Luisa Stefani
Stefani with her Olympic bronze medal during the 2020 Summer Olympics awards ceremony | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Full name | Luisa Veras Stefani | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country (sports) | Brazil | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Residence | São Paulo, Brazil | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 9 August 1997 São Paulo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turned pro | 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Plays | Right (two-handed backhand) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Guilherme Pachane | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prize money | US $1,490,872 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Singles | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Career record | 85–66 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Career titles | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Highest ranking | No. 431 (20 May 2019) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Doubles | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Career record | 273–123 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Career titles | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Highest ranking | No. 9 (1 November 2021) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current ranking | No. 37 (19 May 2025) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Grand Slam doubles results | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Australian Open | QF (2024) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| French Open | 3R (2020, 2023, 2025) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wimbledon | QF (2023) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| US Open | SF (2021, 2023) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Grand Slam mixed doubles results | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Australian Open | W (2023) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| French Open | QF (2023) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wimbledon | 2R (2021) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| US Open | 1R (2021, 2023, 2024) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other mixed doubles tournaments | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Olympic Games | 1R (2021, 2024) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team competitions | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fed Cup | 10–2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| Last updated on: 19 May 2025. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Luisa Veras Stefani (Portuguese: [luˈizɐ ˈvɛɾas steˈfɐni]; born 9 August 1997) is a professional tennis player from Brazil who specializes in doubles. Stefani is the first Brazilian woman to reach the WTA top 10 in the Open Era. This milestone for Brazilian tennis was hit on 1 November 2021, when she reached a career-high ranking of world No. 9 in doubles. On 20 May 2019, she reached a singles ranking of No. 431. She had a ITF combined junior ranking of No. 10, on March 2015.
She won the mixed-doubles competition at the 2023 Australian Open with Rafael Matos, becoming the first all Brazilian pair to win a Grand Slam title. With that, Stefani also became the second Brazilian woman ever to win a Grand Slam title in mixed doubles or any other event, after Maria Bueno that until that moment was the first and only Brazilian woman to become a grand slam champion, and also the first Brazilian woman ever to win a mixed doubles title at the Australian Open.
Stefani is a bronze medalist in women's doubles at 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 No. 23 in the doubles rankings and Pigossi at No. 190, and had only played together once previously, a defeat at the 2020 Fed Cup, and yet became the first Brazilians to win 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 Czech players Karolína Plíšková and Markéta Vondroušová in the round of 16.