Tournament Notes

TOURNAMENT NOTES as of May 5, 2015 TAMPA USTA MEN’S PRO CIRCUIT FUTURES TAMPA, FL • MAY 8-17 USTA PRO CIRCUIT RETURNS TO TAMPA TOURNAMENT INFORMATION The Tampa USTA Men’s Pro Circuit Futures is being held in Tampa, Fla., for the 16th Site: Harbour Island Athletic Club – Tampa, Fla. consecutive year. The city also hosted nine USTA Pro Circuit events between 1980 and Dave Kenas Websites: procircuit.usta.com 1997. It is the last of three consecutive Qualifying Draw Begins: Friday, May 8 clay-court USTA Pro Circuit Futures, all of which will be held in Florida as part of the Main Draw Begins: Tuesday, May 12 USTA Pro Circuit spring clay-court season. In conjunction with USTA Player Development, Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles the USTA Pro Circuit continues to emphasize the importance of increased training for Surface: Clay / Outdoor younger players on clay. Prize Money: $10,000 To follow the tournament, download the USTA Tournament Director: Pro Circuit’s new phone app for smartphones Jose Campos, (813) 468-3659 and tablets by searching “procircuit” in the [email protected] Apple and Google Play stores. Tournament Press Contact: Notable players competing in the main draw Jose Campos, (813) 468-3659 include: [email protected] Eric Quigley, the top American in Tampa USTA Communications Contact: and 2012 NCAA singles runner-up for the Amanda Korba, (914) 697-2219 University of Kentucky. Quigley is one of the [email protected] most decorated tennis players in Wildcats history, earning five All-America honors Eric Quigley was the 2012 NCAA singles runner-up for the University of Kentucky. between singles and doubles. In 2008, he PRIZE MONEY / POINTS Earlier this year, he qualified for the ATP event became the first player from the state of in Delray Beach, Fla. SINGLES: Prize Money Ranking Points Kentucky in 34 years to win four consecutive Winner $1,440 17 high school state singles titles. In 2014, Runner-up $848 9 Quigley reached the singles final at the Semifinalist $502 5 $15,000 USTA Pro Circuit clay-court event Quarterfinalist $292 2 in Boynton Beach, Fla., and won the first Round of 16 $172 1 two USTA Pro Circuit doubles titles of his Round of 32 $104 - Jacob Stuckey career. He also won an ITF-level doubles DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team) title in Mexico at the end of the year. This Winner $620 year, Quigley qualified for the ATP event Runner-up $360 in Delray Beach, Fla., and won the men’s Semifinalist $216 doubles title at the $15,000 USTA Pro Quarterfinalist $128 Circuit Futures in Long Beach, Calif., with Round of 16 $0 Nicolas Meister, as well as a doubles title at an ITF-level event in Nigeria. Tennys Sandgren, a former Top 200 player who is back on the court after missing much of2014 due to injury. Sandgren did not play from February through the US Open as Tennys Sandgren is a former Top 200 player who is back on the court after missing much of 2014 due to injury. He has won six USTA Pro Circuit singles titles and six doubles titles already in his young career. *Player field subject to change TOURNAMENT NOTES he recovered from surgery on his hip. This year, Sandgren, whose No. 11. Spencer reached the doubles final at the $15,000 Futures first name is pronounced like the sport, has played in ITF-level in Calabasas, Calif., in March. He holds two USTA Pro Circuit events in China, Australia and Canada as he continues to work his doubles titles, winning at the $10,000 Futures in Vero Beach, Fla., way back into form. He has also competed on the USTA Pro Circuit, this year and the $10,000 Futures in Niceville, Fla., last year. reaching the semifinals of the $50,000 Challenger in Tallahassee, Fla., two weeks ago. Sandgren climbed to a career-high No. 183 in Longtime touring professional Jesse Witten, who peaked at No. 163 the world in 2013 when he won the USTA Pro Circuit season-ending in the world in early 2010 and has played on the USTA Pro Circuit Challenger in Champaign, Ill. Also in 2013, Sandgren served as a periodically over the past few years, winning his first title in four Davis Cup practice partner for the U.S. team as it prepared to face years at the $10,000 USTA Pro Circuit Futures in Indian Harbour Serbia in Boise, Idaho, and he nearly qualified for the main draw at Beach, Fla., in June 2013. He posted the best Grand Slam result of the 2014 Australian Open, falling to former NCAA champion Steve his career at the 2009 US Open, qualifying and knocking off two Johnson in five sets in the final of the USTA Australian Open Wild Top 100 players before