Asia Muhammad (born April 4, 1991) is an American professional

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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 13 doubles titles on the

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including the 2024 Cincinnati WTA 1000 title with

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and the 2025 Indian Wells with

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. She also reached the finals in 2022 Indian Wells with

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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.

Career

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. Her first big break was reaching the finals of the Tennis Channel Open at the age of 16.

Senior years

Muhammad reached the semifinals of a

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at the 2020 US Open and won two WTA 500 titles, at the 2023 Adelaide International 1 and the 2024 Washington Open, all partnering with Taylor Townsend. As a result, she reached a new career-high doubles ranking of world No. 24 on 12 August 2024. After winning her biggest title at the 2024 Cincinnati Open, a WTA 1000, with Erin Routliffe, Muhammad reached the top 20. Next she reached the final at the WTA 1000

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with Jessica Pegula and finished the 2024 season ranked No. 15. Following three round of 16 showings at the 2025 Australian Open, at the 2025 Qatar TotalEnergies Open and the 2025 Dubai Tennis Championships with new partner

, Muhammad reached the top 10 in the rankings on 24 February 2025. 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. They won the title defeating the Slovak-British duo of Tereza Mihalikova and Olivia Nicholls.

Early and personal life

Muhammad was born in

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, to Ron Holmes and Faye Muhammad. Ron Holmes was a standout, four-year starting

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for the

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program in the 1980s. Muhammad's mother, Faye, was a point guard and track star at Long Beach State. She is the oldest of three children. One brother, Shabazz Muhammad, is a professional basketball player, who played for five seasons in the

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. An uncle, Stephone Paige, played nine seasons in the

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(NFL) with 377 career receptions. Her aunt, Robin Holmes-Sullivan, was a four-year starter for

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's basketball team. In 2020, she got engaged to her boyfriend, Australian tennis player

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Performance timelines

Doubles

Mixed doubles

Significant finals

WTA 1000 tournaments

Doubles: 4 (2 titles, 2 runner-ups)

WTA Tour finals

Doubles: 17 (13 titles, 4 runner-ups)

WTA Challenger finals

Doubles: 9 (5 titles, 4 runner-ups)

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 18 (14 titles, 4 runner-ups)

Doubles: 55 (35 titles, 20 runner-ups)

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References

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