Beatriz Haddad Maia

Beatriz Haddad Maia

Haddad Maia at the 2017 Wimbledon Championships
Country (sports)	Brazil
Born	(1996-05-30) 30 May 1996 (age 25) São Paulo, Brazil
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Plays	Left-handed
Coach	Rafael Paciarone
Prize money	US$ 1,105,485
Singles
Career record	344–169 (67.1%)
Career titles	17 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 58 (25 September 2017)
Current ranking	No. 80 (8 November 2021)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	2R (2018, 2019)
French Open	1R (2017)
Wimbledon	2R (2017, 2019)
US Open	1R (2017)
Doubles
Career record	103–63 (62.0%)
Career titles	2 WTA, 9 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 79 (29 January 2018)
Current ranking	No. 483 (8 November 2021)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	3R (2018)
Wimbledon	3R (2017)
US Open	1R (2017)
Team competitions
Fed Cup	18–10
Last updated on: 8 November 2021.

Beatriz Haddad Maia (born 30 May 1996) is a Brazilian tennis player.

Haddad Maia has won two doubles tournaments on the WTA Tour, as well as 17 singles and nine doubles titles on tournaments of the ITF Circuit. On 25 September 2017, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 58. On 29 January 2018, she peaked at No. 79 of the WTA doubles rankings.

Playing for Brazil at the Fed Cup, Haddad Maia has a combined win/loss record of 18–10.

On 23 July 2019, it was announced by the International Tennis Federation that Haddad Maia had been issued an immediate provisional suspension, pending determination of the charge against her at a full hearing, after a positive test for metabolites of two Selective androgen receptor modulator substances.

Career[]

Early years[]

Haddad Maia started playing tennis at the age of 5. She comes from a tennis family of Lebanese descent.^[1] Both her mother Lais Scaff Haddad and her grandmother Arlette Scaff Haddad were successful tennis players in Brazil.^[1]

Haddad Maia peaked at No. 15 in the ITF junior rankings. She won her first professional doubles title at the $10k tournament in Mogi das Cruzes in September 2010 aged 14 playing, alongside Flávia Guimarães Bueno and her first professional singles title at the $10k tournament in Goiânia in 2011 aged 15.

Her best achievement as a junior player was being doubles runner-up at the French Open twice in 2012 and 2013 partnering with Paraguayan Montserrat González and Ecuadorian Doménica González respectively. She was also a doubles semifinalist at the Wimbledon Championships in 2011 playing alongside Mayya Katsitadze from Russia.

She turned professional in 2014. In December 2014, she was Brazil's second highest ranked female tennis player.

She made her WTA-level main draw debut at the 2013 Brasil Tennis Cup in Florianópolis as a wildcard. She scored her first WTA Tour main-draw win against Hsu Chieh-yu in the first round before losing to Melinda Czink in the second round. At the same tournament, Haddad Maia made her WTA-level doubles main-draw debut with partner Carla Forte. She defeated Mailen Auroux and María Irigoyen in the first round before losing in the quarterfinals to Kristina Barrois and Tatjana Maria.

In 2014, she was awarded a wildcard at both the 2014 Rio Open and 2014 Brasil Tennis Cup main draws, losing in the first round of singles and doubles of both tournaments.

In February 2015, aged 18 and ranked 234th, she reached the quarterfinals of the Rio Open as a wildcard, defeating two higher ranked opponents, María Irigoyen and top 100 Polona Hercog. In the quarterfinals against 16th ranked and first seed Sara Errani, she had three match points, but eventually retired in the third set due to injury. Playing alongside Teliana Pereira, she reached the semifinals in the doubles competition but was forced to withdraw due to the injury sustained in the singles competition. Haddad Maia played qualifying tournaments at Charleston and Bogotá during the clay season, reaching the main draw of Bogotá where she ultimately lost in the second round.

At Bogotá, Haddad Maia won her first WTA Tour doubles title, alongside compatriot Paula Cristina Gonçalves, defeating Irina Falconi and Shelby Rogers in the final. She played the qualifying tournament at the 2015 French Open but was knocked out by Olivia Rogowska after winning her first two matches. During the grass season, she played the qualifying tournaments of Nottingham and Wimbledon, but failed to reach the main draw of both.

In July 2015, she suffered a shoulder injury at the Pan American Games in Toronto, resulting in season-ending surgery.

