TournamenT noTes as of July 13, 2010 THE FIFTH THIRD BANK TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS LEXINGTON, KY • JULY 17–25 USTA PRO CIRCUIT MEN’S CHALLENGER RETURNS TO LEXINGTON TournamenT InFormaTIon The Fifth Third Bank Tennis Championships is taking place in Lexington for the 13th straight USTA Site: University of Kentucky, Boone Tennis Complex, year. The tournament is the 11th Challenger Lexington, Ky. of the 2010 USTA Pro Circuit season and the Websites: www.lexingtonchallenger.com only Challenger held in Kentucky. procircuit.usta.com This year’s main draw is expected to include: Facebook: Fifth Third Bank Tennis Championships Donald Young, who has competed in the main Twitter: 53Tennis draw of all four Grand Slam events and cracked the Top 100 in 2007, when he amassed Qualifying Draw Begins: Saturday, July 17 $54,000 in total USTA Pro Circuit prize money Main Draw Begins: Monday, July 19 to set a single-season record; Lester Cook, who competed in the 2010 French Open qualifying Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles and holds four USTA Pro Circuit singles titles Former Top 100 player Donald Young has won Surface: Hard / Outdoor and 10 doubles titles; and Michael Yani, who qualified for the main draw of the 2010 French five USTA Pro Circuit singles titles, including Prize Money: $50,000 Open and lost to Lukas Lacko of Slovakia, 4-6, the $50,000 event in Carson, Calif., this year. 7-6(5), 7-6(4), 6-7(5), 12-10, in a first round Tournament Director: marathon that was contested over two days and Jon Albaugh, (859) 264-8020 2009 doubles champion Ryler DeHeart, a covered 4 hours and 56 minutes of playing [email protected] nine-time USTA Pro Circuit doubles champion, time. The 71 games equal the most in a singles who was a two-time All-American at the Tournament Press Contact: match at Roland Garros since tie-breaks were University of Illinois and finished his college Jim Durham, (859) 806-6104 instituted in 1973. career as the all-time winningest singles player [email protected] in Illini history; and DeHeart’s partner last year, Last year’s Lexington champions expected to Kevin Anderson, from South Africa and also an USTA Public Relations Contacts: compete in the main draw include: defending All-American an Illinois, who reached a career- Eric Schuster, (914) 696-7260, [email protected] singles champion Harel Levy, 31, a Davis Cup high ranking of No. 85 this April and started Amanda Korba, (914) 697-2219, [email protected] player from Israel, who peaked at No. 30 in off 2010 by qualifying for the Australian Open, the world in 2001 and also won here in 1999; where he faced No. 4 Andy Murray in the first PrIze money / PoInTs round of the main draw. SINGLES: Prize Money Ranking Points Winner $7,200 80 Other Lexington past champions slated in the main draw include: the 2007 doubles Runner-Up $4,240 48 Getty Images Semifinalist $2,510 29 champion Brendan Evans, the former Quarterfinalist $1,460 15 No. 4 junior in the world, who qualified for Round 16 $860 7 Wimbledon last month and reached the Round 32 $520 - second round of the main draw, and who is also a five-time USTA Pro Circuit doubles DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team) titlist; Evans’ doubles partner in 2007, Winner $3,100 Ryan Sweeting, who won a USTA Playoff to Runner-Up $1,800 earn a main draw wild card into the 2010 Semifinalist $1,080 French Open—his first appearance in the Quarterfinalist $640 main draw of a Grand Slam event other Round 16 $360 than the US Open; and the 2005 doubles champion Scoville Jenkins, the first African- CommunITy eVenTs Monday, July 19 – Pro-Am, 6 p.m. 2007 singles champion John Isner, currently Tuesday, July 20 – Beginner’s Clinic, 6:30-7:30 p.m. ranked No. 18 in the world, won the longest match in tennis history at Wimbledon earlier Thursday, July 22 – Ladies’ Night, 5-7 p.m. this summer. Friday, July 23 – Men’s Happy Hour TournamenT noTes American to win the USTA Boys’ 18s National youngest player in the men’s Top 300; and last winner of the USTA Eastern sectional qualifier, Championships (in 2004), who has played in year’s runner-up Alex Kuznetsov, who finished who competed in US Open qualifying in 2004, just three USTA Pro Circuit events this year second on the 2009 USTA Pro Circuit prize 2006 and 2007, finishing the 2006 season but advanced to the singles quarterfinals and money list and has reached seven USTA Pro inside the Top 400. doubles semifinals at the Futures event in Circuit singles finals in his career. Plantation, Fla. Many current and former ATP World Tour Others expected in qualifying include: Tim stars have found success in Lexington. 