Country (sports) United States Weight 50 kg Career titles 3 ITF Height 1.68 m | Career record 34–17 Role Tennis player Prize money $121,271 Name CiCi Bellis Turned pro 2014 | |
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Full name Catherine Cartan Bellis Parents Gordon Bellis, Lori Bellis Similar People Zarina Diyas, Dominika Cibulkova, Katie Swan, Tornado Alicia Black, Taylor Townsend Profiles | ||
Highest ranking 152 (July 27, 2015) | ||
Cici bellis a future tennis legend
Catherine Cartan "CiCi" Bellis (born April 8, 1999) is an American professional tennis player.
Contents
- Cici bellis a future tennis legend
- 2017 dubai duty free tennis championships round of 16 cici bellis vs radwanska wta highlights
- Junior career
- Early years
- 2016 Top 100 WTA 125K title
- 2017 Top 50
- References
Bellis has won one singles title on the WTA tour and six singles and two doubles titles on the ITF tour in her career. On August 14, 2017, she reached her best singles ranking of world no. 35. On July 17, 2017, she peaked at world number 161 in the doubles rankings.
Bellis was ranked the no. 1 junior tennis player in the world in September 2014, and was declared 2014 ITF Junior World Champion.
2017 dubai duty free tennis championships round of 16 cici bellis vs radwanska wta highlights
Junior career
Bellis had an accomplished junior career in the United States winning five USTA National Junior Singles Championships and was ranked no. 1 in the US G18s in April 2014.
In August 2014, Bellis won the USTA Girls 18's National Championship, defeating Tornado Alicia Black in the final in straight sets. With this victory, she became the youngest winner of the event (at 15 years, 4 months) since Lindsay Davenport in 1991, and also earned a wild card into the main draw of the 2014 US Open.
Bellis's 2014 ITF junior season was highlighted by winning the Grade A Trofeo Bonfiglio and the Grade B1 Easter Bowl tournaments, victories that helped propel her to the number one ranking in the girls' juniors in September. She finished the year ranked no. 1 and was named the 2014 ITF Junior World Champion.
Early years
In the first round of the 2014 US Open, Bellis, ranked 1208 and playing in only her 13th professional match, upset the 12th seed Dominika Cibulková, the runner-up at the Australian Open earlier in the year, to become the youngest player to win a match at the US Open since Anna Kournikova won at age 15 in 1996. 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 the youngest in the main draw of the US Open since 2004. Bellis was unable to win her next match, losing in three sets to 20 year old Zarina Diyas in round two.
In 2015, Bellis received a wildcard into the main draw of the WTA Premier Mandatory tournament in Miami. She beat Indy De Vroome in the first round before avenging her US Open loss against Diyas in the second round. In the third round, she lost to eventual champion Serena Williams.
2016: Top 100, WTA 125K title
In the summer of 2016, Bellis received a wild card into the 2016 Bank of the West Classic Premier tournament, where she defeated Jeļena Ostapenko and Sachia Vickery en route to reaching her first WTA singles quarterfinal, before losing to top seed Venus Williams. The following month, she returned to the main draw of the US Open, this time as a qualifier. She beat Viktorija Golubic and Shelby Rogers to reach the third round for the first time in her career, where she lost to the eventual champion Angelique Kerber in straight sets.
After her performance at the US Open, Bellis turned professional. In her first tournament as a pro, Bellis entered the Coupe Banque Nationale and reached her second career WTA quarterfinal after wins over Amandine Hesse and Danielle Lao. She was eventually defeated by compatriot Julia Boserup.
Towards the end of the season, Bellis caught fire and won her final three tournaments of the year. This included two ITF 50K events at Saguenay over Bianca Andreescu and at Toronto against Jesika Malečková. With these victories, she moved into the Top 100 for the first time. Bellis then proceeded to extend her match win streak to 14 by winning her first WTA event at the Hawaii Tennis Open in Honolulu. She capped off the tournament with a huge win in the final over world number 23 Zhang Shuai. Bellis finished the year ranked No. 75 and the only player under 18 in the Top 100.
2017: Top 50
Bellis was due to participate in tournaments in Australia at the beginning of the year, but was sidelined for all of January because of a hamstring injury. She began her season in February at the Qatar Open, where she lost in the second round of qualifying to Zheng Saisai. The following week, she participated in the Dubai Championships, where she was placed in the main draw. Bellis defeated 17th seed Yulia Putintseva and Laura Siegemund, both in straight sets, to reach the third round. There, she defeated 2012 champion and former world number 2 Agnieszka Radwanska in three sets to reach the quarterfinals. The win marked Bellis' first top 10 victory, as well as her first progression into the quarterfinals of a Premier 5 tournament. She then lost to former world number 1 Caroline Wozniacki in straight sets, but achieved a career high ranking of 56 after the tournament.