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Céline Naef
Céline Naef (born 25 June 2005) is a Swiss tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of No. 121 in singles, achieved on 16 October 2023, and No. 122 in doubles, reached on 18 November 2024.[1] Naef has won one doubles title on the WTA Challenger Tour along with six singles and five doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. CareerJunior yearsNaef had a successful junior career. Her career-high ranking as a junior was world No. 4. In 2022, Naef won a prestigious tournament for juniors, the Trofeo Bonfiglio (Grade A).[2] In 2022, Naef reached the final of the French Open, partnering Nikola Bartůňková.[3] In July 2022, she played in the final of the European Youth Championship held in Klosters, Switzerland which she lost to Victoria Jiménez Kasintseva.[4] 2022: ITF Circuit titlesNaef played and won her first final in Monastir, Tunisia, in March 2022.[5] In October 2022, she became champion in both singles and doubles in Reims, France.[6] A week later, she won another singles title in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin defeating Spanish player Irene Burillo Escorihuela in the final.[7] 2023: WTA Tour debut, major and top 125 debutsNaef started the season with a title in Loughborough, England where she became the champion by defeating British Eliz Maloney in the final.[8] In February, Naef played her first $40k tournament finals, and became the champion in both singles and doubles in Porto, Portugal.[9] The 17 years old made her WTA Tour debut as a wildcard at the 2023 Rosmalen Open in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands[10] and recorded her first tour-level win at the grass court event, defeating wildcard Venus Williams.[11] Next, she defeated eighth seed Caty McNally,[12] before losing to top seed Veronika Kudermetova in the quarterfinals.[13] She made her Grand Slam tournament debut at Wimbledon after qualifying[14][15] but lost in the first round to 22nd seed Anastasia Potapova.[16] 2024 Ranked No. 161, she received again a wildcard for the Rosmalen Open in 's-Hertogenbosch and defeated qualifier Elizabeth Mandlik,[17] before losing to second seed and eventual champion Liudmila Samsonova.[18] Partnering fellow Swiss player Belinda Bencic, she was runner-up in the doubles at the WTA 125 Open Angers Arena Loire, losing to Monica Niculescu and Elena-Gabriela Ruse in the final.[19] The following week Naef reached the singles final at the WTA 125 Open de Limoges with wins over ninth seed Oceane Dodin,[20] Sara Saito,[21] fifth seed Erika Andreeva[22] and Elsa Jacquemot.[23][24] She lost the championship match to seventh seed Viktorija Golubic.[25][26] Despite her defeat, Naef rose 28 places in the WTA rankings as a result of her run to the final, ending the 2024 season at World No.153.[27] Performance timeline
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) preliminary round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze Olympic/Paralympic medal; (NMS) not a Masters tournament; (NTI) not a Tier I tournament; (P) postponed; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended. Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Billie Jean King Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.[28] SinglesCurrent through the 2024 Wuhan Open.
Junior Grand Slam tournament finalsGirls' doubles: 1 (runner-up)
WTA Challenger finalsSingles: (1 runner-up)
Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)
ITF Circuit finalsSingles: 9 (7 titles, 2 runner-ups)
Doubles: 6 (6 titles)
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