2007 Those receiving main draw wild cards include: Smyczek, who cracked the Top 200 for the Lexington singles champion John Isner, ranked 17-year-old Jack Sock, who was named a first time in his career this year after qualifying a career-high No. 18, is currently the No. 2 U.S. Davis Cup practice partner for the first for Indian Wells and San Jose on the ATP American behind Andy Roddick. Last year, round tie in Serbia in March and won his World Tour; Phillip Simmonds, who qualified Isner upset Roddick en route to the fourth first pro title in November 2009 at the USTA for seven USTA Pro Circuit events this year round at the 2009 US Open and, this year, Pro Circuit Futures in Amelia Island, Fla.; and reached a career-best No. 219 in 2006; he captured his first tour title, reached the and Jarmere Jenkins, a former world Top 20 Nicholas Monroe, a two-time All-American at fourth round of the Australian Open and was junior, from the University of Virginia, who is the University of North Carolina (2003-04) named to the U.S. Davis Cup team. He also competing as a member of the USTA Summer who has won 21 ITF Men’s Circuit titles in his won the longest match in tennis history at Collegiate Team, an elite training program for career; and Austin Krajicek, from Texas A&M, Wimbledon, going 11 hours over three days to the top American collegiate tennis players that who won the 2008 USTA Boys’ 18s National defeat Nicolas Mahut, 70-68 in the fifth set. provides the players with valuable exposure Championships to earn a wild card into the Lleyton Hewitt, the 1998 doubles champion, to the USTA Pro Circuit in a team-oriented main draw at the 2008 US Open. Krajicek is went on to become the No. 1 player in the atmosphere. competing as a member of the USTA Summer world in 2001 after winning the US Open that Collegiate Team. year. Hewitt also captured the Wimbledon title Expected in the qualifying draw include: in 2002 and has won a total of 28 ATP World Eighteen-year-old Ryan Harrison, who won Two winners of the US Open National Playoffs Tour singles titles. 2004 singles runner-up an eight-man USTA playoff last year to claim Sectional Qualifying Tournaments will be Jesse Witten had the best US Open of his a wild card into the main draw of the 2010 competing in qualifying as well: Cecil Mamiit, career in 2009. Witten won three matches in Australian Open and, this year, advanced to a former NCAA champion and Davis Cup qualifying and knocked off then-world No. 30 the second round of the Masters Series event standout for the Philippines, who won the Igor Andreev and No. 79 Maximo Gonzalez in Indian Wells, as well as the quarterfinals of US Open National Playoffs USTA Southern before falling to Novak Djokovic in four sets in the ATP’s Hall of Fame Tennis Championships California Sectional Qualifying Tournament; the third round. in Newport, R.I., to establish himself as the and Ukrainian-born Nikita Kryvonos, the LEXINGTON PAST WINNERS Singles Doubles Year Winner Runner-Up Year Winner 2009 Harel Levy (ISR) Alex Kuznetsov (USA) 2009 Kevin Anderson (RSA) – Ryler DeHeart (USA) 2008 Somdev Devvarman (IND) Robert Kendrick (USA) 2008 Alessandro Da Col (ITA) – Andrea Stoppini (ITA) 2007 John Isner (USA) Brian Wilson (USA) 2007 Brendan Evans (USA) – Ryan Sweeting (USA) 2006 Hyung-Taik Lee (KOR) Amer Delic (USA) 2006 Sanchai Ratiwatana (THA) – Sonchat Ratiwatana (THA) 2005 Dudi Sela (ISR) Bobby Reynolds (USA) 2005 Scoville Jenkins (USA) – Bobby Reynolds (USA) 2004 Matias Boeker (USA) Jesse Witten (USA) 2004 Matias Boeker (USA) – Amer Delic (USA) 2003 Frank Dancevic (CAN) Petr Kralert (CZE) 2003 Jonathan Erlich (ISR) – Takao Suzuki (JPN) 2002 Scott Draper (AUS) Paul Goldstein (USA) 2002 Jack Brasington (USA) – Glenn Weiner (USA) 2001 Paul Goldstein (USA) Jack Brasington (USA) 2001 John-Laffnie de Jager (RSA) – Robbie Koenig (RSA) 2000 Takao Suzuki (JPN) Justin Gimelstob (USA) 2000 Lorenzo Manta (SUI) – Laurence Tieleman (ITA) 1999 Harel Levy (ISR) Kevin Kim (USA) 1999 Michael Sell (USA) – Gabriel Trifu (ROU) 1998 Paul Goldstein (USA) Hyung-Taik Lee (KOR) 1998 Ben Ellwood (AUS) – Lleyton Hewitt (AUS) TournamenT noTes USTA PRO CIRCUIT 30 MILLION PLAYERS With more than 90 tournaments throughout the country and prize money ranging from $10,000 to The USTA Pro Circuit serves as an integral part of the USTA’s $100,000, the USTA Pro Circuit is the pathway to the US Open and tour-level competition for aspiring mission to grow and develop tennis in the United States. In tennis players and a frequent battleground for established professionals. The USTA launched its Pro Circuit November 2009, the USTA and Tennis Industry Association 31 years ago to provide players with the opportunity to gain professional ranking points and has since announced that tennis participation in the United States topped grown to become the largest developmental tennis circuit in the world, offering more than $3 million in 30 million players for the first time in more than two decades prize money.