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Alycia Moulton

United States · born Sacramento, California, 1961 · right-handed · Newport champion 1983

Alycia Moulton
Alycia Moulton, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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2

WTA singles titles, both in 1983, one on grass at Newport

18

Career-high ranking, 1984

1979

Wimbledon girls' singles finalist

1982

NCAA singles champion for Stanford

2

Grass singles finals in 1983: Birmingham and Newport

Playing career

Alycia Moulton was born in Sacramento in 1961. In 1979 she won the US junior championship and reached the Wimbledon girls' final. At Stanford she won the NCAA doubles title in 1979 and 1980 and the singles title in 1982, when she also helped Stanford to the team championship.

She graduated in 1983 and won two WTA singles titles that year, indoors at Ridgewood and on grass at Newport, and reached a career-high No. 18 in 1984. She played Wightman Cup doubles for the United States with Chris Evert and served two terms on the WTA board. After she retired in 1988 she started a property business, took a law degree at UC Davis and became a real estate lawyer in California.

On grass

Newport 1983Won the Virginia Slims of Newport, beating Kimberly Shaefer 6-3, 6-2 in the final
Newport 1984 doublesWith Paula Smith, beat Lea Antonoplis and Beverly Mould 7-5, 7-6 in the final
Birmingham 1983Ranked No. 42, reached the final after Zina Garrison retired in their semi-final, and lost to Billie Jean King 6-0, 7-5. King, 39, became the oldest player to win a WTA singles title
WimbledonGirls' singles final 1979, lost to Mary Lou Piatek 6-1, 6-3. Third round in singles in 1985 and 1987; doubles quarter-finals in 1982
Birmingham 1985 doublesRunner-up with Elise Burgin, losing to Terry Holladay and Sharon Walsh 6-4, 5-7, 6-3

Every grass title: 2

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Newport, Rhode Island
1983 Women's singles Virginia Slims of Newport
1984 Women's doubles Virginia Slims of Newport with Paula Smith

Leading grass titles only: the grass majors, tour-level grass events since 1968 and the leading grass championships before 1968. † single source; ‡ sources disagree. Roll of champions

"Billie Jean doesn't give you any free points. Even people ranked around 20th do that occasionally."

Moulton after losing the 1983 Birmingham final to Billie Jean King, reported by UPI and quoted by Tennis Majors

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Wimbledon, 1979

A junior final at Wimbledon

In the summer she won the US junior title she also reached the Wimbledon girls' final, losing to her compatriot Mary Lou Piatek 6-1, 6-3.

Source: Wimbledon Compendium, AELTC

Stanford, 1979 to 1983

Champion and captain

At Stanford she won three NCAA titles of her own, doubles in 1979 and 1980 and singles in 1982, and helped the Cardinal to the 1982 team title. In 2016 she was elected to the ITA Women's Collegiate Tennis Hall of Fame.

Source: Tennis Industry, ITA announcement, 2016

Birmingham, June 1983

Fifty-eight minutes with Billie Jean

King took the first set 6-0. The second was closer, but Moulton double-faulted to give up the decisive break, and the match was over in 58 minutes; King lost only 13 points on serve. "I'm quite depressed about the way I played, particularly in the first set," Moulton said.

Source: Tennis Majors

After tennis

From court to courtroom

After her playing days she started a real estate development company, which led her to law school at UC Davis. She later worked for Congressman Mike Thompson and practises as a real estate attorney in Menlo Park, California.

Source: Wikipedia

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