Junior beginnings Pigossi started playing tennis at the age of six at
Club Athletico Paulistano in
São Paulo, following her father and brother in the sport. In 2009, at age 14, she travelled to compete on the
ITF Junior Circuit, participating in the junior events at the
US Open,
Wimbledon and
Roland Garros. In that same season, Pigossi earned her first points on the professional circuit. On that period, Pigossi was studying at the
Dante Alighieri school in São Paulo, but as she was already playing tennis, she and her family had an agreement that Pigossi had to make up for the missed classes. Then, Pigossi and her family decided to take her out of in-person schooling and she started to study remotely. At the age of 15, she moved to
Barcelona, where her brother had attempted to pursue tennis and later education.
Professional 2013 Pigossi made her debut for
Brazil in the
Fed Cup (now
Billie Jean King Cup) and has a win–loss record of 8–6 in the competition as of March 2023.
2017 Partnering with
Nadia Podoroska of Argentina, Pigossi reached the quarterfinals of the doubles draw at the
Rabat Grand Prix in
Morocco, where they were defeated by Hungarian
Tímea Babos and Czech
Andrea Sestini Hlaváčková, the top seeds.
2019 In October 2019, in
Lagos,
Nigeria, Pigossi won two consecutive
ITF doubles titles, her 35th and 36th career titles, which helped her break into the top 150 of the world doubles rankings.
2020–2021: Olympics doubles bronze medal, third longest game in history In April 2021, Pigossi competed at the
W25 event in
Córdoba, and in her opening match she lost to Russian player
Amina Anshba with scores of 7–5, 3–6, 7–5, in a contest that lasted 4 hours and 53 minutes, becoming the third-longest match in the history of professional women's tennis. at the
2020 Summer Olympics Pigossi is an Olympic bronze medallist from the
2020 Tokyo Olympics in the doubles event. She partnered with
Luisa Stefani to defeat
Veronika Kudermetova and defending gold medallist
Elena Vesnina to win the bronze medal. Pigossi and Stefani became the first Brazilians to obtain an Olympic medal in tennis in history, surpassing
Fernando Meligeni's campaign that took 4th place in 1996. The medal was one of the most unexpected: the Brazilians got an Olympic spot at the last minute, confirmed one week before the Games opened, with Stefani ranked No. 23 in the doubles ranking and Pigossi only at No. 190. Although the Brazilian pair had lost in the
only game they played together before, during the overall campaign they managed to save eight match points. In addition to the four in the bronze-medal match, they saved another four in the match against Czech duo
Karolína Plíšková/
Markéta Vondroušová in the round of 16.
2022: Wimbledon debut, top 100. first WTA tour final In 2022, she played her first qualifying competition at a major at the
Australian Open. Pigossi had her first WTA Tour-level wins at
Copa Colsanitas in Bogotá, Colombia, coming from the qualifying rounds and reaching the finals. The campaign in Bogotá included wins against
Dayana Yastremska in the quarterfinals and top seed
Camila Osorio in the semifinals before losing the final to
Tatjana Maria. Consequently, Pigossi reached a new career-high of world No. 126 in the singles rankings on 11 April 2022. In May, she reached two second rounds at
WTA 125-level in Saint-Malo and Karlsruhe. At the
French Open, Pigossi made the qualifying draw as the 16th seed. In June, she made her major debut at
Wimbledon. At the
Guadalajara Open, she made her main-draw debut at the WTA 1000-level as a lucky loser.
