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Laura Pigossi: Brazil's historic Olympic medalist and a Pan American double champion
Laura Pigossi and Luisa Stefani won Brazil's first Olympic tennis medal at Tokyo 2020. Entering late and with little tour-level doubles experience, they saved four match points from 9-5 down in the bronze-medal tiebreak and defeated Elena Vesnina and Veronika Kudermetova 4-6, 6-4, 11-9. Pigossi later won both singles and doubles gold at the 2023 Pan American Games, securing a place at the Paris Olympics. In singles, the Sao Paulo right-hander reached the 2022 Bogota final, broke into the top 100 and won her first WTA 125 title in Buenos Aires in 2023.
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