefani made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2015 Brasil Tennis Cup where she received a singles main-draw wildcard.

2019

Until 2019, Stefani tried to play both singles and doubles. The doubles kept being more productive, and once an invitation to make her WTA debut in the 2019 Monterrey Open with Giuliana Olmos led to the semifinals and a ranking increase, she decided to stop playing singles to have more chances at appearing in bigger events. Soon afterward, Stefani made her Grand Slam main-draw debut at French Open, partnering Australian Astra Sharma in doubles.

In September, with Hayley Carter as partner, she reached the first WTA doubles final at the Korea Open and, the following week, won the first WTA title at the Tashkent Open. With these campaigns, she entered the top 100 and reached a career-high ranking in doubles of No. 75 on 21 October 2019. After that, Stefani established a fixed partnership with Carter.

2020

In 2020, the Stefani/Carter duo reached the Australian Open third round, won the Challenger Series title in Newport, reached the Dubai quarterfinals in February, and won the Lexington Open in August. With that, they entered the top 40 for the first time.

At the US Open, she had her best Grand Slam campaign in her career, reaching the quarterfinals, defeating the No. 6 seeds Japan duo Shuko Aoyama/Ena Shibahara in the round of 16. It has been 38 years since a female doubles player from Brazil have gone as far in a Grand Slam tournament (the last time that Brazilians were in the quarterfinals was in Wimbledon in 1982: Patricia Medrado and Cláudia Monteiro).

At the Italian Open, she had another great tournament, reaching the semifinals and losing only to the top seeds. She reached her first Premier final in October 2020, in Ostrava, playing with Gabriela Dabrowski.

2021: Olympic bronze medal, first WTA 1000 title, world No. 9, injury & early season ending

 

Stefani and Carter reached their first WTA 1000 final at the 2021 Miami Open. Stefani had to pass on the French Open after being forced to endure an emergency appendicitis surgery. With Carter getting a season-ending injury at Wimbledon, Stefani announced she would spend the rest of the year with Gabriela Dabrowski.

At the postponed Tokyo Olympics, Stefani won a bronze medal, partnering Laura Pigossi. They beat Russians Elena Vesnina and Veronika Kudermetova after saving four match points in the final super tiebreak. Pigossi and Stefani became the first Brazilians in history to obtain an Olympic medal in tennis, surpassing Fernando Meligeni's campaign that took 4th place in 1996.

Following the Olympics, seeded fifth, Stefani won her first WTA 1000 partnering Dabrowski at the Canadian Open avenging their loss in the Silicon Valley Classic final to Darija Jurak and Andreja Klepač. The following week, they followed this successful run by another, reaching the WTA 1000 final at the Cincinnati Open by defeating current Olympic champions, second seeded pair Krejciková/Siniaková. They lost the final to Sam Stosur and Zhang Shuai.

The US Open had Stefani reaching her first Grand Slam semifinal and fifth straight in 2021, partnering with Gabriela Dabrowski, only to injure her knee in the decisive game against Coco Gauff and Caty McNally and withdraw. Stefani had to sit out the rest of the season following surgery to mend the anterior cruciate ligament injury. Still in November, she rose to No. 9 of the doubles rankings. The only other Brazilian woman to rank so high was Maria Bueno before the Open era.

2022: Back to WTA Tour, second WTA 1000 title, meteoric return to top 50

After nearly a year of recovering from her knee injury, Stefani announced her return to play at the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo in September 2022, partnered with Ena Shibahara. Before that, she visited the US Open to train among the WTA's best players. During the major event, she arranged with Dabrowski for both to play the 2022 Chennai Open the week before Tokyo. Stefani returned to the courts winning the WTA 250 title in Chennai along with Dabrowski.

Ranked No. 217 at the WTA 1000 in Guadajalara, playing with Storm Sanders, she reached an unprecedented Brazilian final at the WTA 1000 level with Beatriz Haddad Maia. Stefani and Sanders won the title after a highly contested match in the tie-breaker. As a result, she returned to the top 100 moving more than 160 positions up to an year-end ranking of No. 55

By winning the WTA 125 in Montevideo alongside Ingrid Gamarra Martins, Stefani closed the season at No. 48 on 28 November 2022.

