Alycia Michelle Parks (born December 31, 2000) is an American professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 40, reached in August 2023, and a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 27, achieved in September 2023. Parks has won one singles title and two doubles titles on the WTA Tour, including a WTA 1000 doubles title at the 2023 Cincinnati Open. She has also won five singles titles and three doubles titles on the WTA Challenger Tour.
Career 2021: WTA Tour & major debuts, fastest serve record She made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2021 MUSC Health Open in Charleston, having made it through qualifying as an alternate. She defeated qualifier Grace Min in the first round, before losing to top seed Ons Jabeur in the second.
In her first-round match at the US Open, she tied the record by Venus Williams for the fastest serve by a woman that the tournament had ever recorded (129 mph).
2022: Breakthrough, first top-10 win & doubles title, top 75 In 2022, she made her sixth career main-draw appearance advancing to the second round of the German Open in Berlin as a qualifier. As a result, she climbed to a career-high, up 34 spots from 169 to No. 135, on 20 June 2022.
Ranked No. 144 at the Ostrava Open, she defeated as a qualifier former world No. 1, Karolína Plíšková, for her first top-20 win and followed that by defeating world No. 7 and fourth seed, Maria Sakkari, for her first top-10 win to reach her first ever WTA Tour quarterfinal. At the same tournament in doubles, she won her maiden WTA Tour title, partnering Caty McNally.
In December, Parks won back-to-back WTA 125 singles titles in Andorrà and Angers, the latter of which she also claimed the doubles title at alongside Zhang Shuai. As a result of these successes, she reached the top 75 in singles and top 60 in doubles.
2023: First singles title & top-5 win, top 40, WTA 1000 doubles title As the top seed in the qualifying draw at the 2023 Australian Open, Parks lost in the second round to Sára Bejlek. At the same tournament, partnering with Oksana Kalashnikova, she reached the third round in doubles on her debut at this major losing to eventual champions, Barbora Krejčíková and Katerina Siniaková.
At the Lyon Open, she reached her first tour semifinal defeating Julia Grabher, fourth seed Petra Martić and seventh seeded Danka Kovinić. She defeated Maryna Zanevska to reach her first WTA Tour final. Next, she defeated top seed Caroline Garcia, recording her first top-5 win, to claim her maiden career title. As a result, she moved to new career-highs in the top 50, in doubles of No. 43 on February 13, 2023, and in singles of No. 50 on February 27, 2023.
At the Madrid Open, she defeated Anna Karolína Schmiedlová and 15th seed Viktoria Azarenka, in straight sets, to move into the third round for the first time at a WTA 1000 level. She lost to 18th seed Martina Trevisan.
Parks reached her second WTA Tour doubles final in Birmingham with Storm Hunter, losing to Barbora Krejčíková and Marta Kostyuk.
She qualified for Wimbledon and defeated Anna-Lena Friedsam in the first round, before losing to Ana Bogdan. Parks also reached the second rounds of the Canadian Open, losing to Belinda Bencic, and in Cincinnati, losing to Aliaksandra Sasnovich. In the doubles at the Cincinnati tournament, Parks paired with Taylor Townsend for the first time, going on to win title, defeating third seeds Nicole Melichar-Martinez and Ellen Perez in the final.
2024: Australian Open third round, back to top 100 At the Australian Open, Parks reached the third round of a major for the first time in her career with wins over Daria Snigur and 32nd seed Leylah Fernandez, before being eliminated in the third round by fourth seed Coco Gauff in straight sets. Despite this result, she fell out of the top 100 on February 5, 2024, not being able to defend her points from the Lyon Open which was cancelled in the 2024 season.
In doubles, at the Miami Open, she reached the semifinals with Asia Muhammad before losing to second seeds Gabriela Dabrowski and Erin Routliffe. As a result, she returned to the top 30 in the doubles rankings, at No. 29 on April 1. Parks won the title at the WTA 125 Veneto Open, defeating eighth seed Bernarda Pera in straight sets in the final. Partnering Hailey Baptiste, she also took the doubles title at the same event with a win over Miriam Kolodziejová and Anna Sisková in the final.
Ranked No. 121, she qualified for the main draw of the Wimbledon, losing in the first round to Caroline Wozniacki. In July, she won her second WTA 125 title for the season at the Polish Open, defeating fifth seed Maya Joint in the final. As a result, she moved 22 positions up on July 29, and a week later to world No. 99.
