Sachia Vickery

Sachia Vickery

Sachia Vickery at the 2017 US Open Qualifying
Country (sports)	United States
Residence	Hollywood, Florida, USA
Born	(1995-05-11) May 11, 1995 Hollywood, Florida, USA
Height	1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)
Turned pro	2011
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Coach	Matt Evans
Prize money	US$890,333
Singles
Career record	225–176 (56.11%)
Career titles	0 WTA, 3 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 73 (July 30, 2018)
Current ranking	No. 79 (August 20, 2018)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	1R (2014)
French Open	1R (2016, 2018)
Wimbledon	2R (2018)
US Open	2R (2013, 2017)
Doubles
Career record	30–44 (40.54%)
Career titles	0 WTA, 1 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 233 (March 2, 2015)
Current ranking	No. 344 (April 23, 2018)
Last updated on: July 16, 2018.

Sachia Vickery (born May 11, 1995) is an American professional tennis player. She first entered the Top 100 in 2018 and recently reached a career-high of No. 75 in the world in the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) rankings. Her best results on the WTA Tour came at the 2018 Auckland Open and the 2018 Monterrey Open, where she reached the semifinals. Vickery has also won three ITF singles titles and one ITF doubles title, and is a former USTA junior national champion.

Early life and background

Vickery was born in Florida to Paula Liverpool and Rawle Vickery. Her parents had both lived in Linden, the second largest city in the Caribbean nation of Guyana, and her mother is originally from the small mining town of Kwakwani. Her mother ran track in high school and her father was a professional soccer player. She also has an older brother named Dominique Mitchell who played college football at South Carolina State University. Through her former stepfather Derrick Mitchell, she is acquainted with LeBron James and considers his mother Gloria to be "like an aunt to her."^[1][2][3]

Vickery's parents divorced when she was young, leaving Liverpool to raise her as a single mother. Her mother, who had been a school teacher in Guyana, at one point worked full-time during the day in the admissions office at Kaplan University and full-time at night as a bartender in a dangerous part of Miami to help pay for Vickery's tennis lessons. Once Vickery started to produce strong results at junior tournaments, she began training at the IMG Academy. While she was in Miami, she also worked with Richard Williams, the father of Venus and Serena, for a summer. After a year, she then moved to France to train at the Mouratoglou Tennis Academy for several years. By the time she was 18, she had moved back to Florida to be at the USTA National Training Center in Boca Raton.^[2][3][4]

Junior career

Vickery reached a career-high ITF junior ranking of No. 6 in the world. She recorded her first big result on the junior circuit when she reached the final of the Grade 1 USTA International Spring Championships in 2010 at 14 years old.^[5] The following year, she reached the semifinals of the Orange Bowl.^[6] To start the 2012 season, Vickery picked up her only Grade 1 tournament win at the Copa del Cafe in Costa Rica.^[7] She played in her last ITF junior tournament that November. Vickery finished her junior career by winning both the singles and doubles titles at the USTA Junior National Championship the following summer, which also clinched her two wild cards into the singles and doubles main draws at the US Open.^[8]

Professional career

Early years

Sachia Vickery at 2015 French Open Qualifying

Vickery played her first professional-level match in 2009 at an ITF $10K tournament in Evansville, where she reached the semifinals.^[9] In 2011, she was awarded a wild card into qualifying at the Citi Open in Washington, but lost her first match.

As the 2013 USTA junior national champion, Vickery earned a wild card to compete in the main draw of the US Open. She beat former Wimbledon semifinalist Mirjana Lučić-Baroni for her first WTA tour-level win in her first tour-level match.^[4] This put Vickery into the Top 200 of the WTA rankings for the first time. She would consistently remain in the Top 200 for the next four and a half years, aside for two weeks in 2016, but did not move into the Top 100 until March 2018.^[10][11]

In 2014, Vickery earned another main draw wild card, this time for the 2014 Australian Open. She would go on to lose in the first round to fellow American Lauren Davis. Early in 2015, Vickery won her first two ITF pro circuit titles in back-to-back weeks in her home state of Florida, both of which came on clay. Vickery made two WTA quarterfinal appearances over these two years, one at Stanford in 2014 and another at Nottingham in 2015. She reached the main draw through qualifying at both events. Vickery also qualified for the main draw at Wimbledon in 2015 and the French Open in 2016.

Vickery made it through qualifying at the 2017 US Open and defeated Natalia Vikhlyantseva in the first round for her first grand slam main draw match win in four years.^[12] She followed this up with the biggest tournament win of her career at the Central Coast Pro Tennis Open, an ITF $60K event.^[13]

Personal life

Vickery's tennis idols are the Williams sisters and Martina Hingis. Her best friend is Victoria Duval. She likes to read, and her favorite author is James Patterson.^[16]

ITF finals

Singles: 6 (3–3)

Legend $100,000 tournaments (0–0) $80,000 tournaments (0–0) $60,000 tournaments (1–0) $25,000 tournaments (2–2) $10,000 tournaments (0–1)

Finals by surface Hard (1–3) Clay (2–0) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Jan 2011	Le Gosier, Guadeloupe	$10,000	Hard	Gail Brodsky	3–6, 6–2, 2–6
Win	1–1	Jan 2015	Plantation, United States	$25,000	Clay	Samantha Crawford	6–3, 6–1
Win	2–1	Jan 2015	Surprise, United States	$25,000	Clay	Sara Sorribes Tormo	6–2, 2–6, 6–3
Loss	2–2	Oct 2016	Redding, United States	$25,000	Hard	Françoise Abanda	6–3, 4–6, 4–6
Win	3–2	Oct 2017	Templeton, United States	$60,000	Hard	Jamie Loeb	6–1, 6–2
Loss	3–3	Nov 2017	Norman, United States	$25,000	Hard	Danielle Collins	6–1, 3–6, 4–6

Doubles: 4 (1–3)

Legend $100,000 tournaments (0–1) $80,000 tournaments (0–0) $60,000 tournaments (0–1) $25,000 tournaments (1–1) $15,000 tournaments (0–0)

Finals by surface Hard (1–2) Clay (0–1) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Feb 2013	Surprise, US	$25K	Hard	Samantha Crawford	Emily J. Harman Xu Yifan	6–3, 3–6, [10–7]
Loss	1–1	Mar 2014	Innisbrook, US	$25K	Clay	Allie Kiick	Gioia Barbieri Julia Cohen	6–7(5–7), 0–6
Loss	1–2	Jul 2014	Carson, US	$60K	Hard	Samantha Crawford	Michaëlla Krajicek Olivia Rogowska	6–7(4–7), 1–6
Loss	1–3	Feb 2015	Midland, US	$100K	Hard (i)	Jacqueline Cako	Julie Coin Emily Webley-Smith	6–4, 6–7, [9–11]

Singles performance timeline

Current through the 2018 US Open.

Wins over top 10 players

#	Player	Rank	Event	Surface	Rd	Score	SVR
2018
1.	Garbiñe Muguruza	No. 3	BNP Paribas Open, Indian Wells, United States	Hard	2R	2–6, 7–5, 6–1	No. 100

References

External links

• Sachia Vickery at the Women's Tennis Association
• Sachia Vickery at the International Tennis Federation