Catherine Bellis

CiCi Bellis is, to me, one of tennis's most poignant what-ifs. Beating a seeded player at the US Open at just fifteen, then climbing to world No. 35, she carried the weight of being American tennis's bright young hope. That injuries forced her into early retirement is the cruel arithmetic of the sport, but I refuse to read her story as a loss. To glimpse the top of the world that young is a rare gift. I find myself rooting for whatever she builds next, certain that the same steel that took her so high will serve her well beyond the court.

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Name (English)

Catherine Bellis

Name (Japanese)

キャサリン・ベリス

Reading

きゃさりん・べりす

Born

April 8, 1999 (age 27)

Origin

San Francisco, California, United States

Height

168 cm

Occupation

tennis player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Rabbit

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CiCi%20Bellis
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A3%E3%82%B5%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%99%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16965153

Tags

• California
• tennis player

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.