Super Star Beatriz Haddad Maia, Gracing Magazine Covers, Living Life Super Cool
FCI Staff Writer Sacramento 
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December 10, 2023,
GQ magazine, no matter the country, is cool.
Way cool.
There, we’ve said it.
It exudes class, style, upward mobility and, if you are a celebrity, a statement that your career is trending upwards.
You absolutely want to be featured in GQ.
Better yet, on the cover.
Here was a recent headline that caught the tennis world’s eye.
In their December 2023 issue, tennisnow.com reports, “Haddad Maia graces the cover of the GQ Brasil’s December/January issue, where she was profiled in a feature written by Ana Beatriz Gonçalves and photographed by Pedro Dimitrow.
Haddad Maia, who won her third career title at Zhuhai, went 34-23 on the season with a 4-5 record against the Top-10 and 11-8 against the Top-20.”
Now that resume will get you on the cover of a lot of magazines. So will winning over 400 singles matches.
Time for a meet and greet.
Beatriz Haddad Maia is her full name. She’s earned all of it.
In terms of women’s tennis, have you been keeping up?
Beatriz Haddad Maia is a Brazilian professional tennis player. Her current ranking is number 11 in the world.
On June 12, 2023, she reached a career-high in the WTA rankings at world No. 10 in singles.
Given the amazing talent at the top, that is incredibly impressive.
Beatriz has won three singles and six doubles titles on the WTA Tour, one singles and doubles title each on the WTA Challenger Tour, as well as 17 singles and nine doubles titles on the ITF Women’s Circuit.
Playing for Brazil Fed Cup team, Beatriz has a won–loss record of 26–11 as of June 2023.
Born in São Paulo, to her parents Ayrton Elias Maia Filho and Lais Scaff Haddad, Beatriz started playing tennis at the age of five.
The greats often start very young.
With the current migration of large groups of people, from all over the world, landing in different countries, she comes from a tennis family of Lebanese descent.
Both her mother Lais Scaff Haddad and her grandmother Arlette Scaff Haddad were very successful tennis players in Brazil.
She is also the niece of the famous Brazilian actor, singer-songwriter, writer and TV presenter Rolando Boldrin (1936–2022).
Now, it is her time in the sun.
The more we get to know about Beatriz, the more we can see why she graced the cover of GQ.
2023 has been a solid breakout year for our beautiful luminary.
At the WTA 500 in Abu Dhabi, she reached the quarterfinals after more than a three hour battle with qualifier Yulia Putintseva in a three-set match with two tiebreaks.
Next, she reached the semifinals, defeating another Kazakhstani player, third seed and top-10 player Elena Rybakina, and recording a six-match winning streak against top-10 players.
That is a powerfully impressive stat.
Biatriz had the best campaign of her career at Wimbledon. She won the first three matches and reached the fourth round. Applause all around.
Then there was the huge WTA year-end championships tournament.
Beatriz reached the singles final without dropping a set at the 2023 WTA Elite Trophy where she defeated Daria Kasatkina in the semifinals in straight sets, she reached back world No. 16 in the singles rankings on October 30, 2023.
At the same tournament she also reached the final in doubles, without dropping a set, with Veronika Kudermetova.
Based upon those accomplishments, that is how she eventually finished the season at Number 11, her best end of the season ranking.
That places her in a great place.
Because she is from a great place.
When was the last time you traveled to the global city of Sao Paulo?
If you don’t know much about Sao Paulo, you have been missing out.
Electronically, let’s travel there now.
So often when people think of Brazil, they think of Rio. But, if you’ve never delved into the massive city of Sao Paulo, you should now.
São Paulo is the most populous city in Brazil and the capital of the state of São Paulo. São Paulo’s population has grown rapidly. By 1960 it had surpassed that of Rio de Janeiro.
Yes, you read that right. Most populated city in Brazil.
Listed by the GaWC as an alpha global city, São Paulo is the most populous city outside of Asia and the world’s 4th largest city proper by population.
Additionally, São Paulo is the largest Portuguese-speaking city in the world.
Think about that one. More than Lisbon.
It exerts strong international influences in commerce, finance, arts and entertainment.
The city’s name honors the Apostle, Saint Paul of Tarsus.
Amazing how history is all connected, isn’t it?
Having the largest economy by GDP in Latin America, the city is home to the São Paulo Stock Exchange.
The metropolis is also home to several of the tallest skyscrapers in Brazil, including the Mirante do Vale, Edifício Itália, Banespa, North Tower and many others.
Have you seen their skyline? It is amazing.
São Paulo is a cosmopolitan, melting pot city, home to the largest Arab, Italian, and Japanese diasporas, with examples including ethnic neighborhoods of Bixiga, Bom Retiro, and Liberdade.
In 2016, inhabitants of the city were native to over 200 countries.
We could talk about Sao Paulo all day.
All night too. It has a fantastic night club scene. Very cool.
The world travelers at lonelyplanet.com summarize it well. “São Paulo is home to 20 million fiercely proud paulistanos (as residents are known), all of whom will happily tell you at length to you how they’d never live elsewhere.”
That is high praise indeed.
We just scratched the surface. From art houses to gourmet restaurants, delightful parks and a 24/7 youthful clubbing scene, Beatriz is clearly from an exciting place.
Beatriz has enough money to really enjoy the scene when she treks back home. We all love to come back home.
According to the most recent WTA website, her career prize money is $5,343,077.
In terms of the future, we’re watching to see if Beatriz will improve on her early exit from the 2023 US Open. With the 2024 Australian Open right around the corner, Brazil’s millions of eyes will be watching her.
If she can present a strong performance, trust us, she will be on more magazine covers than GQ.
And you know what? That is beyond cool.
That is super cool.
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