Sachia Vickery ( ; born May 11, 1995) is an American-born Guyanese professional tennis player. She reached a career-high of No. 73 in the WTA rankings on July 30, 2018. Vickery, a former USTA junior national champion, has also won three singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.
Her best results on the WTA Tour came at the 2018 Auckland Open and the 2018 Monterrey Open, where she reached the semifinals. In September 2026, she changed her sporting affiliation to Guyana to compete at the South American Games, with the aim of qualifying for the 2028 Summer Olympics.
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."
Her 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.
Juniors 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. The following year, she reached the semifinals of the Orange Bowl. To start the 2012 season, Vickery picked up her only Grade 1-tournament win at the Copa del Cafe in Costa Rica. 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 wildcards into the singles and doubles main draws at the US Open.
Professional Early years
Vickery played her first professional-level match in 2009 at an $10k tournament in Evansville, where she reached the semifinals. In 2011, she was awarded a wildcard into qualifying at the Washington Open but lost her first match.
As the 2013 USTA Junior National Champion, Vickery ear WTA Tour-level win in her first tour-level match. 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.
In 2014, Vickery earned another main-draw wildcard, this time for the 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 Women's Circuit titles in back-to-back weeks in her home state of Florida, both of which came on clay. Vickery made two Tour 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 US Open and defeated Natalia Vikhlyantseva in the first round for her first major main-draw match win in four years. She followed this up with the biggest tournament win of her career at the Central Coast Pro Tennis Open, a $60k event.
2018: Top 100 At the Auckland Open in January, Vickery made it to her first WTA Tour semifinal, the best result of her career. She knocked out defending champion Lauren Davis and former world No. 2, Agnieszka Radwańska, along the way before losing to world No. 2, Caroline Wozniacki.
She backed up this performance by qualifying for the main draw of the Indian Wells Open, where she upset world No. 3, Garbiñe Muguruza, for the biggest win of her career. She then lost to the eventual champion Naomi Osaka, in the third round. Before the tournament, she had been ranked for the first time in the top 100. With the result, she rose to a new career-high of No. 89 in the world.
Vickery closed out the early-year hardcourt season by reaching her second semifinal, this time at the Monterrey Open.
2023–2024: Major and WTA 1000 wins At the WTA 1000 2023 Guadalajara Open, she entered as a lucky loser replacing Beatriz Haddad Maia and recorded a first-round win over compatriot Danielle Collins who retired after the first set.
In February 2024, she qualified for the ATX Open and defeated qualifier Rebecca Marino. In April, she also qualified for the WTA 500 2024 Charleston Open. Ranked No. 134, at the next WTA 500, the 2024 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart, she qualified for the main draw and defeated qualifier Aliaksandra Sasnovich, before losing to third seed Coco Gauff in three sets.
Vickery earned a 2024 French Open singles main-draw entry by winning the USTA's reciprocal wildcard in the Roland Garros Wild Card Challenge.
At the WTA 500 Guadalajara Open, she entered again as a lucky loser for a second consecutive year, replacing Taylor Townsend.
Performance timelines
Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.
Singles Current through the 2024 French Open. Tournament201320142015201620172018201920202021202220232024Win%Grand Slam tournamentsAustralian OpenA1RAQ3Q1Q12RQ3Q2Q1Q3Q10 / 21–2French OpenAQ1Q11RQ11RQ2Q1Q1Q1Q21R0 / 30–3WimbledonAQ11RQ1Q22RQ1NHQ2Q2Q1Q20 / 21–2US Open2RQ11RQ12R1RQ22RQ2Q32RQ10 / 64–6Win–loss1–10–10–20–11–11–31–11–10–00–01–10–10 / 136–13WTA 1000 tournamentsIndian Wells OpenQ1A2RQ1Q23R1RNHQ1AAA0 / 33–3Miami OpenAAQ1Q2Q1Q11RNHAAAA0 / 10–1Madrid OpenAAAAAQ2ANHAAAQ20 / 00–0Italian OpenAAAAAAAAAAQ1Q10 / 00–0Canadian OpenAAQ1Q11RQ2Q2NHAAQ20 / 10–1Cincinnati OpenAQ1Q1AAQ1AAAAA0 / 00–0Wuhan OpenNHAAAAAQ1NH0 / 00–0Guadalajara OpenNHQ12RNTI0 / 11–1Win–loss0–00–01–10–00–12–10–20–00–00–01–10–00 / 64–6Career statistics Tournaments1575511711165Career total: 55Overall win–loss1–12–55–74–55–59–114–71–10–10–14–62–50 / 5537–55Year-end ranking19019513014111696158158220190147
ITF Circuit finals Singles: 10 (3 titles, 7 runner-ups) LegendW60 tournaments (1–3)W25 tournaments (2–3)W10 tournaments (0–1)Finals by surfaceHard (1–7)Clay (2–0) ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreLoss 0–1 ITF Le Gosier, GuadeloupeW10 Hard Gail Brodsky 3–6, 6–2, 2–6Win 1–1 ITF Plantation, United States W25 Clay Samantha Crawford 6–3, 6–1Win 2–1 ITF Surprise, United StatesW25 Clay Sara Sorribes Tormo 6–2, 2–6, 6–3Loss 2–2 ITF Redding, United StatesW25 Hard Françoise Abanda 6–3, 4–6, 4–6Win 3–2 Templeton Pro Open, United StatesW60 Hard Jamie Loeb 6–1, 6–2Loss 3–3 ITF Norman, United StatesW25 Hard Danielle Collins 6–1, 3–6, 4–6Loss 3–4 Jan 2020Burnie International, AustraliaW60 Hard Maddison Inglis 6–2, 3–6, 5–7Loss3–5Feb 2022ITF Santo Domingo, Dominican Rep.W25Hard Katie Swan4–6, 3–6Loss3–6May 2022ITF Orlando Pro, United StatesW60Hard Robin Anderson5–7, 4–6Loss3–7Jul 2022Evansville Classic, United StatesW60Hard Ashlyn Krueger3–6, 5–7
Doubles: 6 (3 titles, 3 runner-ups) Legend$100,000 tournaments (1–1)$60,000 tournaments (1–1)$25,000 tournaments (1–1)Finals by surfaceHard (2–2)Clay (1–1) ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin 1–0 ITF Surprise, USW25 Hard Samantha Crawford Emily Harman Xu Yifan 6–3, 3–6, [10–7]Loss 1–1 ITF Innisbrook, USW25 Clay Allie Kiick Gioia Barbieri Julia Cohen 6–7(5), 0–6Loss 1–2 Carson Challenger, USW60 Hard Samantha Crawford Michaëlla Krajicek Olivia Rogowska 6–7(4), 1–6Loss 1–3 Midland Tennis Classic, USW100 Hard (i) Jacqueline Cako Julie Coin Emily Webley-Smith 6–4, 6–7, [9–11]Win 2–3 Jul 2019Berkeley Challenge, USW60 Hard Madison Brengle Francesca Di Lorenzo Katie Swan 6–3, 7–5Win 3–3 Jul 2022ITF Charleston Pro, USW100 Clay Alycia Parks Tímea Babos Marcela Zacarías 6–4, 5–7, [10–5]
Head-to-head-record Wins over top 10 players #PlayerRankEventSurfaceRdScore20181. Garbiñe MuguruzaNo. 3Indian Wells Open, USHard2R2–6, 7–5, 6–1No. 100
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