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as of June 26, 2013

NIELSEN PRO CHAMPIONSHIP WINNETKA, IL • JUNE 29-JULY 6

USTA PRO CIRCUIT MEN’S CHALLENGER RETURNS TO WINNETKA TOURNAMENT INFORMATION The Nielsen Pro Tennis Championship returns to Winnetka for the eighth consecutive year Site: A.C. Nielsen Tennis Center – Winnetka, Ill. and the 22nd year overall. It is the sixth

Challenger on the 2013 USTA Pro Circuit BoMonKwon Websites: www.nielsenprotennis.com calendar and is one of five USTA Pro Circuit procircuit.usta.com men’s events held in Illinois. (Champaign Facebook: Nielsen Pro Tennis hosts a $50,000 Challenger in November, and three $10,000 Futures are held later Twitter: @NielsenPro this summer.) It is also the first hard-court Qualifying Draw Begins: Saturday, June 29 Challenger of the summer season.

Main Draw Begins: Monday, July 1 This tournament will be streamed live on Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles procircuit.usta.com.

Surface: Hard / Outdoor Players competing in the main draw in Prize Money: $50,000 Winnetka are:

Tournament Director: , who in 2012 cemented his Linda Goodman, (312) 505-7969 place as one of the best college players of all [email protected] time, going undefeated to claim his second Tournament Press Contact: straight NCAA singles title and leading USC Steve Johnson, one of the best college tennis Alexandra Maestre, (847) 757-1235 to its fourth team title in his four years at players of all time while at USC, reached [email protected] the school. He turned professional shortly the third round of the 2012 US Open, earned thereafter. Johnson received a a wild card into this year’s Wimbledon USTA Communications Contact: into Wimbledon this year, becoming the Championships and qualified for the 2013 Amanda Korba, (914) 697-2219, [email protected] first American man since 2008 to receive . a wild card into the main draw of The Prize money / points Championships, after he won the grass-court qualified for the . Johnson SINGLES: Prize Money Ranking Points ATP Challenger in Nottingham, England, just entered Wimbledon ranked in the Top 100 for Winner $7,200 80 before Wimbledon. Also as a pro, Johnson the first time in his career. Runner-up $4,240 48 reached the third round of the 2012 US Open, Semifinalist $2,510 29 becoming the first reigning NCAA champion to , who won his first-round match Quarterfinalist $1,460 15 advance to the third round of the men’s singles at Wimbledon this year as a qualifier, having Round of 16 $860 7 event since in 1995. He also previously reached the quarterfinals of the ATP Round of 32 $520 - captured the $100,000 USTA Pro Circuit World Tour event at Queens Club leading into DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team) event in Aptos, Calif., in 2012 and reached Wimbledon—his best ATP result this season. Winner $3,100 the semifinals of two additional Challengers. Also prior to Wimbledon, Kudla made his Runner-up $1,800 Johnson qualified for the 2013 Australian French Open debut as a qualifier. He qualified Semifinalist $1,080 Open and lost in five sets in the first round for the 2012 to make his Quarterfinalist $640 to No. 10 seed Nicolas Almagro. In addition, tournament main-draw debut. Round of 16 $360 Johnson reached the quarterfinals of the ATP Earlier this year, Kudla won the $50,000 USTA event in San Jose, Calif., in February and Pro Circuit Challenger in Tallahassee, Fla., for COMMUNITY EVENTS his fifth USTA Pro Circuit singles title and third Sunday, June 30 Challenger title. Kudla competed in the 2012 Pro-Am, 3:30 p.m. US Open as a wild card and, last year, played a mix of ATP and USTA Pro Circuit events, Mike Olivella

2009 Winnetka singles champion earned a main-draw wild card into the 2013 French Open by winning the Har-Tru USTA Pro Circuit Wild Card Challenge and also qualified for Wimbledon this year.

