Personal

Coached by Rafael Paciaroni
Born in Sao Paulo, to Ayrton Elias Maia Filho and Lais Scaff Haddad
Both her mother and grandmother Arlette Scaff Haddad were successful tennis players in Brazil
Started playing tennis at the age of five

Career Highlights

SINGLES Winner (3): 2023 - WTA Elite Trophy Zhuhai; 2022 - Nottingham, Birmingham
Finalist (2): 2022 - Toronto; 2017 - Seoul.

DOUBLES
Winner (7): 2024 - Adelaide (w/Townsend); 2023 - Madrid (w/Azarenka), 2023 - WTA Elite Trophy Zhuhai (w/Kudermetova); 2022 - Sydney (w/Danilina), Nottingham (w/S.Zhang); 2017 - Bogotá (w/Podoroska); 2015 - Bogotá (w/Goncalves).
Finalist (3): 2023 - Indian Wells (w/Siegemund); 2022 - Australian Open, Guadalajara [1000] (w/Danilina).

Career in Review

Broke into Top 10 in June 2023 after a strong clay season with SF at Roland Garros and QF at Rome and Stuttgart; ended year at No.11

Also in 2023, won third career title at WTA Elite Trophy Zhuhai (d. Q.Zheng) and reached SF at Abu Dhabi and QF at Adelaide 2, Doha and San Diego

In doubles, won titles at Madrid w/Victoria Azarenka (d. Gauff/Pegula) and WTA Elite Trophy Zhuhai w/Veronika Kudermetova (d. Kato/Sutjiadi)

2022 season highlighted by a stellar sequence of results on grass, when she became the first woman ever to win Nottingham and Birmingham back-to-back, her first career WTA titles

Broke into the Top 20 following her run to the first WTA 1000 final at 2022 Toronto (l. Halep); also in 2022 advanced to SF at Monterrey and Eastbourne and three further QFs

Also in 2022, won two titles at WTA 125K events in Saint Malo and Paris

Won third doubles title at 2022 Nottingham w/Shuai Zhang (d. Dolehide/Niculescu), also reached final at Australian Open w/Anhelina Danilina (Krejcikova/Siniakova) and Guadalajara 1000 w/Danilina (l. Hunter/Stefani); earned spot at WTA Finals Fort Worth in doubles with Danilina going 1-2 in group play

In 2021, peaked at No.80 in rankings; highlights where R16 at Indian Wells and falling 1r at Chicago 500; also played qualifying at Wimbledon and US Open and won five ITF Circuit titles in 2021

Posted best win-by-ranking of career in 2021, defeating No.3 Karolina Pliskova during run to R16 as LL at Indian Wells. Played only on ITF Circuit in 2020 winning four titles and reaching one other final

Highlights of 2019 were SF at Bogota and QF at Acapulco (both as qualifier); earned first Top 10 win of career over No.4 Sloane Stephens at Acapulco

Ended 2018 at No.184, with season highlight reaching 3r at Miami (l. Ostapenko). Also made 2r at Hobart, Australian Open and Acapulco.

Posted first Top 100 season in 2017, finishing at No.65

Broke into Top 100 following first Grand Slam main draw appearance at 2017 Roland Garros, earning spot as a qualifier Reached first WTA singles final at 2017 Seoul while ranked No.71 (l. No.10 Ostapenko)

Other 2017 highlights include QF at Prague (as qualifier) and first Grand Slam main draw win at Wimbledon; defeated No.19 Sam Stosur en route to Prague QF, the first Top 20 win of career

In doubles, won second title at Bogota w/Nadia Podoroska (d. Cepede Royg/Linette)

Played three WTA main draws in 2016 at Rio de Janeiro, Miami and Florianopolis falling in 1r in each appearance; also played qualifying at Roland Garros and US Open

In 2015, reached first QF of career at Rio de Janeiro while ranked No.234 losing to No.16 Sara Errani, the first Top 20 match of career; result propelled her into Top 200 for first time in career

Also in 2015, reached 2r at Bogota and played qualifying at Charleston, Roland Garros, Nottingham and Wimbledon

Won first WTA doubles title at 2015 Bogota w/Paula Cristina Goncalves (d. Falconi/Rogers)

In July 2015, suffered a shoulder injury at the Pan American Games in Toronto, was forced to have surgery and miss remainder of season

Played two WTA events in 2014 at Rio de Janeiro and Florianopolis; falling in 1r at both events as a WC

Won first WTA match at 2013 Florianopolis as WC (d. Hsu, l. Czink)

Made WTA qualifying debut at 2012 Québec City (l. El Tabakh)

Owns 17 ITF Circuit singles titles; made professional debut on ITF circuit in 2010