Tournament Notes

TournamenT noTes as of July 26, 2012 ODLUM BROWN VANOPEN PRESENTED BY INVESCO VANCOUVER, BC • JULY 29-AUGUST 5 USTA PRO CIRCUIT WOMEN’S TENNIS RETURNS TO VANCOUVER TournamenT InFormaTIon The Odlum Brown VanOpen presented by Invesco women’s event is taking place in USTA Site: Hollyburn Country Club, Vancouver, B.C. Vancouver for the fourth straight year. The tournament is the only USTA Pro Circuit Websites: www.vanopen.com event held in Canada and is one of two procircuit.usta.com $100,000 events on the USTA Pro Circuit women’s calendar (joining Midland, Mich.). It Facebook: Odlum Brown VanOpen is held conjunction with a men’s $100,000 Twitter: @VanOpen Challenger. Last year, the tournament offered equal prize money for the men’s Qualifying Draw Begins: Sunday, July 29 and women’s events for the first time. The tournament is also the second-to-last USTA Main Draw Begins: Tuesday, July 31 Pro Circuit event before the US Open. Main Draw: 32 Singles / 16 Doubles This year, the USTA will award one women’s Surface: Hard / Outdoor singles main draw wild card into the 2012 US Open to the American woman Prize Money: $100,000 who finishes with the most ranking points Tournament Director: accumulated in two of the following three Ryan Clark, (778) 238-7904 USTA Pro Circuit events: the $50,000 [email protected] tournament in Yakima, Wash., held earlier in July; the $50,000 tournament held last Tournament Press Contact: week in Lexington, Ky.; and this $100,000 Tournament wild card Bethanie Mattek-Sands Jeff Paterson, (604) 788-6638 event in Vancouver. reached a career-high ranking of No. 30 in 2011 and won the mixed doubles title at the [email protected] American Bethanie Mattek-Sands has 2012 Australian Open. USTA Public Relations Contacts: received a wild card into the main draw in Amanda Korba, (914) 697-2219, [email protected] Vancouver. Mattek-Sands reached a career- Eric Schuster, (914) 696-7260, [email protected] high ranking of No. 30 in 2011, missing the latter half of last year with a rotator cuff Americans in the main draw include Julia PrIze money / PoInTs injury, but she has played a full schedule Cohen, who is returning to North America after playing a series of tournaments overseas SINGLES: Prize Money Ranking Points this season. She competed in the main draw following Wimbledon. Overseas, Cohen WWinner $15,200 140 of singles at the Australian Open and French reached her first career WTA singles final in Runner-up $8,107 100 Open, beating Sabine Lisicki 6-4, 6-3, in the opening round at Roland Garros. She Baku, Azerbaijan. The former standout at Semifinalist $4,433 70 the University of Florida and the University Quarterfinalist $2,533 36 teamed with Horia Tecau to win the mixed doubles title at the Australian Open, as of Miami won a pair of $25,000 events last Round of 16 $1,520 18 year, one in Armenia and one in Argentina. Round of 32 $887 1 well, her first Grand Slam tournament title. Mattek-Sands has won five career USTA Pro DOUBLES: Prize Money (per team) Circuit titles and has represented the United Grace Min, 18, who won the 2011 US Open Winner $5,573 States in Fed Cup in singles and doubles. girls’ singles title, trains full-time at the Runner-up $2,787 USTA Training Center Headquarters in Boca Semifinalist $1,393 Raton, Fla. Min won the first women’s USTA Quarterfinalist $760 Pro Circuit title of 2012, in Innisbrook, Round of 16 $507 Fla., and captured back-to-back USTA Pro Circuit singles crowns at the $50,000 event CommunITy eVenTs Hartis Tim in Indian Harbour Beach, Fla., and the $25,000 event in Raleigh, N.C., in May. Monday, July 30 Behind those results, Min has climbed into Kids’ Day, 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 31 Tonic by Martina Hingis Fashion Show, 7 p.m. Grace Min won the 2011 US Open girls’ singles Wednesday, August 1 title and broke into the WTA Top 200 for the first time in her career this year. Exhibition match with Martina Hingis, 6:30 p.m. *Player field subject to change TournamenT noTes the Top 200 for the first time in her career. match at the US Open with her victory over Jill Craybas in 2011; 18-year-old Jessica Pegula, who is the daughter of Buffalo Sabres Former US Open girls’ singles finalistAlexa Glatch won three matches owner Terry Pegula and who advanced to the round of 16 in women’s earlier this year to qualify for the French Open, where she won her doubles at the 2011 US Open, as well as, in June this year, reached opening round match. She also reached the final round of qualifying the final of the $50,000 USTA Pro Circuit event in Sacramento, at Wimbledon last month. Glatch, ranked No. 150, qualified and won Calif.; ChiChi Scholl, a 20-year-old who won her first two career