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Tennis At The 2023 Pan American Games – Women's Doubles
The women's doubles tennis event of the 2023 Pan American Games was held from October 24 to 28 at the Tennis and Racket Sports Training Centre in Santiago, Chile. Brazil's Laura Pigossi and Luisa Stefani won the gold medal, defeating Colombia's María Fernanda Herazo and María Paulina Pérez in the final, 7–5, 6–3. Argentina's María Lourdes Carlé and Julia Riera won the bronze medal, defeating Chile's Alexa Guarachi and Fernanda Labraña in the bronze-medal match, 6–3, 6–3. Qualification Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) can enter up to one pair (two players) for the women's doubles tournament. The maximum quota of female players, in both singles and doubles, for each country may not exceed three. There are 16 pairs places (32 players) in the event. The definitive entry list was published on 21 October 2023 and 11 pairs entered the tournament. The seeding was defined by the combined doubles ranking of pairs. The top 4 seed pairs and one randomly drawn unseeded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Pigossi
Laura Pigossi Herrmann de Andrade (; born 2 August 1994) is a Brazilian professional tennis player. She won a bronze medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, playing alongside Luisa Stefani. Pigossi has won one singles and one doubles title on the WTA Challenger Tour, along with nine singles and 43 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 29 August 2022, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 100, following her first WTA Tour final at the 2022 Copa Colsanitas. On 3 February 2020, she peaked at No. 125 in the WTA doubles rankings. Playing for Brazil Fed Cup team since 2013, Pigossi has a win-loss record of 9–9 in Billie Jean King Cup competition, as of September 2024. Career 2020–2021: Olympics debut and historic bronze medal 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 b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
