Bruna Colósio Explained

Bruna Colósio
Birth Date:	13 October 1980
Birth Place:	Cascavel, Brazil
Plays:	Right-handed
Careerprizemoney:	$31,707
Retired:	2005
Singlestitles:	2 ITF
Highestsinglesranking:	No. 291 (21 July 2003)
Wimbledonjuniorresult:	2R (1997)
Usopenjuniorresult:	1R (1997)
Doublestitles:	11 ITF
Highestdoublesranking:	No. 193 (12 January 2004)
Team:	yes
Fedcupresult:	Play-offs (2003, 2004)
Medaltemplates-Expand:	yes

Bruna Colósio (born 13 October 1980) is a retired Brazilian tennis player.

Colósio has won the Gold medal partnering Joana Cortez at the 2003 Pan American Games, as well as two singles and eleven doubles titles on the ITF circuit in her career. On 21 July 2003, she reached her best singles ranking of world number 291. On 12 January 2004, she peaked at number 193 in the WTA doubles rankings.

Playing for Brazil at the Fed Cup, Bruna has a win–loss record of 7–6.

Tennis career

Junior

Bruna had a successful junior career, peaking at world number 43 in singles and No. 10 in doubles; both on December 31, 1997. She reached a total of eleven finals in doubles; with nine titles. Colósio won her only singles titles in her only final. She played at all the Grand Slam events except the Australian Open in 1997. Colósio ended her junior career with a 34–25 record on singles and 45–15 on doubles.

In 1997, between January and March, Bruna reached eight consecutive doubles finals in eight weeks, winning six titles. Her defeats came through the hands of the year-end number-one pair, Cara Black and Irina Selyutina. During that period, she also won her only singles title, a G3 tournament in Bolivia.

Senior career

Bruna played mostly at the ITF Women's Circuit during her senior career. She played at a WTA Tour tournament main draw once, in doubles, at the WTA Brasil Open in 2002, partnering Vanessa Menga. In 2004, she tried and failed to qualify to both singles and doubles main draw at the Copa Colsanitas. During her early career, she played at the ITA circuit, peaking at No. 5, but couldn't manage to keep the good results to enter the WTA tournaments.^[1]

Her career highlights include a gold medal at the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, partnering Joana Cortez,^[2] two ITF single titles and eleven ITF doubles titles.

Colósio also played in eight ties for the Brazil Fed Cup team, in 2001, 2003–04, with a 7–6 record.

She retired from professional level in 2005.

Career finals

ITF Women's Circuit

Singles (2–3)

Category
$100,000 tournaments
$75,000 tournaments
$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments

Outcome	width=120	Date	width=220	Tournament	Surface	width=200	Opponent	width=150	Score
Winner		ITF Manta, Ecuador	Clay	Regina Temez	6–2, 6–2
Runner-up		ITF La Paz, Bolivia	Clay	Sabrina Eisenberg	4–6, 7–5, 5–7
Runner-up		ITF Santiago, Chile	Clay	Celeste Contín	3–6, 6–3, 2–6
Runner-up		ITF Florianópolis, Brazil	Clay	Larissa Carvalho	6–2, 4–6, 5–7
Winner		ITF Belo Horizonte, Brazil	Clay	Carla Tiene	6–4, 6–3

Doubles (11–7)

Category
$100,000 tournaments
$75,000 tournaments
$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments

Surface
Clay (5–3)
Hard (6–4)

Setting
Outdoor (10–6)
Indoor (1–1)