2023: Historic major mixed-doubles title, back to top 10

Stefani announced she would play the 2023 Australian Open with Caty McNally, but withdrew without playing a game once McNally injured herself in the singles tournament. Before that, she got together with McNally's former partner Taylor Townsend at the WTA 500 in Adelaide, where she won the tournament, rising to No. 34 in the world.

Also during the Australian Open, Stefani and Brazilian partner Rafael Matos were crowned champions after defeating the Indian duo of Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna in straight sets. It was her first Grand Slam title and also the first for a Brazilian pair at a major.

After Melbourne, Stefani won the WTA 500 in Abu Dhabi along with Zhang Shuai, returning to the top 30 in doubles. Following two first-round exits partnering Anna Danilina, Stefani announced she would reunite with Dabrowski in the following two tournaments. The duo then reached the quarterfinals in Indian Wells, but fell in the first round of the Miami Open. Stefani and Dabrowski also reached the quarterfinals of the WTA 1000 in Madrid, and the third round of Roland Garros. Afterwards they decided to part ways, with Stefani stating she was frustrated with the low results.

Later, playing with Caroline Garcia, Stefani won the WTA 500 in Berlin, with this reaching No. 14 in the WTA doubles rankings. Still with Garcia, Stefani reached the quarterfinals of Wimbledon, along the way defeating sixth seeds Leylah Fernandez and Taylor Townsend, and former doubles world No. 1 Tímea Babos - who played alongside Kirsten Flipkens - before a defeat to the eventual champions Hsieh Su-wei and Barbora Strýcová.

Stefani reached the Cincinnati quarterfinals, partnering Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, and upon her return to the US Open, alongside Jennifer Brady, repeated the semifinal that preceded her injury. With that, she returned to the top 10.

At the China Open she reached the semifinals playing with compatriot Ingrid Martins.

At the 2023 Pan American Games, playing in doubles, Stefani and Laura Pigossi won the gold medal. Both having to play two finals on the same day, after winning gold in men's and women's doubles, Stefani and Marcelo Demoliner went to the mixed doubles final and obtained another medal, now a silver.

2024: third WTA 1000 title

Stefani reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Open 2024 playing with Demi Schuurs, this being her best campaign in this tournament to date. At the 2024 Abu Dhabi Open, Stefani partnered with compatriot Beatriz Haddad Maia, with whom she had won two ITF tournaments in 2019, serving as preparation for the 2024 Summer Olympics given they have the rankings to play the doubles tournament together. They reached the semifinals but had to pull out of the decisive game once Haddad injured herself in the singles semifinal.

At the WTA 1000 in Doha, Stefani and Schuurs became tournament champions without losing a single set. It was the third WTA 1000 title in Stefani's career.

Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.

Doubles

Current through the 2023 French Open.

Mixed doubles

Mixed doubles: 1 (1 title)

Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	2023	Australian Open	Hard	Rafael Matos	Sania Mirza   Rohan Bopanna	7–6(7–2), 6–2

Olympic Games

Doubles: 1 (1 bronze medal)

Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Bronze	2021	Tokyo Olympics 2020	Hard	Laura Pigossi	Veronika Kudermetova   Elena Vesnina	4–6, 6–4, [11–9]

WTA 1000 tournaments

Doubles: 5 (3-2)

Result	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	2021	Miami Open	Hard	Hayley Carter	Shuko Aoyama   Ena Shibahara	2–6, 5–7
Win	2021	Canadian Open	Hard	Gabriela Dabrowski	Darija Jurak   Andreja Klepač	6–3, 6–4
Loss	2021	Cincinnati Open	Hard	Gabriela Dabrowski	Samantha Stosur   Zhang Shuai	5–7, 3–6
Win	2022	Guadalajara Open	Hard	Storm Sanders	Anna Danilina   Beatriz Haddad Maia	7–6(7–4), 6–7(2–7), [10–8]
Win	2024	Qatar Ladies Open	Hard	Demi Schuurs	Caroline Dolehide   Desirae Krawczyk	6–4, 6–2

