Paula Cristina de Araújo Gonçalves (born 11 August 1990) is a Brazilian former tennis player.
In her career, she won one doubles title on the WTA Tour, as well as seven singles and 24 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 15 August 2016, Gonçalves achieved her career-high singles ranking of world No. 158. On 29 February 2016, she peaked at No. 95 in the doubles rankings.
Career
2015
Gonçalves and Beatriz Haddad Maia won the title on Copa Colsanitas defeating Irina Falconi and Shelby Rogers in the final. This was her first WTA Tour title.
Partnering Sanaz Marand, Gonçalves won her first $75k tournament in September at the Albuquerque defeating Tamira Paszek and Anna Tatishvili in the final.
2016
Paula made her first WTA singles quarterfinal at the Rio Open after straight-sets wins over Shahar Pe'er, Alizé Lim, Julia Glushko, Johanna Larsson. Her run was ended by Shelby Rogers.
She made her first WTA singles semifinal two months later at the Copa Colsanitas after wins over Verónica Cepede Royg, Tatjana Maria and Alexandra Panova.
WTA career finals
Doubles: 1 (title)
ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 14 (7 titles, 7 runner–ups)
Doubles: 44 (24 titles, 20 runner–ups)