TOURNAMENT NOTES as of August 13, 2015 ODLUM BROWN VANOPEN PRESENTED BY MIELE & TRAIL APPLIANCES VANCOUVER, BC • AUGUST 16-23 USTA PRO CIRCUIT WOMEN RETURN TO VANCOUVER TOURNAMENT INFORMATION The Odlum Brown VanOpen presented by Miele & Trail Appliances returns to Site: Hollyburn Country Club – Vancouver, B.C. Vancouver as a USTA Pro Circuit women’s event for the seventh consecutive year. It Websites: www.vanopen.com Getty Images is the only USTA Pro Circuit women’s event procircuit.usta.com held in Canada; a $100,000 USTA Pro Facebook: Odlum Brown VanOpen Circuit men’s Challenger is also being held in Vancouver this week. Twitter: @vanopen Qualifying Draw Begins: Sunday, Aug. 16 To follow the tournament, download the USTA Pro Circuit’s new phone app by Main Draw Begins: Tuesday, Aug. 18 searching “procircuit” in the app store. Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles Notable players competing in the main draw Surface: Hard / Outdoor include: Prize Money: $100,000 Francesca Schiavone of Italy, who won Tournament Director: the 2010 French Open and rose to No. 4 Ryan Clark, (778) 238-7904 in the world in 2011. Schiavone has won [email protected] six WTA singles crowns and seven doubles Tournament Press Contact: titles. She has also represented Italy in the Brian Wiebe, (604) 916-8448, [email protected] Olympics and is her nation’s all-time leader This year, Bethanie Mattek-Sands won the in Fed Cup match victories, helping Italy to women’s doubles titles at the Australian Open USTA Communications Contact: championships in 2006, 2009 and 2010. and the French Open, adding the mixed Amanda Korba, (914) 697-2219, [email protected] doubles championship as well at the French. She peaked at No. 5 in the world in doubles in Bethanie Mattek-Sands, who this year July, while returning to the singles Top 100. won the Australian Open and French Open PRIZE MONEY / POINTS women’s doubles titles (with Lucie Safarova) SINGLES: Prize Money Ranking Points and the French Open mixed doubles title peaked at No. 5 in the world in doubles in Winner $15,200 140 (with Mike Bryan). Mattek-Sands, who July, has been one of the most consistent Runner-up $8,108 100 performers in U.S. tennis across the past Semifinalist $4,433 70 decade. She has represented the United Quarterfinalist $2,533 36 States in Fed Cup, played in 13 consecutive Round of 16 $1,520 18 Ron Angle US Opens and reached the fourth round of Round of 32 $887 1 Wimbledon in 2008 and the French Open DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team) in 2013 (upsetting 2011 French Open Winner $5,573 champion Li Na en route). At the 2012 Runner-up $2,787 Australian Open, Mattek-Sands teamed with Semifinalist $1,393 Horia Tecau to win her first Grand Slam Quarterfinalist $760 tournament title in mixed doubles. Overall, Round of 16 $507 Mattek-Sands has won 16 WTA doubles titles and five USTA Pro Circuit singles crowns. In 2011, she was ranked a career- COMMUNITY EVENTS high No. 30 in the world in singles before Wednesday, Aug. 19 being sidelined by a rotator cuff injury. Last Kids’ Day, 10:30 a.m. year, she started the year strong by reaching the quarterfinals of the Australian Open Francesca Schiavone won the 2010 French Open and ascended to No. 4 in the world. She has won six WTA singles crowns and seven doubles titles. *Player field subject to change TOURNAMENT NOTES tune-up event in Sydney as a qualifier, but was sidelined from mid- the USTA Pro Circuit’s US Open Wild Card Challenge. She also won March to mid-September due to injury. her third $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit event of her career in Carson, Calif., last year. This year, Gibbs advanced to the second round of Sachia Vickery, who peaked at a career-high No. 108 in the world in the Australian Open—her first Grand Slam main draw appearance July after qualifying for Wimbledon and reaching the quarterfinals of outside of the US Open—and also competed in the French Open and the WTA’s Wimbledon tune-up event in Nottingham, England. Vickery Wimbledon main draws, peaking at No. 84 in the world in March. also represented the U.S. in the Pan American Games in Toronto She also qualified for this summer’s Emirates Airline US Open Series this summer. She won the first two career USTA Pro Circuit singles event in Stanford, Calif., upsetting Caroline Garcia to reach the titles of her career earlier this year at the $25,000 Florida events round of 16. Gibbs won consecutive NCAA singles titles in 2012 in Plantation and Sunrise. In her young career, Vickery has already and 2013 for Stanford University, becoming the fifth player in competed in the US