| Céline Naef | |
| Birth Date: | 25 June 2005 |
| Birth Place: | Feusisberg, Switzerland |
| Height: | 1.67 m |
| Plays: | Right (two-handed backhand) |
| Careerprizemoney: | $354,434 |
| Singlestitles: | 7 ITF |
| Highestsinglesranking: | No. 121 (16 October 2023) |
| Currentsinglesranking: | No. 209 (4 November 2024) |
| Australianopenresult: | Q2 (2024) |
| Frenchopenresult: | Q1 (2023, 2024) |
| Wimbledonresult: | 1R (2023) |
| Usopenresult: | Q2 (2023, 2024) |
| Doublestitles: | 1 WTA Challenger, 5 ITF |
| Highestdoublesranking: | No. 124 (28 October 2024) |
| Currentdoublesranking: | No. 125 (4 November 2024) |
| Team: | yes |
| Hopmancupresult: | F (2023) |
| Updated: | 4 November |
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. 124 in doubles, reached on 28 October 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.
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).[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]
Naef 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]
Naef 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 42 years old wildcard Venus Williams.[11] Next, she upset eighth-seeded Caty McNally for her second WTA Tour win, before losing to top-seeded Veronika Kudermetova in the quarterfinals.[12] She made her Grand Slam debut at Wimbledon after qualifying.[13] [14]
Ranked No. 161, she received again a wildcard for the Rosmalen Open in 's-Hertogenbosch and defeated qualifier Elizabeth Mandlik.[15]
Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Billie Jean King Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.[16]
Current through the 2024 Rosmalen Open.
| Tournament | 2023 | 2024 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Slam tournaments | ||||||
| Australian Open | A | Q2 | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | ||
| French Open | Q1 | Q1 | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | ||
| Wimbledon | 1R | Q1 | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | ||
| US Open | Q2 | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | |||
| Win–loss | 0–1 | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | |||
| WTA 1000 | ||||||
| Dubai / Qatar Open | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | |||
| Indian Wells Open | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | |||
| Miami Open | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | |||
| Madrid Open | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | |||
| Italian Open | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | |||
| Canadian Open | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | |||
| Cincinnati Open | bgcolor= afeeee | 1R | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | ||
| Guadalajara Open | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | |||
| Wuhan Open | NH | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | |||
| China Open | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | |||
| Career statistics | ||||||
| 2023 | 2024 | |||||
| Tournaments | 5 | 1 | Career total: 6 | |||
| Titles | 0 | Career total: 0 | ||||
| Finals | 0 | Career total: 0 | ||||
| Hard win–loss | 0–2 | 0–2 | 0 / 2 | 1–4 | ||
| Clay win–loss | 0–1 | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | |||
| Grass win–loss | 2–2 | 1–1 | 0 / 3 | 3–3 | ||
| Overall win–loss | 1–5 | 1–3 | 0 / 6 | 3–8 | ||
| Year-end ranking | 139 | |||||
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Win | 1–0 | Andorrà la Vella Open, Andorra | Hard (i) | Erika Andreeva |  Tímea Babos  Heather Watson | 6–2, 6–1 | ||
| Loss | 1–1 | Warsaw Open, Poland | Hard |  Nina Stojanović |  Weronika Falkowska Martyna Kubka | 4–6, 6–7(5) |
| Legend | |
|---|---|
| W80 tournaments (1–0) | |
| W60/75 tournaments (1–2) | |
| W40/50 tournaments (1–0) | |
| W25/35 tournaments (2–0) | |
| W15 tournaments (2–0) |
| Result | class=unsortable | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | class=unsortable | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Win | 1–0 | Mar 2022 | ITF Monastir, Tunisia | W15 | Hard | Lara Schmidt | 3–6, 6–2, 7–5 | ||
| Win | 2–0 | Oct 2022 | ITF Reims, France | W15 | Hard (i) |  Manon Léonard | 6–2, 6–7(3), 6–3 | ||
| Win | 3–0 | Oct 2022 | ITF Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, France | W25+H | Hard (i) |  Irene Burillo Escorihuela | 3–6, 7–5, 6–2 | ||
| Win | 4–0 | Jan 2023 | GB Pro-Series Loughborough, UK | W25+H | Hard (i) | Eliz Maloney | 6–0, 6–4 | ||
| Win | 5–0 | Jan 2023 | Porto Indoor 1, Portugal | W40 | Hard (i) |  Lucrezia Stefanini | 6–2, 6–4 | ||
| Loss | 5–1 | Apr 2023 | Chiasso Open, Switzerland | W60 | Clay | Mirra Andreeva | 6–1, 6–7(3), 0–6 | ||
| Win | 6–1 | Sep 2023 | ITF Le Neubourg, France | W80+H | Hard | Alina Korneeva | 4–6, 6–2, 7–6(7) | ||
| Loss | 6–2 | Mar 2024 | Trnava Indoor, Slovakia | W75 | Hard (i) | Suzan Lamens | 2–6, 2–6 | ||
| Win | 7–2 | Nov 2024 | ITF Pétange, Luxembourg | W75 | Hard (i) | Océane Dodin | 6–2, 6–4 |
| Legend | |
|---|---|
| W100 tournaments (1–0) | |
| W75 tournaments (3–0) | |
| W40/50 tournaments (1–0) | |
| W15 tournaments (1–0) |
| Result | class=unsortable | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | class=unsortable | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Win | 1–0 | Oct 2022 | ITF Reims, France | W15 | Hard (i) |  Irina Balus | Mallaurie Noël Margot Yerolymos | 6–2, 6–0 | ||
| Win | 2–0 | Feb 2023 | Porto Indoor 1, Portugal | W40 | Hard (i) |  Yanina Wickmayer | Alice Robbe Tara Würth | 6–1, 6–4 | ||
| Win | 3–0 | Feb 2024 | Porto Indoor 3, Portugal | W75 | Hard (i) | Anna Bondár | Francisca Jorge Matilde Jorge | 6–4, 3–6, [11–9] | ||
| Win | 4–0 | May 2024 | Zagreb Ladies Open, Croatia | W75 | Clay |  Laura Pigossi | Emily Appleton  Prarthana Thombare | 4–6, 6–1, [10–8] | ||
| Win | 5–0 | Aug 2024 | Cary Tennis Classic, United States | W100 | Hard | Tamara Zidanšek |  Oksana Kalashnikova Iryna Shymanovich | 4–6, 6–3, [11–9] | ||
| Win | 6–0 | Internationaux de Poitiers, France | W75 | Hard (i) | Anna-Lena Friedsam | Martyna Kubka Conny Perrin | 6–4, 6–1 |