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Tournament Notes TournamenT noTes as of april 26, 2010 MIMA FOUNDATION/USTA PRO TENNIS CLASSIC INDIAN HARBOUR BEACH, FL • MAY 2-9 USTA PRO CIRCUIT WOMEN’S TOURNAMENT RETURNS TO TournamenT INDIAN HARBOUR BEACH InFormaTIon Site: Kiwi Tennis Club – Indian Harbour Beach, Fla. The MIMA Foundation/USTA Pro Tennis Classic presented by Mercedes-Benz of Websites: www.mimafoundationtennisclassic.org, Melbourne is in its fifth year on the USTA procircuit.usta.com Pro Circuit. The event is the third $50,000 Mary S. Cockrin women’s event of the year and the only Qualifying Draw Degins: Sunday, May 2 $50,000 women’s tournament held in Main Draw Begins: Tuesday, May 4 Florida. Five $25,000 women’s tournaments were held in Florida from January through Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles April. Indian Harbour Beach is also the third Surface: Clay / Outdoor of four consecutive $50,000 clay court events to prepare USTA Pro Circuit players Prize Money: $50,000 for the clay court season and the 2010 Tournament Directors: French Open. USTA Pro Circuit veteran Lindsay Lee-Waters holds Holly Baney & Murray Lilley, (321) 698-0888, 26 USTA Pro Circuit titles, which ranks third all time. [email protected] This year’s main draw is expected to include Lindsay Lee-Waters, a mother of two who Tournament Press Contact: holds 26 USTA Pro Circuit titles (15 for more than a decade and has captured Shelley Johnson, (321) 431-0445, doubles), which ranks third all time. The nine USTA Pro Circuit titles (two singles). [email protected] USTA Pro Circuit veteran first broke into Others scheduled for the main draw include USTA Public Relations Contacts: the Top 50 in 1995, when she qualified for Alexa Glatch, who propelled the U.S. to Eric Schuster, (914) 696-7260, [email protected] Wimbledon and upset Pam Shriver in the opening round. its first Fed Cup final since 2003 last year Amanda Korba, (914) 697-2219, [email protected] by winning two of the U.S.’s three points Also expected in the Indian Harbour Beach in its 3-2 semifinal victory against the PrIze money / PoInTs main draw are Carly Gullickson, who won Czech Republic; Mirjana Lucic, of Croatia, the 2009 US Open mixed doubles title with a singles semifinalist at 1999 Wimbledon SINGLES: Prize Money Ranking Points USTA Pro Circuit graduate Travis Parrott; and the 1998 Australian Open doubles Winner $7,315 70 2006 Indian Harbour Beach singles and champion with Martina Hingis; 2008 Runner-Up $3,990 50 doubles champion Edina Gallovits, of Indian Harbour Beach doubles champion Semifinalists $2,185 32 Romania, who claimed her 11th USTA Madison Brengle, who has competed in Quarterfinalists $1,235 18 Pro Circuit singles title two weeks ago in three of the four Grand Slams and was Round of 16 $ 760 10 Dothan, Ala., which ties her with Lee-Waters one of the world’s top junior players in Round of 32 $475 1 for second all time in USTA Pro Circuit 2007, when she advanced to the girls’ DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team) singles titles; Julia Cohen, an All-American singles final at both the Australian Open Winner $2,660 at the University of Miami who reached and Wimbledon; Abigail Spears, who has Runner-Up $1,425 the semifinals of the NCAA tournament as competed extensively on the WTA Tour and Semifinalists $760 a sophomore in 2009; and Lilia Osterloh, peaked at No. 66 in the world in 2005; and Quarterfinalists $380 a former Top 50 player who has been Michaella Krajicek, of the Netherlands, who Round of 16 $285 competing on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour was a fixture in the Top 40 of the WTA Tour rankings from 2006 to 2007 and reached the third round of the 2007 French Open CommunITy eVenTs and the quarterfinals of Wimbledon that Sunday, May 2 USTA year. Krajicek also won the doubles title USTA Kids’ Day and Carnival, 2-4:30 p.m. a few weeks ago at the WTA Tour event in Memphis, Tenn., with USTA Pro Circuit Wednesday, May 5 graduate Vania King. Health Awareness Day with health screenings, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Melanie Oudin, who won the singles title at Indian Harbour Beach last year, went on to reach Thursday, May 6 the quarterfinals of the 2009 US Open and Ladies Day become the No. 3 American in the world. TournamenT noTes Those receiving main draw wild cards learned to play tennis at the Andre Agassi Many current WTA Tour standouts have include: Boys and Girls Club in Las Vegas, where competed in Indian Harbour Beach. Last she trained to become a Top 10 junior; and year’s singles champion, Melanie Oudin, 18-year-old Julia Boserup, who had her 15-year-old Grace Min, who trains full-time went on to have the best season of her