Sofia Sewing (born July 22, 1999) is an American professional pickleball player and former professional tennis player. She began playing pickleball professionally in 2024 and rapidly rose to prominence on the Association of Pickleball Players (APP) tour.

In tennis, Sewing reached a career-high ITF junior ranking of world No. 9, as well as WTA rankings of 455 in singles and 125 in doubles, before retiring in 2024.

Pickleball career

Sewing had been encouraged by friends and former tennis competitors to consider a switch to pickleball while she was still competing on the tennis tour. After retiring from tennis, she immediately began practicing with pro pickleball players and was invited to compete in an APP tour event just a month later. In the fall of 2024, Sewing began to compete regularly in pro events. She quickly enjoyed success in singles, winning a pair of tournaments overseas, including the PWR India Masters.

Sewing joined the APP tour full-time in 2025, and earned her first singles title in the year's second event, the Vlasic Classic in Daytona Beach, Florida. She also won three of the next four singles titles, and by August was the top-ranked women's singles player on the APP tour. Sewing ended up winning eight APP singles titles in 2025 as well as the singles crown at the USA Pickleball National Championships. She also won four titles in women's doubles and two in mixed doubles.

Tennis career

A talented junior player, Sewing won a number of youth titles, including the prestigious Eddie Herr tournament in back-to-back years. She reached the quarterfinals of the Wimbledon Championships juniors in 2017 and turned pro later that year.

Sewing won four singles and 14 doubles titles at tournaments on the ITF Circuit. In December 2023, she reached her first final on the WTA Challenger Tour, partnering with María Paulina Pérez in Buenos Aires, Argentina, but they lost the match in a super-tiebreaker to María Lourdes Carlé and Despina Papamichail.

Due to chronic knee issues, Sewing stopped playing singles in 2023, and left the tennis tour altogether in April 2024.

WTA Challenger finals Doubles: 1 (runner-up) ResultW–LDateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss0–1Buenos Aires Open, ArgentinaClay María Paulina Pérez María Lourdes Carlé Despina Papamichail3–6, 6–4, [9–11]

ITF Circuit finals Singles: 8 (4 titles, 4 runner-ups) ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreLoss 0–1 Dec 2017ITF Guayaquil, Ecuador15,000 Clay Nika Kukharchuk 0–6, 6–2, 2–6Win 1–1 May 2019ITF Cancún, Mexico15,000 Hard Emilie Lindh 6–1, 1–6, 6–1Win 2–1 Jan 2020ITF Cancún, Mexico15,000 Hard Anastasia Sysoeva 7–5, 6–0Win 3–1 Sep 2022ITF Guayaquil, Ecuador 15,000 Clay María Herazo González 4–6, 6–3, 6-2Loss 3–2 Oct 2022ITF Guayaquil, Ecuador15,000 Clay María Herazo González 4–6, 3-6Loss 3–3 Oct 2022ITF Bucaramanga, Colombia15,000 Clay Kaitlin Quevedo 3–6, 7–6(6), 5–7Loss 3–4 Nov 2022ITF Lima, Peru15,000 Clay Noelia Zeballos 6–3, 3–6, 0–6Win 4–4 Nov 2022ITF Lima, Peru15,000 Clay María Herazo González 7–6(3), 6–1

