Nuria Brancaccio (born 24 June 2000) is an Italian
tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...
player.
Brancaccio has a career-high singles ranking by the WTA of 167, achieved on 14 August 2023. She also has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 261, reached on 9 January 2023.
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Brancaccio has reached five career singles finals on the ITF Circuit, with a record of two wins. Additionally, she has reached 11 doubles finals (four wins).
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Personal life
She has a Spanish mother and an Italian father. Her brother Raúl Brancaccio is also a tennis player.
Tennis career
Brancaccio made her WTA Tour
The WTA Tour is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for women organized by the Women's Tennis Association. The second-tier tour is the WTA 125K series, and third-tier is the ITF Women's Circuit. The men's equivalent is the ATP Tour.
WTA Tour tourna ...
main-draw debut at the 2021 Italian Open in Rome, where she received a wildcard entry, partnering fellow Italian Lucia Bronzetti
Lucia Bronzetti (born 10 December 1998) is an Italian tennis player.
Bronzetti has career-high WTA rankings of No. 47 in singles and No. 375 in doubles. She has won one singles title on the WTA Tour, at the 2023 Morocco Open.
She has also re ...
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At the 2022 Mediterranean Games
The 2022 Mediterranean Games ( ar, ألعاب البحر الأبيض المتوسط 2022, links=, lit=, translit=ʾAlʿāb al-Baḥr al-ʾAbyaḍ al-Mutawassiṭ 2022), officially known as the XIX Mediterranean Games and commonly known as Oran ...
, she won the silver medal in singles and the bronze medal in doubles along Aurora Zantedeschi.
In September 2022, Brancaccio reached her maiden final at a WTA 125 event where she lost to Austrian player Julia Grabher
Julia Grabher (born 2 July 1996) is an Austrian tennis player.
Grabher has won one singles title on the WTA Challenger Tour, along with eleven singles and eight doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 26 December 2022, she reached her bes ...
in Bari
Bari ( , ; nap, label= Barese, Bare ; lat, Barium) is the capital city of the Metropolitan City of Bari and of the Apulia region, on the Adriatic Sea, southern Italy. It is the second most important economic centre of mainland Southern Italy a ...
, Italy, in straight sets.
Grand Slam performance timeline
Singles
WTA Challenger finals
Singles: 1 (runner-up)
ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 7 (2 titles, 5 runner–ups)
Doubles: 11 (4 titles, 7 runner–ups)
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References
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2000 births
Living people
Italian female tennis players
Competitors at the 2022 Mediterranean Games
Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Italy
Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Italy
Mediterranean Games medalists in tennis
Italian people of Spanish descent
21st-century Italian women