CiCi Bellis

CiCi Bellis
Bellis at the 2015 Carlsbad Classic
Full nameCatherine Cartan Bellis
Country (sports) United States
ResidenceLake Nona, Florida
Born (1999-04-08) April 8, 1999 (age 25)
San Francisco, California
Height1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Turned proSeptember 2016[1]
RetiredJanuary 2022
PlaysRight (two-handed backhand)
CoachTom Gutteridge
Prize moneyUS$ 1,431,153
Singles
Career record138–67
Career titlesWTA Challenger, 7 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 35 (August 14, 2017)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open3R (2020)
French Open3R (2017)
Wimbledon1R (2017)
US Open3R (2016)
Doubles
Career record20–19
Career titles2 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 149 (July 17, 2017)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open1R (2018)
WimbledonQF (2017)
US Open1R (2016, 2017)

Catherine Cartan "CiCi" Bellis (born April 8, 1999) is an American former professional tennis player. In early 2018, she was the second youngest player in the top 100 of the WTA rankings. Bellis has a career-high ranking of world No. 35 by the Women's Tennis Association, which she achieved in August 2017. She is known for winning a match at the 2014 US Open as a 15 year old against a top-20 opponent, making her the youngest match-winner at the US Open since 1996.

Her biggest title came at the 2016 Hawaii Tennis Open, a WTA 125 event. She also won seven singles titles and two doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. Bellis had an accomplished junior season the same year she played in her first US Open, finishing the 2014 season as the ITF Junior World Champion for holding the year-end world No. 1 junior ranking. She also won the USTA National Junior Championship that year at 15 to become the youngest winner of the event since Lindsay Davenport in 1991.

  1. ^ Wilansky, Matt (September 13, 2016). "American CiCi Bellis, 17, turns professional". ESPN. Retrieved October 19, 2016.