*Player field subject to change Tournament Notes reaching the second round of the ATP event in San Jose as a qualifier 2009 and 2010 Winnetka singles runner-up , who before losing to in three sets and reaching the second returned to the Grand Slam stage after earning a spot into round of Indian Wells, where he faced . On the USTA Pro the and winning his first-round match against Circuit in 2012, Kudla finished the year as the top ATP points earner former Top 20 player Ivo Karlovic, who is 6-foot-10 to Smyczek’s among Americans and the leader in prize money. Also in 2012, he served 5-foot-9. Smyczek’s success Down Under, on the heels of qualifying as a practice partner for the U.S. team for its quarterfinal tie for and reaching the second round of the 2012 US Open, helped against France and for its semifinal tie against Spain. As a junior player, bring him to the cusp of the Top 100 for the first time in his career, Kudla was ranked as high as No. 3 in the world and reached the boys’ and he subsequently qualified for three ATP events, including the ATP singles final at the 2010 US Open, losing an all-American title match Masters Series event in Miami. Smyczek made his first appearance in to in three sets. Kudla was born in Ukraine and came to the the main draw of the US Open in 2010 after winning an eight-man with his parents on his first birthday. USTA wild-card playoff. He backed that up by winning a similar six-man USTA playoff to earn a wild card into the . Last year, , who broke into the world’s Top 40 in February 2012 Smyczek won the final USTA Pro Circuit Challenger of the season in and qualified for the 2012 U.S. Olympic team. He competed in all Champaign, Ill., in addition to the $50,000 Challenger in Tallahassee. four Grand Slam events a year ago, reaching the second round of the Smyczek regularly trains at Saddlebrook Resort in Tampa, Fla., with Australian Open. In 2011, he reached the round of 16 at the US Open, fellow Americans , and . upsetting two Top 30 players en route as he registered his best Grand Slam tournament result. He also reached the final of the ATP event in , who won the 2010 NCAA men’s singles title for Stanford Bangkok and the semifinals of the Emirates Airline US Open Series event before going pro. Following his pro debut, Klahn received a wild card into in Washington, D.C. In April 2013, Young won an ITF Circuit Challenger qualifying of the 2012 US Open and subsequently won three matches to in Leon, Mexico, for his first title since 2011. A standout junior player, advance to the main draw, where he upset Top 50 player and fellow lefty Young was a two-time Grand Slam tournament junior champion (2005 Jurgen Melzer in the first round in five sets. In doing so, Klahn became Australian Open, 2007 Wimbledon) and, at age 16 years, 5 months, the first-ever men’s qualifying wild card to win a round at the became the youngest-ever year-end world junior No. 1 in 2005. US Open. Following the US Open, Klahn advanced to three USTA Pro Circuit Challenger quarterfinals. This year, he was a practice partner for 2009 Winnteka singles champion Alex Kuznetsov, the 2004 junior the U.S. Davis Cup team in Jacksonville, Fla., where the United States French Open runner-up (to Gael Monfils), who earned a main-draw defeated Brazil. On the USTA Pro Circuit, Klahn reached the final of the wild card into the 2013 French Open by winning the Har-Tru USTA $10,000 Futures in Calabasas, Calif., in March 2013, and then won the Pro Circuit Wild Card Challenge. The USTA awarded one men’s singles singles title at the $10,000 Futures in Costa Mesa, Calif., the following main-draw wild card into the French Open to an American player based week. He also reached the doubles final of the $100,000 USTA Pro on his results on the USTA Pro Circuit. Kuznetsov earned 115 points Circuit Challenger in Sarasota, Fla., in April with Steve Johnson. in the Wild Card Challenge, winning the title in Sarasota to collect 100 points and earning 15 points by reaching the quarterfinals in Savannah , who turned pro following his sophomore season and Tallahassee. Kuznetsov was a qualifier in Sarasota and won seven at the University of Tennessee, having reached the semifinals of the consecutive matches to take the title. The Sarasota Challenger was 2011 NCAA tournament, losing to former Tennessee teammate Rhyne Kuznetsov’s fourth career USTA Pro Circuit Challenger crown. Following Williams in three sets. Sandgren, whose name is pronounced like the the French Open, Kuznetsov also qualified for Wimbledon. In 2012, sport, won three USTA Pro Circuit Futures titles (in four finals) in 2012 he qualified for the Australian Open to make his first appearance in before transitioning to Challenger-level events for the remainder of the a Grand Slam main draw since 2007 and faced in the year. He also competed in qualifying at the 2012 US Open and, overall, first round. Kuznetsov had a strong end to 2012, reaching two USTA climbed nearly 300 spots in the ATP World Tour rankings. In 2013, he Pro Circuit Challenger finals. A native of Kiev, Ukraine, where his has won the doubles title at the $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit Challenger grandfather was a handball champion, Kuznetsov suffered a severe leg in Tallahassee, Fla., with and reached doubles finals injury in a 2005 car accident. He came back to play in his first US at the $100,000 Challenger in Dallas and the $50,000 Challenger in Open main draw in 2006. In 2007, he won his first Grand Slam match Maui, Hawaii, with Williams. Also this year, Sandgren served as a Davis at the Australian Open and reached the round of 16 in doubles at the Cup practice partner for the U.S. team in Boise, Idaho, in early April US Open. against Serbia. Sandgren’s brother, Davey, was a two-time All-American for Tennessee, lettering in 2007-10. , who is the only active U.S. man to have advanced to a Grand Slam semifinal (2005 US Open, where he lost to 2008 Winnetka singles champion , who has established in five sets). Ginepri was one of the top Americans in the world in the himself as a steady presence in the Top 50 of the world doubles rankings, mid-2000s, winning three ATP singles titles. Ginepri, who has reached reaching the second round or better in doubles at all four Grand Slam the fourth round or better at all four Grand Slam events, peaked at events, including the quarterfinals at the Australian Open, French Open and No. 15 in 2006 and has competed for the United States in Davis Cup Wimbledon. In 2012, he reached the doubles quarterfinals at the French (2004) and the Olympics (2008). He is on the comeback trail following Open with and won the ATP doubles title in a broken elbow suffered in late 2010, when he fell off his bicycle trying St. Petersburg, Russia, with Nenad Zimonjic. Overall, Ram has won seven to avoid a squirrel. The injury kept him sidelined through the middle of ATP doubles crowns. In 2009, he won his first ATP singles title in Newport, 2011. Ginepri won the $10,000 USTA Pro Circuit Futures in Sunrise, R.I., where he also captured the doubles title. In 2012, he reached the Fla., in early January 2013 and reached the final of the $50,000 singles semifinals of the Emirates Airline US Open Series event in Los Challenger in Dallas in February. Ginepri also qualified and reached the Angeles, losing to , and in Newport, losing to . quarterfinals of the U.S. Men’s Championship in in An Indiana state high school champion, Ram played collegiately for one April 2013. Ginepri married his longtime girlfriend, Josephine Stafford, semester in 2003 at the University of Illinois—then coached by current in September 2012 in Atlanta. He owns the Olde Towne Athletic Club Australian Open Tournament Director Craig Tiley—and helped the Illini win in Marietta, Ga., with his longtime coach, Jerry Baskin. their first NCAA team title and post their first undefeated season.

