NEW YORK (AP) — The darling of the U.S. Open, 15-year-old CiCi Bellis, opened her pursuit of the junior girls’ crown with a 6-1, 6-3 victory over Mexico’s Renata Zarazua.
Bellis, the top-seeded girl, played on the grandstand court to accommodate her following after her performance in the main draw.
Bellis became the youngest player to win a U.S. Open match since 1996 with her first-round upset of 12th-seeded Dominika Cibulkova, the Australian Open runner-up. Fans waited in line for hours to see her play her second-round match, which the 1,208th-ranked Bellis lost in three sets to Zarina Diyas of Kazakhstan.
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