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Nicole Gibbs (born March 3, 1993) is an American retired tennis player. She 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
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, and from
Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...
in 2014.


Career


College

Gibbs was the top player in both singles and doubles for the Stanford women's team. As a collegiate
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, Gibbs was named 2012 recipient of the
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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
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singles and doubles titles. Gibbs joined Stanford's Linda Gates (1985) and UCLA's
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(1995) 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
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in the first all-Stanford singles final since 2011, claiming the 15th collegiate singles crown (13 NCAA, 2 AIAW) 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
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. 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
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. 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 (Stanford),
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(Duke) and
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(Florida).


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
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. She has also played in qualifying for the US Open on three occasions (2009, 2010, 2011), winning a round in 2010. In addition to qualifying for the main draw in
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, Gibbs played in the three Premier event main draws in 2012, the Stanford Classic, winning one round before losing to newly crowned Wimbledon champion
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, and the US Open where she lost in the first round to
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. Gibbs played the
2010 US Open – Mixed doubles Carly Gullickson and Travis Parrott were the defending champions, but lost in the first round to Gisela Dulko and Pablo Cuevas. Liezel Huber and Bob Bryan won the title, defeating Květa Peschke and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi in the final 6–4, 6–4 ...
with
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as her partner and the
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with
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. She was a hitting partner as part of the 2009
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in Italy. Gibbs won her first Grand Slam main-draw matches at the 2014 US Open. She upset 23rd seed
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in the second round, before falling to another seed,
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, in the third round. Gibbs won her first Australia Open main-draw match in 2015, reaching the second round. In
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, she played for the
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(WTT) team. Gibbs remained with the team in
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, when it relocated and was renamed the
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. She was named WTT Female Most Valuable Player after tying for first in the league with teammate
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in winning percentage in women's doubles and also finishing second in women's singles. In May 2019, after a routine dental visit, Gibbs' dentist noticed a small growth on the roof of her mouth, which later turned out to be
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, a very rare form of
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cancer. She later became cancer–free and resumed playing tennis. On February 15, 2021, Gibbs announced on social media that she would be retiring from professional tennis.


Grand Slam performance timelines


Singles


Doubles


WTA 125K series finals


Singles: 1 (runner-up)


Doubles: 1 (runner-up)


ITF Circuit finals


Singles: 18 (7 titles, 11 runner–ups)


Doubles: 7 (5 titles, 2 runner–ups)


References


External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gibbs, Nicole 1993 births Living people Sportspeople from Shaker Heights, Ohio Tennis players from Cincinnati American female tennis players Stanford Cardinal women's tennis players Crossroads School alumni Stanford University alumni