ORLANDO, Fla. — CiCi Bellis, who, at 17, is by far the youngest player in the top 100, has already proved she can rise to the occasion on a tennis court, beating leading players like Dominika Cibulkova and, just last month, Agnieszka Radwanska.

But parallel parking under pressure remains a different matter.

“Don’t worry,” Bellis said to me on Friday as she eased her BMW sedan into a spot outside a restaurant near her family’s new residence in the Lake Nona community.

The result did not go unnoticed.

“You park like that in Holland and you fail your driving test,” teased Marijn Bal, her Dutch-born agent.

“She left a little space for a motorcycle behind her,” added Anibal Aranda, her coach.

Bellis laughed — a common occurrence — and headed indoors with her team for a healthy, leafy lunch on the eve of her first trip to the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells, Calif., as a professional tennis player.