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as of July 9, 2013

WOMEN’S $50,000 OREGON CHALLENGER PORTLAND, OR • JULY 14-21

TOURNAMENT PORTLAND CONTINUES US OPEN WILD-CARD OPPORTUNITY FOR INFORMATION AMERICAN PLAYERS ON THE USTA PRO CIRCUIT

Site: Tualatin Hills Center – Portland, Ore. The Women’s $50,000 Oregon Challenger will be making its debut on the USTA Pro Websites: www.theoregonchallenger.com Circuit in Portland. It is the only USTA Pro procircuit.usta.com Circuit event held in the state of Oregon. Michael Baz Facebook: The Oregon Challenger Portland is the second of three consecutive Qualifying Draw Begins: Sunday, July 14 women’s hard-court tournaments (joining Main Draw Begins: Tuesday, July 16 $50,000 events in Yakima, Wash., and Lexington, Ky.) forming a series that will Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles determine one of the recipients of a women’s Surface: Hard / Outdoors into the 2013 US Open. The wild card will be awarded to the American woman Prize Money: $50,000 who accumulates the greatest number Tournament Director: of WTA ranking points in the series (with Jeff Carey, (971) 263-3207 the player’s best two events, of the three, [email protected] factoring into the final total).

Tournament Press Contact: The three women’s tournaments join Steve Alexander, [email protected] four men’s events—the $50,000 Levene USTA Public Relations Contact: Gouldin & Thompson Tennis Challenger in Binghamton, N.Y. (week of July 15); the , the top-ranked American in Amanda Korba, (914) 697-2219 $50,000 Fifth Third Bank Championships Portland, has been ranked in the Top 100 [email protected] consistently throughout 2013. in Lexington, Ky. (week of July 22); the PRIZE MONEY / POINTS $100,000 Odlum Brown VanOpen presented by Invesco in Vancouver, Canada (week of SINGLES: Prize Money Ranking Points Players competing in Portland include: July 29); and the $100,000 Comerica Bank Winner $7,600 70 Challenger in Aptos, Calif. (week of August Runner-up $4,053 50 Lauren Davis, the top-ranked American 5)—in deciding one women’s and one men’s Semifinalist $2,216 32 in the field, who has been ranked in the wild-card recipient. Quarterfinalist $1,267 18 WTA Top 100 consistently throughout Round of 16 $760 10 the year. Davis started 2013 by reaching This tournament will be streamed live on Round of 32 $444 1 the quarterfinals of the www.procircuit.usta.com. tune-up event in Hobart, losing to fellow DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team) young American in three Winner $2,786 sets. Davis then won the $100,000 USTA Runner-up $1,393 Pro Circuit event in Midland, Mich., a few Semifinalist $696 weeks later. Also in 2013, Davis reached the Quarterfinalist $380 quarterfinals of the WTA event in Monterrey, Round of 16 $254 Mexico, and qualified and reached the COMMUNITY EVENTS second round in Miami. She broke into the Top 100 for the first time in her career in Monday, July 15 2012, when she qualified for and reached Pro-Am, 5:00-6:30 p.m. Getty Images Cardio Pro-Am, 6:30-8:00 p.m. the second round of the and advanced to the quarterfinals of the WTA Friday, July 19 event in Quebec City, Canada. Davis also Community Tennis Day with youth clinics ended the 2012 season strong on the USTA 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m Pro Circuit, winning the $50,000 USTA Pro

Alison Riske posted her career-best result this year at Wimbledon, reaching the third round as a wild card.