2023–2024: Pan American gold, WTA 125 titles She also made her debut at the main draw of the
Australian Open as a lucky loser. In August, Pigossi won an 60k event in
Feira de Santana, Brazil. During the
2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Pigossi won both the women's singles and doubles, the first Brazilian to ever do so – as well as the third to medal in both events after
Maria Bueno and
Gisele Miró – and earning her a spot in the
2024 Olympics singles tournament. Pigossi earned her first singles
Challenger Tour title by winning the
Argentina Open in Buenos Aires. Pigossi started the 2024 season with a first-round singles loss at the
Canberra International. In doubles, Pigossi partnered with
Alexandra Eala and advanced to the semifinals where they lost in straight sets. She reached her second WTA 125 doubles final in
San Luis Potosí with Polish partner
Katarzyna Piter, but they withdrew on the day of the final due to Pigossi’s knee injury. At the
Copa Colsanitas, Pigossi won her opening match against fifth seed
Nadia Podoroska, before losing her next match to
Irina Bara. She claimed her ninth ITF title at the W50 event in
Pretoria, South Africa, defeating
Hanne Vandewinkel in the final. During the Billie Jean King Cup (BJK Cup) qualifier against Germany in São Paulo in April 2024, Pigossi lost a three-set battle to
Tatjana Maria, and withdrew from the following day’s match against
Laura Siegemund due to pain. In May, she made her debut at the
French Open, after qualifying for the main draw. At the
Olympics, she was defeated in her opening match by Ukrainian
Dayana Yastremska. In front of her home crowd, Pigossi won the singles title of a
W75 São Paulo tournament at the
Clube Paineiras do Morumby in
São Paulo. In November at the BJK Cup tie between Brazil and Argentina, Pigossi fell in three sets to
Solana Sierra. She also lost her second match to
Jazmín Ortenzi. Partnering
Maja Chwalińska, Pigossi won the doubles title at the WTA 125
MundoTenis Open in December, defeating
Nicole Fossa Huergo and
Valeriya Strakhova in the final. This was her last tournament in the 2024 season and also the first time she won a WTA 125 doubles title, her biggest achievement in doubles to date.
2025: First two WTA 250 doubles finals Pigossi began the 2025 season by participating in the singles qualifying rounds of the
Auckland Classic in New Zealand. She was defeated in the opening round of the qualifying tournament by
Sachia Vickery She lost in the first round of doubles at the same event. Pigossi's next tournament was the
Australian Open, where, in the qualifying rounds, she won her first match but lost her second. In April, Pigossi participated in the
2025 Copa Colsanitas in Bogotá, Colombia. In the
singles draw, she had a three-set comeback victory against No. 5 seed
Laura Siegemund in the first round but lost in the second to
Katarzyna Kawa, having been with a match point in the second set. In the
doubles draw, Pigossi and
Irina Bara made the finals but lost to
Sara Sorribes Tormo and
Cristina Bucșa in a tiebreak. This was the first doubles final of Pigossi's career at the
WTA 250 level and her biggest to date. At the
US Open qualifying, Pigossi lost to
Emerson Jones in the second round. In September, Pigossi participated in the first edition of the singles and doubles competitions of the
SP Open, a WTA 250 in her hometown of
São Paulo. Playing alongside
Ingrid Martins, she was runner-up, losing in three sets against
Luisa Stefani and
Tímea Babos in the doubles final. This was the first time that Pigossi reached a WTA tour tournament final on hard courts in either singles or doubles. In the singles draw Pigossi got to the round of 16 but lost to Beatriz Haddad Maia in straight sets. Then Pigossi returned to the
Clube Paineiras do Morumby in her hometown of São Paulo to defend her singles title at the
São Paulo Torneio Internacional de Tênis Feminino's ITF tournament, that this time was at the W35 level. Pigossi successfully defended her title by defeating
Carolina Alves at the final in three sets and three hours and forty eight minutes of play. Again partnering with Martins, Pigossi went to play at two WTA 125 tournaments in Brazil in the month of October. First they played at the first edition of Martins hometown tournament, the
Rio Ladies Open in Rio de Janeiro. Martins and Pigossi reached the semifinals but were defeated by
Leyre Romero Gormaz and
Tara Würth in straight sets. At the singles draw Pigossi lost to Julia Grabher in straight sets. In the next week they played at the
2025 MundoTenis Open in Florianópolis, where they lost at the second round in three sets to
Irene Burillo and
Ekaterine Gorgodze. At the singles draw, Pigossi reached to the round of sixteen and lost to Alice Rame in two sets. Pigossi then played at two more WTA 125 tournaments in South America. First in
Cali, Colombia, she reached the singles round of sixteen where she lost in straight sets to
Sara Bejlek. In the doubles draw she was the champion, partnering with fellow Brazilian
Ana Candiotto and winning the final in straight sets against
Ekaterine Gorgodze and
Nicole Fossa Huergo. This was the second doubles title at a WTA 125 tournament for Pigossi. Secondly, she played in the first edition of the WTA 125 tournament in
Tucuman, Argentina, where she lost to Carla Markus of Argentina in straight sets in the first round of singles. At the doubles draw she reached the semifinal partnering with French player
Carole Monnet, where they played against
Valeriya Strakhova and
Alicia Herrero Linana and lost in three sets. ==Personal life and off-court activities==