Sofia Sewing
| Country (sports) | File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States |
|---|---|
| Residence | Miami, Florida, U.S. |
| Born | July 22, 1999 Miami, Florida, U.S. |
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) |
| Plays | Right (two-handed backhand) |
| College | University of Miami |
| Prize money | $76,565 |
| Singles | |
| Career record | 155–118 |
| Career titles | 4 ITF |
| Highest ranking | No. 455 (March 6, 2023) |
| Doubles | |
| Career record | 126–69 |
| Career titles | 14 ITF |
| Highest ranking | No. 125 (January 29, 2024) |
| Current ranking | No. 289 (October 28, 2024) |
| Last updated on: October 28, 2024. | |
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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
[edit | edit source]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.[1] 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.[2]
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.[3] 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.[4]
Tennis career
[edit | edit source]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.[1]
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.[5]
Due to chronic knee issues, Sewing stopped playing singles in 2023, and left the tennis tour altogether in April 2024.[1]
WTA Challenger finals
[edit | edit source]Doubles: 1 (runner-up)
[edit | edit source]| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loss | 0–1 | Dec 2023 | Buenos Aires Open, Argentina |
Clay | Colombia María Paulina Pérez | Argentina María Lourdes Carlé Greece Despina Papamichail |
3–6, 6–4, [9–11] |
ITF Circuit finals
[edit | edit source]Singles: 8 (4 titles, 4 runner-ups)
[edit | edit source]| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loss | 0–1 | Dec 2017 | ITF Guayaquil, Ecuador | 15,000 | Clay | Russia Nika Kukharchuk | 0–6, 6–2, 2–6 |
| Win | 1–1 | May 2019 | ITF Cancún, Mexico | 15,000 | Hard | United Kingdom Emilie Lindh | 6–1, 1–6, 6–1 |
| Win | 2–1 | Jan 2020 | ITF Cancún, Mexico | 15,000 | Hard | Russia Anastasia Sysoeva | 7–5, 6–0 |
| Win | 3–1 | Sep 2022 | ITF Guayaquil, Ecuador | 15,000 | Clay | Colombia María Herazo González | 4–6, 6–3, 6-2 |
| Loss | 3–2 | Oct 2022 | ITF Guayaquil, Ecuador | 15,000 | Clay | Colombia María Herazo González | 4–6, 3-6 |
| Loss | 3–3 | Oct 2022 | ITF Bucaramanga, Colombia | 15,000 | Clay | United States Kaitlin Quevedo | 3–6, 7–6(6), 5–7 |
| Loss | 3–4 | Nov 2022 | ITF Lima, Peru | 15,000 | Clay | Bolivia Noelia Zeballos | 6–3, 3–6, 0–6 |
| Win | 4–4 | Nov 2022 | ITF Lima, Peru | 15,000 | Clay | Colombia María Herazo González | 7–6(3), 6–1 |
Doubles: 25 (14 titles, 11 runner-ups)
[edit | edit source]| 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) |
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponent | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loss | 0–1 | Jun 2016 | ITF Bethany Beach, United States |
10,000 | Clay | Russia Veronika Miroshnichenko | United States Sophie Chang United States Alexandra Mueller |
1–6, 4–6 |
| Win | 1–1 | Nov 2017 | ITF Manta, Ecuador | 15,000 | Hard | Mexico María Portillo Ramírez | United Kingdom Emily Appleton Colombia María Herazo González |
6–1, 6–3 |
| Win | 2–1 | Dec 2017 | ITF Guayaquil, Ecuador | 15,000 | Clay | Mexico María Portillo Ramírez | United States Stephanie Nemtsova Peru Dominique Schaefer |
7–5, 6–2 |
| Loss | 2–2 | Nov 2018 | ITF Norman, US | 25,000 | Hard | Mexico María Portillo Ramírez | Montenegro Vladica Babić United States Ena Shibahara |
2–6, 3–6 |
| Loss | 2–3 | Jun 2019 | ITF Wesley Chapel, US | 15,000 | Clay | United States Kylie Collins | United States Allura Zamarripa United States Maribella Zamarripa |
