At the start of the new year, after Costa Rica's winter football season has concluded and while tournaments in cycling and surfing are at a lull, the country's main sports attraction comes from an unlikely place -- the tennis court.
Catherine "CiCi" Bellis won the 2014 edition of Costa Rica's junior circuit tournament known as the Copa del Café. After her victory, the 14-year-old admitted to feeling nervous at the start because of all the spectators watching. Tonight, Bellis, who turned 15 in April, could have an audience in the millions.
Catherine Bellis, who won Costa Rica's Copa del Café in January, is the youngest girl to win a match at the U.S. Open since Anna Kournikova did it in 1996.
