Nuria Brancaccio

Nuria Brancaccio
Brancaccio at the 2023 French Open
Country (sports) Italy
Born (2000-06-24) 24 June 2000
Torre del Greco, Italy
PlaysRight-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize moneyUS$383,576
Singles
Career record276–192
Career titles5 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 167 (14 August 2023)
Current rankingNo. 183 (30 June 2025)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian OpenQ1 (2024, 2025)
French OpenQ2 (2025)
WimbledonQ1 (2023, 2025)
US OpenQ1 (2023)
Doubles
Career record105–100
Career titles3 WTA Challengers, 4 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 127 (30 June 2025)
Current rankingNo. 127 (30 June 2025)
Last updated on: 30 June 2025.

Nuria Brancaccio (born 24 June 2000) is an Italian tennis player.[1]

Brancaccio has a career-high singles ranking by the WTA of 167, achieved on 14 August 2023. She also has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 127, reached on 30 June 2025.[1]

Brancaccio has won three doubles titles at WTA Challenger level. She has reached 11 career singles finals on the ITF Circuit, with a record of five wins.[2]

Personal life

She has a Spanish mother and an Italian father. Her brother Raúl Brancaccio is also a tennis player.[3]

Career

Brancaccio made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2021 Italian Open in Rome, where she received a wildcard entry, partnering fellow Italian Lucia Bronzetti.

At the 2022 Mediterranean Games, she won the silver medal in singles and the bronze medal in doubles along Aurora Zantedeschi.[4]

In September 2022, Brancaccio reached her maiden final at a WTA 125 event where she lost to Austrian player Julia Grabher in Bari, Italy, in straight sets.[5]

Partnering with Leyre Romero Gormaz, Brancaccio won the doubles at the WTA 125 2024 Zavarovalnica Sava Ljubljana, defeating Lina Gjorcheska and Jil Teichmann in the final.[6] They also won the doubles at the 2024 Bolivia Open, overcoming Aliona Bolsova and Valeriya Strakhova in the final[7] and the 2024 Fifth Third Charleston 125, where they defeated Kayla Cross and Liv Hovde in the championship match.[8]

Grand Slam singles performance timeline

Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# DNQ A NH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Singles

Tournament 2023 2024 2025 W–L
Australian Open A Q1 Q1 0–0
French Open Q1 A Q2 0–0
Wimbledon Q1 A Q1 0–0
US Open Q1 A 0–0
Win–loss 0–0 0–0 0–0

WTA Challenger finals

Singles: 1 (runner-up)

Result W–L Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Loss 0–1 Sep 2022 Bari Open, Italy Clay Julia Grabher 4–6, 2–6

Doubles: 3 (3 titles)

Result W–L    Date    Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 1–0 Sep 2024 Ljubljana Open, Slovenia Clay Leyre Romero Gormaz Jil Teichmann
Lina Gjorcheska
5–7, 7–5, [10–7]
Win 2–0 Oct 2024 Bolivia Open, Bolivia Clay Leyre Romero Gormaz Aliona Bolsova
Valeriya Strakhova
6–4, 6–4
Win 3–0 Nov 2024 Charleston, United States Clay Leyre Romero Gormaz Kayla Cross
Liv Hovde
7–6 (6), 6–2

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 12 (5 titles, 7 runner–ups)

Legend
W60/75 tournaments (0–1)
W25/35 tournaments (4–3)
W15 tournaments (1–3)
Finals by surface
Clay (5–7)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Loss 0–1 Feb 2021 ITF Antalya, Turkey W15 Clay Dea Herdželaš 7–6(1), 2–6, 5–7
Win 1–1 Mar 2021 ITF Antalya, Turkey W15 Clay Jang Su-jeong 7–5, 6–4
Loss 1–2 Mar 2021 ITF Antalya, Turkey W15 Clay Park So-hyun 4–6, 0–6
Loss 1–3 Apr 2021 ITF Antalya, Turkey W15 Clay Anastasiya Soboleva 0–6, 6–7(5)
Loss 1–4 Jun 2021 Grado Tennis Cup, Italy W25 Clay Nuria Párrizas Díaz 3–6, 7–5, 2–6
Win 2–4 Jan 2023 ITF Buenos Aires, Argentina W25 Clay Julia Riera 6–4, 4–6, 7–5
Loss 2–5 Jan 2023 ITF Buenos Aires, Argentina W25 Clay Carlota Martínez Círez 4–6, 7–5, 3–6
Win 3–5 Jun 2024 ITF Tarvisio, Italy W35 Clay Dalila Spiteri 6–4, 6–2
Win 4–5 Jul 2024 ITF Rome, Italy W35 Clay Varvara Lepchenko 7–6(6), 6–1
Loss 4–6 Sep 2024 ITF Santa Margherita di Pula, Italy W35 Clay Julie Štruplová 7–5, 6–7(5), 2–6
Win 5–6 Apr 2025 ITF Santa Margherita di Pula, Italy W35 Clay Nastasja Schunk 6–7(2), 6–4, 6–1
Loss 5–7 Apr 2025 ITF Bucharest, Romania W75 Clay Tamara Zidanšek 1–6, 5–7

