Sachia Vickery was born on May 11,1995 and is an American professional tennis player.
24 Facts About Sachia Vickery
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Sachia Vickery first entered the top 100 in 2018 and eventually reached a career-high of No 73 in the world in the WTA rankings.
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Sachia Vickery was born in Florida to Paula Liverpool and Rawle Sachia Vickery.
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Sachia Vickery's 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.
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Sachia Vickery's mother ran track in high school and her father was a professional soccer player.
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Sachia Vickery has an older brother named Dominique Mitchell who played college football at South Carolina State University.
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Sachia Vickery's parents divorced when she was young, leaving Liverpool to raise her as a single mother.
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Once Sachia Vickery started to produce strong results at junior tournaments, she began training at the IMG Academy.
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Sachia Vickery reached a career-high ITF junior ranking of No 6 in the world.
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Sachia Vickery 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.
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Sachia Vickery finished her junior career by winning both the singles and doubles titles at the USTA Junior National Championship the following summer, which clinched her two wild cards into the singles and doubles main draws at the US Open.
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Sachia Vickery played her first professional-level match in 2009 at an $10k tournament in Evansville, where she reached the semifinals.
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Sachia Vickery beat former Wimbledon semifinalist Mirjana Lucic-Baroni for her first WTA tour-level win in her first tour-level match.
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In 2014, Sachia Vickery earned another main-draw wildcard, this time for the Australian Open.
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Sachia Vickery would go on to lose in the first round to fellow American Lauren Davis.
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Early in 2015, Sachia 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.
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Sachia Vickery made two WTA quarterfinal appearances over these two years, one at Stanford in 2014 and another at Nottingham in 2015.
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Sachia Vickery reached the main draw through qualifying at both events.
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Sachia Vickery made it through qualifying at the US Open and defeated Natalia Vikhlyantseva in the first round for her first major main-draw match win in four years.
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Sachia Vickery followed this up with the biggest tournament win of her career at the Central Coast Pro Tennis Open, a $60k event.
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Sachia Vickery knocked out defending champion Lauren Davis and former world No 2, Agnieszka Radwanska, along the way before losing to world No 2, Caroline Wozniacki.
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Sachia Vickery backed up this performance by qualifying for the main draw of the Indian Wells Open, where she upset world No 3, Garbine Muguruza, for the biggest win of her career.
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Sachia Vickery then lost to the eventual champion Naomi Osaka, in the third round.
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Sachia Vickery closed out the early-year hardcourt season by reaching her second semifinal, this time at the Monterrey Open.