TOURNAMENT NOTES

as of September 6, 2013

USTA CLAREMONT CLUB PRO CLASSIC CLAREMONT, CA • SEPTEMBER 6–15

USTA PRO CIRCUIT MEN’S FUTURES RETURNS TO CLAREMONT TOURNAMENT INFORMATION The USTA Claremont Club Pro Classic returns to Claremont for the 18th straight

Site: The Claremont Club – Claremont, Calif. year. The tournament is the third of five USTA USTA Pro Circuit Futures tournaments held Websites: www.claremontclub.com in this year, and the first event procircuit.usta.com following the US Open. Facebook: The Claremont Club Notable players competing in the main draw Qualifying Draw Begins: Friday, September 6 include: Main Draw Begins: Tuesday, September 10 , the younger brother of Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles Top 100 player and U.S. player Surface: Hard / Outdoor , who is this year’s No. 1 seed. Earlier this summer, Harrison won the first Prize Money: $10,000 main draw ATP Tour match of his career by Tournament Director: defeating in the opening round Barry Friedman, (909) 754-3898 of the Emirates Airline US Open Series event [email protected] in Atlanta, and narrowly losing to in the second round there. Harrison also won Tournament Press Contact: Christian Harrison, the younger brother of his first pro title in January at an ITF-level Top 100 player and U.S. Davis Cup player Steve Pratt, (310) 408-4555 event in Sheffield, Great Britain. The biggest Ryan Harrison, won the first main draw ATP [email protected] result of his young career came in his Grand Tour match of his career this summer by Slam debut at last year’s US Open, where he winning in the opening round of the Emirates USTA Communications Contact: reached the quarterfinals in the men’s doubles Airline US Open Series event in Atlanta. Amanda Korba, (914) 697-2219 event with Ryan. [email protected] mixed doubles finals that year of the US Open Nicolas Meister, who won his first-ever ITF PRIZE MONEY / POINTS National Playoffs. singles title this May at the $10,000 event SINGLES: Prize Money Ranking Points in Morelia, Mexico. Meister also won a ITF Winner $1,440 17 Jeff Dadamo, who earned a wild card into doubles title this year in Mexico, which is Runner-up $848 9 the 2013 US Open by winning the US Open the eighth of his career. He graduated from Semifinalist $502 5 National Playoffs – Men’s Championship. UCLA in 2012 after a standout NCAA tennis Quarterfinalist $292 2 Dadamo has won two USTA Pro Circuit career, and also reached the singles and Round of 16 $172 1 doubles titles during his career. He graduated Round of 32 $104 — from Texas A&M in 2011, where he won the NCAA men’s doubles title with Austin DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team) Krajicek. Winner $620

Runner-up $360 USOpen.org Semifinalist $216 , who won the singles and Quarterfinalist $128 doubles titles at the 2012 USTA Boys’ 18s National Championships in Kalamazoo, Mich., earning wild cards into the main draw of both the men’s singles and doubles event. He defeated current world No. 14 of , in the opening round of the US Open that year, and also won his first round men’s doubles match. He also competed in

Jeff Dadamo won the 2013 US Open National Playoffs men’s singles title and captured the NCAA doubles title in 2011 for Texas A&M.

*Player field subject to change TOURNAMENT NOTES the men’s qualifying singles and mixed doubles events at this year’s US Ernesto Escobodo, who is the youngest player in the draw at just 17. Open. Novikov won his first pro singles title this June at the $10,000 In January, he reached the singles semifinals of a $10,000 ITF event USTA Pro Circuit Futures in Indian Harbour Beach, Fla. He is currently in Tijuana, Mexico. He is also one of the top ranked junior players a sophomore at UCLA. nationally.