Result	width=120	Date	width=220	Tournament	Surface	width=150	Partner	width=175	Opponents	width=110	Score
Runner-up		ITF Guimarães, Portugal	Hard	Cristina Correia	Marina Escobar Paula Hermida	6–7, 4–6
Winner		ITF Azemeis, Portugal	Hard	Cristina Correia	Kelly Liggan Irina Selyutina	6–2, 6–4
Winner		ITF Manaus, Brazil	Hard	Carla Tiene	María José Gaidano Joanne Moore	3–6, 6–3, 6–4
Winner		ITF São José dos Campos, Brazil	Hard	Carla Tiene	Melisa Arévalo Vanessa Menga	6–3, 7–5
Winner		ITF Campos do Jordão, Brazil	Hard	Carla Tiene	Jolanda Mens Andrea van der Hurk	6–1, 4–6, 6–4
Runner-up		ITF La Paz, Bolivia	Clay	Lívia Azzi	Daniela Alvaréz Ana Lucía de León	6–1, 3–6, 0–6
Winner		ITF Asuncion, Paraguay	Clay	Nanda Alves	María José Argeri Larissa Carvalho	6–4, 1–6, 6–2
Winner		ITF Santiago, Chile	Clay	Celeste Contín	Larissa Carvalho Soledad Esperón	w/o
Winner		ITF Florianópolis, Brazil	Clay	Larissa Carvalho	Marcela Evangelista Letícia Sobral	6–4, 6–4
Runner-up		ITF Miami, United States	Hard	Vanessa Menga	Beau Jones Anžela Žguna	4–6, 6–4, 4–6
Runner-up		ITF Columbus, United States	Hard (i)	Joana Cortez	Li Ting Sun Tiantian	3–6, 1–6
Winner		ITF Catania, Italy	Clay	Joana Cortez	Aurélie Védy Christina Zachariadou	6–1, 6–1
Winner		ITF Greenville, United States	Clay	Joana Cortez	Kelly McCain Kristen Schlukebir	6–2, 7–5
Runner-up		ITF Belo Horizonte, Brazil	Hard	Joana Cortez	Marcela Evangelista Carla Tiene	3–6, 6–7⁽⁴⁾
Winner		ITF Mexico City, Mexico	Hard	Joana Cortez	Nanda Alves Carla Tiene	1–6, 6–3, 6–3
Winner		ITF Houston, United States	Hard (i)	Anne Mall	Angela Haynes Ahsha Rolle	7–6⁽⁴⁾, 6–4
Runner-up		ITF Asuncion, Paraguay	Clay	Ana Lucía de León	Betina Jozami Verónica Spiegel	5–7, 4–6
Runner-up		ITF Santiago, Chile	Clay	Ana Lucía de León	María José Argeri Letícia Sobral	2–6, 0–6

ITF Junior's finals

Singles (1–0)

Doubles (9–2)

Category
Category G1 (1–1)
Category G2 (2–1)
Category G3 (4–0)
Category GB2 (2–0)

Surface
Clay (8–2)
Hard (1–0)

Outcome	Category	Tournament	Surface	Score
Winner	Grade 3	Copa Banco Econômico, Brazil	Hard	6–2, 6–2
Winner	Grade B2	South America Closed Championships, Brazil	Clay	6–4, 5–0 ret.
Winner	Grade 3	13th Gerdau-Cooper Tennis Cup, Brazil	Clay	6–4, 0–6, 6–4
Winner	Grade 2	Nicolas Macchiavello Almeida Cup, Ecuador	Clay	6–3, 3–6, 6–3
Winner	Grade 3	13th Inka Bowl, Peru	Clay	6–3, 6–2
Winner	Grade 3	Condor de Plata Tournament, Bolivia	Clay	6–2, 6–0
Winner	Grade 2	19th Milo Cup, Chile	Clay	6–3, 6–3
Runner-up	Grade 2	Argentina Cup	Clay	3–6, 6–2, 4–6
Runner-up	Grade 1	17th Asuncion Bowl, Paraguay	Clay	3–6, 3–6
Winner	Grade 1	27th Banana Bowl, Brazil	Clay	6–4, 6–2
Winner	Grade B2	South America Closed Championships, Brazil	Clay	6–4, 7–6

Notes and References

Web site: Tricampeonato marca despedida de dupla cascavelense. SET Paraná. November 25, 2013. April 25, 2017. pt.
Web site: Joana Cortez e Bruna Colosio são campeãs nas duplas do tênis no Pan. Folha Online. August 9, 2003. April 25, 2017. pt.