TOURNAMENT NOTES as of November 4, 2015 COPPERWYND PRO WOMEN’S CHALLENGE SCOTTSDALE, AZ • NOVEMBER 8-15 USTA PRO CIRCUIT WOMEN’S TENNIS DEBUTS IN SCOTTSDALE, TOURNAMENT INFORMATION CONCLUDES AUSTRALIAN OPEN WILD CARD CHALLENGE Site: Copperwynd Resort & Club – Scottsdale, Ariz. The Copperwynd Pro Women’s Challenge is making its debut on the USTA Pro Circuit. Websites: www.arizonachallenger.com Scottsdale has never hosted women’s USTA procircuit.usta.com Pro Circuit tennis, but it hosted a men’s event in 1997 and 2000. It is the second Dishman USTA/Ned Facebook: Cliff Drysdale Tennis tournament taking place in Arizona this Twitter: @cdrysdaletennis year—Surprise hosted a $25,000 women’s event in February —and is the last USTA Pro Qualifying Draw Begins: Sunday, Nov. 8 Circuit women’s event of 2015. Main Draw Begins: Tuesday, Nov. 10 Scottsdale is the last of three consecutive Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles women’s hard-court tournaments that make Surface: Hard / Outdoor up the USTA Pro Circuit Australian Open Wild Card Challenge, which will award a Prize Money: $50,000 Nicole Gibbs, a two-time NCAA singles men’s and women’s wild card into the 2016 champion, received a wild card into this year’s Tournament Director: Australian Open. The USTA and Tennis US Open, where she crossed the $200,000 Scott McCulloch, (480) 333-1901 Australia have a reciprocal agreement in single-season earnings threshold for the first time in her career with her first-round win. [email protected] which wild cards into the 2015 US Open and 2016 Australian Open are exchanged. Tournament Press Contact: The other tournaments in the women’s portion Ashley Spicer-Lloyd, (512) 944-2606 of the wild card challenge are the $50,000 This tournament will be streamed live [email protected] events in Macon, Ga., the week of Oct. 26, on www.procircuit.usta.com. To follow the tournament, download the USTA Pro USTA Communications Contact: and Waco, Texas, the week of Nov. 2. Circuit’s new phone app by searching Amanda Korba, (914) 697-2219 The three women’s tournaments join three “procircuit” in the app store. [email protected] men’s tournaments—the Charlottesville PRIZE MONEY / POINTS Men’s Pro Challenger in Charlottesville, Notable players competing in the main draw Va., the week of Nov. 2; the Knoxville include: SINGLES: Prize Money Ranking Points 2015 Challenger in Knoxville, Tenn., the Winner $7,600 80 week of Nov. 9; and the JSM Challenger of Nicole Gibbs, who received a wild card into Runner-Up $4,053 48 Champaign-Urbana in Champaign, Ill., the the 2015 US Open and won her first-round Semifinalist $2,216 29 week of Nov. 16. match. Last year, Gibbs advanced to the Quarterfinalist $1,267 15 third round of the US Open—her career-best Round 16 $760 8 The American woman who earns the most result—after winning the USTA Pro Circuit’s Round 32 $444 1 WTA ranking points at two of the three USTA US Open Wild Card Challenge to earn a spot DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team) Pro Circuit hard-court events will receive a in the US Open main draw. She also won Winner $2,786 wild card to compete in the main draw of the the third $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit event Runner-Up $1,393 2016 Australian Open, which will be held of her career in Carson, Calif., in 2014. This Semifinalist $696 Monday, Jan. 18, through Sunday, Jan. 31. year, Gibbs advanced to the second round of Quarterfinalist $380 Only players who did not receive direct entry the Australian Open—her first Grand Slam Round 16 $254 into the Australian Open are eligible for the tournament main draw appearance outside wild cards. the US Open—and competed in the French COMMUNITY EVENTS Open and Wimbledon main draws, peaking Monday, Nov. 9: Pro-Am; at No. 84 in the world in March. She also Member Appreciation Clinic, 8:30-10 a.m. qualified for this summer’s Emirates Airline Wednesday, Nov. 11: Kids’ Carnival, ages 4-10 Grason Tom Thursday, Nov. 12: Kids’ Carnival, ages 11-16; Ladies Day Clinic, 8:30-10 a.m. Anna Tatishvili is the leader in the USTA Pro Circuit Australian Open Wild Card Challenge. She Saturday, Nov. 14: USTA Appreciation Day qualified for the 2015 US Open and reached the second round and has ranked as high as No. 50 Sunday, Nov. 15: Veteran Appreciation Day; in the world in singles and No. 59 in doubles. Veteran’s Day Clinic, 10-11 a.m. *Player field subject to change TOURNAMENT NOTES US Open Series event in Stanford, Calif., upsetting Caroline Garcia Grace Min, the former US Open junior champion who peaked at a to reach the round of 16. Following this year’s US Open, Gibbs career-high