Alexander Sarkissian, who turned pro this summer after completing Sahak Bazrganian, a junior at the University of Utah, who reached the his college tennis career at Pepperdine University, where he was quarterfinals this summer at the $10,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in an All-American and reached the round of 16 at the 2013 NCAA Joplin, Mo. Championships. He has since reached his first pro singles final at the USTA Pro Circuit $10,000 Futures in Joplin, Mo., and also advanced to Notable current and former college players in the qualifying include: the quarterfinals of a $15,000 ITF Challenger in . Oscar Fabian Matthews, who played No. 1 singles for UC Irvine; Marcos Connor Farren, who is beginning his NCAA tennis career this fall at the Giron, who plays for the UCLA men’s tennis team; Raymond Sarmiento, University of Southern California. Farren was a junior standout, who who is in his senior year at the University of Southern California; and peaked at a career-high No. 12 in the world in the combined ITF World Charles Boyce, who will play for Loyola Marymount after this semester. Junior Rankings in January 2012. He reached the singles and doubles quarterfinals of the 2011 Easter Bowl and has competed in all four junior tournaments. *Player field subject to change

CLAREMONT PAST WINNERS Singles Doubles Year Winner Runner-Up Year Winner 2012 Daniel Kosakowski (USA) Prakash Amritraj (IND) 2012 Devon Britton (USA) – Reid Carleton (USA) 2011 (USA) (BAR) 2011 Alexandre Lacroix (FRA) – Sanam Singh (IND) 2010 Gary Sacks (RSA) (USA) 2010 Taylor Fogleman (USA) – Chris Kearney (USA) 2009 Matej Bocko (SVK) (USA) 2009 Brett Joelson (USA) – Ashwin Kumar (USA) 2008 Tigran Martirosyan (ARM) Adriano Biasella (ITA) 2008 Marcus Fugate (USA) – Nima Roshan (AUS) 2007 Carsten Ball (AUS) Robert Yim (USA) 2007 Nikita Kryvonos (USA) – Michael McClune (USA 2006 (ISR) Sascha Kloer (GER) 2006 Ryler DeHeart (USA) – Dennis Zivkovic (USA) 2005 Benedikt Dorsch (GER) Tyler Cleveland (USA) 2005 K.C. Corkery (USA) – James Pade (USA) 2004 (USA) (USA) 2004 Nick Rainey (USA) – (USA) 2003 (USA) Jimy Szmymanski (VEN) 2003 K.C. Corkery (USA) – James Pade (USA) 2002 (RUS) Raven Klaasen (RSA) 2002 Chris Magyary (USA) – Mirko Pehar (USA) 2001 Marq Foster (USA) Huntley Montgomery (USA) 2001 Sebastien Jaeger (GER) – Alexander Waske (GER) 2000 Geoff Abrams (USA) Daniel Andersson (SWE) 2000 Levar Harper-Griffith (USA) – (USA) 1999 Ryan Wolters (USA) Jordan Kerr (AUS) 1999 Mark Loughrin (USA) – Ryan Wolters (USA) 1998 Ville Liukko (FIN) Michael Mather (USA) 1998 Simon Larose (CAN) – Jocelyn Robichaud (CAN) 1997 Ofer Sela (ISR) Daniele Bracciali (ITA) 1997 Lars Hjarrand (NOR) – Ross Loel (USA) 1996 Glenn Weiner (USA) Cecil Mamiit (PHI) 1996 Sascha Bandermann (GER) – Glenn Weiner (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. , , John Isner, Caroline Wozniacki, , 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 — 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 Arthur Ashe, the USTA/National Junior Tennis 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 USTA The USTA Player Development program identifies and develops the next generation of American champions Pro Circuit regular Alexandra Mueller, 24, of Abington, PA, won by surrounding the top junior players and young pros with the resources, facilities and coaching they need the women’s wild card for the second time in three years. Nicole to reach their maximum potential. The Player Development program is based at the USTA Training Center Melichar and Brian Battistone won the mixed doubles tournament. Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla., and also utilizes Training Centers in Carson, Calif., and Flushing, N.Y., as The 2013 US Open National Playoffs – Men’s, Women’s and Mixed well as a series of Certified Regional Training Centers located throughout the continental . Doubles Championships are August 16-19 in New Haven, Conn.