breakthrough at the 2008 Dunlop Orange at the USTA Certified Regional Training young career by reaching the fourth round of Bowl, where she won her first title on the Center in Boca Raton, Fla., and won the Wimbledon as a qualifier and then having a ITF World Junior Circuit, and who also trains doubles title of the Girls’ 18s at the Easter dream Grand Slam run to the quarterfinals full-time at the USTA Certified Regional Bowl this year. of the US Open. Oudin is currently the No. 3 Training Center in Boca Raton, Fla.; 16-year- American in the world, behind the Williams old Ester Goldfeld, a junior standout who Also expected in the qualifying draw are: sisters, and a key player on the U.S. Fed advanced to the quarterfinals of the girls’ Cup team, where she helped lead the U.S. singles and doubles draws at the 2010 Julie Ditty, the all-time leader in career to the final both last year and this year. junior Australian Open; and 18-year-old USTA Pro Circuit titles with 34; former The 2007 Indian Harbour Beach singles CoCo Vandeweghe, who made history at Top 20 player Alexandra Stevenson, who champion and 2008 singles finalistBethanie the 2008 US Open by becoming the first advanced to the 1999 Wimbledon semifinals Mattek-Sands is also a key player on the American to win the girls’ singles title since as a qualifier—becoming the first female U.S. Fed Cup team. Mattek-Sands competed Tara Snyder in 1995. Vandeweghe also qualifier in the tournament’s history to in the Fed Cup semifinal in Birmingham, won an eight-player USTA playoff to earn a reach the semifinals;Jamie Hampton, who Ala., April 24-25, with Oudin, and won both wild card into the main draw of the 2010 has climbed almost 500 spots in the WTA the fourth singles rubber and the deciding Australian Open. rankings this year by reaching four USTA Pro doubles match with Liezel Huber to send Circuit singles finals, including a victory in the U.S. to the Fed Cup final for the second The qualifying draw is expected to include a April in Osprey, Fla.; Ahsha Rolle, an eight- straight year. Mattek-Sands peaked at world slate of up-and-coming American teenagers, time champion on the USTA Pro Circuit who No. 37 in singles last year and has also had including: upset then-world No. 18 Tatiana Golovin great success in doubles; she is currently en route to the third round of the 2007 ranked a career-high No. 14 in doubles 17-year-old Kristie Ahn, who made headlines US Open; and last year’s Indian Harbour and has won eight WTA Tour doubles titles. at the 2008 US Open by winning three Beach singles finalistLaura Siegemund, of The 2008 Indian Harbour Beach singles matches to become the youngest player to Germany, who won her first USTA Pro Circuit champion Yanina Wickmayer surged up the qualify for the main draw, and who also won title this year—the doubles crown at the WTA rankings after reaching the semifinals her third USTA Pro Circuit title in March $25,000 event in Laguna Niguel, Calif., in of the US Open last year. Wickmayer is 2009; 19-year-old Asia Muhammad, who February. currently ranked a career-high No. 12. Carly Gullickson won the 2009 US Open mixed doubles title. TournamenT noTes USTA PRO CIRCUIT 30 MILLION PLAYERS With more than 90 tournaments throughout the country and prize money ranging from $10,000 to The USTA Pro Circuit serves as an integral part of the USTA’s $100,000, the USTA Pro Circuit is the pathway to the US Open and tour-level competition for aspiring mission to grow and develop tennis in the United States. In tennis players and a frequent battleground for established professionals. The USTA launched its Pro Circuit November 2009, the USTA and Tennis Industry Association 31 years ago to provide players with the opportunity to gain professional ranking points and has since announced that tennis participation in the United States topped grown to become the largest developmental tennis circuit in the world, offering more than $3 million in 30 million players for the first time in more than two decades prize money. Last year, more than 1,000 men and women from more than 70 countries competed in cities with participation growing in all age groups under the age nationwide. Maria Sharapova, Andy Roddick, James Blake, Andy Murray, Jelena Jankovic, Sam Querrey of 50 and within all ethnicities. Another survey conducted by and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga are among today’s top stars who began their careers on the USTA Pro Circuit. the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association last year also showed that tennis is the only traditional sport to enjoy growth In 2009, the USTA Pro Circuit helped launch in grass-roots participation.
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