The 21st century
Brazil · born São Paulo, 1996 · left-handed · Nottingham and Birmingham champion 2022
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10
Career-high WTA singles ranking, June 2023
2
Grass singles titles in consecutive weeks, June 2022
10th
Career match on grass: the 2022 Nottingham final
54
Years since a Brazilian had won a grass title, before her Nottingham win
4R
Best Wimbledon singles result, 2023
Beatriz Haddad Maia was born in São Paulo in 1996. She is left-handed, stands 1.85 m and turned professional in 2014. In 2019 she tested positive for two prohibited substances, which she attributed to contaminated supplements, and was suspended for ten months, backdated to July 2019.
Her rise came after her return. In June 2022, unseeded and with little grass-court experience, she won Nottingham and Birmingham in successive weeks, her first two WTA titles, and took the Nottingham doubles with Zhang Shuai. She reached the French Open semi-finals in 2023, entered the top 10 that June, won the WTA Elite Trophy in 2023 and Seoul in 2024, and reached the US Open quarter-finals in 2024. In doubles she was a finalist at the 2022 Australian Open.
She won a second Nottingham doubles title in 2025 with Laura Siegemund, and was still competing on the tour in 2026.
| Nottingham 2022 | Beat Alison Riske 6-4, 1-6, 6-3 in the final, coming back from an early break down in the third set and winning five of the last seven games; it was her tenth career match on grass |
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| Birmingham 2022 | After rain wiped out the Saturday, beat second seed Simona Halep 6-3, 2-6, 6-4 in a Sunday-morning semi-final, then won the title that afternoon when Zhang Shuai, her doubles partner, retired injured with Haddad Maia leading 5-4 in the first set |
| Nottingham doubles | Champion in 2022 with Zhang Shuai and in 2025 with Laura Siegemund, beating Anna Danilina and Ena Shibahara 6-3, 6-2 in the 2025 final |
| Wimbledon | As a qualifier in 2019 beat the 2017 champion Garbiñe Muguruza in the first round on No. 3 Court. Reached the fourth round as 13th seed in 2023 and retired with a back injury early in the first set against Elena Rybakina |
| Nottingham | ||
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| 2022 | Women's doubles | with Zhang Shuai |
| 2022 | Women's singles | |
| 2025 | Women's doubles | with Laura Siegemund |
| Birmingham | ||
| 2022 | Women's singles | |
Leading grass titles only: the grass majors, tour-level grass events since 1968 and the leading grass championships before 1968. †single source; ‡ sources disagree. Roll of champions
"I never expected I could have a lot of crowd and people here cheering for me."
The person behind the player.
Wimbledon, 2019
The Wimbledon Compendium lists among No. 3 Court's notable matches the 2019 first round in which the qualifier Beatriz Haddad Maia beat Garbiñe Muguruza, the 2017 champion.
Source: Wimbledon Compendium 20252019 to 2020
Two prohibited substances were found in a sample in 2019. She said they came from contaminated supplements and did not open the B sample. She was suspended for ten months from 22 July 2019 and had to return the prize money and ranking points earned in that period.
Source: tennisnetNottingham, June 2022
After beating Alison Riske for her first title she said: "I never expected I could have a lot of crowd and people here cheering for me." Of Riske she added: "She's a very good player, she competes every single point, doesn't matter what."
Source: Tennis MajorsBirmingham, June 2022
Rain washed out the Saturday, so both semi-finals were played on the Sunday morning. That afternoon she met Zhang Shuai, with whom she had won the Nottingham doubles a week earlier. Haddad Maia lost the first two games, led 5-4 and was preparing to serve for the set when Zhang retired injured.
Source: theScoreWimbledon, July 2023
Seeded 13th, she reached the fourth round for the first time but retired with a back injury early in the first set against the defending champion, Elena Rybakina, and left the court in tears.
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