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Circuit event in Las Vegas, sponsored by music sensation Redfoo of defeating the No. 2 seed in the first round and the No. 1 seed in the the duo LMFAO, and reaching the final of the $75,000 USTA Pro final to win the US Open girls’ singles title without dropping a set. Circuit event in Albuquerque, N.M., the week prior. Those results That same year, she also won the girls’ doubles title at Wimbledon helped Davis finish second among American women in WTA points and reached the singles semifinals at the Easter Bowl and the USTA earned on the USTA Pro Circuit in 2012. As a junior player, Davis International Spring Championships. Those results propelled her peaked at No. 3 in the ITF World Junior Rankings in 2010, when to No. 4 in the world junior rankings. Min won her first USTA Pro she won the and reached the final of the Easter Bowl. Circuit singles title in Innisbrook, Fla., last year, and went on to She is a longtime pupil of the Chris Evert Tennis Academy. win back-to-back USTA Pro Circuit singles titles at $50,000 events in Indian Harbour Beach, Fla., and Raleigh, N.C., in the spring Alison Riske, who posted her career-best Grand Slam result this of 2012 to crack the Top 200 for the first time in her career. This year at Wimbledon, reaching the third round as a wild card, which year, she has qualified for the French Open—her first Grand Slam boosted her ranking to a career-best No. 102 in the world. Also this tournament main draw appearance outside of the US Open—and she year, she reached the semifinals of the WTA event in Birmingham, also qualified for the WTA events in Indian Wells, Calif.; Charleston, England, as a qualifier; she previously reached the quarterfinals of S.C.; and Acapulco, Mexico. Min has trained full-time at the USTA Birmingham in 2011 and the semifinals in 2010, losing in three Training Center Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla., since the fall 2009. sets to . Riske nearly broke through to the WTA Top 100 in 2011, reaching a then-career-high ranking of No. 104. , who, as a Stanford junior, won her second consecutive She qualified for the , losing to Urszula NCAA singles title in 2013, defeating Nebraska senior Mary Radwanska in the first round, and also competed in the US Open Weatherholt to become the fifth player in history—and the fourth Qualifying Tournament later in the year. On the USTA Pro Circuit from Stanford—to win back-to-back NCAA Division I women’s last year, Riske reached the semifinals at the $75,000 event in singles championships, joining Amber Liu (Stanford, ’04-05), Laura Albuquerque, N.M., and the $50,000 event in the Bronx, N.Y. Granville (Stanford, ’00-01), (Florida, ’92-93) and This year, she reached the quarterfinals of two USTA Pro Circuit (Stanford, ’86-87). Gibbs also helped lead Stanford events and competed in qualifying at the Australian Open and the to its 17th NCAA team title this season. In 2012, as a sophomore, French Open. As a junior, Riske rose to No. 2 in the USTA Girls’ 18s she defeated teammate in the NCAA singles title national standings and was a finalist at the 2007 USTA Girls’ 18 match, for which she was awarded a wild card into the women’s National Championships. singles main draw of the US Open. (She also teamed with Burdette to win the NCAA doubles title.) Following the collegiate season in , who earned a main-draw wild card into the 2013 2012, Gibbs qualified and won the USTA Pro Circuit event in Denver French Open by winning the Har-Tru USTA Pro Circuit Wild Card in July and received a wild card into the Emirates Airline US Open Challenge. In , she defeated Irena Pavlovic in the first round for Series event in Stanford, where she fell to in the her first win in a Grand Slam main-draw match. The winner of the round of 16. Gibbs also starred as a freshman for the Cardinal, going Har-Tru USTA Pro Circuit Wild Card Challenge was determined by the 46-6 in singles, including 27-0 in dual matches, and advanced player who accumulated the greatest number of WTA ranking points to the semifinals of the NCAA Championships to earn All-America at two of three USTA Pro Circuit $50,000 clay-court events, in honors. In 2011, she helped lead Stanford to the 2011 NCAA team Dothan, Ala.; Charlottesville, Va.; and Indian Harbour Beach, Fla.— final before rejoining the junior ranks and advancing to the final of similar to what is being done in Portland for a US Open wild card. the USTA Girls’ 18 National Championships for a second straight Rogers rose to the top of the standings by winning the Charlottesville year. She also reached the semifinals of the 2011 US Open Junior title, reaching the quarterfinals in Dothan and the round of 16 in Championships as a qualifier. Indian Harbour Beach. Last year, she made a run to the final of the $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Las Vegas, sponsored by , who was the top-ranked college player in the country music sensation Redfoo of LMFAO, and she claimed the singles title while playing two seasons at Georgia Tech, and who won the gold here with a victory over US Open girls’ singles champion Samantha medal in singles and the silver medal in doubles (with Christina Crawford. As a junior player, Rogers won the USTA Girls’ 18 National McHale) at the 2011 Pan Am Games. Since turning pro, Falconi Championships to earn a wild card into the women’s singles main has played in every Grand Slam event at least twice. Her highlight draw of the 2010 US Open, her first appearance in a Grand Slam came at the US Open in 2011, when she upset No. 14 Dominika tournament (in either the women’s main draw or the juniors). Cibulkova in the second round in Arthur Ashe Stadium and carried an American flag around the court following the win. Also in 2011, , who won the 2012 US Open girls’ singles title, Falconi won a USTA playoff to earn a wild card into the French Open, becoming the second consecutive American to do so (following where she advanced to the second round. She qualified for the Grace Min) and the third in five years (including Coco Vandeweghe Australian Open and Wimbledon in 2011 as well, to