[2] In 2004, she had her breakthrough year when she won three $10k events in the space of a month, at Guayaquil, La Paz and Asuncion.

[3] She featured in a WTA Tour main draw for the first time at the 2007 Copa Colsanitas (Bogota), in the women's doubles with Larissa Carvalho.

Straight after that, she travelled to Acapulco and made the singles main draw of the Abierto Mexicano, as a lucky loser from qualifying, where she was beaten again in the opening round, by sixth seed Gisela Dulko.

Over the next few years, she instead attended college in the United States and played collegiate tennis for the Pacific Tigers in Stockton, California.

[1] She represented Brazil in a total of ten Fed Cup ties for a 6–4 overall record, with all six wins coming in singles.