CiCi Bellis Has No Plans To Sit Still After US Open Loss

— -- NEW YORK -- CiCi Bellis' father drew laughs the other day when he revealed that so much as a sigh at one of his 15-year-old daughter's matches would be detected by her, and that he has been instructed not to move.

If Gordon Bellis somehow was able to achieve a state Thursday night that he likened to "a sphinx," he was surely the only one on the US Open's Court 17. His hyper-energetic teenager whipped the supportive crowd into a frenzy en route to her inspired but ultimately hard-fought defeat at the hands of 48th-ranked Zarina Diyas 6-3, 0-6, 6-2.

The young American, listed officially as Catherine Bellis, set a frenetic pace that actually drew a warning from the umpire to slow down on her serves and briefly unnerved her opponent, but eventually may have caught up with her.