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as of April 12, 2013

TOUR DE PAUL TOURNAMENT LITTLE ROCK, AR • APRIL 13-21

USTA PRO CIRCUIT RETURNS TO LITTLE ROCK TOURNAMENT INFORMATION AS LONGEST-RUNNING MEN’S EVENT IN ITS 32ND YEAR

Site: Pleasant Valley Country Club – Little Rock, Ark. The Tour De Paul Tennis Tournament enters its 32nd year on the USTA Pro Circuit; the Website: www.stvincenthealth.com/tourdepaul tournament is the longest-running event on Dave Kenas procircuit.usta.com the USTA Pro Circuit. It is the only $15,000 Futures tournament held in Arkansas and Qualifying Draw Begins: Saturday, April 13 concludes the USTA Pro Circuit spring hard- court season, as the clay season will begin Main Draw Begins: Tuesday, April 16 in two weeks to prepare players for the 2013 . Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles Players competing in the main draw are: Surface: Hard / Outdoor , the 2012 NCAA men’s Prize Money: $15,000 doubles champion for Ohio State. On the USTA Pro Circuit in 2012, Buchanan won Co-Tournament Directors: two Futures singles titles and three Futures Breda Turner, (501) 590-6145 doubles titles—all on clay. Behind his [email protected] results in 2012, he climbed more than 500 is a former five-time spots in the ATP rankings. Buchanan won an All-American for A&Mn who won the Jamie Jones, (501) 552-4920 ITF Pro Circuit doubles title in Canada last 2011 NCAA men’s doubles title, and has [email protected] month and competed in qualifying for the been a practice partner for the U.S. Davis ATP events in Delray Beach, Fla., and San Cup team three times. Tournament Press Contact: Jose, Calif., this year. Margaret Preston Dedman [email protected] Canada and reached the singles final at Austin Krajicek, a five-time All-American for another event the week prior. A standout Texas A&M who won the 2011 NCAA men’s junior player, he won the 2008 USTA Boys’ USTA Communications Contact: doubles title with . Krajicek Amanda Korba, (914) 697-2219, [email protected] 18 National Championships, earning a wild won his first professional title at a $15,000 card into the 2008 US Open main draw. Futures in China in January 2012 and won Krajicek has also been a practice partner Prize money / points his first USTA Pro Circuit singles title at the on three occasions for the U.S. Futures in Austin, Texas, last summer. (He team. He is a distant relative of former SINGLES: Prize Money Ranking Points also captured the doubles title in Austin.) Wimbledon champion . Winner $2,160 27 This March, Krajieck won the singles at Runner-up $1,272 15 doubles title at an ITF Pro Circuit event in Semifinalist $753 8 , the 2012 NCAA singles Quarterfinalist $438 3 runner-up at the University of Kentucky. Round of 16 $258 1 Quigley is one of the most decorated Round of 32 $156 – tennis players in UK history, earning five Dave Kenas All-America honors between singles and DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team) doubles. In 2008, he became the first Winner $930 Kentucky player in 34 years to win four Runner-up $540 straight high school state singles titles. Semifinalist $324 Quarterfinalist $192 Dennis Nevolo, a standout at the University Round of 16 $108 of , who finished his collegiate career in May 2012. Nevolo competed as part of the 2012 USTA Collegiate Team, and on

Former US Open boys’ singles runner-up Chase Buchanan won the 2012 NCAA men’s doubles title while playing for Ohio State.

*Player field subject to change Tournament Notes the USTA Pro Circuit, he reached the quarterfinals or better at five event in Miami, defeating in the first round and then- events. This year, he won his first USTA Pro Circuit title in doubles world No. 27 of in the second round. Blake at the $15,000 Futures in Brownsville, Texas. made his broadcasting debut as a commentator for the Davis Cup First Round in Jacksonville, Fla., earlier this year. , who was named a doubles All-American during his sophomore year at the University of after reaching the 2003 runner-up began 2012 ranked No. 456 in the doubles semifinals of the 2011 NCAA Tournament. world after suffering a variety of injuries and was looking to rebuild his career on the USTA Pro Circuit. He eventually progressed to Daniel Nguyen, a former All-American at USC, where he helped the Challenger-level tournaments and accelerated his comeback by Trojans to four consecutive NCAA team championships, 2009-12, earning the USTA’s to the French Open, as the American clinching the titles for the team in 2010 and 2011. Nguyen won who earned the most ranking points at two USTA Pro Circuit clay- the first USTA Pro Circuit singles title of his career last fall at the court Challengers—a $100,000 event in Sarasota, Fla., and a $10,000 Futures in Irvine, Calif., and spent the final months of $50,000 event in Savannah, Ga. He then headed to Europe and 2012 in playing ITF Pro Circuit events. reached his first ATP final at the French Open tune-up event in Nice, advanced to the second round of the French Open and then reached Nikita Kryvonos, who won the US Open National Playoffs USTA the fourth round at Wimbledon. He also reached the second round of Eastern sectional qualifier in 2010 and 2012, taking the title at the the US Open. Baker returned to pro tennis in 2011 after undergoing USTA National Tennis Center, where he trains during five surgeries for a series of ailments from 2005 to 2008, including the year. The Ukrainian-born Kryvonos is working his way back from Tommy John elbow ligament replacement surgery in February 2008. a knee injury. A promising junior, he competed in the US Open qualifying in 2004, 2006 and 2007, and he has played extensively 2007 singles champion broke into the world’s Top 40 in on the USTA Pro Circuit. He finished in the Top 400 in 2006. February of last year and qualified for the 2012 U.S. Olympic team. He competed in all four events a year ago, reaching the second round of the . In 2011, he reached the round of 16 at the US Open, upsetting two Top 30 players en route, for his Many current and past ATP stars have had success in Little Rock. best Grand Slam result. Also in 2011, he reached the final of the ATP World Tour event in and the semifinals of the Emirates 1999 doubles champion peaked at No. 4 in the world Airline US Open Series event in Washington, D.C. Earlier this month, in 2006 after being a finalist in the ATP’s year-end Tennis Masters Young won an ITF Pro Circuit Challenger in Leon, Mexico, for his Cup. A two-time US Open quarterfinalist, Blake has won five career first title since 2011. A standout junior player, Young was a two-time singles titles and also was a longtime member of the U.S. Davis Cup Grand Slam tournament champion (2005 Australian Open, 2007 team, helping lead the to the Davis Cup title in 2007. Wimbledon) and, at age 16 years and 5 months, finished 2005 as the Last month, he reached the third round of the ATP Masters Series youngest-ever year-end world junior No. 1.