6–3, 4–6, [11–13] |
| Win | 3–3 | Sep 2019 | ITF Lubbock, US | 15,000 | Hard | Mexico María Portillo Ramírez | United States Ashlyn Krueger Japan Shiori Fukuda |
6–2, 6–4 |
| Loss | 3–4 | Jan 2020 | ITF Cancún, Mexico | W15 | Hard | Mexico Victoria Rodríguez | Netherlands Lian Tran Lithuania Justina Mikulskytė |
2–6, 6–4, [7–10] |
| Loss | 3–5 | Sep 2020 | ITF Prague, Czech Republic | W25 | Clay | United States Katie Volynets | Czech Republic Anastasia Dețiuc Czech Republic Johana Marková |
2–6, 1–6 |
| Loss | 3–6 | Jan 2022 | ITF Blumenau-Gaspar, Brazil | W25 | Clay | Netherlands Eva Vedder | Ecuador Andrea Gámiz Chile Bárbara Gatica |
4–6, 1–6 |
| Win | 4–6 | Jan 2022 | ITF Florianópolis, Brazil | W25 | Hard | Ecuador Andrea Gámiz | Chile Bárbara Gatica Brazil Rebeca Pereira |
6-4, 6-1 |
| Win | 5–6 | Jan 2022 | ITF Florianópolis, Brazil | W25 | Hard | Ecuador Andrea Gámiz | United States Jessie Aney Brazil Ingrid Martins |
7–6(2), 6–4 |
| Win | 6–6 | Mar 2022 | ITF Guayaquil, Ecuador | W25 | Hard | Ecuador Andrea Gámiz | Italy Nicole Fossa Huergo Bolivia Noelia Zeballos |
6–4, 7–5 |
| Win | 7–6 | Sep 2022 | ITF Guayaquil, Ecuador | W15 | Clay | Colombia María Paulina Pérez | Peru Romina Ccuno Colombia María Herazo González |
6–4, 1–6, [10–2] |
| Loss | 7–7 | Oct 2022 | ITF Guayaquil, Ecuador | W15 | Clay | Colombia María Paulina Pérez | Peru Romina Ccuno Colombia María Herazo González |
2–6, 7–5, [9-11] |
| Loss | 7–8 | Oct 2022 | ITF Ibagué, Colombia | W25 | Clay | Colombia María Herazo González | Colombia María Paulina Pérez Colombia Yuliana Lizarazo |
4–6, 5–7 |
| Win | 8–8 | Feb 2023 | ITF Mexico City, Mexico | W40 | Hard | Turkey Berfu Cengiz | Netherlands Suzan Lamens Latvia Darja Semeņistaja |
6–1, 1–6, [12–10] |
| Win | 9–8 | Feb 2023 | ITF Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic |
W25 | Hard | Latvia Darja Semeņistaja | Bosnia and Herzegovina Nefisa Berberović Hong Kong Eudice Chong |
6–3, 6–2 |
| Loss | 9–9 | Apr 2023 | ITF Boca Raton, US | W25 | Clay | Hungary Fanny Stollár | United States Makenna Jones United States Jamie Loeb |
7–5, 3–6, [8–10] |
| Win | 10–9 | April 2023 | ITF Guayaquil, Ecuador | W25 | Clay | United States Jessie Aney | Spain Noelia Bouzo Zanotti Bulgaria Ani Vangelova |
6–0, 6–2 |
| Win | 11–9 | April 2023 | ITF Guayaquil, Ecuador | W25 | Clay | United States Jessie Aney | Brazil Ana Candiotto Brazil Rebeca Pereira |
6–1, 6–2 |
| Loss | 11-10 | Jun 2023 | ITF Otočec, Slovenia | W40 | Clay | Canada Kayla Cross | Georgia (country) Ekaterine Gorgodze United States Elvina Kalieva |
2-6, 3-6 |
| Win | 12–10 | Jun 2023 | ITF Pörtschach, Austria | W25 | Clay | Poland Weronika Falkowska | Romania Elena-Teodora Cadar Latvia Diāna Marcinkēviča |
6–1, 6–2 |
| Win | 13-10 | Jul 2023 | ITF Palma del Río, Spain | W40 | Hard | Venezuela Andrea Gámiz | United States Robin Anderson Australia Elysia Bolton |
6-3, 6–2 |
| Win | 14-10 | Oct 2023 | Georgia's Rome Open, US | W60 | Hard (i) | File:Flag placeholder.svg Anastasia Tikhonova | United States Robin Anderson Mexico Fernanda Contreras Gómez |
4–6, 6–3, [10–7] |
| Loss | 14-11 | Oct 2023 | Tennis Classic of Macon, US | W80 | Hard | File:Flag placeholder.svg Anastasia Tikhonova | File:Flag placeholder.svg Jana Kolodynska File:Flag placeholder.svg Tatiana Prozorova |
3–6, 2–6 |
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Sofia Sewing at the Women's Tennis AssociationLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Sofia Sewing at the International Tennis FederationLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- University of Miami Profile