*Player field subject to change Tournament Notes

Austin Krajicek, a five-time All-American for A&M and the 2011 Monroe. Ouellette competed overseas in ITF Circuit events for most of NCAA men’s doubles champion with Jeff Dadamo. Krajicek won his 2012. In addition, he won his second career USTA Pro Circuit singles first professional title at a $15,000 Futures in China in January 2012 title last year at the $15,000 Futures in Oklahoma City, and he holds and claimed his first USTA Pro Circuit singles title at the Futures in four career USTA Pro Circuit doubles titles. Austin, Texas, last summer, where he also captured the doubles title. He also captured the singles and doubles crowns at the Little Rock, Winnetka’s defending doubles champion , who captured Ark., Futures in April and won the singles title in Tampa in mid-May. the 2009 NCAA singles title in his freshman year at the University In addition, he won the singles and doubles titles at an ITF Circuit of Mississippi before turning pro. Britton’s NCAA title earned him a event in Canada in March and reached the singles final at another ITF main-draw wild card into the 2009 US Open, where he pushed five- Circuit event the week prior. A standout junior player, Krajicek won the time defending champion Roger Federer in a 6-1, 6-3, 7-5 defeat. 2008 USTA Boys’ 18 National Championships, earning a wild card into After touring for more than two years, Britton broke through with his the 2008 US Open men’s singles main draw. He has been a practice first career singles title at the $15,000 USTA Pro Circuit Futures in partner on three occasions for the U.S. Davis Cup team and is a distant Sacramento, Calif., in June 2012. He has also excelled in doubles, relative of former Wimbledon champion . winning six USTA Pro Circuit doubles titles in 2012 (and 11 doubles titles overall, including ITF Circuit events). As a junior player, Britton Players competing in qualifying are: reached the 2008 US Open boys’ singles final as a wild card.

