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Asia Muhammad
American tennis player From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Asia Muhammad (born April 4, 1991) is an American professional tennis player who specializes in doubles. She has been ranked as high as world No. 8 in doubles by the WTA, achieved on March 17, 2025. Muhammad has won twelve doubles titles on the WTA Tour including the 2024 Cincinnati WTA 1000 title with Erin Routliffe and the 2025 Indian Wells with Demi Schuurs.
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She also reached the finals in 2022 Indian Wells with Ena Shibahara and in 2024 Wuhan with Jessica Pegula. In addition, Muhammad has won five doubles titles on the Challenger Tour and 35 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. In singles she has a carer-high No. 124, achieved on April 24, 2017 and has won 14 ITF singles titles.
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Junior years
Muhammad has been training at the No Quit Tennis Academy with Tim Blenkiron. He started coaching her when she was a child in Andre Agassi's Team Agassi tennis and education program in Las Vegas, where she developed into a top junior player.[2] Her first big break was reaching the finals of the Tennis Channel Open at the age of 16.[3]
Senior years
Muhammad reached the semifinals of a major at the 2020 US Open and won two WTA 500 titles, at the 2023 Adelaide International 1[4] and the 2024 Washington Open, all partnering with Taylor Townsend.[5] As a result, she reached a new career-high doubles ranking of world No. 24 on August 12, 2024.[6] After winning her biggest title, a WTA 1000 in Cincinnati with Routliffe, Muhammad reached the top 20.[7] Next she reached the final at the WTA 1000 2024 Wuhan Open with Pegula and finished the 2024 season ranked No. 15. Following three round of 16 showings at the 2025 Australian Open, and at the 2025 Qatar TotalEnergies Open and the 2025 Dubai Tennis Championships with new partner Demi Schuurs, Muhammad reached the top 10 in the rankings on February 24, 2025.[8] Again with partner Schuurs, Muhammad reached the final at the 2025 BNP Paribas Open defeating top seeds world No. 1 Katerina Siniakova and world No. 2 Taylor Townsend.[9] They won the title defeating the Slovak-British duo of Tereza Mihalikova and Olivia Nicholls.[10][11]
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Early and personal life
Muhammad was born in Long Beach, California, to Ron Holmes and Faye Muhammad.[12] Ron Holmes was a 6-foot-5-inch (1.96 m) standout, four-year starting point guard for the USC Trojans men's basketball program in the 1980s. Muhammad's mother, Faye, was a point guard and track star at Long Beach State.[12][13]
She is the oldest of three children. One brother, Shabazz Muhammad, is a professional basketball player, who played for five seasons in the NBA.[12][14][15]
An uncle, Stephone Paige, played nine seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with 377 career receptions. Her aunt, Robin Holmes-Sullivan, was a four-year starter for Cal State Fullerton's basketball team.[13]
In 2020, she got engaged to her boyfriend, Australian tennis player Dayne Kelly.[16][17]
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Performance timelines
W | F | SF | QF | #R | RR | Q# | P# | DNQ | A | Z# | PO | G | S | B | NMS | NTI | P | NH |
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) preliminary round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze Olympic/Paralympic medal; (NMS) not a Masters tournament; (NTI) not a Tier I tournament; (P) postponed; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.
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Mixed doubles
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Significant finals
WTA 1000 tournaments
Doubles: 4 (2 titles, 2 runner-ups)
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WTA Tour finals
Doubles: 16 (12 titles, 4 runner-ups)
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WTA Challenger finals
Doubles: 9 (5 titles, 4 runner-ups)
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ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 18 (14 titles, 4 runner-ups)
Doubles: 55 (35 titles, 20 runner-ups)
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Notes
- The WTA International tournaments were reclassified as WTA 250 tournaments in 2021.
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