Alycia Parks thrashed 15th seed Victoria Azarenka in the second round of the Madrid Open.

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Alycia Parks thrashed 15th seed Victoria Azarenka in the second round of the Madrid Open.

Alycia Parks is back to her winning ways. After defeating former No.1 Victoria Azarenka in the WTA 1000-level tournament for the first time, the American is into the third round in her debut at the Madrid Open.

Alycia Parks displayed dominating performance and edged past Azarenka of Belarus by 6-2, 7-6 (5) in the second round of the ongoing Madrid Open.

In her first main draw of the new season, Parks captured her first Hologic WTA Tour title, defeating No.5 Caroline Garcia in the final of Lyon.
 
Parks had a whopping 13 aces to Azarenka's two. Parks also won 25 of 30 first-service points (83.3 percent) and saved 4 of 6 break points while converting 4 of 7 chances to break Azarenka's serve.

No player surged through the finish line of the 2022 season like Parks, who reeled off 10 consecutive victories to win back-to-back WTA 125K tournaments in December to seal a Top 100 debut at the end of last year. 

Reunited with her father Michael, Parks finds herself in a more positive and focused headspace as she turned to the clay season. Last week in Stuttgart, she played a sharp match that was decided by just two breaks of serve against Zheng Qinwen, losing 6-4, 6-4 in the first round.