Teenager , who started 2013 by playing in ITF Former University of Michigan standout , who won his Circuit events in Great Britain, where he won his first pro title and first professional singles title at the USTA Pro Circuit Futures event reached another singles final. The younger brother of , in Godfrey, Ill., last summer and completed 2012 by playing in ITF Christian teamed with Ryan to reach the doubles quarterfinals at the Circuit tournaments in , where he won a doubles title. 2012 US Open, upsetting the No. 4 seeds in the opening round. Jung is playing in his first USTA Pro Circuit tournament since April Christian reached his first $50,000 Challenger semifinal last summer in after competing in ITF Circuit events in Korea and China, where he Lexington, Ky., and reached the final of the $10,000 Futures in Tampa won one doubles title and reached one singles final and two singles this year. Last May, he reached back-to-back Futures semifinals in semifinals. Tampa, Fla., and Indian Harbour Beach, Fla. Sekou Bangoura, who was named a doubles All-American during his Winnetka’s defending doubles champion Jeff Dadamo, who recently sophomore year at the University of after reaching the doubles defeated Jesse Witten in the 2013 US Open National Playoffs semifinals of the 2011 NCAA Tournament. Florida Sectional Qualifying Tournament to advance to the US Open National Playoffs – Men’s Championship in New Haven, Conn., later this summer. The winner of the National Playoffs earns a US Open qualifying wild card. Dadamo played for Texas A&M and won the 2011 Many current and former ATP World Tour stars have found success in NCAA men’s doubles title with Austin Krajicek. Dadamo holds two Winnetka. USTA Pro Circuit doubles titles—claiming one in 2011 with Krajicek and one in 2012 with Devin Britton. 2011 singles champion and 1999 doubles champion James Blake peaked at No. 4 in the world in 2006 after he reaching the quarterfinals Jesse Witten, who posted the best Grand Slam result of his career at the of the US Open and the final of the season-ending Tennis Masters Cup. 2009 US Open, qualifying and knocking off two Top 100 players before He has won 10 career singles titles. Blake also was a longtime member falling to in four sets in the third round. Witten peaked of the U.S. Davis Cup team, helping lead the United States to the Davis at No. 163 in the world in early 2010 and has played on the USTA Pro Cup title in 2007. Circuit periodically during the past two years. Witten is a former University of Kentucky standout who reached the NCAA singles final in 2002. Sam Querrey, the 2006 singles champion, is currently ranked No. 19 Despite losing to Jeff Dadamo in singles, Witten won the mixed doubles and is the highest-ranked American man. Querrey has won seven ATP title at the 2013 US Open National Playoffs USTA Florida Sectional World Tour singles titles, including a title on every surface. He has also Qualifying Tournament to advance to the US Open National Playoffs – been a consistent force on the U.S. Davis Cup team. Mixed Doubles Championship in New Haven, Conn., later this summer, where he will compete for a US Open mixed doubles wild card. Witten , the singles runner-up in Winnetka in 1989 and 1991, won the mixed doubles title with his older sister, Sarah, who reached the went on to reach the final of the 1999 US Open and 1994 Australian NCAA doubles final in 2003 while playing for Kentucky. Open. He achieved a career-best ranking of No. 4 in the world and won eight career ATP singles titles. He currently serves on the USTA’s Board Five-time University of Florida All-American Greg Ouellette, who won of Directors. the bronze medal in doubles at the 2011 Pan Am Games with Nicholas

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winnetka Past WINNERS Singles Doubles Year Winner Runner-Up Year Winner 2012 John-Patrick Smith (AUS) Ricardas Berankis (LTU) 2012 Devin Britton (USA) – Jeff Dadamo (USA) 2011 James Blake (USA) (USA) 2011 Treat Conrad Huey (PHI) – Bobby Reynolds (USA) 2010 (ARG) Tim Smyczek (USA) 2010 Ryler DeHeart (USA) – Pierre-Ludovic Duclos (CAN) 2009 Alex Kuznetsov (USA) Tim Smyczek (USA) 2009 (AUS) – (USA) 2008 Rajeev Ram (USA) (USA) 2008 (USA) – (USA) 2007 Noam Okun (ISR) (RSA) 2007 Patrick Briaud (USA) – Chris Drake (USA) 2006 Sam Querrey (USA) (ITA) 2006 (PHI) – (USA) 2001-05 Tournament not held Tournament not held 2001-05 Tournament not held Tournament not held 2000 (JPN) Yong-Il Yoon (KOR) 2000 Hyung-Taik Lee (KOR) – Yong-Il Yoon (KOR) 1999 Alex O’Brien (USA) (BLR) 1999 James Blake (USA) – Thomas Blake (USA) 1998 Geoff Grant (USA) Diego Nargiso (ITA) 1998 Grant Silcock (AUS) – (RSA) 1997 (ITA) (ZIM) 1997 (USA) – Myles Wakefield (RSA) 1994 (USA) (ITA) 1994 Brian MacPhie (USA) – David Witt (USA) 1993 (ZIM) Maurice Ruah (VEN) 1993 (AUS) – Mark Petchey (GBR) 1992 (USA) (USA) 1992 Andrew Kratzmann (AUS) – Roger Rasheed (AUS) 1991 (ZIM) Todd Martin (USA) 1991 Bryon Black (ZIM) – (USA) 1990 Cristiano Caratti (ITA) Chris Garner (USA) 1990 Zeeshan Ali (IND) – Menno Oosting (NED) 1989 Brian Garrow (USA) Todd Martin (USA) 1989 Ville Jansson (SWE) – Scott Warner (USA) 1988 (USA) Gianluca Pozzi (ITA) 1988 Recardo Acuna (CHI) – Royce Deppe (RSA) 1987 (AUS) Roberto Saad (ARG) 1987 Tobias Svantesson (SWE) – John Treml (USA) 1985 Barry Moir (RSA) Harold Solomon (USA) 1985 Ricky Brown (USA) – (USA) 1984 (USA) (USA 1984 (USA) – (USA) Tournament Notes