Doubles: 12 (4 titles, 8 runner–ups)

Legend
W60/75 tournaments (1–2)
W25 tournaments (1–5)
W15 tournaments (2–1)
Finals by surface
Hard (1–1)
Clay (3–7)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 1–0 Jul 2019 ITF Tabarka, Tunisia W15 Clay Federica Arcidiacono Paula Arias Manjón
Julyette Steur
6–4, 4–6, [10–6]
Loss 1–1 Aug 2019 ITF Sezze, Italy W25 Clay Federica Sacco Anna Danilina
Ekaterina Yashina
5–7, 4–6
Win 2–1 Feb 2020 ITF Monastir, Tunisia W15 Hard Federica Rossi Miriam Kolodziejová
Jesika Malečková
5–7, 6–3, [10–5]
Loss 2–2 Feb 2020 ITF Heraklion, Greece W15 Clay Olga Helmi Tatiana Pieri
Dalila Spiteri
6–7(3), 1–6
Loss 2–3 Jun 2021 ITF Wrocław, Poland W25 Clay İpek Öz Anna Hertel
Martyna Kubka
6–7(2), 6–3, [7–10]
Loss 2–4 Jan 2022 ITF Monastir, Tunisia W25 Hard Lisa Pigato Eudice Chong
Cody Wong
2–6, 3–6
Win 3–4 Jun 2022 ITF Brescia, Italy W60 Clay Lisa Pigato Zhibek Kulambayeva
Diāna Marcinkēviča
6–4, 6–1
Loss 3–5 Jun 2022 Macha Lake Open, Czech Republic W60 Clay Despina Papamichail Karolína Kubáňová
Aneta Kučmová
2–6, 6–7(9)
Loss 3–6 Oct 2022 ITF Santa Margherita di Pula, Italy W25 Clay Angelica Moratelli Jessie Aney
Sapfo Sakellaridi
6–7(2), 5–7
Loss 3–7 Oct 2023 ITF Santa Margherita di Pula, Italy W25 Clay Angelica Moratelli Veronika Erjavec
Justina Mikulskytė
6–7(6), 0–6
Win 4–7 Oct 2023 ITF Santa Margherita di Pula, Italy W25 Clay Eleonora Alvisi Anastasia Abbagnato
Virginia Ferrara
6–2, 2–6, [10–6]
Loss 4–8 Aug 2024 ITF Cordenons, Italy W75 Clay Leyre Romero Gormaz Yvonne Cavallé Reimers
Aurora Zantedeschi
5–7, 6–2, [5–10]

References

  1. ^ a b "Nuria Brancaccio profile". wtatennis.com. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
  2. ^ "Nuria Brancaccio Women's Singles Activity". ITF Tennis. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
  3. ^ "I promossi delle pre-quali: sei ritratti azzurri". sport.tiscali.it. 6 May 2021.
  4. ^ "Il sanremese Matteo Arnaldi oro nel doppio con Passaro ai Giochi del Mediterraneo". July 2022.
  5. ^ "Grabher defeats Brancaccio to claim first WTA 125 title in Bari". Women's Tennis Association.
  6. ^ "Bulgaru wins WTA 125 Bucharest with Halep on site; Teichmann wins Ljubljana". Women's Tennis Association. Retrieved 28 October 2024.
  7. ^ "Todoni captures second WTA 125 title of season in Santa Cruz". Women's Tennis Association. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
  8. ^ "Zarazua, Stojanovic win this week's clay-court WTA 125 titles". Women's Tennis Association. Retrieved 25 November 2024.