15-year-old rocks US Open

Bellis youngest winner at Flushing Meadows since Kournikova in 1996

While 15-year-old American CiCi Bellis was in the process of stunning a Grand Slam finalist to become the youngest player to win a US Open match since 1996, her father did his best to conceal his emotions courtside.

Like many a teen, CiCi has strict rules for dad in public - even if his 1,208th-ranked daughter was pulling out a back-and-forth 6-1, 4-6, 6-4 victory on Tuesday over 12th-seeded Dominika Cibulkova in the first round at Flushing Meadows.