USTA PRO CIRCUIT 10 AND UNDER TENNIS With approximately 90 tournaments hosted annually throughout the country and prize money ranging from Tennis is now scaled to a child’s age and size, using lower- $10,000 to $100,000, the USTA Pro Circuit is the pathway to the US Open and tour-level competition for aspiring tennis players and a frequent battleground for established professionals. The USTA launched its bouncing and slower-moving balls, lighter and shorter Pro Circuit 34 years ago to provide players with the opportunity to gain professional ranking points, and it racquets, and smaller courts. The modified equipment and has since grown to become the largest developmental tennis circuit in the world, offering nearly $3 million smaller courts will allow kids to rally and play the game in prize money. Last year, more than 1,000 men and women from more than 70 countries competed in cities nationwide. Mardy Fish, , John Isner, , Sam Querrey, Victoria early on, increasing the likelihood that kids will return to the Azarenka and are among today’s top stars who began their careers on the USTA Pro Circuit. court and continue to improve all while having fun! For more information, visit www.10andundertennis.com More recently, the USTA Pro Circuit helped launch the careers of two young Americans—Jack Sock and . Jack Sock Sock began 2012 by winning the singles title and reaching the doubles final at the Andrew Ong NJTL $10,000 Futures in Plantation, Fla. He then reached the quarterfinals of the $50,000 Founded in 1969 by , the USTA/National Challenger in Honolulu. With his strong USTA & Learning (NJTL) network is a nation-wide group of more than Pro Circuit results, Sock received wild cards 660 non-profit youth development organizations that provide free into numerous Emirates Airline US Open Series events in the summer, reaching the or low cost tennis, education and life skills programming to more quarterfinals in Atlanta. Sock then achieved than 300,000 children each year, ages 6-18, making NJTL one of the best result of his pro career by reaching the USTA’s largest community-based offerings. the third round of the 2012 US Open as a wild card. Sock followed up his US Open results by winning his first career USTA Pro Circuit Challenger title at the $100,000 event US OPEN NATIONAL PlayoffS in Tiburon, Calif., in the fall and finished 2012 ranked a career-high No. 150 in the The USTA launched the US Open world. After winning the 2011 US Open girls’ National Playoffs in 2010, making singles title, Min moved to the USTA Pro the US Open “open” to anyone Circuit to develop her game. She opened the year by winning the first women’s tournament of 2012 at the $25,000 event in Innisbrook, Fla. Later in age 14+ and of all skill levels. the spring, she won back-to-back tournaments at the $50,000 event in Indian Harbour Beach, Fla., and Last year, more than 1,200 players the $25,000 tournament in Raleigh, N.C. She competed in qualifying in Emirates Airline US Open Series competed in 13 Sectional Qualifying events throughout the summer and qualified in Stanford, Calif. Min, who trains at the USTA Training Center Tournaments nationwide for a 2012 Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla., entered the Top 200 for the first time in her career in 2012, climbing US Open Qualifying Tournament nearly 250 spots in the rankings by year’s end. wild card. A mixed doubles element also was held, with the winning team earning a main draw mixed PLAYER DEVELOPMENT doubles wild card. Clement Reix, a 28-year-old Frenchman living in Reno, Nev., won the US Open National Playoffs men’s title and The USTA Player Development program identifies and develops the next generation of American champions USTA Pro Circuit regular Alexandra Mueller, 24, of Abington, PA, by surrounding the top junior players and young pros with the resources, facilities and coaching they need won the women’s wild card for the second time in three years. to reach their maximum potential. The Player Development program is based at the USTA Training Center Nicole Melichar and Brian Battistone won the mixed doubles Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla., and also utilizes Training Centers in Carson, Calif., and Flushing, N.Y., as tournament. Registration for the 2013 US Open National Playoffs well as a series of Certified Regional Training Centers located throughout the continental United States. opened on March 15.