Nuria Brancaccio (born 24 June 2000) is an Italian

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player. 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. 128, reached on 21 April 2025. 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.

Personal life

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

Career

Brancaccio made her

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main-draw debut at the 2021 Italian Open in Rome, where she received a wildcard entry, partnering fellow Italian

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. At the

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, she won the silver medal in singles and the bronze medal in doubles along Aurora Zantedeschi. In September 2022, Brancaccio reached her maiden final at a WTA 125 event where she lost to Austrian player Julia Grabher in

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, Italy, in straight sets. Partnering with Leyre Romero Gormaz, Brancaccio won the doubles at the WTA 125 2024 Zavarovalnica Sava Ljubljana, defeating Lina Gjorcheska and

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in the final. They also won the doubles at the 2024 Bolivia Open, overcoming

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and

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in the final and the 2024 Fifth Third Charleston 125, where they defeated Kayla Cross and

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in the championship match.

Grand Slam singles performance timeline

Singles

WTA Challenger finals

Singles: 1 (runner-up)

Doubles: 3 (3 titles)

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 11 (5 titles, 6 runner–ups)

Doubles: 12 (4 titles, 8 runner–ups)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Brancaccio, Nuria 2000 births Living people Italian female tennis players Competitors at the 2022 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Italy Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Italy Mediterranean Games medalists in tennis Italian people of Spanish descent 21st-century Italian sportswomen