The Brazilian starts 2023 with everything
Luisa Stefani, No. 47 in the world, won the WTA 500 title this Friday (13) in Adelaide, Australia, with a prize pool of US$ 780,000. Luisa and the North American Taylor Townsend, 24th in the world, beat the pair formed by the Kazakh Elena Rybakina and the Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova by 7/5 7/6 (7/3).
This was Luisa’s first regular tournament of the year after defending Brazil in the United Cup and winning her two mixed doubles matches, raising her sixth career finish, the first of WTA 500. In Guadalajara (Mexico), lo last year (with Australian Storm Sanders), in Montreal (Canada), in 2021 (with Canadian Gabriela Dabrowski) and three more WTA 250 in Chennai, India, with Dabrowski, in 2022, as well as from Lexington, USA , in 2020 , and Tashkent, Uzbekistan, both with American Hayley Carter.
The Brazilian travels to Melbourne to participate in the Australian Open alongside American Caty McNally, who finished as runner-up at the US Open last year alongside Townsend.
Since returning from a knee injury in September, Luisa has played in seven tournaments and won four. Besides Guadalajara and Chennai, she also won the WTA 125 in Montevideo, Uruguay, with Ingrid Martins from Rio de Janeiro.
According to the campaign, it will climb about 13 places on Monday and should appear as the 34th in the world.
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