In 2016, Haddad Maia was awarded wildcards at the Rio Open (where she also played doubles, losing in the first round), Miami Open, making her debut at a Premier tournament, and Brasil Tennis Cup losing in the first round in all three tournaments. She also played qualifying tournaments at the French Open and US Open losing in the second and first round of qualifying respectively.

Having fallen to the 367th position in the rankings by July 18, 2016, Haddad Maia recovered almost 200 spots during the second half of 2016, finishing the year with two consecutive $50k titles in Scottsdale and Waco, finishing the year ranked 170th in the world.

2017: Grand Slam main-draw debut, top 100 debut, first singles final[]

Haddad Maia started her 2017 season in Australia, playing two tournaments in Perth before winning the $25k in Clare in both singles and doubles with partner Genevieve Lorbergs. She received a wildcard for the Miami Open, defeating Lesia Tsurenko in the first round before losing to Venus Williams in her second match. She played the qualifying at Monterrey, but lost in the qualifying competition to Kristie Ahn, after winning her first two matches.

At Bogotá, she once again played the qualifying tournament and won an entry to the main draw. She lost in the first round to Verónica Cepede Royg. In the doubles tournament, she won her second title at the event. Playing alongside Argentinian Nadia Podoroska, she defeated Cepede Royg and Magda Linette in the final.

During the European clay season, she entered the qualifying tournament at Stuttgart, but lost in her opening match. At the Prague Open, she defeated two top 100 players, Ekaterina Alexandrova and Donna Vekić, in the qualifying to enter the main draw, in which she subsequently defeated Christina McHale (ranked 45th) and Samantha Stosur (19th), recording her first career wins over top 50 and top 20 players respectively, before falling to Kristýna Plíšková in the quarterfinals. She left Prague ranked 115th in the world. Her win over Stosur was the first win for a Brazilian over a top-20 player since Niege Dias defeated Arantxa Sánchez Vicario in the 1987 US Open.

The following week, Haddad Maia had the best performance of her career at the $100k in Cagnes-sur-Mer, where she won the title without dropping a set, defeating Jil Teichmann in the final. As a result, Haddad Maia made her debut in the top 100 of the WTA rankings.

As the third seed at the French Open's qualifying tournament, Haddad Maia won all three of her qualifying matches, earning a spot in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time in her career. In the first round, she faced the 14th seed Elena Vesnina and was defeated in three sets. Also on clay, she reached the semifinals of the Bol Open, a WTA 125K series event, before losing to eventual champion Aleksandra Krunić. As a result, she climbed to the 94th place in the rankings on June 12.

During the grass-court season, she played the qualifying of Mallorca and reached the main draw, losing to Shelby Rogers in the first round. In Eastbourne, she lost in the first round of qualifying to Mona Barthel. Haddad Maia received her first direct acceptance at a Grand Slam main draw at Wimbledon, where she beat Laura Robson in the first round. Haddad Maia's victory marked the first time a Brazilian woman won a Wimbledon main-draw match since Gisele Miró in 1989. Haddad Maia lost in the second round to second seed Simona Halep. In the doubles competition, after defeating the sixth seeds Abigail Spears and Katarina Srebotnik in the first round, she reached the third round with Croatian partner Ana Konjuh, where the team lost to ninth seeds Chan Hao-ching and Monica Niculescu.

During the hard court season, she entered the Cincinnati Premier 5 qualifying tournament, where she reached the main draw and defeated Lauren Davis in the first round before eventually losing to fourth seed and eventual champion Garbiñe Muguruza in the second round. She entered the New Haven qualifying, but lost in the first qualifying round to Christina McHale. At the US Open Haddad Maia lost in the first round to Donna Vekić. Playing once again alongside Ana Konjuh, she lost in the first round of the doubles competition to 13th seeds Kristina Mladenovic and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.

She gained her first direct acceptance at a WTA-level tournament at the Korean Open. Haddad Maia reached her maiden tour-level singles final at the tournament, losing to first seed and French Open champion Jeļena Ostapenko. In the process, Haddad Maia became the first Brazilian to reach a non-clay-court final since Cláudia Monteiro in the 1983 Pittsburgh Open and secured her debut in the top 60 of the world rankings.^[2]

Haddad Maia was seeded second in the qualifying round of the last Premier Mandatory of the year, in Beijing, but she lost in her opening match against Andrea Petkovic. At the Tianjin Open she defeated fourth seed Donna Vekić in the first round, but ultimately lost to qualifier Sara Errani in the following match.