Doubles: 17 (9-8)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Sep 2019	Korea Open, South Korea	International	Hard	Hayley Carter	Lara Arruabarrena   Tatjana Maria	6–7(7), 6–3, [7–10]
Win	1–1	Sep 2019	Tashkent Open, Uzbekistan	International	Hard	Hayley Carter	Dalila Jakupović   Sabrina Santamaria	6–3, 7–6(4)
Win	2–1	Aug 2020	Lexington Challenger, U.S.	International	Hard	Hayley Carter	Marie Bouzková   Jil Teichmann	6–1, 7–5
Loss	2–2	Sep 2020	Internationaux de Strasbourg, France	International	Clay	Hayley Carter	Nicole Melichar   Demi Schuurs	4–6, 3–6
Loss	2–3	Oct 2020	Ostrava Open, Czech Republic	Premier	Hard (i)	Gabriela Dabrowski	Elise Mertens   Aryna Sabalenka	1–6, 3–6
Loss	2–4	Jan 2021	Abu Dhabi Open, UAE	WTA 500	Hard	Hayley Carter	Shuko Aoyama   Ena Shibahara	6–7(5), 4–6
Loss	2–5	Feb 2021	Adelaide International, Australia	WTA 500	Hard	Hayley Carter	Alexa Guarachi   Desirae Krawczyk	7–6(4), 4–6, [3–10]
Loss	2–6	Apr 2021	Miami Open, United States	WTA 1000	Hard	Hayley Carter	Shuko Aoyama   Ena Shibahara	2–6, 5–7
Loss	2–7	Aug 2021	Silicon Valley Classic, U.S.	WTA 500	Hard	Gabriela Dabrowski	Darija Jurak   Andreja Klepač	1–6, 5–7
Win	3–7	Aug 2021	Canadian Open, Canada	WTA 1000	Hard	Gabriela Dabrowski	Darija Jurak   Andreja Klepač	6–3, 6–4
Loss	3–8	Aug 2021	Cincinnati Open, U.S.	WTA 1000	Hard	Gabriela Dabrowski	Samantha Stosur   Zhang Shuai	5–7, 3–6
Win	4–8	Sep 2022	Chennai Open, India	WTA 250	Hard	Gabriela Dabrowski	Anna Blinkova   Natela Dzalamidze	6–1, 6–2
Win	5–8	Oct 2022	Guadalajara Open, Mexico	WTA 1000	Hard	Storm Sanders	Anna Danilina   Beatriz Haddad Maia	7–6(7–4), 6–7(2–7), [10–8]
Win	6–8	Jan 2023	Adelaide International, Australia	WTA 500	Hard	Taylor Townsend	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova   Elena Rybakina	7–5, 7–6(7–3)
Win	7–8	Feb 2023	Abu Dhabi Open, UAE	WTA 500	Hard	Zhang Shuai	Shuko Aoyama   Chan Hao-ching	3–6, 6–2, [10–8]
Win	8–8	Jun 2023	German Open, Germany	WTA 500	Grass	Caroline Garcia	Kateřina Siniaková   Markéta Vondroušová	4–6, 7–6(10–8), [10–4]
Win	9–8	Feb 2024	Qatar Ladies Open, Qatar	WTA 1000	Hard	Demi Schuurs	Caroline Dolehide   Desirae Krawczyk	6–4, 6–2

Doubles: 4 (3-1)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Nov 2019	Houston Challenger, United States	Hard	Ellen Perez	Sharon Fichman   Ena Shibahara	1–6, 6–4, [10–5]
Win	2–0	Feb 2020	Newport Beach Challenger, United States	Hard	Hayley Carter	Marie Benoît   Jessika Ponchet	6–1, 6–3
Loss	2–1	May 2021	Open de Saint-Malo, France	Clay	Hayley Carter	Kaitlyn Christian   Sabrina Santamaria	6–7(4–7), 6–4, [5–10]
Win	3–1	Nov 2022	Montevideo Open, Uruguay	Clay	Ingrid Gamarra Martins	Quinn Gleason   Elixane Lechemia	7–5, 6–7(6–8), [10–6]

