TOURNAMENT NOTES

as of October 31, 2018

HAROLD A. MILLER WOMEN’S TENNIS TOURMAMENT LAWRENCE, KAN. • NOV. 5-11

USTA PRO CIRCUIT WOMEN’S TENNIS COMES TO LAWRENCE The Harold A. Miller Women’s Tennis Tournament comes to Lawrence for the first time. It is a $25,000 indoor hard-court event, one of only two indoor women’s tournaments on the USTA Pro Circuit in 2018. This is the

TOURNAMENT INFO Darren Carroll/USTA second-to-last week on the USTA Pro Circuit Site: Jayhawk Tennis Center, University of Kansas 2018 season on the women’s side, which concludes with another $25,000 event in Websites: www.procircuit.usta.com Norman, Okla., next week. Qualifying Draw Begins: Sunday, November 4 Notable players competing in Lawrence Main Draw Begins: Tuesday, November 6 include: Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles Jessica Pegula, 24, Buffalo, N.Y. Jessica Pegula reached her first WTA final at Surface: Hard / Indoor the WTA International event in Quebec City, • Recently qualified and reached her first WTA Canada, the week following the US Open. Prize Money: $25,000 final at the WTA International indoor event in Tournament Director: Quebec the week following the US Open. • Was part of UCLA’s NCAA-title winning Clara Evensen, (503) 869-9496 • Had the Week 1 lead in the 2018 US Open team in 2014. Also reached the NCAA [email protected] Wild Card Challenge after reaching the finals of the $60,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in doubles final in 2013. USTA Communications Contact: Honolulu, where she also won the doubles • At the 2015 US Open, won the American Pat Mitsch, (914) 697-2291, [email protected] title. Collegiate Invitational, a tournament for the PRIZE MONEY / POINTS • Has reached the singles quarterfinals or top U.S. college players. SINGLES: Prize Money Ranking Points better at six USTA Pro Circuit events this • Holds two USTA Pro Circuit singles title ($10,000 Landisville, Pa., in 2011, and Winner $3,919 50 year, and has made the doubles final at three $60,000-plus events in 2018. $25,000 Redding, Calif., in 2017) and two Runner-up $2,091 30 doubles titles ($25,000 Redding, Calif., in Semifinalist $1,144 18 • Did not compete from January 2017 to August 2017 due to injury. 2013, and $25,000 Daytona Beach, Fla., in Quarterfinalist $654 9 2017). Round of 16 $392 5 • Qualified for the 2016 US Open main draw and competed in US Open qualifying in 2017. • As a junior player, reached the girls’ singles Round of 32 $228 1 quarterfinals at the 2010 US Open. • Advanced to her first career WTA semifinal in summer 2016 in Washington, D.C. DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team) Usue Arconada, 20, College Park, Md. • Played in just one tournament in 2014 after Winner $1,437 • Ranked as high as No. 5 in the world junior having knee surgery. Returned to competition Runner-up $719 rankings. in 2015 and, in her comeback, qualified for Semifinalist $359 the 2015 US Open and won her first-round • Won her first pro-level match at age 14, Quarterfinalist $196 match in her first-ever Grand Slam main draw. in qualifying for the WTA’s Citi Open in Washington, D.C., in 2013, beating then Round of 16 $131 • Career-high rankings of No. 123 in singles 26-year-old Maria Irigoyen. In 2016, won her and No. 92 in doubles. Holds five USTA Pro first WTA match at the Citi Open as a wild Circuit and ITF Pro Circuit doubles titles, card. including two titles in 2017. • This year, qualified for the WTA event in Monterrey, Mexico, in April, and won her Robin Anderson, 25, Matawan, N.J. second career USTA Pro Circuit doubles title • Graduated from UCLA in 2015 after earning at the $25,000 event in Daytona Beach, Fla. All-America honors in both singles and doubles • Reached the final of the $25,000 USTA Pro for four consecutive years, becoming the Circuit event in Pelham, Ala., in 2017, as well seventh player in school history to accomplish as four additional USTA Pro Circuit/ITF Pro the feat. Circuit singles semifinals. • Named the ITA National Collegiate Player of the Year for 2014-15.

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• Won the junior doubles title at Wimbledon in 2016 (with Claire Liu) Bianca Turati, 21, Italy and reached the girls’ singles quarterfinals; also reached the third round • Rising junior at Texas; Went 28-4 in singles as a sophomore last year in singles and the quarterfinals in doubles at the 2015 and 2016 junior and was ranked the No. 1 collegiate singles player during the season; US Open. 2018 Big 12 Player of the Year. • Born in Argentina and moved to Puerto Rico when her father accepted a position as Puerto Rico’s national volleyball coach. Nadja Gilchrist, 28, Rochester, N.Y. • Product of Hilton Head Island’s Smith Stearns Academy. Maegan Manasse, 23, Redondo Beach, Calif. • Four-year letter-winner at the University of Georgia. • Two-time singles and three-time doubles all-American over decorated four-year career at Cal in which she spent time as the No. 1 collegiate singles player. Amassed 114 singles and 104 doubles wins at Cal. • Returned to play in June after a six-month hiatus to reached the final at a $15,000 event in Victoria, B.C., then qualify and reach the final of the $60,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Ashland, Ky.