No. 97 in the world in March after reaching the second reached the final of the $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Kirkland, round of the WTA’s Rio Open and competing in Indian Wells. In Wash., and the semifinals at the $50,000 event in Las Vegas, where 2014, Min reached the semifinals of the WTA event in Bad Gastein, she also won the doubles title. Gibbs won consecutive NCAA singles Austria—her first-ever WTA semifinal—and competed in the US Open titles in 2012 and 2013 for Stanford University, becoming the fifth and French Open main draws, qualifying at Roland Garros. Min player in history—and the fourth from Stanford—to win back-to-back was one of the top juniors in the world in 2011, when she won the NCAA Division I women’s singles championships. She also helped US Open girls’ singles title and the Wimbledon girls’ doubles title. lead Stanford to its 17th NCAA team title in 2013. As a junior Those results helped propel her to No. 4 in the world junior rankings. player, Gibbs advanced to the final of the USTA Girls’ 18 National In 2013, she qualified for the French Open—her first main draw Championships in 2010 and 2011 and reached the semifinals of Grand Slam appearance outside the United States—as well as the the 2011 junior US Open. She trains at the USTA Training Center US Open. She holds six USTA Pro Circuit singles titles overall and Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla. is coming off her first title of 2015, won in October at the $25,000 event in Florence, S.C. Anna Tatishvili, the leader in the USTA Pro Circuit Australian Open Wild Card Challenge after reaching the final in Macon, Ga. last month. Julia Boserup, who qualified for and reached the quarterfinals of the Tatishvili qualified for the 2015 US Open and reached the second WTA event in Monterrey, Mexico, in April 2014 for her career-best round. She also qualified for the 2015 Australian Open and reached WTA result. In addition, following the 2014 US Open, she reached the second round and advanced to the quarterfinals of the WTA event the quarterfinals or better at three $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit events. in Bucharest, Romania, in July. Tatishvili peaked at No. 50 in the In her career, Boserup has competed in qualifying at the US Open world in singles in October 2012 and No. 59 in doubles in May and Australian Open, and she has won three USTA Pro Circuit 2012. Her best Grand Slam tournament result came at the 2012 singles titles, including the $25,000 event in Raleigh, N.C., earlier US Open, where she reached the fourth round before falling to top this year—her first USTA Pro Circuit title since 2012, when she seed Victoria Azarenka. Tatishvili has won eight USTA Pro Circuit achieved a career-best singles ranking of No. 174. This fall, Boserup singles titles and three ITF Pro Circuit singles titles in her career. won the doubles title at the $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Las She won her first WTA doubles title last year in Linz, Austria. As a Vegas and reached the singles semifinals at the $75,000 event in junior player, Tatishvili climbed as high as No. 19 in the ITF World Albuquerque, N.M., and in Macon, Ga. Boserup was also a standout Junior Rankings and reached the doubles semifinals at the 2006 junior, winning the prestigious Orange Bowl in 2008, defeating junior Australian Open with Caroline Wozniacki. Tatishvili, a native future U.S. Olympian Christina McHale in the final. of the former Soviet republic of Georgia, became a U.S. citizen in April 2014. Maria Sanchez, who peaked at No. 107 in the world in July 2013 behind strong results on the USTA Pro Circuit and the WTA tour. Katerina Stewart, who competed in US Open, French Open and Also in 2013, Sanchez made her debut in a Grand Slam main draw Wimbledon qualifying this year. Stewart has enjoyed a strong 2015 by earning a wild card into the US Open. In 2014, she won her first season, winning three singles titles on the USTA Pro Circuit and WTA doubles title, in Auckland, New Zealand, with Sharon Fichman. going 13-2 this spring in a string of $50,000 clay-court events, For her career, Sanchez has won two USTA Pro Circuit singles titles, where she won in Indian Harbour Beach, Fla., and reached the finals both in 2012, and 15 USTA Pro Circuit/ITF Pro Circuit doubles in Charlottesville, Va., and Savannah, Ga. In the junior ranks, she titles, including five this year alone. Also this year, she reached the won the USTA Girls’ 18 National Clay Court Championships in July singles final of the $25,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Rancho Santa 2014.