Beatriz Haddad Maia

She is also the niece of the famous Brazilian Rolando Boldrin (1936–2022).

Haddad Maia peaked at No. 15 in the ITF junior rankings.

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

On 12 June 2023, she reached a career-high in the WTA rankings at world No. 10 in singles on 12 June 2023 and in doubles on 8 May 2023 becoming the first Brazilian woman to enter the top 10 in singles since the rankings were introduced.

Haddad Maia has won three singles and seven doubles titles on the WTA Tour, and reached a major semifinal at the 2023 French Open.

Playing for Brazil Fed Cup team, Haddad Maia has a win–loss record of 26–11 as of June 2023.

Born in São Paulo to her parents Ayrton Elias Maia Filho and Lais Scaff Haddad, Haddad Maia started playing tennis at the age of 5.

She comes from a tennis family of Lebanese descent.

Both her mother Lais Scaff Haddad and her grandmother Arlette Scaff Haddad were successful tennis players in Brazil.

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.

She was also a doubles semifinalist at the Wimbledon Championships in 2011 playing alongside Mayya Katsitadze from Russia.

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 made her WTA Tour-level 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, losing to Melinda Czink in the second round.

At the same tournament, Haddad Maia made her WTA Tour-level doubles main-draw debut with partner Carla Forte.

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

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

In February 2015, she reached the quarterfinals of the Rio Open as a wildcard.

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.

At Bogotá, Haddad Maia won her first WTA Tour doubles title with compatriot Paula Cristina Gonçalves, defeating Irina Falconi and Shelby Rogers in the final.

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 Miami Open, and Brasil Tennis Cup.

Having fallen to the 367th position in the rankings by 18 July 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.

Haddad Maia started her 2017 season in Australia, playing two tournaments in Perth and winning the $25k event in Clare, South Australia in both singles and doubles with partner Genevieve Lorbergs.

At Bogotá, she won her second title at the event.

Playing with 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 and reaced the quarteerfinals of the main draw, losing to Kristýna Plíšková in the quarterfinals.

The following week, Haddad Maia had the best performance of her career at the $100k Open de 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.

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.

Also on clay, she reached the semifinals of the Bol Open, a WTA 125 event, losing to eventual champion Aleksandra Krunić.

Haddad Maia received her first direct acceptance at a Grand Slam main draw at Wimbledon, losing in the second round to Simona Halep.

In the doubles competition, she reached the third round with Croatian partner Ana Konjuh, losing to Chan Hao-ching and Monica Niculescu.

She gained her first direct acceptance at a WTA Tour-level tournament at the Korean Open.

Haddad Maia reached her first tour-level singles final at the tournament, losing to Jeļena Ostapenko.

After the Australian Open, she played for Brazil at the American Fed Cup Zone six rubbers between both singles and doubles and won five of them.

Haddad Maia qualified for the Australian Open, reaching the second round of the main draw.

She also reached the quarterfinals, as a qualifier, at the WTA Tour event in Acapulco in late February, 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, she played a WTA Challenger event in Bol, Croatia during the second week of the French Open.