*Player field subject to change Tournament Notes

LITTLE ROCK Past WINNERS Singles Doubles Year Winner Runner-Up Year Winner 2012 (USA) (AUS) 2012 Tennys Sandgren (USA) – Gregory Ouellette (USA) 2011 Arnau Brugues-Davi (ESP) Alex Bogdanovic (GBR) 2011 Nima Roshan (AUS) – (NZL) 2010 (AUS) (AUS) 2010 (USA) – Brett Joelson (USA) 2009 Matej Bocko (SVK) Michael McClune (USA) 2009 (AUS) – (AUS) 2008 Artem Sitak (RUS) Matthew Roberts (USA) 2008 Haydn Lewis (BAH) – Bjorn Munroe (BAH) 2007 Donald Young (USA) (JPN) 2007 Kei Nishikori (JPN) – Donald Young (USA) 2006 (USA) Scott Oudesma (USA) 2006 (COL) – (RSA) 2005 Zbynek Mlynarik (AUT) (RSA) 2005 Tres Davis (USA) – (USA) 2004 Emin Agaev (AZE) (USA) 2004 Rajeev Ram (USA) – (USA) 2003 (ARG) Brian Baker (USA) 2003 Jay Gooding (AUS) – (AUS) 2002 Florian Jeschonek (GER) Alun Jones (AUS) 2002 (USA) – Ryan Sachire (USA) 2001 Fredrik Jonsson (SWE) (NED) 2001 (RSA) – Shaun Rudman (RSA) 2000 Marcus Sarstrand (SWE) Damien Furmanski (ARG) 2000 (AUS) – Frederic Niemeyer (CAN) 1999 Jimy Szymanski (VEN) Jason Weir-Smith (RSA) 1999 James Blake (USA) – Thomas Schroerlucke (USA) 1998 Oren Motevassel (USA) Louis Vosloo (RSA) 1998 Luke Bourgeois (AUS) – Michael Hill (AUS) 1997 Eyal Erlich (ISR) Noam Behr (ISR) 1997 Brian Eagle (USA) – Mark Quinney (USA) 1996 (USA) (GER) 1996 Peter Kuhn (RSA) – (RSA) 1995 Jamie Holmes (AUS) (USA) 1995 Bill Barber (USA) – David DiLucia (USA) 1994 (RSA) Donny Isaak (USA) 1994 Keith Evans (USA) – Brian Gyetko (CAN) 1992 Andrew Sznajder (CAN) D.J. Bosse (RSA) 1992 Johan DeBeer (RSA) – John Sullivan (USA) 1991 Clinton Marsh (USA) (RSA) 1991 Mike Briggs (USA) – (USA) 1990 (USA) (USA) 1990 Jeff Brown (USA) – Scott Melville (USA) 1989 John Carras (USA) Pat Galbraith (USA) 1989 Eric Amend (USA) – Pat Galbraith (USA) 1988 Scott Melville (USA) MaliVai Washington (USA) 1988 Clinton Banducci (RSA) – Earl Zinn (RSA) 1987 (USA) Scott Patridge (USA) 1987 Joey Blake (USA) – Darren Yates (USA) 1986 Ricardo Acioly (BRA) Joey Blake (USA) 1986 Ricardo Acioly (BRA) – Richard Matuszewski (USA) 1985 Brett Dickinson (USA) (USA) 1985 Nelson Aerts (BRA) – Rick Rudeen (USA) 1984 James Grabb (USA) Dan Cassidy (USA) 1984 Dan Cassidy (USA) – Morris Strode (USA) 1983 (USA) Kevin Kerns (USA) 1983 (USA) – (USA) 1982 Ken Flach (USA) (USA) 1982 Erik Van’t Hof (USA) – Robert Van’t Hof (USA) 1981 Chris Delaney (USA) Mike Brunnberg (USA) 1981 Mike Bauer (USA) – John Benson (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. , , , , , 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— and Grace Min. 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 . 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 . 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 and 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. opens on March 15.