Lucia Bronzetti

Career

Bronzetti got a wildcard into the Italian Open singles qualifying in May but didn't make the main draw. She and Nuria Brancaccio also received a wildcard for the doubles main draw, where they fell in the first round to Coco Gauff and Veronika Kudermetova. Her first WTA Tour singles main draw came in July after she qualified for the Ladies Open Lausanne. There she beat Tess Sugnaux and eighth seed Anna Blinkova to reach the quarterfinals, where top seed and eventual champion Tamara Zidanšek stopped her.

The next week she made another quarterfinal at Palermo, defeating fifth seed Viktoriya Tomova and Grace Min before losing to Elena-Gabriela Ruse. In August she tried to qualify for the US Open but lost in the first round. The following month she got to the second round of the Karlsruhe Open. She then qualified for the Zavarovalnica Sava Portorož and reached the quarterfinals by beating seventh seed Rebecca Peterson and Bernarda Pera, then lost to second seed Yulia Putintseva.

2022: Major & WTA 1000 debuts, maiden WTA Tour final

Bronzetti qualified for her first major at the 2022 Australian Open, getting past Amandine Hesse, Valeria Savinykh, and Nao Hibino. She won her first-round match against Varvara Gracheva before falling to world number one and eventual champion Ashleigh Barty in the second round. In March she made her WTA 1000 main-draw debut as a lucky loser in Miami, advancing to the fourth round with wins over Ajla Tomljanović and Stefanie Vögele plus a walkover from Anna Kalinskaya, then lost to wildcard Daria Saville.

That result pushed her into the top 100. She made her main-draw debut as a wildcard at the Italian Open but lost in the first round to Camila Osorio. At the Morocco Open she reached her first WTA semifinal, beating eighth seed Anna Kalinskaya, Clara Burel, and third seed Nuria Párrizas Díaz before losing to compatriot and eventual champion Martina Trevisan. She entered the main draws of both the French Open and Wimbledon but lost in the first round to Jelena Ostapenko and Ann Li, respectively.

Bronzetti reached her first WTA Tour final in Palermo, defeating Wang Xiyu, Elina Avanesyan, fifth seed Caroline Garcia, and Jasmine Paolini, then lost to sixth seed Irina-Camelia Begu in the title match.

Did You Know?

• Bronzetti was born in Rimini and grew up in Verucchio.
• She began playing tennis at age 10 at the suggestion of her aunt.
• Her cousin, Alberto Bronzetti, is also a tennis player.