Ingrid Gamarra Martins (born 22 August 1996) is a Brazilian professional

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player. She has career-high WTA rankings of No. 47 in doubles, attained on 6 November 2023 and No. 448 in singles, achieved on 31 January 2022. Martins graduated from the

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in 2019, majoring in integrated information technology. As part of the Gamecocks, she won the 2019

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tournament, with MVP and Player of the Year honors, ending her college tennis career ranked fourth in the

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rankings.

Career

2015: Tour debut in doubles

Martins made her main-draw debut on the

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at the 2015 Rio Open, in the doubles event, partnering Carolina Alves.

2022: Top 100 in doubles

She first entered the world top 100 in doubles in December 2022. Partnering

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, Martins won her first

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doubles title at the Montevideo Open, defeating

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and

Elixane Lechemia Elixane Lechemia (born 3 September 1991) is a French tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of No. 343 in singles, achieved on 3 April 2017, and of No. 65 in doubles, set on 7 March 2022. Lechemia has won one doubles title on the WTA T ...

in the final.

2023: First WTA Tour title, major, WTA 1000 & top 50 debuts

Martins won her first WTA Tour-level trophy in

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on grass courts with Belarusian

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. She entered the world top 60 at No. 58 in doubles for the first time on 3 July 2023. Martins made her Grand Slam debut at the

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, partnering with

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as alternate pair, and recorded her first win over

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and

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. She made her WTA 1000 debut at the 2023 Canadian Open, also playing with Marozava. She reached the semifinals with compatriot

at the WTA 1000

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, defeating en route second seeds

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and

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and eight seeds

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and

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. With this, she entered the top 50 in doubles for the first time.

2024: Second doubles title

Partnering with

, Martins was runner-up at the WTA 125 Barranquilla Open in August, losing to Jessica Failla and

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in the final. The following month the pair won the doubles title at the WTA 125 Montreux Open, defeating

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and

Simona Waltert Simona Waltert (born 13 December 2000) is a Swiss tennis player. Waltert has career-high WTA rankings of 107 in singles, achieved on 12 June 2023, and 170 in doubles, reached on 7 April 2025. To date, she has won one doubles title on the WTA To ...

in the final which went to a deciding champions tiebreak. In November, Gleason and Martins claimed the

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doubles title with a straight sets win over

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and

Lara Salden Lara Salden (born 29 January 1999) is a Belgian tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 246, by the WTA reached on 16 November 2020. She also has a best doubles ranking of No. 114, achieved on 4 November 2024. Salden ret ...

in the final. It was the second title on the WTA Tour-level for Martins.

WTA Tour finals

Doubles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner-up)

WTA Challenger finals

Doubles: 6 (3 titles, 3 runner-ups)

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 7 (4 titles, 3 runner–ups)

Doubles: 22 (11 titles, 11 runner–ups)

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* * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Martins, Ingrid 1996 births Living people Brazilian female tennis players Tennis players from Rio de Janeiro (city) South Carolina Gamecocks women's tennis players Brazilian expatriate tennis players in the United States 21st-century Brazilian sportswomen