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. 194 in doubles, reached on 1 July 2024. Naef has won one doubles title on the WTA Challenger Tour along with six singles and four 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 (Grade A). In 2022, Naef reached the final of the 2022 French Open, partnering Nikola Bartůňková. In July 2022, she played in the final of the European Youth Championship held in Klosters, Switzerland which she lost to Victoria Jiménez Kasintseva.

2022: First ITF titles
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 defeating Spanish player Irene Burillo Escorihuela in the final.

2023: WTA debut and quarterfinal, Major and top 125 debuts
Naef started the season with a title in Loughborough, England, where she became the champion by defeating British Eliz Maloney in the final. In February, Naef played her first $40k tournament finals, and became the champion in both singles and doubles in Porto, Portugal.

The 17 years old made her WTA Tour debut as a wildcard and recorded her first tour-level win at the grass court event 2023 Libéma Open in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands defeating 42 years old wildcard Venus Williams. Next, she upset eighth-seeded Caty McNally for her second WTA Tour win, before losing to top-seeded Veronika Kudermetova in the quarterfinals. She made her Grand Slam debut at Wimbledon after qualifying.

2024
Ranked No. 161, she received a wildcard for the Libéma Open in 's-Hertogenbosch and defeated qualifier Elizabeth Mandlik.

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 through the 2024 Libéma Open.