rise to No. 73 in 2008). Crawford also qualified for the main draw of the 2012 in the world rankings. This year, she reached the final round of US Open and pushed Great Britain’s Laura Robson in the first qualifying at both the French Open and Wimbledon. At Georgia round, falling, 6-3, 7-6. At 6-foot-2, Crawford has a big serve and Tech, Falconi was a two-time All-American, and she holds the school an aggressive baseline game, which propelled her to No. 5 in the record in all-time winning percentage (.824; 70-15). She was born world junior rankings in 2012. This year, she has reached the singles in Ecuador and moved to New York at age 3, learning to play on semifinals of the $25,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Raleigh, N.C., public courts in Manhattan. and holds two USTA Pro Circuit doubles titles. Crawford, whose mother is from China, speaks Chinese. She trains at the USTA Madison Brengle, who reached the final of the $50,000 USTA Pro National Training Center Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla. Circuit women’s event in Sacramento, Calif., two weeks ago—her second USTA Pro Circuit final of the year (she won the $25,000 Grace Min, who was one of the top juniors in the world in 2011, event in Rancho Mirage, Calif., in February). 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the main draw at three of the four Grand Slam events, winning USTA team semifinals for the first time in program history in 2010. This wild-card playoffs to earn entry into the Australian Open (2007-08) year, she won her first USTA Pro Circuit singles title at the $25,000 and the French Open (2008), as well as competing in the US Open event in El Paso, Texas. She also holds five USTA Pro Circuit doubles main draw in 2007. This year, she reached the quarterfinals of a titles, with three coming in 2012. As a junior player, Marand reached Wimbledon tune-up event in Nottingham, Great Britain. In 2011, the doubles final at the 2006 Easter Bowl with Ashley Weinhold. she ascended to a career-best ranking of No. 152 and won the $25,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Hammond, La. An outstanding Allie Will, who was an All-American and the No. 1 singles player for junior competitor, Brengle rose to No. 4 in the world junior rankings the University of Florida. Will was the No. 1 collegiate player in the in 2007, after reaching the girls’ singles final at both the Australian country for most of the 2011-12 season and advanced to the 2012 Open and Wimbledon. NCAA semifinals. She also helped lead the Gators to NCAA team titles in 2011 and 2012. She won the doubles title at the $25,000 Notable players competing in qualifying include: USTA Pro Circuit event in Raleigh, N.C., earlier this year—her third doubles title of the year and her fourth overall. Eighteen-year-old Sachia Vickery, who reached the doubles semifinals at the 2012 Wimbledon Junior Championships and Eighteen-year-old Jamie Loeb, who reached the quarterfinals of the advanced to the third round in singles at the 2012 US Open Wimbledon juniors this year (losing to eventual champion Belinda Junior Championships to crack the Top 10 of the ITF World Junior Bencic) and advanced to the second round of girls’ singles at Rankings. Vickery won her first pro title this year, claiming the the French Open, falling to the No. 1-ranked junior in the world, doubles crown at the $25,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Surprise, . Loeb reached the singles final of the 2013 USTA Ariz., with 2012 US Open girls’ singles champion Samantha International Spring Championships in Carson, Calif., and won the Crawford. Vickery also reached the doubles semifinals at the doubles title. Last summer, she had a 17-match singles winning $25,000 clay-court event in Innisbrook, Fla. She has worked with streak, resulting in three junior titles—the USTA International Hard Richard Williams, Venus and Serena’s father. Court Championships in College Park, Md.; the USTA International Grass Court Championships in Philadelphia; and an ITF Junior Allie Kiick, 18, formerly one of the Top 25 juniors in the world. Circuit event in Delray Beach, Fla. Also in 2012, she captured two As a junior, Kiick won the 2012 USTA International Spring $10,000 clay-court USTA Pro Circuit singles titles in Buffalo, N.Y., Championships and the 2010 Orange Bowl girls’ 16s title. Also in and Amelia Island, Fla. Loeb trains at John McEnroe’s academy at 2012, she reached the singles quarterfinals at the junior French Randalls Island, N.Y. Open and the round of 16 at the junior US Open and junior Wimbledon. On the USTA Pro Circuit, Kiick captured the second Alexandra Stevenson, who first made waves in pro tennis in 1999, singles title of her career, at the $10,000 event in Gainesville, Fla., when she became the first female qualifier in Wimbledon history and reached the final of the $50,000 event in Charlottesville, Va. to reach the semifinals at The Championships. She was ranked in Her father is Jim Kiick, who played running back for the Miami the year-end Top 100 each year from 1999 to 2003, peaking at Dolphins for seven seasons, including their undefeated campaign No. 18 in 2002. Injuries drove her ranking into the 600s in 2005. in 1972. She previously trained at the USTA Training Center Stevenson climbed back into the Top 200 in 2009, advancing to Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla. the final at the $50,000 event in Carson, Calif., for her best result on the USTA Pro Circuit since 1998. Stevenson is the daughter of Sanaz Marand, a former University of North Carolina standout who basketball Hall of Famer Julius Erving. received All-America honors and helped lead UNC to the NCAA 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, Maria Sharapova, , , 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 Grace Min. Grace Min Sock began 2012 by winning the singles Tim Hartis Tim title and reaching the doubles final at the 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 , 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 United States. Doubles Championships are August 16-19 in New Haven, Conn.