Doubles: 22 (15-7)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Aug 2013	ITF São Paulo, Brazil	10,000	Clay	Nathália Rossi	Laura Pigossi   Carolina Zeballos	3–6, 4–6
Loss	0–2	Jul 2016	ITF Campos do Jordão, Brazil	25,000	Hard	Maria Fernanda Alves	Ingrid Gamarra Martins   Laura Pigossi	3–6, 6–3, [8–10]
Win	1–2	Sep 2016	Atlanta Open, U.S.	50,000	Hard	Ingrid Neel	Alexandra Stevenson   Taylor Townsend	4–6, 6–4, [10–5]
Loss	1–3	Jun 2017	ITF Sumter, U.S.	25,000	Hard	Ellen Perez	Kaitlyn Christian   Giuliana Olmos	2–6, 6–3, [7–10]
Win	2–3	Jun 2017	ITF Baton Rouge, U.S.	25,000	Hard	Ellen Perez	Francesca Di Lorenzo   Julia Elbaba	6–3, 6–4
Loss	2–4	Jul 2017	ITF Auburn, U.S.	25,000	Hard	Ellen Perez	Emina Bektas   Alexa Guarachi	6–4, 4–6, [5–10]
Win	3–4	Jul 2017	ITF Knokke, Belgium	15,000	Clay	Quinn Gleason	Leonie Küng   Axana Mareen	6–4, 7–5
Win	4–4	Jul 2017	ITF Brussels, Belgium	15,000	Clay	Quinn Gleason	Deborah Kerfs   Priscilla Heise	6–3, 6–2
Win	5–4	Aug 2017	ITF El Espinar, Spain	25,000	Hard	Quinn Gleason	Ayla Aksu   Bibiane Schoofs	6–3, 6–2
Win	6–4	Oct 2017	ITF Seville, Spain	25,000	Clay	Renata Zarazúa	Estrella Cabeza Candela   Andrea Gámiz	7–6(2), 7–6(3)
Win	7–4	Nov 2017	ITF Sant Cugat, Spain	25,000	Clay	Renata Zarazúa	Olga Danilović   Guiomar Maristany	6–1, 6–4
Win	8–4	Dec 2017	ITF Castellón, Spain	15,000	Clay	Yvonne Cavallé Reimers	Ren Jiaqi   Wang Xiyu	6–3, 6–1
Win	9–4	Jun 2018	ITF Sumter, U.S.	25,000	Hard	Astra Sharma	Julia Elbaba   Xu Shilin	2–6, 6–3, [10–5]
Loss	9–5	Sep 2018	ITF Templeton Pro, U.S.	60,000	Hard	Quinn Gleason	Asia Muhammad   Maria Sanchez	7–6(4), 2–6, [8–10]
Loss	9–6	Oct 2018	Stockton Challenger, U.S.	60,000	Hard	Quinn Gleason	Hayley Carter   Ena Shibahara	5–7, 7–5, [7–10]
Win	10–6	Nov 2018	Copa Colina, Chile	60,000	Clay	Quinn Gleason	Bárbara Gatica   Rebeca Pereira	6–0, 4–6, [10–7]
Win	11–6	Jan 2019	ITF Petit-Bourg, Guadeloupe	25,000	Hard	Quinn Gleason	Vladica Babić   Rosalie van der Hoek	7–5, 6–4
Win	12–6	Mar 2019	ITF São Paulo, Brazil	25,000	Clay	Paula Cristina Gonçalves	Martina Di Giuseppe   Thaisa Grana Pedretti	6–7(4), 6–0, [10–8]
Win	13–6	Mar 2019	ITF Curitiba, Brazil	25,000	Clay	Paula Cristina Gonçalves	Ekaterine Gorgodze   Daniela Seguel	6–7(3), 7–6(0), [10–2]
Loss	13–7	May 2019	Open de Cagnes-sur-Mer, France	80,000	Clay	Beatriz Haddad Maia	Anna Blinkova   Xenia Knoll	6–4, 2–6, [12–14]
Win	14–7	Jun 2019	Ilkley Trophy, UK	100,000	Grass	Beatriz Haddad Maia	Ellen Perez   Arina Rodionova	6–4, 6–7(5), [10–4]
Win	15–7	Nov 2019	Copa Colina, Chile (2)	60,000	Clay	Hayley Carter	Anna Danilina   Conny Perrin	5–7, 6–3, [10–6]