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Catherine Cartan "CiCi" Bellis (born April 8, 1999) is an American tennis player.
Bellis has won three singles and one doubles title on the ITF tour in her career. On May 4, 2015, she reached her best singles ranking of world number 168. On February 2, 2015, she peaked at world number 810 in the doubles rankings.
Bellis was ranked the number one junior tennis player in the world in September 2014,[ 1] and was declared 2014 ITF Junior World Champion .
In August 2014, Bellis won the USTA Girls 18's National Championships, defeating Tornado Alicia Black in straight sets to secure a main draw wild card for the 2014 US Open .[ 2] She was the youngest winner of that event since Lindsay Davenport in 1991.[ 3]
On August 26, 2014, Bellis defeated that year's Australian Open runner-up Dominika Cibulková (ranked 13th at the time) at the 2014 US Open , becoming the youngest player to win a match at the US Open since Anna Kournikova won aged 15 in 1996 .[ 4] She was the youngest American to win a match at the US Open since Mary Joe Fernández in 1986 , the youngest woman in the main draw of a Grand Slam since Alizé Cornet at the 2005 French Open and youngest in the main draw of the US Open since 2004 .[ 3] Bellis was unable to win a second match, however, losing in three sets to the 20-year old Kazakhstani Zarina Diyas in round two.[ 5]
ITF finals (4–0)
Singles (3–0)
Legend
$100,000 tournaments
$75,000 tournaments
$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$15,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments
Finals by surface
Hard (3–0)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Doubles (1–0)
Legend
$100,000 tournaments
$75,000 tournaments
$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$15,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments
Finals by surface
Hard (0–0)
Clay (1–0)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Outcome
No.
Date
Tournament
Surface
Partner
Opponents
Score
Winner
1.
March 10, 2014
Orlando , United States
Clay
Alexis Nelson
Sally Peers Natalie Pluskota
6–2, 0–6, [11–9]
Singles
Junior Grand Slam finals
Girls' Doubles
References
^ Template:ITF junior profile
^ Walz, Nicholas J. (August 9, 2014). "Bellis wins Girls' 18 Nationals, earns 2014 US Open wild card" . USTA . Retrieved August 14, 2014 .
^ a b Nguyen, Courtney (August 26, 2014). "What you need to know about Catherine 'CiCi' Bellis" . Sports Illustrated . Retrieved August 29, 2014 .
^ Newbery, Piers (August 26, 2014). "US Open 2014: CiCi Bellis, 15, stuns Dominika Cibulkova" . BBC Sport . Retrieved October 2, 2014 .
^ Newbery, Piers (August 29, 2014). "CiCi Bellis's US Open run captures American imagination" . BBC Sport . Retrieved October 2, 2014 .
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