Alycia Parks and the Geopolitics of a 125-mph Serve: How One American is Redrawing Tennis Borders
PARIS—Somewhere between the baguette crumbs and the hushed reverence of Court 2 at Roland-Garros, Alycia Parks is busy reminding the planet that power tennis is no longer the monopoly of Eastern European finishing schools or Floridian academies staffed by ex-Soviet taskmasters with a vitamin-B12 drip. Instead, the 6-foot-1 product of suburban Atlanta—pop. 500K, humidity 200%—has…