falling to Novak Djokovic in four sets in the Card Playoffs. Sandgren turned pro following his sophomore season third round. Witten is a former University of Kentucky standout, at the University of Tennessee after reaching the semifinals of the reaching the NCAA singles final in 2002. In 2014, he won the mixed 2011 NCAA tournament. He won three USTA Pro Circuit Futures doubles title (with his sister, former Kentucky standout Sarah) at the titles and played in four finals overall in 2012 to climb nearly 300 US Open National Playoffs Florida Sectional Qualifying Tournament. spots in the ATP rankings. His brother, Davey, was a two-time All-American for Tennessee, lettering from 2007 to 2010. Former University of Virginia standout Michael Shabaz, who reached the singles semifinals at the 2011 NCAA Championships and won Michael Mmoh, who is regarded as one of the brightest young the 2010 NCAA men’s doubles title with Drew Courtney. Shabaz American prospects and has drawn comparisons to Gäel Monfils for captured his first USTA Pro Circuit singles title at the $10,000 his athleticism and power. Mmoh finished the 2014 junior season Futures in Pittsburgh in July 2013 and, two weeks later, won by going 19-2 in international-level play, winning two ITF junior his second at the $10,000 Futures in Godfrey, Ill. He spent the titles and reaching the Eddie Herr final. He also won the prestigious summer of 2014 competing in Mexico and Ecuador, and this year Dunlop Orange Bowl doubles title with fellow American Stefan he qualified for two $15,000 USTA Pro Circuit Futures events. As a Kozlov. Also in 2014, Mmoh went 5-0 in singles to help lead the junior player, Shabaz won the Wimbledon boys’ doubles title in 2005 U.S. to the Junior Davis Cup title. At the end of last year, he won his (with Jesse Levine). first career USTA Pro Circuit singles title at the $15,000 Futures in Brownsville, Texas. Mmoh, currently No. 7 in the ITF World Junior Rankings, trains with coach Glenn Weiner in Nick Bollettieri’s program at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla. He is the son of Many USTA Pro Circuit and ATP World Tour standouts have found former ATP professional and Nigerian Olympian Tony Mmoh. success in Tampa, Fla. Jean-Yves Aubone, who won eight doubles titles in 2013 and 2014. 2010 doubles champion Denis Kudla went on to reach the US Open Also in 2014, he won his first USTA Pro Circuit singles title in six boys’ singles final that year. He has since progressed to the USTA years at the clay-court $10,000 Futures in Pittsburgh. Aubone played Pro Circuit and ATP World Tour. Kudla competed in the Australian collegiately for Florida State University, where he was the first player in Open main draw for the third time in the last four years in 2015 the school’s history to earn All-America singles honors twice. As a junior after clinching the USTA Pro Circuit Australian Open Wild Card player, he represented the U.S. in the Junior Davis Cup competition and Challenge last fall; Kudla lost to No. 12 seed Feliciano Lopez in reached the singles semifinals of the 2004 USTA Boys’ 18s National the first round in five sets. He qualified for the main draw of the Clay Court Championships. He spent this March competing in ITF-level Australian Open in 2012 and 2014 (reaching the second round events in Israel, reaching a doubles final. in 2014) and broke into the Top 100 in 2013 after advancing to the second round of Wimbledon—his first Grand Slam win. Also in Sekou Bangoura, who won the second USTA Pro Circuit singles title 2013, Kudla qualified for the French Open, reached the second of his career in January 2014 at the $10,000 Futures in Plantation, round of the US Open and advanced to the quarterfinals of the ATP Fla. He also won his fifth USTA Pro Circuit doubles title this year at Wimbledon warm-up event at Queens Club—his best ATP result. the $15,000 Futures in Bakersfield, Calif. Bangoura was named a Kudla holds six USTA Pro Circuit singles titles and four doubles doubles All-American during his sophomore year at the University titles. of Florida after reaching the doubles semifinals of the 2011 NCAA tournament. He turned pro thereafter. In 1987, Jim Courier won the event in Tampa. Courier, who was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2005, hit Five-time University of Florida All-American Greg Ouellette, who won No. 1 in the world in 1992 and is a four-time Grand Slam champion the bronze medal in men’s doubles at the 2011 Pan Am Games with (1991-92 French Open, 1992-93 Australian Open).

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