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Laura Pigossi had a real thorn in the side of the circuit: the Hungarian Panna Udvardy. After beating the Brazilian in the last two tournaments, in Buenos Aires and Aparecida de Goiânia, the world # 116 tennis player eliminated the Olympic medalist for the third week in a row, this time in the quarter-finals of the WTA 125 in Montevideo, Uruguay , when triumphed by 6/2 6/3. Top number 3, she had already dispatched Carol Meligeni in the previous round.
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Laura Pigossi in action at Montevideo WTA – Photo: Disclosure / Montevideo Open
Despite elimination in the quarterfinals, Laura Pigossi is at the best time of her career. After the historic bronze medal in Tokyo, the Brazilian tennis player achieved good results in ITF level tournaments, with the right to the W25 title from Guayaquil, and took her first victory in a WTA competition, in Buenos Aires, by beating the Paraguayan Veronica Cepede Royg. .
In Montevideo, Laura passed Chilean Bárbara Gatica in her debut and sent out Canadian Carol Zhao before heading to Udvardy in what has been her best WTA tournament campaign so far. In the real-time standings, the Brazilian currently sits in 192nd, breaking the top 200 for the first time and securing Australian Open qualifiers, making her Grand Slam debut as a professional tennis player. .
Despite elimination in singles, Laura Pigossi is still alive in the doubles squad alongside Argentina’s Maria Louders Carlé. Also this Friday, the South American partnership faces Romanian Irina Bara and Georgian Ekaterine Gorgodze, the main favorites of the tournament.
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