Nicole Gibbs


Nicole Gibbs is an American tennis player.
She has won seven singles and five doubles titles on the ITF circuit. On 25 July 2016, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 68. On 19 September 2016, she peaked at No. 107 in the WTA doubles rankings.
Gibbs graduated in 2010 from Crossroads School in Santa Monica, California, and from Stanford University in 2014.

Career

College

Gibbs was the top player in both singles and doubles for the Stanford women's team.
As a collegiate sophomore, Gibbs was named 2012 recipient of the Honda Sports Award for tennis. Her selection by the Collegiate Women Sports Awards program recognized Gibbs as the country's top junior female player in her sport.
A 2012 All-American in both singles and doubles, Gibbs, as a sophomore, pulled off a historic sweep of the year's NCAA singles and doubles titles. Gibbs joined Stanford's Linda Gates and UCLA's Keri Phebus as only the third player in NCAA history to capture both NCAA titles in the same season. Gibbs then repeated as NCAA singles champion the following year, before foregoing her senior year. Traditionally, the winner of the NCAA title is offered a wild card into the US Open, if American.
Gibbs defeated teammate Mallory Burdette in the first all-Stanford singles final since 2011, claiming the 15th collegiate singles crown in school history. One hour later, Gibbs and Burdette shook off physical and emotional fatigue to claim the doubles championship with victory over Georgia's Nadja Gilchrist and Chelsey Gullickson.
The championship matches represented a historic day for the Stanford women's tennis program. It was the first time in NCAA men's or women's tennis history that teammates squared off in the singles final before later pairing up in the doubles title match.
The 2012 Pac-12 Player of the Year, Gibbs was also named an All-Pac-12 First Team selection. She finished the year 41–5 overall and 21–2 in duals while playing all her matches at the number one spot. Closing out the year on a 17-match winning streak, Gibbs pocketed two other singles titles along the way, winning the ITA Northwest Regional Championships in October and Pac-12 Championships in April. Gibbs was ousted from the Mercury Insurance Open, where she lost to Varvara Lepchenko.
New Balance among her sponsors.
The Honda Sports Award is presented annually to the top women athletes in 12 NCAA-sanctioned sports. As a Honda prize recipient, Gibbs becomes a finalist for the Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year and the prestigious Honda Cup. Gibbs was chosen by a vote of coaches from 1,000 NCAA member schools. Finalists included Burdette, Beatrice Capra and Allie Will.

Professional

Gibbs has played in a number of WTA Premier qualifiers, the 2009 LA Open and the 2010 and 2011 Stanford Open qualifiers, where she won a round each year, the 2012 Western & Southern Open losing in the first round, and the 2012 New Haven Open at Yale where she won three rounds to qualify, and then won a round in the main draw before losing in the second to Petra Kvitová. She has also played in qualifying for the US Open on three occasions, winning a round in 2010.
In addition to qualifying for the main draw in New Haven, Gibbs played in the three Premier event main draws in 2012, the Stanford Open, winning one round before losing to newly crowned Wimbledon champion Serena Williams, and the US Open where she lost in the first round to Alizé Cornet.
Gibbs played the 2010 US Open – Mixed Doubles with Sam Querrey as her partner and the 2011 US Open – Women's Doubles with Lauren Davis. She was a hitting partner as part of the 2009 United States Fed Cup team in Italy.
Gibbs won her first Grand Slam main-draw matches at the 2014 US Open. She upset 23rd seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the second round, before falling to another seed, Flavia Pennetta, in the third round. Gibbs won her first Australia Open main-draw match in 2015, reaching the second round.
In 2015, she played for the Austin Aces World TeamTennis team. Gibbs remained with the team in 2016, when it relocated and was renamed the Orange County Breakers. She was named WTT Female Most Valuable Player after tying for first in the league with teammate Alla Kudryavtseva in winning percentage in women's doubles and also finishing second in women's singles.

Grand Slam performance timelines

Singles

Doubles

WTA 125 series finals

Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 18 (7 titles, 11 runner–ups)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Win1–0Nov 2007ITF Mexico City, Mexico10,000Hard María Fernanda Álvarez Terán7–5, 6–3
Loss1–1Jun 2011ITF Buffalo, United States10,000Clay Lauren Davis7–5, 2–6, 4–6
Win2–1Jul 2012ITF Denver, United States50,000Hard Julie Coin6–2, 3–6, 6–4
Loss2–2Feb 2013ITF Rancho Santa Fe, United States25,000Hard Madison Brengle1–6, 4–6
Win3–2Jul 2013ITF Yakima, United States50,000Hard Ivana Lisjak6–1, 6–4
Loss3–3Mar 2014ITF Palm Harbor, United States25,000Clay Grace Min5–7, 0–6
Win4–3Jul 2014ITF Carson, United States50,000Hard Melanie Oudin6–4, 6–4
Loss4–4Jul 2014ITF Lexington, United States50,000Hard Madison Brengle3–6, 4–6
Loss4–5Oct 2015ITF Kirkland, United States50,000Hard Mandy Minella6–2, 5–7, 2–6
Loss4–6Nov 2015ITF Waco, United States50,000Hard Viktorija Golubic2–6, 1–6
Win5–6Jun 2017ITF Baton Rouge, United States25,000Hard Francesca Di Lorenzo6–3, 6–3
Loss5–7Jul 2017ITF Auburn, United States25,000Hard Miharu Imanishi3–6, 2–6
Win6–7Jun 2018ITF Naples, United States25,000Clay Ashley Kratzer6–4, 6–4
Loss6–8Jul 2018ITF Berkeley, United States60,000Hard Sofia Kenin0–6, 4–6
Loss6–9Nov 2018ITF Las Vegas, United States80,000Hard Belinda Bencic5–7, 1–6
Win7–9Feb 2019ITF Rancho Santa Fe, United States25,000Hard Kristie Ahn6–3, 6–3
Loss7–10Apr 2019ITF Palm Harbor, United States80,000Clay Barbora Krejčíková0–6, 1–6
Loss7–11Jul 2019ITF Honolulu, United States60,000Hard Usue Maitane Arconada0–6, 2–6

Doubles: 7 (5 titles, 2 runner–ups)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Win1–0May 2010ITF Raleigh, United States50,000Clay Kristie Ahn Alexandra Mueller
Ahsha Rolle		6–3, 6–2
Loss1–1Jul 2012ITF Denver, United States50,000Hard Lauren Embree Marie-Ève Pelletier
Shelby Rogers		3–6, 6–3,
Loss1–2Apr 2013ITF Charlottesville, United States50,000Clay Shelby Rogers Nicola Slater
CoCo Vandeweghe		3–6, 6–7
Win2–2Oct 2015ITF Las Vegas, United States50,000Hard Julia Boserup Paula Cristina Gonçalves
Sanaz Marand		6–3, 6–4
Win3–2Nov 2015ITF Waco, United States50,000Hard Vania King Julia Glushko
Rebecca Peterson		6–4, 6–4
Win4–2Jul 2018ITF Berkeley, United States80,000Hard Asia Muhammad Ellen Perez
Sabrina Santamaria		6–4, 6–1
Win5–2Nov 2018ITF Tyler, United States80,000Hard Asia Muhammad Desirae Krawczyk
Giuliana Olmos		3–6, 6–3,