Haddad Maia finished her 2017 season at the Luxembourg Open, where she was seeded at a WTA-level tournament for the first time in her career. She lost in the second round of singles competition to Johanna Larsson, and in the quarterfinals of the doubles tournament playing alongside Cepede Royg to Varvara Lepchenko and Fanny Stollár.

2018[]

Haddad Maia started her 2018 season playing two WTA International tournaments. In Auckland she was defeated in the first round by fourth seed Agnieszka Radwańska and in Hobart she scored her first win of the season against wildcard Lizette Cabrera, but ultimately lost to second seed and eventual champion Elise Mertens in the second round. At the Australian Open she once again defeated Cabrera in the first round, but was eliminated in the following match by sixth seed Karolína Plíšková. Haddad Maia's victory in the first round marked the first time a Brazilian woman won an Australian Open main draw match in the Open era and the first time since Maria Esther Bueno reached the final in 1965. At the doubles tournament, Haddad Maia played alongside Sorana Cîrstea and reached the third round, defeating fifteenth seeds Alicja Rosolska and Abigail Spears en route, before being eliminated by fourth seeds Lucie Šafářová and Barbora Strýcová.

After the Australian Open, Haddad Maia played for Brazil at the American Fed Cup Zone. She played six rubbers between both singles and doubles and won five of them. At the Mexican Open in Acapulco, Haddad Maia defeated Heather Watson in the first round but ultimately lost to second seed Kristina Mladenovic in the following match. She played alongside Verónica Cepede Royg in the doubles competition, but lost to fourth seeds Lara Arruabarrena and Arantxa Parra Santonja in the opening round.

Haddad Maia was eliminated by Monica Puig in the opening round of Indian Wells, the first Premier Mandatory of the year. In Miami she defeated Heather Watson and 31st seed Zhang Shuai to score her first back-to-back tour matches wins since her campaign to the 2017 Korea Open final before losing to sixth seed Jeļena Ostapenko in the third round.

She started her clay season in Charleston, but was forced to retire in her first round match against Lara Arruabarrena due to an left wrist injury. She then withdrew from Bogotá and Istanbul due to the injury sustained in Charleston. At the Prague Open she was eliminated in the first round against seventh seed and eventual runner-up, Mihaela Buzărnescu. She enterer the qualifying tournament in Madrid as the fifth seed, but was defeated by Sara Errani. Haddad Maia was forced to withdraw from the remaining of the clay-court season and the grass season due to a lower back injury and a subsequent surgery.

2019[]

Haddad Maia qualified for the Australian Open, reaching the second round of the main draw. She also reached the quarterfinals, out of the qualifying, at the WTA Tour event in Acapulco in late February before losing to eventual champion, Wang Yafan.

Again out of the qualifying, Haddad Maia reached the semifinals at the Copa Colsanitas, losing to eventual champion Amanda Anisimova.

After retiring due to injury in the first round of qualifying at the French Open, Haddad Maia played a WTA 125K series event in Bol, Croatia during the second week of the French Open. It was there, following a first-round loss to Sara Sorribes Tormo that she reportedly failed the urine test.^[3]

The ITF's announcement stated^[4] that Haddad Maia waived the right to an immediate appeal. A full hearing to determine the charge against her will be held at a later date.

2020[]

In February, the ITF issued the verdict that the supplement ingested was contaminated. It defined the suspension for ten months, considering the time she was away. The federation's report didn't release her from responsibilities, citing the case of three other Brazilian tennis players who had found themselves in a similar situation: Marcelo Demoliner, Thomaz Bellucci and Igor Marcondes. The ITF removed the bigger sentence, which could have gone from two to four years.^[5] Haddad was free to return on May 22, 2020, the eve of the Roland Garros tournament. However, without ranking, she could not compete in French Grand Slam event, having to start in small tournaments again. ^{[6] [7]}

After the pandemic of COVID-19, she returned to play in September 2020 at the ITF of Montemor-o-Novo in Portugal.^[8]

2021[]

In October, at the rescheduled Indian Wells Open, Haddad Maia lost in qualifying to Usue Maitane Arconada but was awarded a spot in the main draw as a lucky loser following the withdrawal of 29th seed Nadia Podoroska. She defeated Mayar Sherif in the second round, and then upset top seed and world No. 3, Karolína Plíšková, to advance to the fourth round.^[9]

Performance timelines[]

Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup and Olympic Games are included in win/loss records.^[10]

Singles[]

Current after the 2021 BNP Paribas Open.

