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as of July 14, 2015

WOMEN’S HOSPITAL CLASSIC EVANSVILLE, IN • JULY 19-26

USTA PRO CIRCUIT WOMEN’S RETURNS TO EVANSVILLE TOURNAMENT INFORMATION The Women’s Hospital Classic is taking place in Evansville for the 17th consecutive year. Site: Wesselman Park Tennis Center – Evansville, Ind. It is the only USTA Pro Circuit event taking

place in Indiana this year and is the first of Dave Kenas Websites: www.evansvilletennis.com four consecutive hard-court events to begin the procircuit.usta.com summer hard-court season in preparation for Qualifying Draw Begins: Sunday, July 19 the US Open. Tuesday, July 21 Main Draw Begins: To follow the tournament, download the USTA Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles Pro Circuit’s new phone app by searching “procircuit” in the app store. Surface: Hard / Outdoor Prize Money: $10,000 Notable players competing in the main draw include: Tournament Director: Anna Hazlett, (812) 430-4890 Josie Kuhlman, who last year reached back- [email protected] to-back USTA Pro Circuit singles finals at Co-Tournament Director: the $10,000 women’s events in Bethany Kim Poynter, (812) 499-1004 Beach, Del., and in Charlotte, N.C. She [email protected] also reached the semifinals in Evansville last year. Kuhlman completed her freshman 2014 Evansville semifinalist Josie Kuhlman Tournament Press Contact: year at the University of Florida this spring, completed her freshman year at the University Ryan McDaniel, (317) 213-7697 concluding her rookie season with a 37-11 of Florida this spring, reaching the NCAA [email protected] singles record and an appearance in the NCAA singles championships semifinals. singles championships semifinals. As a junior USTA Communications Contact: player, Kuhlman reached the doubles final Amanda Korba, (914) 697-2219, [email protected] of the Easter Bowl in 2013 and the singles Jessica Ho, who will be a freshman at Duke semifinals of the 2013 International Hard this fall. As a junior player, she competed Prize money / points Court Championships. in the US Open, , and juniors and reached the singles SINGLES: Prize Money Ranking Points quarterfinals of the 2014 Easter Bowl—a Winner $1,568 12 prestigious junior tournament. Runner-Up $980 7 Semifinalist $490 4 Alexa Graham, 17, who reached her first Quarterfinalist $245 2 Dave Kenas career USTA Pro Circuit singles final this year Round 16 $196 1 at the $10,000 event in Bethany Beach, Del. Round 32 $98 0 Earlier this year, she also reached the singles DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team) final at an ITF-level event in France. Winner $637 Runner-Up $343 Dasha Ivanova, 18, who was born in Russia Semifinalist $196 and ranked as high as No. 32 in the ITF Quarterfinalist $98 World Junior Rankings in August 2014. As a Round 16 $49 junior player, Ivanova played in the US Open, French Open and Wimbledon girls’ events. She also reached the doubles quarterfinals of the 2013 Easter Bowl—a prestigious junior event. Ivanova has spent much of this year

Jessica Ho will be a freshman at Duke this fall. As a junior player, she competed in the US Open, Australian Open and French Open juniors.

*Player field subject to change Tournament Notes playing on the USTA Pro Circuit and in ITF-level events in France, Madeleine Kobelt, who graduated from Syracuse in 2014. With the Mexico and Brazil. Orange, Kobelt became the 30th player in program history to reach 100 career victories. She also received All-ACC honors. In high school, she Kristina Smith, who played collegiately at UC Irvine, where her mother was an Ohio state doubles champion in 2009. Kobelt was born in Paris. also played and represented the school in the 1983 NCAA Division I Championships. Kristina finished her college career with a 97-20 record Bianca Botto of Peru, who is the top seed in Evansville. Botto has and earned all-Big West Conference honors. In 2013, she earned the ranked in the Top 200 in the world and has represented Peru in Arthur Ashe Leadership & Sportsmanship award for the Southwest Fed Cup. She holds 15 ITF-level singles titles, including five titles in Region of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association. 2014, and five doubles titles.