a main-draw match at the Emirates Airline US Open Series event singles titles on the USTA Pro Circuit in 2011 and has been ranked in Carlsbad, Calif., two weeks ago, beating fellow American Lauren as high as No. 164; and Gail Brodsky, who is playing her first Davis. She has also competed for the U.S. Fed Cup team. tournament since Wimbledon qualifying in June. In January, Brodsky reached back-to-back finals at the $25,000 events in Innisbrook, Madison Brengle won a $25,000 USTA Pro Circuit title earlier Fla., and Plantation, Fla. Brodsky trains at the USTA Training Center- this year at Fort Walton Beach, Fla. She has produced consistently East in Flushing, N.Y., the home of the US Open. steady results this summer with four quarterfinal appearances since June, including at the $75,000 Wimbledon grass-court warm-up Shelby Rogers was the early frontrunner in the race for the US Open tournament in Nottingham, Great Britain. In her career, Brengle has wild card, having won her first professional singles title in Yakima, played in the main draw at three of the four Grand Slam events, defeating fellow American Samantha Crawford, 6-4, 6-7(3), 6-3, in winning USTA wild card playoffs to earn wild card entry into the the final. Rogers, the 2010 USTA Girls’ 18s champion, is expected Australian Open (2007, 2008) and the French Open (2008). to compete in Vancouver qualifying, as is Crawford, who trains at the USTA Training Center Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla. Wild card Mallory Burdette is a rising senior at Stanford University, where she has won back-to-back NCAA doubles championships with Taylor Townsend, the world’s No. 1-ranked junior girl and another Nicole Gibbs (2012) and Hillary Barte (2011). She is a member of USTA Training Center Headquarters athlete, is also competing in the USTA Collegiate Team, a summer program designed to provide qualifying. In January, Townsend swept the girls’ singles and doubles college players with valuable exposure to the USTA Pro Circuit titles at the Australian Open, becoming the first American to sweep in a team-oriented environment during the year. Burdette played the junior singles and doubles titles at a Grand Slam event since through qualifying to win the $10,000 USTA Pro Circuit title at Lindsay Davenport at the 1992 US Open. Townsend also captured the Evansville, Ill., tournament two weeks ago and picked up her the doubles title at junior Wimbledon this year. Townsend became first WTA-level victory on her home courts earlier this month at the the first American girl to earn the No. 1 ranking since the ITF Emirates Airline US Open Series event in Stanford, beating Anne combined singles and doubles rankings in 2004. Donald Young was Keothavong, 2-6, 7-5, 6-4, in the opening round. the last American to reach No. 1 in the boys’ rankings in 2005. Coincidentally, Young’s parents were Townsend’s first tennis coaches. Maria Sanchez, a former All-American at the University of Southern California, is also set to play in Vancouver. Sanchez won her first Other players to compete in qualifying include: Nicole Gibbs, the career singles title earlier this year at the $25,000 tournament in 2012 NCAA singles champion at Stanford, who faced Serena Sacramento, Calif. She is ranked a career-best No. 217. Williams in the second round of the Emirates Airline US Open Series event in Stanford earlier this month; and former Top 20 player Additional Americans in the main draw include: Madison Keys, who Alexandra Stevenson, who is the daughter of NBA Hall of Famer won a pair of USTA wild card playoff tournaments in 2011 to earn Julius Erving and who reached the semifinals of Wimbledon as a main draw wild cards into the US Open and Australian Open, and qualifier in 1999. who became the youngest player since 2005 to win a main-draw *Player field subject to change vancouver PAST WINNERS Singles Doubles Year Winner Runner-Up Year Winner 2011 Aleksandra Wozniak (CAN) Jamie Hampton (USA) 2011 Karolina Pliskova (CZE) – Kristyna Pliskova (CZE) 2010 Jelena Dokic (AUS) Virginie Razzano (FRA) 2010 Kai-Chen Chang (TPE) – Heidi El Tabakh (CAN) 2009 Stephanie Dubois (CAN) Sania Mirza (IND) 2009 Ahsha Rolle (USA) – Riza Zalameda (USA) TournamenT noTes USTA PRO CIRCUIT 10 AND UNDER TENNIS With approximately 90 tournaments hosted annually throughout the country and prize money ranging from On January 1, the USTA announced that the rules of tennis $10,000 to $100,000, the USTA Pro Circuit is the pathway to the US Open and tour-level competition for have officially changed and require that 10 and Under Tennis aspiring tennis players and a frequent battleground for established professionals.

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