Doubles[]

WTA career finals[]

Singles: 1 (runner-up)[]

Result	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponents	Score
Loss	Sep 2017	Korea Open, South Korea	International	Hard	Jeļena Ostapenko	7–6(7–5), 1–6, 4–6

Doubles: 2 (2 titles)[]

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Apr 2015	Copa Colsanitas, Colombia	International	Clay	Paula Cristina Gonçalves	Irina Falconi Shelby Rogers	6–3, 3–6, [10–6]
Win	2–0	Apr 2017	Copa Colsanitas, Colombia (2)	International	Clay	Nadia Podoroska	Verónica Cepede Royg Magda Linette	6–3, 7–6(7–4)

ITF Circuit finals[]

Singles: 25 (17 titles, 8 runner–ups)[]

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Aug 2011	ITF São Paulo, Brazil	10,000	Clay	Maria Fernanda Alves	6–4, 5–7, 3–6
Win	1–1	Oct 2011	ITF Goiânia, Brazil	10,000	Clay	Bárbara Luz	6–2, 6–0
Win	2–1	Apr 2012	ITF Ribeirão Preto, Brazil	10,000	Hard	Natasha Fourouclas	6–0, 6–1
Win	3–1	Mar 2013	ITF Ribeirão Preto, Brazil	10,000	Clay	Andrea Benítez	7–6(2), 6–2
Win	4–1	Apr 2013	ITF Antalya, Turkey	10,000	Hard	Tereza Martincová	6–4, 6–3
Loss	4–2	May 2013	ITF Caserta, Italy	25,000	Clay	Renata Voráčová	4–6, 1–6
Loss	4–3	Jun 2013	ITF Lenzerheide, Switzerland	25,000	Clay	Laura Siegemund	2–6, 3–6
Loss	4–4	Jun 2014	ITF Breda, Netherlands	15,000	Clay	Bernarda Pera	1–6, 6–7(8)
Loss	4–5	Dec 2014	ITF Mérida, Mexico	25,000	Hard	Patricia Maria Țig	6–3, 3–6, 1–6
Loss	4–6	Oct 2016	ITF Pula, Italy	25,000	Clay	Martina Trevisan	3–6, 4–6
Win	5–6	Oct 2016	ITF Scottsdale, United States	50,000	Hard	Kristie Ahn	7–6(4), 7–6(2)
Win	6–6	Nov 2016	ITF Waco, United States	50,000	Hard	Grace Min	6–2, 3–6, 6–1
Win	7–6	Feb 2017	ITF Clare, Australia	25,000	Hard	Markéta Vondroušová	6–2, 6–2
Win	8–6	May 2017	ITF Cagnes-sur-Mer, France	100,000	Clay	Jil Teichmann	6–3, 6–3
Loss	8–7	Nov 2018	ITF Tyler, United States	80,000	Hard	Whitney Osuigwe	3–6, 4–6
Win	9–7	Sep 2020	ITF Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal	25,000	Hard	Jodie Anna Burrage	6–1, 6–4
Loss	9–8	Sep 2020	ITF Figueira da Foz, Portugal	25,000	Hard	Georgina García Pérez	7–6(10), 5–7, 4–6
Win	10–8	Sep 2020	ITF Santarém, Portugal	15,000	Hard	Martyna Kubka	6–0, 6–0
Win	11–8	Sep 2020	ITF Porto, Portugal	15,000	Hard	Ingrid Gamarra Martins	6–3, 6–2
Win	12–8	Oct 2020	ITF Funchal, Portugal	15,000	Hard	Francisca Jorge	6–3, 6–3
Win	13–8	Apr 2021	ITF Villa Maria, Argentina	25,000	Clay	Francesca Jones	5–7, 6–4, 6–2
Win	14–8	Apr 2021	ITF Cordoba, Argentina	25,000	Clay	Panna Udvardy	6–2, 6–2
Win	15–8	June 2021	Montemor Open, Portugal	25,000	Hard	Mariam Bolkvadze	6–4, 6–4
Win	16–8	Sep 2021	ITF Collonge-Bellerive, Switzerland	60,000	Clay	Ipek Oz	5–7, 6–1, 6–4
Win	17–8	Sep 2021	ITF Montreux, Switzerland	60,000	Clay	Francesca Jones	6–4, 6–3