Open, Australian Open and Wimbledon main history—and the fourth from Stanford—to win back-to-back NCAA draws, earning a main-draw wild card into the 2014 Australian Open Division I women’s singles championships. Gibbs also helped lead by winning the USTA’s Australian Open Wild Card Playoff. She also Stanford to its 17th NCAA team title in 2013. As a sophomore in reached the quarterfinals at the Emirates Airline US Open Series 2012, she defeated teammate Mallory Burdette in the NCAA singles event in Stanford, Calif., last summer—her first WTA quarterfinal. title match and then teamed with Burdette to win the NCAA doubles In 2013, Vickery won the USTA National Girls’ 18s singles and championship. As a junior player, she advanced to the final of the doubles titles, earning wild cards into the main draws of the singles USTA Girls’ 18s National Championships in 2010 and 2011 and and doubles events at the 2013 US Open. At the Open, she won her reached the semifinals of the 2011 junior US Open as a qualifier. first-round match in her Grand Slam debut, defeating Mirjana Lucic- Gibbs trains at the USTA Training Center in Boca Raton, Fla Baroni in straight sets. As a junior, Vickery ascended to No. 6 in the ITF World Junior Rankings, reaching the doubles semifinals of junior Alja Tomljanovic of Croatia, who is ranked No. 63 in the world—the Wimbledon in 2012 and competing in all four junior Grand Slams. highest-ranked player in the field. Tomljanovic has competed in all She trains with coach Adrian Zeman at the ZMG Tennis at Deer four Grand Slam events, winning a match at each tournament. She Creek facility in Deerfield Beach, Fla., and was a longtime trainee of has won four USTA Pro Circuit/ITF Pro Circuit singles titles, her the USTA Player Development program at the USTA Training Center last coming in 2013, and three doubles titles. Most recently, she Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla. reached the quarterfinals at the Emirates Airline US Open Series event in Stanford, Calif. Shelby Rogers, who peaked at No. 70 in the world last September after reaching her first WTA singles final at the WTA event in Bad Players competing in qualifying include: Gastein, Austria, while also reaching the semifinals in Quebec City and the quarterfinals at the Emirates Airline US Open Series event Melanie Oudin, who is playing in just her fourth USTA Pro Circuit in Montreal, where she upset Eugenie Bouchard. Rogers competed tournament since October 2014 after undergoing a heart procedure. in her first Australian Open and Wimbledon main draw this year, She reached the quarterfinals of the $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit while also competing in the French Open for the third time. In event in Stockton, Calif., this July. Oudin burst onto the tennis scene addition, she won the doubles title at the $50,000 grass-court event in 2009, defeating former world No. 1 Jelena Jankovic to reach in Eastbourne, Great Britain, this June with Coco Vandeweghe. In the fourth round at Wimbledon and beating five-time Grand Slam 2013, Rogers earned a wild card into the French Open by winning champion Maria Sharapova en route to the US Open quarterfinals. the Har-Tru USTA Pro Circuit Wild Card Challenge—she reached the Oudin peaked at No. 31 in the world in singles in April 2010, second round at Roland Garros—and secured a wild card into the but she struggled with injuries and inconsistency in the year that 2013 US Open by winning the USTA Pro Circuit’s US Open Wild followed. She started a comeback in 2012, capturing her first career Card Challenge. In her career, Rogers has won four USTA Pro Circuit WTA title at the Wimbledon tune-up event in Birmingham, England. singles titles and one doubles title. As a junior player, she won the She then competed at Wimbledon as a wild card. Oudin also USTA Girls’ 18s National Championships to earn a wild card into the earned a wild card into the 2012 French Open based on her results main draw of the 2010 US Open for her first appearance in a Grand on the USTA Pro Circuit, which included a title at the event in Slam (in either the main draw or juniors). Charlottesville, Va. (She reached the second round at Roland Garros that year.) In addition to her success in singles, Oudin notched one Anna Tatishvili, who qualified for the 2015 Australian Open and of the biggest victories of her career at the 2011 US Open, claiming reached the second round. She also reached the quarterfinals of the the mixed doubles title with fellow American Jack Sock. She has WTA event in Bucharest, Romania, this July. Tatishvili peaked at also been a consistent performer for the U.S.