Sofia Sewing
Sofia Sewing 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 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.
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)
ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 8 (4 titles, 4 runner-ups)
Doubles: 25 (14 titles, 11 runner-ups)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponent | Score |
| Loss | 0–1 | Jun 2016 | ITF Bethany Beach, United States | 10,000 | Clay |  |