Doubles: 15 (9 titles, 6 runner–ups)[]

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Sep 2010	ITF Mogi das Cruzes, Brazil	10,000	Clay	Flávia Guimarães Bueno	Maria Fernanda Alves Natasha Lotuffo	6–1, 6–3
Win	2–0	Aug 2011	ITF São Paulo, Brazil	10,000	Clay	Carla Forte	Isabella Robbiani Kyra Shroff	6–7(5), 6–3, [10–7]
Win	3–0	Oct 2011	ITF Goiânia, Brazil	10,000	Clay	Paula Cristina Gonçalves	Flávia Dechandt Araújo Karina Venditti	6–4, 5–7, [12–10]
Loss	3–1	Apr 2013	ITF Antalya, Turkey	10,000	Hard	Bárbara Luz	Irina Bara Diana Buzean	5–7, 1–6
Loss	3–2	Jun 2014	ITF Amstelveen, Netherlands	10,000	Clay	Tatiana Búa	Bernarda Pera Viktoriya Tomova	0–6, 1–2 ret.
Win	4–2	Jun 2014	ITF Alkmaar, Netherlands	10,000	Clay	Bernarda Pera	Charlotte van der Meij Mandy Wagemaker	6–1, 1–6, [10–5]
Loss	4–3	Jan 2015	ITF Sunrise, United States	25,000	Clay	Paula Cristina Gonçalves	Anna Kalinskaya Katerina Stewart	6–7(6), 7–5, [6–10]
Loss	4–4	May 2015	ITF Saint-Gaudens, France	50,000+H	Clay	Nicole Melichar	Mariana Duque Julia Glushko	6–1, 6–7(5), [4–10]
Win	5–4	May 2015	ITF Grado, Italy	25,000	Clay	Viktorija Golubic	Sharon Fichman Katarzyna Piter	6–3, 6–2
Win	6–4	Jan 2016	ITF Guarujá, Brazil	25,000	Hard	Paula Cristina Gonçalves	Laura Pigossi Jil Teichmann	6–7(3), 7–5, [10–7]
Win	7–4	Feb 2017	ITF Clare, Australia	25,000	Hard	Genevieve Lorbergs	Alison Bai Erika Sema	6–4, 6–3
Loss	7–5	May 2019	ITF Cagnes-sur-Mer, France	80,000	Clay	Luisa Stefani	Xenia Knoll Anna Blinkova	6–4, 2–6, [12–14]
Win	8–5	Jun 2019	ITF Ilkley, UK	100,000	Grass	Luisa Stefani	Ellen Perez Arina Rodionova	6–4, 6–7(5), [10–4]
Win	9–5	Sep 2020	ITF Figueira da Foz, Portugal	25,000	Hard	Ingrid Gamarra Martins	Jacqueline Cabaj Awad Inês Murta	7–5, 6–1
Loss	9–6	Oct 2020	ITF Funchal, Portugal	15,000	Hard	Ingrid Gamarra Martins	Arianne Hartono	6–4, 1–6, [7–10]

Junior Grand Slam finals[]

Girls' doubles: 2 (runner–ups)[]

Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	2012	French Open	Clay	Montserrat González	Daria Gavrilova Irina Khromacheva	6–4, 4–6, [8–10]
Loss	2013	French Open	Clay	Doménica González	Barbora Krejčíková Kateřina Siniaková	5–7, 2–6

Head-to-head records[]

Wins over top 10 players[]

#	Player	Rank	Event	Surface	Rd	Score
2019
1.	Sloane Stephens	No. 4	Mexican Open	Hard	2R	6–3, 6–3
2021
2.	Karolína Plíšková	No. 3	Indian Wells Open, United States	Hard	3R	6–3, 7–5

Record against top 20 players[]

Haddad Maia's match record against certain players who have been ranked in the top 20, with those who have been No. 1 in boldface.

Main-draw results only; correct to 12 October 2021.

References[]

External links[]

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