Doubles: 25 (14 titles, 11 runner-ups) Legend$80,000 tournaments (0–1)$60,000 tournaments (1–0)$40,000 tournaments (2–1)$25,000 tournaments (7–5)$10/15,000 tournaments (4–4) ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentScoreLoss 0–1 Jun 2016ITF Bethany Beach, United States10,000 Clay Veronika Miroshnichenko Sophie Chang Alexandra Mueller 1–6, 4–6Win 1–1 Nov 2017ITF Manta, Ecuador15,000 Hard María Portillo Ramírez Emily Appleton María Herazo González 6–1, 6–3Win 2–1 Dec 2017ITF Guayaquil, Ecuador15,000 Clay María Portillo Ramírez Stephanie Nemtsova Dominique Schaefer 7–5, 6–2Loss 2–2 Nov 2018ITF Norman, US25,000 Hard María Portillo Ramírez Vladica Babić Ena Shibahara 2–6, 3–6Loss 2–3 Jun 2019ITF Wesley Chapel, US15,000 Clay Kylie Collins Allura Zamarripa Maribella Zamarripa 6–3, 4–6, [11–13]Win 3–3 Sep 2019ITF Lubbock, US15,000 Hard María Portillo Ramírez Ashlyn Krueger Shiori Fukuda 6–2, 6–4Loss 3–4 Jan 2020ITF Cancún, MexicoW15 Hard Victoria Rodríguez Lian Tran Justina Mikulskytė 2–6, 6–4, [7–10]Loss 3–5 Sep 2020ITF Prague, Czech RepublicW25 Clay Katie Volynets Anastasia Dețiuc Johana Marková 2–6, 1–6Loss 3–6 Jan 2022ITF Blumenau-Gaspar, BrazilW25 Clay Eva Vedder Andrea Gámiz Bárbara Gatica 4–6, 1–6Win 4–6 Jan 2022ITF Florianópolis, BrazilW25 Hard Andrea Gámiz Bárbara Gatica Rebeca Pereira 6-4, 6-1Win 5–6 Jan 2022ITF Florianópolis, BrazilW25 Hard Andrea Gámiz Jessie Aney Ingrid Martins 7–6(2), 6–4Win 6–6 Mar 2022ITF Guayaquil, EcuadorW25 Hard Andrea Gámiz Nicole Fossa Huergo Noelia Zeballos 6–4, 7–5Win 7–6 Sep 2022ITF Guayaquil, Ecuador W15 Clay María Paulina Pérez Romina Ccuno María Herazo González 6–4, 1–6, [10–2]Loss 7–7 Oct 2022ITF Guayaquil, EcuadorW15 Clay María Paulina Pérez Romina Ccuno María Herazo González 2–6, 7–5, [9-11]Loss 7–8 Oct 2022ITF Ibagué, ColombiaW25 Clay María Herazo González María Paulina Pérez Yuliana Lizarazo 4–6, 5–7Win 8–8 Feb 2023ITF Mexico City, MexicoW40 Hard Berfu Cengiz Suzan Lamens Darja Semeņistaja 6–1, 1–6, [12–10]Win 9–8 Feb 2023ITF Santo Domingo, Dominican RepublicW25 Hard Darja Semeņistaja Nefisa Berberović Eudice Chong 6–3, 6–2Loss 9–9 Apr 2023ITF Boca Raton, USW25 Clay Fanny Stollár Makenna Jones Jamie Loeb 7–5, 3–6, [8–10]Win 10–9 April 2023ITF Guayaquil, EcuadorW25 Clay Jessie Aney Noelia Bouzo Zanotti Ani Vangelova 6–0, 6–2Win 11–9 April 2023ITF Guayaquil, EcuadorW25 Clay Jessie Aney Ana Candiotto Rebeca Pereira 6–1, 6–2Loss 11-10 Jun 2023ITF Otočec, SloveniaW40 Clay Kayla Cross Ekaterine Gorgodze Elvina Kalieva 2-6, 3-6Win 12–10 Jun 2023ITF Pörtschach, AustriaW25 Clay Weronika Falkowska Elena-Teodora Cadar Diāna Marcinkēviča 6–1, 6–2Win 13-10 Jul 2023ITF Palma del Río, SpainW40 Hard Andrea Gámiz Robin Anderson Elysia Bolton 6-3, 6–2Win 14-10 Oct 2023Georgia's Rome Open, USW60 Hard (i) Anastasia Tikhonova Robin Anderson Fernanda Contreras Gómez 4–6, 6–3, [10–7]Loss 14-11 Oct 2023Tennis Classic of Macon, USW80 Hard Anastasia Tikhonova Jana Kolodynska Tatiana Prozorova 3–6, 2–6

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University of Miami Profile