*Player field subject to change

evansville Past WINNERS Singles Doubles Year Winner Runner-Up Year Winner 2014 Tornado Alicia Black (USA) Caitlin Whoriskey (USA) 2014 Brooke Austin (USA) – Natalie Pluskota (USA) 2013 (USA) Brooke Austin (USA) 2013 Emina Bektas (USA) – Brooke Bolender (USA) 2012 Mallory Burdette (USA) Ying-Ying Duan (CHN) 2012 Ying-Ying Duan (CHN) – Yi-Fan Xu (CHN) 2011 Elizabeth Ferris (USA) Nicole Melichar (USA) 2011 Brynn Boren (USA) – (USA) 2010 Gabriela Paz (VEN) Chichi Scholl (USA) 2010 Brynn Boren (USA) – Sabrina Santamaria (USA) 2009 Elizabeth Lumpkin (USA) (USA) 2009 (USA) – Yasmin Schnack (USA) 2008 Megan Moulton-Levy (USA) Emily Webley-Smith (GBR) 2008 Rebecca Marino (CAN) – Ellah Nze (USA) 2007 Kimberly Couts (USA) Helena Besovic (BIH) 2007 Jenna Long (USA) – Anna Lubinsky (USA) 2006 (USA) (USA) 2006 Beau Jones (USA) – Tiya Rolle (USA) 2005 (USA) (USA) 2005 (INA) – Romana Tedjakusuma (INA) 2004 Nicole Leimbach (USA) Anda Perianu (ROU) 2004 Kelly Schmandt (USA) – (USA) 2003 Stephanie Hazlett (USA) Neyssa Etienne (HAI) 2003 Tamara Encina (USA) – Alison Ojeda (USA) 2002 Shadisha Robinson (USA) Deanna Roberts (AUS) 2002 Jin-Hee Kim (KOR) – (JPN) 2001 Chanelle Scheepers (RSA) Kristen Schlukebir (USA) 2001 (PUR) – Alison Ojeda (USA) 2000 Kelly McCain (USA) Stephanie Hazlett (USA) 2000 Tomoe Hotta (JPN) – Ryoko Takemura (JPN) 1999 Kristina Kraszewski (USA) Lara Van Rooten (USA) 1999 (USA) – (USA) Tournament Notes

USTA PRO CIRCUIT YOUTH TENNIS With approximately 90 tournaments hosted annually throughout the country and prize money ranging The USTA is making it easier and more fun for kids to get into from $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 the game—and stay in the game. Kids are learning to play its Pro Circuit in 1979 to provide players with the opportunity to gain professional ranking points, and faster than ever before through the USTA’s youth initiative, it has since grown to become the largest developmental tennis circuit in the world, offering nearly which is geared toward getting more kids to participate in $3 million in prize money. Last year, more than 1,000 men and women from more than 70 countries competed in cities nationwide. Victoria Azarenka, , John Isner, Andy Murray, Kei tennis using modified equipment and courts tailored to a child’s Nishikori, Sam Querrey, and are among today’s top stars who size. For more information, visit YouthTennis.com. began their careers on the USTA Pro Circuit.

More recently, the USTA Pro Circuit helped further the careers of two young NJTL Americans—Stefan Kozlov and . In her first full season as a Founded in 1969 by Arthur Ashe, along with Charlie Pasarell professional after capturing back-to-back and Sheridan Snyder, the USTA/National Junior Tennis & NCAA singles championships in 2012 and Learning (NJTL) network is a nationwide group of more than

2013, Gibbs won the women’s USTA Pro A. Clary/Getty Images Timothy Circuit US Open Wild Card Challenge in 625 non-profit youth development organizations that provide 2014. After claiming the title at the $50,000 free or low-cost tennis, education and life skills programming USTA Pro Circuit event in Carson, Calif., to more than 350,000 children each year. Celebrating its Gibbs clinched the US Open wild card 45th anniversary this year, NJTL is one of the USTA’s largest by advancing to the final of the $50,000 community-based offerings. tournament in Lexington, Ky., her last USTA Pro Circuit event of the season. Gibbs went on to reach the third round at the US Open, scoring a pair of Top 50 victories along the US OPEN NATIONAL PlayoffS way. Two weeks after the US Open, as a qualifier at , she reached her first WTA Nicole Gibbs The USTA launched the US Open quarterfinal, which boosted her into the National Playoffs in 2010, WTA Top 100 for the first time. Gibbs earned making the US Open “open” the second-most WTA ranking points of any to anyone age 14+ and of all American playing the USTA Pro Circuit in 2014. Kozlov, runner-up in 2014 at the junior championships of the Australian Open and Wimbledon, reached the final of the Sacramento Challenger last October at age skill levels. Last year, more 16, becoming the youngest American to reach a Challenger final since Andre Agassi in 1986. That result than 1,200 players competed vaulted Kozlov to No. 443 in the world, making him the youngest player in the ATP World Tour Top 500. He in 13 Sectional Qualifying concluded 2014 by sweeping the singles and doubles titles at the prestigious Orange Bowl Junior Tennis Tournaments nationwide for Championships, locking down a No. 3 junior world ranking. a 2014 US Open Qualifying Tournament wild card. A mixed doubles element also was PLAYER DEVELOPMENT held, with the winning team earning a main draw mixed doubles wild card. This year, players can again compete in The USTA Player Development program identifies and develops the next generation of American champions singles and mixed doubles, but also will have the chance by surrounding the top junior players and young pros with the resources, facilities and coaching they need to play in the new men’s and women’s doubles competition to reach their maximum potential. The Player Development program is based at the USTA Training Center to earn main draw doubles wild cards. Registration for all Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla., and also utilizes Training Centers in Carson, Calif., and Flushing, N.Y., as divisions opens on March 15. For more information and the well as a series of Certified Regional Training Centers located throughout the continental United States. complete schedule, visit www.usopen.org/NationalPlayoffs.