At the WTA 1000 China Open, she qualified and recorded her first main-draw win at a WTA Tour-level since January, at the Australian Open, over Wang Qiang, before losing to 23rd seed Magdalena Fręch in the second round.
Parks reached the final at the WTA 125 Midland Tennis Classic with wins over Lina Glushko, Caty McNally, Astra Sharma and Lauren Davis before losing to Rebecca Marino. In December, she won the WTA 125 Open Angers, overcoming Belinda Bencic in the final, having defeated Julie Belgraver, Tamara Korpatsch, Victoria Jiménez Kasintseva and Mona Barthel en route to the championship match. As a result, she re-entered the top 100 at world No. 84 on December 9, which was the same position she started off the year.
2025: Two WTA Tour semifinals Parks began the season at the Auckland Open, where she defeated third seed Amanda Anisimova, Greet Minnen and Katie Volynets, before losing to seventh seed Naomi Osaka in what was her first WTA Tour semifinal since her title ein in Lyon almost two years earlier.
In August at the Monterrey Open, she recorded wins over qualifier Cristina Bucșa, top seed Emma Navarro and Rebecca Šramková to reach the semifinals, at which point her run was ended by third seed and eventual champion Diana Shnaider.
Seeded third at the Jiangxi Open in October she overcame wildcard entrant Zhu Lin and Kaja Juvan to make it through to the quarterfinals, where she lost to eventual champion Anna Blinkova.
2026: Ostrava quarterfinal At the Ostrava Open, Parks defeated Julia Grabher and Elina Avanesyan, before losing in the quarterfinals to Katie Volynets, in three sets.
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 2026 Cincinnati Open. Tournament202120222023202420252026SRW–LWin%Grand Slam tournamentsAustralian OpenAQ2Q23RQ12R0 / 23–2French OpenAQ11RQ22R2R0 / 32–3WimbledonAQ12R1R1R2R0 / 42–4US Open1RQ11RQ21R0 / 30–3Win–loss0–10–01–32–21–33–30 / 127–12WTA 1000 tournamentsQatar OpenAAAQ12R2R0 / 22–2DubaiAAAQ12RQ10 / 11–1Indian Wells Open1RQ11RQ12R1R0 / 41–4Miami OpenAQ21RQ12R3R0 / 33–3Madrid OpenAA3RQ12R2R0 / 34–3Italian OpenAA1RQ11R0 / 20–2Canadian OpenAA2RQ11R2R0 / 32–3Cincinnati OpenQ1AQ2A1R1R0 / 20–2Guadalajara OpenNHQ12RNMS0 / 11–1China OpenNH1R2R1R0 / 31–3Wuhan OpenNHQ1Q10 / 00–0Win–loss0–10–04–71–15–85–60 / 2415–24Career statistics202120222023202420252026SRW–LWin%Tournaments4321101613Career total: 54Titles001000Career total: 1Finals001000Career total: 1Overall win-loss2–43–313–214–1012–1610–131 / 6844–67Year-end ranking2371184711267$2,944,450
Significant finals WTA 1000 tournaments Doubles: 1 (title) ResultYearTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin2023Cincinnati OpenHard Taylor Townsend Nicole Melichar-Martinez Ellen Perez6–7(1–7), 6–4, [10–6]
WTA Tour finals Singles: 1 (title) LegendWTA 250 (1–0)Finals by surfaceHard (1–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreWin1–0Lyon Open, FranceWTA 250Hard (i) Caroline Garcia 7–6(9–7), 7–5
