Céline Naef (born 25 June 2005) is a Swiss
tennis player.
Naef has career-high
WTA rankings of world No. 121 in singles, achieved on 16 October 2023, and No. 433 in doubles, reached on 16 October 2023. Up to date, she has won six singles and two doubles titles on the
ITF Circuit.
Junior years
Naef 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
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(Grade A). In 2022, Naef reached the final of the
2022 French Open
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, partnering
Nikola Bartůňková
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. In July 2022, she played in the final of the European Youth Championship held in
Klosters, Switzerland. She lost to
Victoria Jiménez Kasintseva
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from Andorra in the final.
Career
2022
Naef played and won her first final in Monastir, Tunisia, in March 2022. In October 2022, she became champion in both singles and doubles in Reims, France. A week later, she won another singles title in
Cherbourg-en-Cotentin
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Irene Burillo Escorihuela
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Burillo Escorihuela has career-high WTA rankings of 207 in singles, achieved January 2022, and 279 in doubles, set on 3 February 2020. She has won four si ...
in the final.
2023: First WTA Tour wins and quarterfinal, Major and top 125 debuts
Naef started 2023 with a title in
Loughborough, England, where she became the champion by defeating British Eliz Maloney in the final. In February 2023, Naef played her first major final, and became the champion in both singles and doubles at the $40k tournament held in Porto, Portugal.
The 17 years old made her
WTA Tour debut as a wildcard and recorded her first WTA level win at the grass event
Rosmalen Open defeating 42 years old wildcard
Venus Williams. Next she defeated eight seed
Caty McNally for her second ever WTA win. She lost to top seed
Veronika Kudermetova in the quarterfinals.
She made her Grand Slam debut at
Wimbledon after qualifying for the main draw.
[https://www.wtatennis.com/news/3563322/wimbledon-2023-s-grand-slam-debuts-stevanovic-naef-bai-and-more]
Performance timeline
''Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Billie Jean King Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.''
Singles
''Current after the 2023 Libema Open.''
Junior Grand Slam tournament finals
Girls' doubles: 1 (runner-up)
ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 7 (6 titles, 1 runner-up)
Doubles: 2 (2 titles)
Notes
References
External links
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2005 births
Living people
Swiss female tennis players
21st-century Swiss women
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