Doubles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner-up) LegendWTA 1000 (1–0)WTA 500 (1–0)WTA 250 (0–1)Finals by surfaceHard (2–0)Grass (0–1)Finals by settingOutdoor (1–1)Indoor (1–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin1–0Ostrava Open, Czech RepublicWTA 500Hard (i) Caty McNally Alicja Rosolska Erin Routliffe6–3, 6–2Loss1–1Jun 2023Birmingham Classic, UKWTA 250 Grass Storm Hunter Marta Kostyuk Barbora Krejčíková 2–6, 6–7(7–9)Win2–1Aug 2023Cincinnati Open, United StatesWTA 1000Hard Taylor Townsend Nicole Melichar-Martinez Ellen Perez6–7(1–7), 6–4, [10–6]
WTA 125 finals Singles: 6 (5 titles, 1 runner-up) ResultW–LDateTournamentSurfaceOpponentScoreWin1–0Andorrà Open, Andorra la VellaHard (i) Rebecca Peterson6–1, 6–4Win2–0Open Angers, FranceHard (i) Anna-Lena Friedsam6–4, 4–6, 6–4Win3–0Veneto Open, ItalyGrass Bernarda Pera6–4, 6–1Win4–0Kozerki Open, PolandHard Maya Joint4–6, 6–3, 6–3Loss4–1Midland Tennis Classic, USHard (i) Rebecca Marino2–6, 1–6Win5–1Open Angers (2), FranceHard (i) Belinda Bencic 7–6(7–4), 3–6, 6–0
Doubles: 4 (3 titles, 1 runner-up) ResultW–LDateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin1–0Midland Tennis Classic, USHard (i) Asia Muhammad Anna-Lena Friedsam Nadiia Kichenok6–2, 6–3Win2–0Open Angers, FranceHard (i) Zhang Shuai Miriam Kolodziejová Markéta Vondroušová6–2, 6–2Loss2–1Clarins Open, FranceClay Nadiia Kichenok Anna Danilina Vera Zvonareva7–5, 6–7(2), [12–14]Win3–0Veneto Open, ItalyGrass Hailey Baptiste Miriam Kolodziejová Anna Sisková7–6(4), 6–2
ITF Circuit finals Singles: 6 (1 title, 5 runner-ups) LegendW60 tournaments (0–2)W25 tournaments (1–2)W15 tournaments (0–1)Finals by surfaceHard (1–4)Clay (0–1) ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreLoss 0–1 Jun 2019ITF Shreveport, United StatesW15 Clay Hsu Chieh-yu 2–6, 3–6Loss 0–2 Sep 2019ITF Redding, United StatesW25 Hard Gabriela Talabă 1–6, 1–6Win 1–2 Nov 2020ITF Orlando, United StatesW25 Hard Robin Montgomery 3–6, 6–4, 6–2Loss 1–3 Nov 2021ITF Daytona Beach, United StatesW25 Hard Irina Fetecău 1–6, 2–6Loss 1–4 Feb 2022 Georgia's Rome Open, United States W60 Hard (i) Tatjana Maria 4–6, 6–4, 2–6Loss 1–5 Mar 2022 Arcadia Pro Open, United States W60 Hard Rebecca Marino 6–7(0), 1–6
Doubles: 6 (3 titles, 3 runner-ups) LegendW100 tournaments (1–0)W80 tournaments (0–1)W60 tournaments (1–1)W25 tournaments (1–1)Finals by surfaceHard (2–2)Clay (1–1) ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin 1–0 Nov 2020ITF Orlando, USW25 Hard Rasheeda McAdoo Jamie Loeb Erin Routliffe 4–6, 6–1, [11–9]Loss 1–1 Oct 2021 Tennis Classic of Macon, US W80 Hard Alana Smith Quinn Gleason Catherine Harrison 2–6, 2–6Loss 1–2 Nov 2021ITF Daytona Beach, USW25 Hard Alexandra Osborne Elysia Bolton Kylie Collins 4–6, 7–6(5), [5–10]Win 2–2 Jan 2022 Bendigo International, Australia W60+H Hard Fernanda Contreras Gómez Alison Bai Alana Parnaby 6–3, 6–1Loss 2–3 Apr 2022 Charlottesville Open, US W60 Clay Valentini Grammatikopoulou Sophie Chang Angela Kulikov 6–2, 3–6, [4–10]Win 3–3 Jul 2022 ITF Charleston Pro, US W100 Clay Sachia Vickery Tímea Babos Marcela Zacarías 6–4, 5–7, [10–5]
Top 10 wins Season20222023TotalWins112 #PlayerRankEventSurfaceScore20221. Maria SakkariNo. 7Ostrava Open, Czech RepublicHard (i)2R5–7, 7–5, 7–5No. 14420232. Caroline GarciaNo. 5Lyon Open, FranceHard (i)F7–6(9–7), 7–5No. 79
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